38: A BUG's Life

We're back from BSDCan! This week on the show we'll be chatting with Brian Callahan and Aaron Bieber about forming a local BSD users group. We'll get to hear their experiences of running one and maybe encourage some of you to start your own! After that, we've got a tutorial on the basics of NetBSD's package manager, pkgsrc. Answers to your emails and the latest headlines, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD 11 goals and discussion

Something that actually happened at BSDCan this year...
During the FreeBSD devsummit, there was some discussion about what changes will be made in 11.0-RELEASE
Some of MWL's notes include: the test suite will be merged to 10-STABLE, more work on the MIPS platforms, LLDB getting more attention, UEFI boot and install support
A large list of possibilities was also included and open for discussion, including AES-GCM in IPSEC, ASLR, OpenMP, ICC, in-place kernel upgrades, Capsicum improvements, TCP performance improvements and A LOT more
There's also some notes from the devsummit virtualization session, mostly talking about bhyve
Lastly, he also provides some notes about ports and packages and where they're going ***

An SSH honeypot with OpenBSD and Kippo

Everyone loves messing with script kiddies, right?
This blog post introduces Kippo, an SSH honeypot tool, and how to use it in combination with OpenBSD
It includes a step by step (or rather, command by command) guide and some tips for running a honeypot securely
You can use this to get new 0day exploits or find weaknesses in your systems
OpenBSD makes a great companion for security testing tools like this with all its exploit mitigation techniques that protect all running applications ***

NetBSD foundation financial report

The NetBSD foundation has posted their 2013 financial report
It's a very "no nonsense" page, pretty much only the hard numbers
In 2013, they got $26,000 of income in donations
The rest of the page shows all the details, how they spent it on hardware, consulting, conference fees, legal costs and everything else
Be sure to donate to whichever BSDs you like and use! ***

Building a fully-encrypted NAS with OpenBSD

Usually the popular choice for a NAS system is FreeNAS, or plain FreeBSD if you know what you're doing
This article takes a look at the OpenBSD side and explains how to build a NAS with security in mind
The NAS will be fully encrypted, no separate /boot partition like FreeBSD and FreeNAS require - this means the kernel itself is even protected
The obvious trade-off is the lack of ZFS support for storage, but this is an interesting idea that would fit most people's needs too

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