59: BSDって聞いたことある？

This week on the show we'll be talking with Hiroki Sato about the status of BSD in Japan. We also get to hear about how he got on the core team, and we just might find out why NetBSD is so popular over there! Answers to all your emails, the latest news, and even a brand new segment, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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BSD talks at XDC 2014

This year's Xorg conference featured a few BSD-related talks
Matthieu Herrb, Status of the OpenBSD graphics stack
Matthieu's talk details what's been done recently in Xenocara the OpenBSD kernel for graphics (slides here)
Jean-Sébastien Pédron, The status of the graphics stack on FreeBSD
His presentation gives a history of major changes and outlines the current overall status of graphics in FreeBSD (slides here)
Francois Tigeot, Porting DRM/KMS drivers to DragonFlyBSD
Francois' talk tells the story of how he ported some of the DRM and KMS kernel drivers to DragonFly (slides here) ***

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report

The FreeBSD project has a report of their activities between July and September of this year
Lots of ARM work has been done, and a goal for 11.0 is tier one support for the platform
The release includes reports from the cluster admin team, release team, ports team, core team and much more, but we've already covered most of the items on the show
If you're interested in seeing what the FreeBSD community has been up to lately, check the full report - it's huge ***

Monitoring pfSense logs using ELK

If you're one of those people who loves the cool graphs and charts that pfSense can produce, this is the post for you
ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) is a group of tools that let you collect, store, search and (most importantly) visualize logs
It works with lots of different things that output logs and can be sent to one central server for displaying
This post shows you how to set up pfSense to do remote logging to ELK and get some pretty awesome graphs ***

Some updates to IPFW

Even though PF gets a lot of attention, a lot of FreeBSD people still love IPFW
While mostly a dormant section of the source tree, some updates were recently committed to -CURRENT
The commit lists the user-visible changes, performance changes, ABI changes and internal changes
It should be merged back to -STABLE after a month or so of testing, and will probably end up in 10.2-RELEASE
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