19: The Installfest

We've got some special treats for you this week on the show. It's the long-awaited "installfest" segment, where we go through the installer of each of the different BSDs. Of course we also have your feedback and the latest news as well... and... we even have our very first viewer contest! There's a lot to get to today on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD's new testing infrastructure

A new test suite was added to FreeBSD, with 3 powerful machines available
Both -CURRENT and stable/10 have got the test suite build infrastructure in place
Designed to help developers test and improve major scalability across huge amounts of CPUs and RAM
More details available here
Could the iXsystems monster server be involved...? ***

OpenBSD gets signify

At long last, OpenBSD gets support for signed releases!
For "the world's most secure OS" it was very easy to MITM kernel patches, updates, installer isos, everything
A commit to the -current tree reveals a new "signify" tool is currently being kicked around
More details in a blog post from the guy who committed it
Quote: "yeah, briefly, the plan is to sign sets and packages. that's still work in progress." ***

Faces of FreeBSD

This time they interview Isabell Long
She's a volunteer staff member on the freenode IRC network
In 2011, she participated in the Google Code-In contest and became involved with documentation
"The new committer mentoring process proved very useful and that, plus the accepting community of FreeBSD, are reasons why I stay involved." ***

pkgsrc-2013Q4 branched

The quarterly pkgsrc branch from NetBSD is out
13472 total packages for NetBSD-current/amd64 + 13049 binary packages built with clang!
Lots of numbers and stats in the announcement
pkgsrc works on quite a few different OSes, not just NetBSD
See our interview with Amitai Schlair for a bit about pkgsrc ***

OpenBSD on Google's Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine is a "cloud computing" platform similar to EC2
Unfortunately, they only offer poor choices for the OS (Debian and CentOS)
Recently it's been announced that there is a custom OS option
It's using a WIP virtio-scsi driver, lots of things still need more work
Lots of technical and networking details about the struggles to get OpenBSD working on it ***

The Installfest

We'll be showing you the installer of each of the main BSDs. As of the date this episode airs, we're using:

FreeBSD 10.0
OpenBSD 5.4
NetBSD 6.1.2
DragonflyBSD 3.6
PCBSD 10.0 ***

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