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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 - henning@openbsd.org / @henningbrauer

OpenBSD's pf firewall, privilege separation, various topics

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Tutorial

Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT

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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. ***