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This week on the show, we'll be chatting with Marc Espie. He's recently added some additional security measures to dpb, OpenBSD's package building tool, and we'll find out why they're so important. We've also got all this week's news, answers to your emails and even a BSDCan wrap-up, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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BSDCan 2015 videos

• BSDCan just ended last week, but some of the BSD-related presentation videos are already online
• Allan Jude, UCL for FreeBSD
• Andrew Cagney, What happens when a dwarf and a daemon start dancing by the light of the silvery moon?
• Andy Tanenbaum, A reimplementation of NetBSD using a MicroKernel
• Brooks Davis, CheriBSD: A research fork of FreeBSD
• Giuseppe Lettieri, Even faster VM networking with virtual passthrough
• Joseph Mingrone, Molecular Evolution, Genomic Analysis and FreeBSD
• Olivier Cochard-Labbe, Large-scale plug&play x86 network appliance deployment over Internet
• Peter Hessler, Using routing domains / routing tables in a production network
• Ryan Lortie, a stitch in time: jhbuild
• Ted Unangst, signify: Securing OpenBSD From Us To You
• Many more still to come... ***

Documenting my BSD experience

• Increasingly common scenario: a long-time Linux user (since the mid-90s) decides it's finally time to give BSD a try
• "That night I came home, I had been trying to find out everything I could about BSD and I watched many videos, read forums, etc. One of the shows I found was BSD Now. I saw that they helped people and answered questions, so I decided to write in."
• In this ongoing series of blog posts, a user named Michael writes about his initial experiences with trying different BSDs for some different tasks
• The first post covers ZFS on FreeBSD, used to build a file server for his house (and of course he lists the hardware, if you're into that)
• You get a glimpse of a brand new user trying things out, learning how great ZFS-based RAID arrays are and even some of the initial hurdles someone could run into
• He's also looking to venture into the realm of replacing some of his VMs with jails and bhyve soon
• His second post explores replacing the firewall on his self-described "over complicated home network" with an OpenBSD box
• After going from ipfwadmin to ipchains to iptables, not even making it to nf