57: The Daemon's Apprentice

We're back from EuroBSDCon! This week we'll be talking with Steve Wills about mentoring new BSD developers. If you've ever considered becoming a developer or helping out, it's actually really easy to get involved. We've also got all the BSD news for the week and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines NetBSD at Hiroshima Open Source Conference NetBSD developers are hard at work, putting NetBSD on everything they can find At a technology conference in Hiroshima, some developers brought their exotic machines to put on display As usual, there are lots of pictures and a nice report from the conference *** FreeBSD's Linux emulation overhaul For a long time, FreeBSD's emulation layer has been based on an ancient Fedora 10 system If you've ever needed to install Adobe Flash on BSD, you'll be stuck with all this extra junk With some recent work, that's been replaced with a recent CentOS release This opens up the door for newer versions of Skype to run on FreeBSD, and maybe even Steam someday *** pfSense 2.2-BETA Big changes are coming in pfSense land, with their upcoming 2.2 release We talked to the developer a while back about future plans, and now they're finally out there The 2.2 branch will be based on FreeBSD 10-STABLE (instead of 8.3) and include lots of performance fixes It also includes some security updates, lots of package changes and updates and much more You can check the full list of changes on their wiki *** NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi This article shows how you can install NetBSD on the ever-so-popular Raspberry Pi As of right now, you'll need to use a -CURRENT snapshot to do it It also shows how to grow the filesystem to fill up an SD card, some pkgsrc basics and how to get some initial things set up Can anyone find something that you can't install NetBSD on? *** Interview - Steve Wills - [email protected] / @swills Mentoring new BSD developers News Roundup MidnightBSD 0.5 released We don't hear a whole lot about MidnightBSD, but they've just released version 0.5 It's got a round of the latest FreeBSD security patches, driver updates and various small things Maybe one of their developers could come on the show sometime and tell us more about the project *** BSD Router Project 1.52 released The newest update for the BSD Router Project is out This version is based on a snapshot of 10-STABLE that's very close to 10.1-RELEASE It's mostly a bugfix release, but includes some small changes and package updates *** Configuring a DragonFly BSD desktop We've done tutorials on how to set up a FreeBSD or OpenBSD desktop, but maybe you're more interested in DragonFly In this post from Justin Sherrill, you'll learn some of the steps to do just that He pulled out an old desktop machine, gave it a try and seems to be pleased with the results It includes a few Xorg tips, and there are some comments about the possibility of making a GUI DragonFly installer *** Building a mini-ITX pfSense box Another week, another pfSense firewall build post This time, the author is installing to a Jetway J7F2, a mini-ITX device with four LAN ports He used to be a m0n0wall guy, but wanted to give the more modern pfSense a try Lots of great pictures of the hardware, which we always love *** Feedback/Questions Damian writes in Jan writes in Dale writes in Joe writes in Bostjan writes in ***