30: Documentation is King

Finally hit 30 episodes! Today we'll be chatting with Warren Block to discuss BSD documentation efforts and future plans. If you've ever wondered about the scary world of mailing lists, today's tutorial will show you the basics of how to get help and contribute back. There's lots to get to today, so sit back and enjoy some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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OpenBSD on a Sun T5120

Our buddy Ted Unangst got himself a cool Sun box
Of course he had to write a post about installing and running OpenBSD on it
The post goes through some of the quirks and steps to go through in case you're interested in one of these fine SPARC machines
He's also got another post about OpenBSD on a Dell CS24-SC server ***

Bhyvecon 2014 videos are up

Like we mentioned last week, Bhyvecon was an almost-impromptu conference before AsiaBSDCon
The talks have apparently already been uploaded!
Subjects include Bhyve's past, present and future, OSv on Bhyve, a general introduction to the tool, migrating those last few pesky Linux boxes to virtualization
Lots more detail in the videos, so check 'em all out ***

Building a FreeBSD wireless access point

We've got a new blog post about creating a wireless access point with FreeBSD
After all the recent news of consumer routers being pwned like candy, it's time for people to start building BSD routers
The author goes through a lot of the process of getting one set up using good ol' FreeBSD
Using hostapd, he's able to share his wireless card in hostap mode and offer DHCP to all the clients
Plenty of config files and more messy details in the post ***

Switching from Synology to FreeNAS

The author has been considering getting a NAS for quite a while and documents his research
He was faced with the compromise of convenience vs. flexibility - prebuilt or DIY
After seeing the potential security issues with proprietary NAS devices, and dealing with frustration with trying to get bugs fixed, he makes the right choice
The post also goes into some detail about his setup, all the things he needed a NAS to do as well as all the advantages an open source solution would give ***

Interview - Warren Block - wblock@freebsd.org

FreeBSD's documentation project, igor, doceng

Tutorial

The world of BSD mailing lists

News Roundup

HAMMER2 work and notes

Matthew Dillon has posted some updated notes about the development of the new HAMMER version
The start of a cluster API was committed to the tree
There are also links to design document, a freemap design document, a changes list and a todo list ***

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