pfSense – Page 4 – DragonFly BSD Digest

I’ll quote right from the summary for the 14-minute-long BSDTalk 254: “An interview with Ken Worster who is presenting on topics which include PFSense and FreeNAS in schools at the Technology Teacher ME conference in Bethel Maine.”

2015/06/272015/06/26

In Other BSDs for 2015/06/27

More and more BSDCan videos keep showing up. (See the bottoms of individual speaker pages on the BSDCan site.) Here’s the PC-BSD summary.

A pfSense SG-2440 review at Maximum PC.
pfSense 2.2.3 is out.
Puppet and OpenBSD.
I love cross-pollination.
There’s a new BSD user group in Vancouver, Canada. “VanBUG”.
TrueOS/PC-BSD/FreeNAS keep showing as building from the same source tree. That makes sense.
Ingo Schwarze’s slides (PDF) from his recent CDBUG/NYCBUG presentations. (via)
NetBSD 7.0_RC1 is out.
Commit jokes are the best jokes.
FreeBSD on Azure.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/22.
BSDCan 2015 trip reports one and two.
PC-BSD Documentation can now be Translated Using Pootle.
out with the old, in with the less. Notable link to “Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers“.

2015/05/162015/05/15

In Other BSDs for 2015/05/16

This includes all the BSD material I didn’t have time to get posted last week. I hope you have some time for reading today; there is a lot here.

Royal activity affecting your open source files.
Windows guest support (or at least the start of it) in bhyve.
Bad memory blacklisting in FreeBSD. I’d be worried about keeping partially bad RAM in place, but this is probably being used on a larger scale.
25 year old col bug, fixed.
The start of NUMA support in FreeBSD.
Alpine POC and Routerboard support in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD now supports more than 8 audio channels.
NetBSD is starting to gain EdgeRouter support.
NetBSD gains in-kernel splash screen support.
Openresolv 3.7 is in both FreeBSD and NetBSD.
EU study recommends OpenBSD. (Thanks, PCTF)
Now, sshd in OpenBSD defaults to ‘PermitRootLogin=no‘ (like in DragonFly!)
Device Developer’s Conference, happening in the UK over the next month or so. (via openbsd-misc)
OpenBSD has released, shipped, and there’s some discs with errors being replaced, though there’s a workaround.
From 0 to an OpenBSD install, with no hands and a custom disk layout. (via)
Livingston County, Michigan has a BSD user group starting up.
PC-BSD 10.2.1-RC1 comments.
BSDCon Brazil 2015 has a call for papers out.
New to BSD, Questions about Firewall configuration.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/11.
A week of pkgsrc #10.
PC-BSD 11.0-CURRENTMAY2015 images now available
Yes, You Can Virtualize FreeNAS
pfSense is now available as a “VMware Ready Virtual Firewall Appliance“.
Michael W. Lucas’s Tarsnap talk is online.
As is the cover to his upcoming FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS book.
BSDTalk 253 has 30 minutes of conversation with George Neville-Neil about “The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System”, 2nd edition.

2015/04/182015/04/17

In Other BSDs for 2015/04/18

I couldn’t help the commentary on some of these links.

The Arrival of TrueNAS 9.3 and more.
Has anyone tried making a BSD phone? They did; starts with an i.
softraid(4) – RAID 5 Call for Testing for OpenBSD.
OpenBSD’s rcctl. (via)
Solaris moves to pf. I still wish for compatibility tests so people can tell what’s supported in the flavor of pf they are running.
Same news seen here.
Time Machine for every Unix out there. Or use Hammer. (via)
Optimizing TLS for High–Bandwidth Applications in FreeBSD [pdf]. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/04/13.
Spinning up a quick cloud instance with Digital Ocean. Includes BSD hosts.
A week of pkgsrc #8
FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS is available for pre-order.
Cross-platform software packaging with pkgsrc.
pfSense 2.2.2 is out.
pkgsrc-2015Q1 is out.
pkgsrc shirts are available.
BSDStats is out as version 6.0, though it needs to be tested. Please run, especially if you are on DragonFly.
Setting up your own mail server, BSD edition. (via)
The talk on blacklistd from the April NYCBUG meeting. The slides are available too. (via)
NYCBUG is also hosting a new Polish BSD users group list (“subcarpathian” is a fun word) and has a list of upcoming events – straight through into fall!

2015/03/212015/03/22

In Other BSDs for 2015/03/21

Not done in a last-minute rush before the weekend, yay! Done early cause I have to work over the weekend, boo!

Tarsnap Mastery is out in print form. (as is author Michael Lucas’s newest sci-fi)
Active Directory and FreeBSD. Might apply to all BSDs? (via)
GhostBSD 10.1-alpha1 is out. (via)
pfSense 2.2.1 is out.
making security sausage. “Even if most users will just run yummi-gummi-belli-rubrub or whatever to install binary fixes, they should be able to inspect the changes.” I just like that package manager name.
What differences would I notice when using BSD?
Suggestions for honeypotting on BSD?
DiscoverBSD for 2015/03/16.
virtio on FreeBSD now works asynchronously.
OpenBSD papers from AsiaBSDCon 2015 are up.
Martin Pieuchot could use some OpenBSD hardware.
OpenSSH 6.8 is out.
Home server rack suggestions. Includes perennial favorite, the LackRack.
How to format your diffs for OpenBSD.
Good; they’re talking to each other.
The pkgsrc-2015Q1 freeze is on.

2015/03/112015/03/10

pfSense class results

Hey, look what I have! There’s a pfSense pair of classes available to take. I went through them and found them worthwhile. pfSense is easy enough to use that a dedicated person can puzzle through most of the settings, eventually, but I don’t have “eventually”, and I want to encourage BSD products in my workplace… so here we are.

2015/01/312015/01/30

In Other BSDs for 2015/01/31

I’m not sure how I ended up with so much BSD material this week, but hey, we all benefit!

A user’s experience with OpenBSD as a desktop. (via)
FreeBSD Jail Management Tools.
nanoBSD for servers – part 1. (via)
Sonicwall to pfSense?
My first OpenBSD port. (via)
Two new LibreSSL shirts, with cash going back to the project.
What did Sony do to make FreeBSD awesome graphics wise with Playstation 4?
pkgng and manual steps.
long term support considered harmful
The practical result of OpenBSD’s support policy. Rebuttal to previous link. (via)
PC-BSD 10.1.1-RC2 now available.
OpenBSD popularity vs Linux when talking about servers security (via)
Concise, opinionated history of the BSD/SystemV split. (via)
pfSense-2.2-RELEASE now available! I’ll be upgrading systems to that at work this weekend…
SECURITY : OPENBSD VS FREEBSD. (via)
Starting A Daemon via daemon(8) in FreeBSD.
Thinkpad Carbon X1 2015 and OpenBSD, a review.
Initial Zynq (Xilinx) support in NetBSD.
glass tty fonts in NetBSD, mentioned here, seen here.
portable cwm 5.6 is out.
Assistance for the “too much RAM” delay problem.
Slides for “OpenBSD: Redundant & Transparent Firewalls” (thanks Siju)
A Comparative Introduction to FreeBSD for Linux Users. (via)

Your extended read: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations, from the NANOG operators list. Follow the thread. It’s theoretically about Linux, but people name BSD solutions all through it. Hmm…

2015/01/172015/01/16

In Other BSDs for 2015/01/17

Lots of material this week.

New Update GUI for PC-BSD / Automatic Updates.
Lumina Desktop 0.8.0 Released.
(side note) I see these PC-BSD items in src updates, but these published summaries are so complete it’s better to wait and post them instead. Other software orgs, take note.
A week of pkgsrc, #6.
Making the switch.
Configuring X forwarding between BSD and Windows. (via)
The 4th quarter 2014 FreeBSD report is out.
Digital Ocean now supports FreeBSD.
Using TrueOS as a IPFW based home router.
Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD. (via)
pfSense University classes are available online.
Jetpack, a FreeBSD-based app container, i.e. Docker, etc. (via)
No more install floppies for NetBSD, at least on amd64.
OpenBSD adds binary patching, at least on amd64.
Lid suspension is now on by default in OpenBSD.
OpenBSD on an Intel Galileo.
Security: OpenBSD vs FreeBSD. (via)
FreeBSD added Data Center TCP (DCTCP).
FreeBSD’s new page clustering strategy.
FreeBSD has a new MINIMAL kernel config.
FreeBSD has multiboot support for Xen Dom0.
Yay, cross-pollination!

2015/01/15

BSDNow 072: Common *Sense Approach

As promised last week, the BSDNow show has an interview with Jos Schellevis of OPNSense, along with the normal array of stories and links.

2015/01/12

BSDNow 071: System Disaster

I managed to miss this last week because of issues with my RSS feeds, but the 71st episode of BSDNow is/has been up. It’s “systemd isaster”, cause the interview is with Ian Sutton talking about BSD replacements for systemd dependencies. There’s a number of at-least-slightly DragonFly-related things in there, including OPNSense, pkgng, and Hammer mentions.

2014/10/02

BSDNow 057: The Daemon’s Apprentice

This week’s BSDNow has an interview about mentoring with Steve Wills of FreeBSD, the usual array of news. This week has more small device news than normal – NetBSD on Raspberry Pi and pfSense on a mini-ITX system. And a mention of my desktop article! I’m relevant!

2014/09/272014/09/27

In Other BSDs for 2014/09/27

Not even trying source links this week; there’s plenty else to link.

FreeBSD 10.2 Beta 2 is out. (has been out, but this is the announcement.)
The Open Source Software Engagement Award. An excellent, excellent move by Colin Percival.
Shuffling Partitions on FreeBSD.
Outlining Thin Linux. The article linked to described a stripped down Linux that doesn’t have package dependencies just to run. That’s what BSD has been for several decades now…
DiscoverBSD for 2014/09/22.
pfSense has reached 2.2-beta.
“Can you recommend a good laptop that runs BSD well?“
NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi. (via)
Bash and PC-BSD.
The OpenBSD 5.6 theme song.
EuroBSDCon 2014 is going on right now. (via)

Update: EuroBSDCon is livestreaming! (via)

2014/06/05

BSDTalk 242: Chris Buechler

BSDTalk 242 has 17 minutes of conversation with Chris Buechler (of pfSense fame), recorded at BSDCan 2014.