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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** BSD Now at the top of iTunes BSD Now is on the front-and-center page of iTunes' technology podcast section *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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. ***