Headlines
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- BSD Now is on the front-and-center page of iTunes' technology podcast section
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OpenBSD's pf firewall, privilege separation, various topics
Tutorial
News Roundup
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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