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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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?
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Mentoring new BSD developers
News Roundup
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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