33: Certified Package Delivery

This week, we sit down with Jim Brown from the BSD Certification group to talk about the BSD exams. Following that, we'll be showing you how to build OpenBSD binary packages in bulk, a la poudriere. There's a boatload of news and we've got answers to your questions, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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BSDCan schedule, speakers and talks

This year's BSDCan will kick off on May 14th in Ottawa
The list of speakers is also out
And finally the talks everyone's looking forward to
Lots of great tutorials and talks, spanning a wide range of topics of interest
Be sure to come by so you can and meet Allan and Kris in person and get BSDCan shirts ***

NYCBSDCon talks uploaded

The BSD TV YouTube channel has been uploading recordings from the 2014 NYCBSDCon
Jeff Rizzo's talk, "Releasing NetBSD: So Many Targets, So Little Time"
Dru Lavigne's talk, "ZFS Management Tools in FreeNAS and PC-BSD"
Scott Long's talk, "Serving one third of the Internet via FreeBSD"
Michael W. Lucas' talk, "BSD Breaking Barriers" ***

FreeBSD Journal, issue 2

The bi-monthly FreeBSD journal's second issue is out
Topics in this issue include pkg, poudriere, the PBI format, hwpmc and journaled soft-updates
In less than two months, they've already gotten over 1000 subscribers! It's available on Google Play, iTunes, Amazon, etc
"We are also working on a dynamic version of the magazine that can be read in many web browsers, including those that run on FreeBSD"
Check our interview with GNN for more information about the journal ***

OpenSSL, more like OpenSS-Hell

We mentioned this huge OpenSSL bug last week during all the chaos, but the aftermath is just as messy
There's been a pretty vicious response from security experts all across the internet and in all of the BSD projects - and rightfully so
We finally have a timeline of events
Reactions from ISC, PCBSD, Tarsnap, the Tor project, FreeBSD, Published on 11 years, 8 months ago