9: CURRENT Events

Headlines

Managed services using FreeBSD

• New York Internet, a huge ISP and service provider, details how they use FreeBSD


• Mentions using BSD technologies: pf, pfsync, carp, haproxy, zfs, jails and more


• Explains FreeBSD's role in commercial workloads on a massive scale


• Lots of cool graphs and info, check out the full write-up
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OpenBSD boot support for keydisk-based crypto volumes

• So far, only passphrase-based crypto volumes were bootable


• Full disk encryption with key disks required a non-crypto partition to load the kernel


• The bootloader now scans all BIOS-visible disks for RAID partitions and automatically associates key disk partitions with their crypto volume


• No need to re-create existing volumes. Moving the root partition onto the crypto disk and running "installboot" is all that's needed
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More Dragonfly SMP speedups

• Matthew Dillon has been committing lots of various SMP improvements


• Using dports builds on a 48-processor machine as a test


• The machine’s now building more than 1000 packages an hour


• Super technical details in the show notes, check 'em out
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Getting to know portmgr

• Start of an ongoing series profiling members of the FreeBSD Ports Management Team


• In the first interview, they talk to longest serving member of the team, Joe Marcus Clarke


• In the second, Bernhard Frölich (who's also the creator of redports.org)


• Future segments will include the other members


• Topics include their inspiration for using FreeBSD, first time using it, lots of other interesting stuff
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BSD Now at the top of iTunes

• BSD Now is on the front-and-center page of iTunes' technology podcast section
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Interview - Henning Brauer - [email protected] / @henningbrauer

OpenBSD's pf firewall, privilege separation, various topics

Tutorial

Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT

News Roundup

OpenBSD gets XBox360 controller support

• Adds support for Microsoft XBox 360 controller as a uhid


• Will make things easier for emulators in OpenBSD


• Are there people who regularly play games on BSD? Email us, might do a segment on it
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PCBSD 10-STABLE ISOs available

• Early cut of the new stable/10 branch, not recommended for everyone


• A pkgng repository is available, but is missing a number of packages


• AMD KMS, new text installer, UEFI loader support, much more
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Switching from Linux to BSD

• Yet another Linux user switching to BSD makes a thread about it


• Asks the community what some differences and advantages are


• Good response from the community, worth reading if you're a Linux guy
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Unattended OpenBSD installations

• Unattended installations possible using DHCP and a "response" file


• The system gets an IP via DHCP, then fetches a config file with key=value pairs


• Can do automatic network setup, SSH, passwords, etc


• Still a work in progress
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Feedback/Questions

• Kjell-Aleksander writes in


• Alex writes in


• Chad writes in


• Joshua writes in


• Craig writes in


• We want to especially thank Chris for his huge feedback emails with lots of show ideas.
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