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15: Kickin' NAS

This time on the show, we'll be looking at the new version of FreeNAS, a BSD-based network attached storage solution, as well as talking to Josh Paetzel - one of the key developers of FreeNAS. Actually, he's on the FreeBSD release engineering team too, and does quite a lot for the project. We've got answers to your viewer-submitted questions and plenty of news to cover, so get ready for some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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More faces of FreeBSD

• Another installment of the FoF series
• This time they talk with Reid Linnemann who works at Spectra Logic
• Gives a history of all the different jobs he's done, all the programming languages he knows
• Mentions how he first learned about FreeBSD, actually pretty similar to Kris' story
• "I used the system to build and install ports, and explored, getting actively involved in the mailing lists and forums, studying, passing on my own limited knowledge to those who could benefit from it. I pursued my career in the open source software world, learning the differences in BSD and GNU licensing and the fragmented nature of Linux distributions, realizing the FreeBSD community was more mature and well distributed about industry, education, and research. Everything steered me towards working with and on FreeBSD."
• Now works on FreeBSD as his day job
• The second one covers Brooks Davis
• FreeBSD committer since 2001 and core team member from 2006 through 2012
• He's helped drive our transition from a GNU toolchain to a more modern LLVM-based toolchain
• "One of the reasons I like FreeBSD is the community involved in the process of building a principled, technically-advanced operating system platform. Not only do we produce a great product, but we have fun doing it."
• Lots more in the show notes ***

We cannot trust Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto

• We woke up to see FreeBSD on the front page of The Register, Ars Technica, Slashdot and Hacker News for their strong stance on security and respecting privacy
• At the EuroBSDCon dev summit, there was some discussion about removing support for hardware-based random number generators.
• FreeBSD's /dev/random got some updates and, for 10.0, will no longer allow the use of Intel or VIA's hardware RNGs as the sole point of entropy
• "It will still be possible to access hardware random number generators, that is, RDRAND, Padlock etc., directly by inline assembly or by using OpenSSL from userland, if required, but we cannot trust them any more" ***

OpenSMTPD 5.4.1 released

• The OpenBSD developers came out with major a new version
• Improved config syntax (please check your smtpd.conf before upgrading)
• Adds support for TLS Perfect Forward Secrecy and custom CA certificate
• MTA,

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