21: Tendresse for Ten

This time on the show, we've got some great news for OpenBSD, as well as the scoop on FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE - yes it's finally here! We're gonna talk to Colin Percival about running FreeBSD 10 on EC2 and lots of other interesting stuff. After that, we'll be showing you how to do some bandwidth monitoring and network performance testing in a combo tutorial. We've got a round of your questions and the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE is out

The long awaited, giant release of FreeBSD is now official and ready to be downloaded
One of the biggest releases in FreeBSD history, with tons of new updates
Some features include: LDNS/Unbound replacing BIND, Clang by default (no GCC anymore), native Raspberry Pi support and other ARM improvements, bhyve, hyper-v support, AMD KMS, VirtIO, Xen PVHVM in GENERIC, lots of driver updates, ZFS on root in the installer, SMP patches to pf that drastically improve performance, Netmap support, pkgng by default, wireless stack improvements, a new iSCSI stack, FUSE in the base system... the list goes on and on
Start up your freebsd-update or do a source-based upgrade ***

OpenSSH 6.5 CFT

Our buddy Damien Miller announced a Call For Testing for OpenSSH 6.5
Huge, huge release, focused on new features rather than bugfixes (but it includes those too)
New ciphers, new key formats, new config options, see the mailing list for all the details
Should be in OpenBSD 5.5 in May, look forward to it - but also help test on other platforms! ***

DIY NAS story, FreeNAS 9.2.1-BETA

Another new blog post about FreeNAS!
Instead of updating the older tutorials, the author started fresh and wrote a new one for 2014
"I did briefly consider suggesting nas4free for the EconoNAS blog, since it’s essentially a fork off the FreeNAS tree but may run better on slower hardware, but ultimately I couldn’t recommend anything other than FreeNAS"
Really long article with lots of nice details about his setup, why you might want a NAS, etc.
Speaking of FreeNAS, they released 9.2.1-BETA with lots of bugfixes ***

OpenBSD needed funding for electricity.. and they got it

Briefly mentioned at the end of last week's show, but has blown up over the internet since
OpenBSD in the headlines of major tech news sites: slashdot, zdnet, the register, hacker news, reddit, twitter.. thousands of comments
They needed about $20,000 to cover electric costs for the server rack in Theo's basement
Lots of positive reaction from the community helping out so far, and it appears they have reached their goal and got $100,000 in donations
From Bob Beck: "we have in one week gone from being in a dire situa

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