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127: DNS, Black Holes & Willem

Today on the show, we welcome Allan back from FOSSDEM, and enjoy an interview with Willem about DNS and MTU Black Holes. That plus all the weeks news, keep it turned here to BSD

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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report

• It is that time of year again, reviewing the progress of the FreeBSD project over the last quarter of 2015
• There are a huge number of projects that have recently been completed or that are planned to finish in time for FreeBSD 10.3 or 11.0
• This is just a sample of the of the items that stood out most to us:
• A number of new teams have been created, and existing teams report in. The Issue Triage, bugmeister, jenkins, IPv6 advocacy, and wiki-admin teams are all mentioned in the status report
• Progress is reported on the i915 project to update the Intel graphics drivers
• In the storage subsystem: RCTL I/O rate limiting, Warner Losh’s CAM I/O Scheduler is progressing, Mellanox iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) was added, Chelsio iSCSI offload drivers, Mellanox 100 gbit/s drivers
• In Security: Encrypted crash dumps, OpenBSM updates, and a status report on HardenedBSD
• For embedded: Support for Ralink/Mediatek MIPS devices, Raspberry Pi Video Code packages, touch screen support for RPI and BBB, new port to the Marvell Armada38x, and the work on arm64 and RISC-V
• kib@ rewrote the out-of-memory handler, specifically to perform better in situations where a system does not have swap. Was tested on systems ranging from 32 MB of memory, to 512 GB
• Various improvements to the tool chain, build system, and nanobsd
• It was nice to see a bunch of reports from ports committers
• An overview of the different proposed init replacements, with a report on each ***

First timer’s guide to FOSS conferences

• This post provides a lot of good information for those considering going to their first conference
• The very first item says the most: “Conference talks are great because they teach you new skills or give you ideas. However, what conference talks are really for is giving you additional topics of conversation to chat with your fellow conference goers with. Hanging out after a talk ends to chat with the speaker is a great way to connect with speakers or fellow attendees that are passionate about a particular subject.”
• The hallway track is the best part of the conference. I’ve ended up missing as much as 2/3rds of a conference, and still found it to be a very valuable conference, sometimes more so than if I attend a talk in every slot
• It is important to remember that missing a talk is not the end of the world, that discussion in the hallway may be much more valuable. Most of the talks end up on youtube anyway. The point of the conference is being in the same place as the other people at the conference, the talks are just a means to get us all there.
• There is even a lot of good advice for people with social anxiety, and those like Allan who do not partake in alcohol
• Know the conference perks and the resources available to you. The author of the post commented on twitter about originally being unaware of the resources that some conferences provide for

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