I have a backlog from stuff I missed last week while traveling, so we all benefit!
- PC-BSD 10.0.2-RC2 is out.
- PC-BSD will be at SouthEast LinuxFest.
- Here’s the roadmap for Lumina, PC-BSD’s new desktop environment.
- DiscoverBSD’s summary for 2014/06/16.
- FreeNAS vs. NAS4Free. Didn’t need to be 8 pages. (via)
- Peter’s pf tutorial is very popular.
- The freeze for pkgsrc-2014Q2 has started. (I’m a bit late on this one.)
- pkgsrc has a new Pkgsrc Management Committee.
- This thread, “Best pdf viewer in pkgsrc?” may be useful even if you aren’t on pkgsrc.
- NetBSD gained vmx(4) from OpenBSD.
- NetBSD now has pigz 2.3.1, which apparently stands for ‘parallel gzip‘.
- Here’s one OpenBSD/GSoC project status update; I haven’t seen others.
- Another OpenBSD desktop project started.
- BoringSSL. (via) Already, benefits.
- Ways to test pf.
- FreeBSD/gnats has gone away, and none too soon.
- Again, I love to see cross–pollination.
- The July and August NYCBUG meetings: timekeeping and OpenBSD ports. Here’s some notes on what to expect for the August meeting.
Just one thing to say about Peter’s pf tutorial. Keep in mind when reading it, he updates it for the latest pf version, which is equal to the OpenBSD release it was released with, i.e. OpenBSD 5.4 has pf 5.4. DragonFly uses 4.8. That said, I am far far from a master of pf or able to tell you how and where things change, but I’m certain SOMETHING has changed between 4.8 and 5.5. I don’t want to try to degrade Peter’s work, it’s a really well written tutorial that helped me learn pf well enough that I feel comfortable with it, coming more from an iptables background myself (and happy to change that), but just be aware if using it to learn pf with DragonFly, there may be differences.
@Anonymous, Peter’s tutorial and books attempt to provide information suitable for all BSD’s, he often includes notes outlining differences between OpenBSD and say FreeBSD, where I assume Dragon inherited pf.
For what it’s worth, DragonFly inherited pf from FreeBSD when it forked, but it has been updated since then – I think it was a 3.x series originally.
I’m not saying there is anything wrong with the tutorial, just that it may contain things from newer versions of pf than we have or syntax changes if such exist. I don’t know, just a precaution is all.
No, DragonFly didn’t inherit pf from FreeBSD when it forked. pf was ported later.