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.

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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 - swills@freebsd.org / @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 ***

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