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112: Tracing the source

112: Tracing the source



This week Allan is away at a ZFS conference, so it seems

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Headlines

pfsense - 2.3 alpha snapshots available

  • pfsense 2.3 Features and Changes
  • The entire front end has been re-written
  • Upgrade of base OS to FreeBSD 10-STABLE
  • The PPTP server component has been removed,
  • PBIs have been replaced with pkg
  • PHP upgraded to 5.6
  • The web interface has been converted to Bootstrap ***

BSDMag October 2015 out

  • A Look at the New PC-BSD 10.2 - Kris Moore
  • Basis Of The Lumina Desktop Environment 18 - Ken Moore
  • A Secure Webserver on FreeBSD with Hiawatha - David Carlier
  • Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS - Michael Dexter
  • Emerging Technology Has Increasingly Been a Force for Both Good and Evil - Rob Somerville
  • Interviews with: Dru Lavigne, Luca Ferrari, Oleksandr Rybalko ***

OpnSense 15.7.14 Released

  • Another update to OpnSense has landed!
  • Some of the notable takeaways this time are that it isn’t a security update
  • Major rework of the firewall rules sections including, rules, schedules, virtual ip, nat and aliases pages
  • Latest BIND and Squid packages
  • Improved configuration management, including fixes to importing an old config file. New location for configuration history / backups. ***

OpenBSD in Toyota Highlander

  • Images
  • While looking through the ‘Software Information’ screen of a Toyota Highlander, Chad Dougherty of the ACM found a bunch of OpenBSD copyright notices
  • At least one of which I recognize as OpenCrypto, because of the comment about “transforms”
  • It is likely that the vehicle is running QNX, which contains various bits of BSD
  • QNX: Third Party License Terms List version 2.17
  • Some highlights
    • Robert N. M. Watson (FreeBSD)
    • TrustedBSD Project (FreeBSD)
    • NetBSD Foundation
    • NASA Ames Research Center (NetBSD)
    • Damien Miller (OpenBSD)
    • Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD)
    • Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc.
    • Bob Beck (OpenBSD)
    • Christos Zoulas (NetBSD)
    • Markus Friedl (OpenBSD)
    • Henning Brauer (OpenBSD)
    • Network Associates Technology, Inc. (FreeBSD)
    • 100s of others
  • OpenSSH seems to be included
  • It also seems to contain tcpdump for some reason

Interview - Adam Leventhal -

adam.leventhal@delphix.com /
@ahl
ZFS and DTrace


Beastie-Bits

isboot, an iSCSI boot driver for FreeBSD 9 and 10


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