10: Year of the BSD Desktop

Headlines

OpenBSD 5.4 released

• The usual 6 month release cycle continues with 5.4


• People who bought the CD get the release very early, but now it's on the public FTP


• New platforms "octeon" and "beagle"


• Improved Intel DRM, reworked checksumming for network protocols, ECDHE support in httpd, inetd no longer started by default, DHCP improvements, lots of new OpenSMTPD work, OpenSSH 6.3


• Over 7,800 ports available, comes with another new song and fun artwork, lots of new features - check out the full release notes


• A special thanks to Nick Holland and Bob Beck for their behind-the-scenes work


• Experimental FUSE support was enabled shortly after the release, so look forward to that in the future
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FreeBSD pkgng repos are official

• Built weekly from a snapshot of the Ports Collection every Wednesday


• Signed packages coming soon with pkg 1.2


• Added official public key to -STABLE and -CURRENT


• New "pkg+http" protocol identifier for SRV records


• If you need something more up to date or with custom options, it's easy to make your own with just the packages you want using our tutorial


• If you need a guide on how to use pkgng itself, check our tutorial for that too!


• What does this mean for PCBSD repo users? Should they switch? Differences?
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DragonflyBSD 3.6 branched

• SMP improvements and GCC changes are all in, so it's time to branch


• Release planned for a little under 2 weeks from today


• Features will include i915 support, mdocml imported, crazy SMP improvements, dports being default


• We're hoping to get someone from Dragonfly on the show next week to talk about the final release
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FreeBSD portmgr lurkers

• Over the course of the next two years, volunteers from a group of ports committers will participate in portmgr activities


• At four month intervals, two committers at a time will be brought in to work on various projects and learn the inner workings of the team


• The first two -lurkers are Mathieu Arnold (mat@) and Antoine Brodin (antoine@).
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Interview - Michael W. Lucas - [email protected] / @mwlauthor

Sudo Mastery

• Video: DNSSec in 55 Minutes
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Tutorial

Configuring FreeBSD as a desktop system

News Roundup

Capsicum in DragonflyBSD

• Dragonfly has no security framework yet besides the traditional unix DAC model


• Port of Capsicum to Dragonfly has begun


• Quite a bit of technical detail in the show notes
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NYCBSDCon 2014

• After a three year hiatus, NYCBSDCon is back on February 8, 2014


• Theme of "The BSDs in Production" this year


• Held in New York City, more information to come as the time draws closer
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FreeBSD newcons progress update

• This project will provide a replacement for the legacy syscons system console


• Newcons provides a number of improvements, including better integration with graphics modes, and broader character set support


• More details on the project can be found on the FreeBSD wiki
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Weekly PCBSD feature digest

• PBI 10 format is about ready and they'll begin populating the 10.0 appcafe starting next week


• PCDM login manager is back and is ready to be tested


• New PC-BSD Disk Manager Utility with lots of features
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