58: Behind the Masq

Coming up this week on the show, we'll be talking to Matt Ranney and George Kola about how they use FreeBSD at Voxer, and how to get more companies to switch over. After that, we'll show you how to filter website ads at the gateway level, using DNSMasq. All this week's news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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NetBSD's EuroBSDCon report

This year's EuroBSDCon had the record number of NetBSD developers attending
The NetBSD guys had a small devsummit as well, and this blog post details some of their activities
Pierre Pronchery also talked about EdgeBSD there (also see our interview if you haven't already)
Hopefully this trend continues, and NetBSD starts to have even more of a presence at the conferences ***

Upcoming features in OpenBSD 5.6

OpenBSD 5.6 is to be released in just under a month from now, and one of the developers wrote a blog post about some of the new features
The post is mostly a collection of various links, many of which we've discussed before
It'll be the first version with LibreSSL and many other cool things
We will, of course, have all the details on the day of release
There are some good comments on hacker news about 5.6 as well ***

FreeBSD ARMv8-based implementation

The FreeBSD foundation is sponsoring some work to port FreeBSD to the new ThunderX ARM CPU family
With the potential to have up to 48 cores, this type of CPU might make ARM-based servers a more appealing option
Cavium, the company involved with this deal, seems to have lots of BSD fans
This collaboration is expected to result in Tier 1 recognition of the ARMv8 architecture ***

Updating orphaned OpenBSD ports

We discussed OpenBSD porting over portscout from FreeBSD a while back
Their ports team is making full use of it now, and they're also looking for people to help update some unmaintained ports
A new subdomain, portroach.openbsd.org, will let you view all the ports information easily
If you're interested in learning to port software, or just want to help update a port you use, this is a good chance to get involved ***

Interview - Matt Ranney & George Kola - mjr@ranney.com & george.kola@voxer.com

BSD at Voxer, companies switching from Linux, community interaction

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Adblocking with DNSMasq & Pixelserv

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GhostBSD 4.0 released

The 4.0 branch of GhostBSD has finally been released, based on FreeBSD 10
With it come all the big 10.0 chang

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