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Brent's crazy border crossing story and behind-the-scenes stories from LFNW. Then we will lay out the master rescue plan. Catch the Launch a day early, and with a special guest!

Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 are here—We break down what's new, what stands out, and what we love most about each release.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. ConfigCat Feature Flags: Manage features and change your software configuration using ConfigCat feature flags, without the need to re-deploy code. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:

We attempt to get one of the great gaming classics running on Linux, and dig into some of the technical issues still holding back Linux. Plus: Chris has a new handheld.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. ConfigCat Feature Flags: Manage features and change your software configuration using ConfigCat feature flags, without the need to re-deploy code. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:

Join Alex and Emma aboard their nerdy spaceship for the latest System76 hardware and software news. Meet RJ Nowling in an exclusive interview about bioinformatics and genomic data science processing with the ARM-powered Thelio Astra!06:20 Tiny Hardware News about the Meerkat08:55 Conference Appearances (SCALE, LFNW, GTC) and Garrett created a cool planetary COSMIC demo 12:00 COSMIC News, Alpha 6 delayed14:35 RJ Nowling Interview about genomic data science17:00 Experiments to produce sterile genetically modified mosquitoes to eradicate diseases18:00 How RJ got started with bioinformatics19:10 RJ's Linux journey21:20 Choosing hardware for bioinformatics22:40 How to get into genomic data science24:00 Find a cool Phd professor to work with24:40 Future of genomic data science with "Enhancers" and cross-species comparisons27:00 Excitement about advancements in biology27:25 How to get in touch with RJ27:45 Experience with Thelio Astra28:15 Emma and Alex play a balloon gameCheck out what we make!Blog: blog.system76.comLaptops: s76.co/WuEDOnoSDesktops: s76.co/Zn4NXTf9Pop!_OS: s76.co/D_IWRvWD

It's week one of our FreeBSD challenge, and for one of us, that penalty Windows install looks uncomfortably close! Plus, Zach Mitchell joins us to update us on Planet Nix.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:

With more criticisms of NixOS than ever—do they have a point? We'll dig into the tough critiques and give our perspective.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:

A few of our go-to tools for one-liner web servers, sharing media directly from folders, and a much needed live Arch server update, and more!Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.Core Contributor Membership: Save $3 a month on your membership, and get the Bootleg and ad-free version of the show. Code: MAYSupport LINUX UnpluggedLinks:

We're breaking down the attack: how it works, how it was hidden, and why time was running out for the attacker.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:

This challenge gets ugly as we slowly realize we've just become zombie slayers. We load Linux on three barely alive systems, and it takes a turn we didn't expect.

We reflect on how our work has changed over the last year and get some sage advice from buff Uncle Jeff.

We try and pull off one too many projects, but you can't argue with the results. We report on our week of rebuilds and rescues and having a blast at LinuxFest Northwest. Special Guest: Frank Karlitschek.

Even if you don't game, the data is in, and the impact of the Steam Deck on Linux is massive. We'll go into details and then share our long-term review of the Deck. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Listener Jeff.

Brent's new Framework laptop has been torn apart and put back together again. We'll find out if it's up to his standards. Plus, we're kicking off a new build.

Alex does a significant overhaul of his website and unpacks a new GitHub action workflow. Chris finally achieves complete local voice control of his network, we complain about the state of domain name sellers, and more.

We get the inside scoop on SouthEast LinuxFest, and share a few stories from the early days of the Linux community. Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

What we like about Fedora 38, why the Rust foundation is in hot water, and more.

What we like about Fedora 38, why the Rust foundation is in hot water, and more.

Robert McQueen shares the inside scoop on Flathub's ambitious plans to create a universal app store for all distros—and we ask the hard questions. Special Guest: Robert McQueen.

We're celebrating 500 episodes with the biggest announcement yet. Special Guest: Listener Jeff.

Brent sits down with Carl Richell, Founder and CEO of System76. We explore the people, passion, and culture behind the scenes, learn of young Carl, the early years of building a Linux-focused hardware business, how today System76 fuels a tiny piece of SpaceX, and more. Carl's Community Ask: Be Bold. Special Guest: Carl Richell.

Brent sits down with Daniel Foré, founder of elementary OS and co-host of User Error. We explore his early years in design and software, formative aspects of Ubuntu and Gentoo, the philosophies and history of elementary OS, and more. Special Guest: Daniel Fore.

A radical new way to do SSH authentication, special guest Jeremy Stott joins us to discuss Zero Trust SSH. Plus community news, a concerning issue for makers, an Arch server follow up, and more. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Jeremy Stott, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.

Brent sits down with Chase Nunes, co-host of Unfilter, Jupiter Broadcasting's former weekly media watchdog. We discuss his beginnings in podcasting and how Unfilter came to be, his contributions to LinuxFest Northwest, his love for Linux in the media broadcasting industry, and his recent 15-month life-changing personal transformation journey. Chase is a Broadcast Engineer for KOMO-TV 4 ABC in Seattle, and founder of gaming & pinball eSports platform GeekGamer.TV. Special Guest: Chase Nunes.

Welcome to this episode of the Linux Spotlight where I sit down with a newfound friend in Brent Gervais who is a professional Photographer, Podcaster, Deep thinker and Linux advocate. Brent is just a super nice guy and it was so fun to sit down and talk one on one and I believe you will enjoy it as much as I did. Twitter (https://twitter.com/brentgervais) Website (https://www.brentgervais.com/) Linux Unplugged (https://linuxunplugged.com/hosts/brent) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/brentgervais/) LinkedIn (https://ca.linkedin.com/in/brentgervais) LFNW 2018 Gallery (https://brentgervais.photoshelter.com/gallery/LFNW-2018/G0000.ATcpPbYvGM/C0000aVOKeUbA2Os)

We’re back from LinuxFest Northwest with an update on all things WireGuard, some VLAN myth busting, and the trade-offs of highly available systems.

This week we talk about our trip to LFNW. We discuss the new budget-friendly Dell Precision laptops shipping with Ubuntu, the Ubuntu Developer Desktop Survey, the most power efficient Ubuntu flavour and Mark Shuttleworth’s views on the Ubuntu Desktop. We… Read more ›

.NET 5 has been announced and brings a new unified future to the platform. We dig in to Microsoft's plans and speculate about what they might mean for F#. Plus the value of manual testing, Visual Studio Code Remote, and Conway's Game of Life in Rust.

Risk of Rain 2, Hong Kong Masacre, The Surge, Pac Man Championship Edition DX+, Sekiro, and MUCH MORE! Truly, we have something for EVERYONE this week, including some news about LFNW travel plans, and a full complement of killer deals to boot! -BE SURE TO CHECK OUT our twitch livestream at: www.twitch.tv/skookiesprite -JOIN OUR DISCORD EXPERIMENT at: discord.gg/SVXy3Xa -Boldilocker's Livestream: https://dlive.tv/boldilocks ------------------------------------------------------------------ ---Games Mentioned This Week (Proton):--- --Risk of Rain 2 ($19.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/632360/Risk_of_Rain_2/ --Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice ($59.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/814380/Sekiro_Shadows_Die_Twice/ --Dex (-80%, $3.99, through April 8th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/269650/Dex/ --UnEpic (-60%, $5.19 through April 10th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/233980/UnEpic/ --3030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey (-50%, $7.49 through April 8th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/464360/3030_Deathwar_Redux__A_Space_Odyssey/ --PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX+ ($9.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/236450/PACMAN_Championship_Edition_DX/

Developers at Netflix are creating the next set of super powers for Linux, we'll get the details straight from the source. Plus some good Debian news, our tips for better battery life, and we play a little Hot SUSE Potato. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Ell Marquez.

Will there ever be another "big" Linux distro, or has that time passed? Plus two popular Linux desktop apps see a big upgrade, and Wes explains to Chris why he should care a lot more about cgroups. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Neal Gompa.

Jim and Wes are joined by OpenZFS developer Richard Yao to explain why the recent drama over Linux kernel 5.0 is no big deal, and how his fix for the underlying issue might actually make things faster. Plus the nitty-gritty details of vectorized optimizations and kernel preemption, and our thoughts on the future of the relationship between ZFS and Linux. Special Guest: Richard Yao.

We're playing Robin Hood with the content, and a new member of our team joins to tell you all about it. Plus some hard details on the Librem 5, we visit the Canonical Corner, and a big batch of great Linux picks. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Ell Marquez, and Martin Wimpress.

Fedora might take a year off, to focus on it self. Project Lead and Council Chair Matthew Miller joins us to explain this major proposal. Plus Wimpy shares his open source Drobo alternative, and our final Dropbox XFS hack. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Matthew Miller.

Yet again Jupiter Broadcasting broadcasts entirely on Linux! We bring you live coverage from the floor of Linuxfest Northwest. The broadcast is done on Linux, the interviews are done on Linux, we talk about Linux.

Yet again Jupiter Broadcasting broadcasts entirely on Linux! We bring you live coverage from the floor of Linuxfest Northwest. The broadcast is done on Linux, the interviews are done on Linux, we talk about Linux.

We're back from an awesome LFNW; listen on, friends and neighbors, for details of the hijinx and hilarity AFTER you hear our final verdict on Rise of the Tomb Raider. www.bestlinuxgames.com twitch.tv/skookiesprite LFNW Talks at: https://t.co/znM97mm71g

Yet again Jupiter Broadcasting broadcasts entirely on Linux! We bring you live coverage from the floor of Linuxfest Northwest. The broadcast is done on Linux, the interviews are done on Linux, we talk about Linux.

Ask Noah Show 62 | Live From LFNW 2018 Yet again Jupiter Broadcasting broadcasts entirely on Linux! We bring you live coverage from the floor of Linuxfest Northwest. The broadcast is done on Linux, the interviews are done on Linux, we talk about Linux. -- The Cliff Notes -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! Phones Provided by VoxTeleSys (http://www.voxtelesys.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah asknoah [at] jupiterbroadcasting.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed) Jupiter Broadcasting (https://twitter.com/jbsignal)

This week on the show, we have all the latest news and stories! Plus we'll be hearing more about OpnSense from the man himself, Ike! This episode was brought to you by Headlines Regarding Embargoes (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/regarding-embargoes) Our buddy TedU has a great thought piece today on the idea of “embargoes” for security advisories. This all stemmed from a recent incident with LibreSSL patches from embargoed OpenSSL vulns, that accidentally got committed too early. Ted makes a pretty good case on the difficulties of having embargos, and maybe the reason there shouldn't be. Couple of quotes to give you a taste: “There are several difficulties maintaining embargoes. Keeping secrets is against human nature. I don't want to be the one who leaks, but if I see something that looks like the secret is out, it's a relief to be able to speak freely. There is a bias towards recognizing such signs where they may not really exist. (Exacerbated by broad embargoes where some parts leak but other parts don't. It's actually very hard to tell what's not publicly known when you know everything.) The most thorough embargo and release timeline reconstruction is the heartbleed timeline. It's another great case study. Who exactly decided who were the haves and have nots? Was it determined by who needed to know or who you needed to know? Eventually the dam started to crack.” “When Cloudflare brags that they get advance notice of vulnerabilities, attracting more customers, and therefore requiring even more early access, how are smaller players to compete? What happens if you're not big enough to prenotify? Sometimes vulnerabilities are announced unplanned. Zero day cyber missiles are part of our reality, which means end users don't really have the luxury of only patching on Tuesday. They need to apply patches when they appear. If applying patches at inconvenient times is a problem, make it not a problem. Not really a gripe about embargoes per se, but the scheduled timing of coordinated release at the end of the embargo is catering to a problem that shouldn't exist.” I will admit that CloudFlare bragging around Heartbleed was upsetting The biggest issue here is the difficulty with coordinating so many open source projects, which are often done by volunteers, in different countries and time zones The other issue is determining when the secret is “out of the bag” *** MAJOR ABI BREAK: csu, ld.so, libc, libpthread update (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html#r20160507) OpenBSD warns those following the -current (development) branch to be careful as they upgrade because of a major ABI break that will result in applications not working “Handling of single-threaded programs is now closer to multi-threaded, with ld.so and libc.a doing thread information base (TIB) allocation. Threaded programs from before the 2016/03/19 csu and ld.so update will no longer run. An updated ld.so must be built and installed before running make build.” A special note for those on PowerPC: “PowerPC has been updated to offset the TIB from the hardware register. As a result, all threaded programs are broken until they have been rebuilt with the new libc and libpthread. perl must be built after building the libraries and before building the rest of base.” “The definitions of environ and __progname for dynamically linked programs have been moved from the C startup code to ld.so(1). An updated ld.so must be built and installed before running make build.” The link provides instructions on how to update your system properly *** How to install FreeBSD 10.3 on VMWare Workstation 12 Pro (http://random-notes-of-a-sysadmin.blogspot.be/2016/04/howto-install-freebsd-103-on-vmware.html) This tutorial starts at the very basics, running through the FreeBSD installer But then it goes on to configuring the machine specifically for VMWare After the system has been booted, the tutorial walks through installing the VMWare tools Then networking is configured in both VMWare and FreeBSD A small hack is required to make the VMWare tools startup script wait until the network is up A very nice tutorial for people using VMWare I am working on a patch to bsdinstall to ensure that the swap partition is put before the main partition, so it can more easily be resized if you later decide you need more space in your VM the camcontrol reprobe subcommand has been added (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=299371), “This makes it possible to manually force updating capacity data after the disk got resized. Without it it might be necessary to reboot before FreeBSD notices updated disk size under eg VMWare.” *** BSD Router project releases v1.59 (https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsdrp/files/BSD_Router_Project/1.59/) We've talked about the BSD Router project a bit in the past, but today we have a brand new release to bring to you. For those who don't remember, the BSDrp is a router aimed at replacing more of your big-commercial type systems. First up in the new hotness, we have it based upon recently released FreeBSD 10.3! In addition, there is a new package: New package: mlvpn (aggregated network links in order to benefit from the bandwidth of multiple links) Other packages have gotten a bump with this release as well: bsnmp-ucd to 0.4.2 dma to 0.11 dmidecode to 3.0 exabgp to 3.4.15 iperf3 to 3.1.2 monit to 5.17 mpd5 to 5.8 openvpn to 2.3.10 python to 2.7.11 quagga to 1.0.20160315 strongswan to 5.4.0 What are you waiting for? Amd64 and i386 images are ready for you to download now. Interview - Isaac (.Ike) Levy - See Ike again at SEMIBug in Troy, Michigan on May 17th (http://semibug.org/) *** News Roundup Tredly - Prebuilt containers on FreeBSD (https://github.com/tredly/) Discussion regarding its GPLv3 licensing (https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/4gggw8/introducing_tredly_containers_for_unix_freebsd/) A new “container” solution called “Trendly” has started making some news around various tech sites. In particular, this new project uses FreeBSD as its base OS and jail functionality in the backend. Their solution seems based around the idea of shipping containers as manifests, such as lists of packages to install and configuration knobs. The project is still rather new, and we'll be keeping an eye on it for the future. One notable change already though, it was (for some reason) released under GPLv3. Understandably this caused quite a ruckus with various folks in the community, since it's built specifically on BSD. Since this, the code has been re-licensed as MIT, which is far more in the spirit of a traditional BSD license. *** NVMe driver added to NetBSD - ported from OpenBSD (https://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-8.0.html#nvme%284%29) NetBSD has gained support for Non-Volatile Memory Express, the new standard for PCIe attached Flash Memory The change of interface from SATA to NVMe offers a number of advantages, mostly, it doesn't require the device to pretend to be a spinning disk One of the biggest advantages is that it supports completing multiple operations at once, with the Intel hardware I have tested, 63 I/Os can happen concurrently, so a very large queue depth is required to keep the device busy. The 64th I/O channel is reserved for administrative commands, to keep them from being delayed by the large queue depth The device I tested could read at 3800 MB/s, and write 1700MB/s, something that wouldn't be possible with a normal SSD It is interesting that NetBSD took the NVMe support from OpenBSD, whereas the FreeBSD implementation was contributed directly by Intel This may have to do with that fact that OpenBSD's device model is closer to that of NetBSD Commit Log (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2016/05/01/msg074367.html) *** New BSDNow T-Shirts (https://teespring.com/bsdnow) By popular demand, we have created a more subtle BSDNow shirt Featuring only the smallish BSDNow logo over the left breast Available in a number of styles (T-Shirt, Women's T-Shirt, Long Sleeve, and Hoodie) as well as a number of colours: Black, Blue, Grey, and White The hope is that enough orders come though so we can get them shipped in and your sweaty little hands in time for BSDCan. (I'll be wearing mine, will you B...SD?) If you still want one of our now-famous “The Usual BSD's” t-shirts, you can also indicate your interest here, and once 10 or more shirts are ordered, a reprint will happen automatically (https://teespring.com/bsd105) *** PC-BSD 11-CURRENT with Package Base (http://lists.pcbsd.org/pipermail/testing/2016-May/010616.html) Looking for a way to play with the new FreeBSD base package system? This month's PC-BSD -CURRENT image now used packages for base system installation, and is asking for testers to help find bugs. Known issues so far: setuid binaries (Fix in works) Missing tzone files Distrib packages If all that doesn't scare you away, then give it a whirl! Upgrades for previous APRIL images are now online also. *** BeastieBits HardenedBSD + LibreSSL (https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2016-05-05/libressl-hardenedbsd-base) Michael Dexter's talk at LFNW 2016 is the 2nd highest youtube views from this years conference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k1Mf0c6YW8) Why OpenBSD is important to me (http://ggr.com/why-openbsd-is-important-to-me.html) Study of nginx-1.9.12 performance/latency on DragonFlyBSD-g67a73 (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2016-May/249581.html) Running FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD as a virtualised guest on Online.net (https://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=2109) The interesting story of how IllumOS syscalls work (http://zinascii.com/2016/the-illumos-syscall-handler.html) The BeaST is the FreeBSD based dual-controller reliable storage system concept with aim to implement ZFS and in-memory cache. (https://mezzantrop.wordpress.com/portfolio/the-beast/) Francois Tigeot updates the drm/i915 driver to match what's in Linux kernel 4.3 (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2016-May/500352.html) FreeBSD is working on the update to Linux Kernel 4.6, we may finally get ahead of Dragonfly! (https://twitter.com/ed_maste/status/730450314889924608) Feedback/Questions Oskar - Torrent Jail (http://pastebin.com/RT7tVtQ7) Shane - ZFS Delete (http://pastebin.com/VkpMeims) Adam - Zimbra Port (http://pastebin.com/MmQ00Sv1) Ray - PC-BSD - FrameBuffer (http://pastebin.com/Xx9TkX7A) Richard - ZFS Backups (http://pastebin.com/ncYxqpg3) ***

This week on BSDNow, Allan is back in down from Europe! We'll get to hear some of his wrap-up and get caught up on the latest BSD This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD Quarterly Report (http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.html) This quarterly status report starts with a rather interesting introduction by Warren Block ASLR Porting CEPH to FreeBSD RCTL I/O Rate Limiting The Graphics Stack on FreeBSD (Haswell is in, work is progressing on the next update) CAM I/O Scheduler NFS Server updates, working around the 16 group limit, and implementing pNFS, allowing NFS to scale beyond a single server Static Analysis of the FreeBSD Kernel with PVS Studio PCI-express HotPlug GitLab Port committed! WITHFASTDEPEND and other improvements to the FreeBSD build system Lots of other interesting stuff *** A Prog By Any Other Name (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/a-prog-by-any-other-name) Ted Unangst looks at what goes into the name of a program “Sometimes two similar programs are really the same program with two names. For example, grep and egrep are two commands that perform very similar functions and are therefore implemented as a single program. Running ls -i and observing the inode number of each file will reveal that there is only one file. Calling the program egrep is a shorthand for -E and does the same thing.” So BSD provides __progname in libc, so a program can tell what its name is But, what if it has more than one name? “In fact, every program has three names: its name in the filesystem, the name it has been invoked with, and whatever it believes its own name to be.” Of course it is not that easy. “there's another set of choices for each name, the full path and the basename” “It's even possible on some systems for argv[0] to be NULL.” He then goes on to rename doas (the OpenBSD light replacement for sudo) to banana and discuss what happens “On that note, another possible bug is to realize that syslog by default uses progname. A user may be able to evade log monitoring by invoking doas with a different name. (Just fixed.)” Another interesting article from our friend Ted *** FreeBSD (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/4892834293350400/) and NetBSD (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6246531984261120/) Google Summer of Code projects have been announced Some FreeBSD highlights: Add SCSI passthrough to CTL (share an optical drive via iSCSI) Add USB target mode driver based on CTL (share a USB device via iSCSI) API to link created /dev entries to sysctl nodes Implement Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS) HD Audio device model in userspace for bhyve Some NetBSD highlights: Implement Ext4fs support in ReadOnly mode NPF and blacklistd web interface Port U-Boot so it can be compiled on NetBSD Split debug symbols for pkgsrc builds *** libressl - more vague priomises (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/libressl-more-vague-promises) We haven't had a Ted U article on the show as of late, however this week we get several! In his next entry “LibreSSL, more vague promises” He then goes into some detail on what has happened with LibreSSL in the past while, as well as future plans going forward. “With an eye to the future, what new promises can we make? Some time ago I joked that we only promised to make a better TLS implementation, not a better TLS. Remains true, but fortunately there are people working on that, too. TLS 1.3 support is on the short term watchlist. The good news is we may be ahead of the game, having already removed compression. How much more work can there be?” “LibreSSL integrated the draft chacha20-poly1305 construction from BoringSSL. The IETF has since standardized a slightly different version because if it were the same it wouldn't be different. Support for standard variant, and the beginning of deprecation for the existing code, should be landing very shortly. Incidentally, some people got bent out of shape because shipping chacha20 meant exposing non IANA approved numbers to Internet. No promises that won't happen again.” *** Interview - Samy Al Bahra - @0xF390 (https://twitter.com/0xF390) Backtrace *** News Roundup systrace(1) is removed for OpenBSD 6.0 (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=146161167911029&w=2) OpenBSD has removed systrace, an older mechanism for limiting what syscalls an application can make It is mostly replaced by the pledge() system OpenBSD was the first implementation, most others have been unmaintained for some time The last reported Linux version was for kernel 2.6.1 NetBSD removed systrace in 2007 *** pfSense Video Series: Comprehensive Guide To pfSense 2.3 (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE726R7YUJTePGvo0Zga2juUBxxFTH4Bk) A series of videos (11 so far), about pfSense Covers Why you would use it, how to pick your hardware, and installation Then the series covers some networking basics, to make sure you are up to speed before configuring your pfSense Then a comprehensive tour of the WebUI Then goes on to cover graphing, backing up and restoring configuration There are also videos on running DHCP, NTP, and DNS servers *** DuckDuckGo announces its 2016 FOSS Donations (https://duck.co/blog/post/303/2016-foss-donations-announcement) The theme is “raising the standard of trust online” Supported projects include: OpenBSD Foundation announces DuckDuckGo as a Gold Sponsor (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160503085227&mode=expanded) the Freedom of the Press Foundation for SecureDrop the Freenet Project the CrypTech Project the Tor Project Fight for the Future for Save Security Open Source Technology Improvement Fund for VeraCrypt (based on TrueCrypt) Riseup Labs for LEAP (LEAP Encryption Access Project) GPGTools for GPGMail *** Larry the BSD Guy hangs up his hat at FOSS Force (http://fossforce.com/2016/04/bsd-linuxfest-northwest/) After 15 years, Larry the BSD Guy has decided to hang it up, and walk into the sunset! (Figuratively of course) After wrapping up coverage of recent LinuxFest NorthWest (Which he didn't attend), Larry has decided it's time for a change and is giving up his column over at FOSS Force, as well as stepping away from all things technical. His last write-up is a good one, and he has some nice plugs for both Dru Lavigne and Michael Dexter of the BSD community. He will be missed, but we wish him all the luck with the future! He also puts out the plug that FOSS Force will be needing a new columnist in the near future, so if you are interested please let them know! *** Beastie Bits If you sponsored “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS”, check your mail box (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2648) pkg-1.7.0 is an order of magnitude slower than pkg-1.6.4 (https://marc.info/?l=freebsd-ports&m=146001143408868&w=2) -- Caused by a problem not in pkg LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Recap (https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/linuxfest-northwest-2016/) Dru Lavigne's 'Doc like an Egyption' talk from LFNW (https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016/sessions/doc-egyptian) Michael Dexters' 'Switching to BSD from Linux' talk from LFNW (https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016/sessions/devil-details-switching-bsd-linux) Michael Dexters' 'Secrets to enduring user groups' talk from LFNW (https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016/sessions/20-year-and-counting-secrets-enduring-user-groups) January issue of Freebsd Journal online for free (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/journal/) Ghost BSD releases 10.3 Alpha1 for testing (http://ghostbsd.org/10.3_alpha1) EuroBSDcon 2016 - Call for Papers - Dealine: May 8th (https://www.freebsdnews.com/2016/04/15/eurobsdcon-2016-call-for-papers/) KnoxBUG Initial Meeting (http://www.knoxbug.org/content/knoxbug-maiden-voyage) Photos, slides, and videos from the Open Source Data Center Conference (https://www.netways.de/en/events_trainings/osdc/archive/osdc2016/) *** Feedback/Questions Mohammad - Replication (http://pastebin.com/KDnyWf6Y) John - Rolling new packages (http://pastebin.com/mAbRwbEF) Clint - Unicast (http://pastebin.com/BNa6pyir) Bill - GhostBSD (http://pastebin.com/KDjS2Hxa) Charles - BSD Videos (http://pastebin.com/ABUUtzWM) ***

This week, we do our first-ever remotely recorded episode of the podcast as we do the show from Bellingham, WA, where we are attending Linux Fest Northwest 2016! Our big game of the week?: "Speedrunners" has come to Linux (the much beloved sidescrolling hyper competitive online 4 player run/jump/superhero-footracer). Plus, we cover several other releases new for this week, including 2 space shooters that have us slavering with anticipatory-space-shooter-murder-glee. www.bestlinuxgames.com

This week on BSDNow, Allan is back from the Storage Summit in Silicon Valley! We are going to get his thoughts on how the conference went, plus bring you the latest ZFS info discussed. That plus the usual BSD news is This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenBSD website operators urged to fix mind-alteringly bad bug (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/21/openbsd_website_operator_patch_now_for_the_sake_of_your_sanity/?mt=1456206806399) We start off a bit light-hearted this week, with the important, breaking news that finally a long-standing OpenBSD bug has been addressed for the HTTP daemon. Specifically? It changes the default 404 page fonts away from Comic Sans, to a bit more crowd-pleasing alternative: “For some reason the httpd status pages (e.g. 404) use the Comic Sans typeface. This patch removes comic sans and sets the typeface to the default sans-serif typeface of the client. “This lowers the number of people contacting website maintainers with typeface complaints bordering on harassment”. Operators running HTTPD are highly encouraged to update their systems to the latest code, right now……... No seriously, we are waiting for you. Get it done now and then we'll continue with the show. Registration for AsiaBSDCon 2016 is now open + Talk Schedule (https://2016.asiabsdcon.org/registration/?lang=en) After a few delays, the registration for AsiaBSDCon has now opened! The conference starts in less than two weeks! now, so be sure to get signed up ASAP. In addition the schedule has been posted, and here's some of the highlights of this year's conference. In addition to FreeBSD and NetBSD dev summits on the first two days, we have some excellent tutorials being given this year by Kirk, Gnn, Dru and more! (https://2016.asiabsdcon.org/program.html.en) The regular paper talks also have lots of good ones this year, including this crazy encrypted boot loader one given by our very own Allan Jude! *** OPENBSD ON AWS : AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (http://blog.d2-si.fr/2016/02/15/openbsd-on-aws/?hn) We have a blog post from Antoine Jacoutot, talking about the process of getting OpenBSD up and running in AWS It starts with his process of creating an AMI from scratch, which ended up not being that bad: create and loopback-mount a raw image containing a UFS filesystem extract the OpenBSD base sets (which are just regular tarballs) and kernel enable console output (so that one could “aws ec2 get-console-output”) install the boot loader on the image then use the ec2 tools to import the RAW image to S3, convert it into a volume (ec2-import-volume) which we can snapshot (ec2-create-snapshot) and create an AMI from (ec2-register) The blog post also has a link to a script which automates this process, so don't be daunted if you didn't quite follow all of that. Thanks to the recently landed DomU support, the final pieces of the puzzle fell into place, allowing OpenBSD to function as a proper guest (with networking!) Next it details the process of injecting a public SSH key into the instances for instant remote access. An ec2-init.sh script was created (also on github) which does the following: setting the hostname installing the provided SSH public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys executing user-data (if it starts with a shebang) displaying the host SSH fingerprints on the console (to match cloud-init) With that done, OpenBSD is pretty much AWS ready! He then gives a brief walkthrough of setting up nginx for new users, but if you've already done this before then the instance is ready for you to hacking on. Start thinking of ideas for things with FreeBSD for Google's 2016 Summer of Code (https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas) Students and Developers, listen up! It's time to start thinking about GSoC again, and FreeBSD is looking to update its project ideas page. There's some good ones on the list, plus ones that should be pruned (such as GELI boot), but now is the time to start adding new ones before we get too deep into the process. This goes for the other BSD's as well, start thinking about your proposals, or if you are developer, which projects would be a good fit for mentoring. (Improving the Linux Compat layer is one I think should be done!) Guide to getting started with kernel hacking (https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Getting%20started%20with%20kernel%20projects) One of the things that's been asked frequently is how to contribute towards the efforts to bring updated DRM / X drivers to the FreeBSD kernel. Jean-Sébastien Pédron has started a great guide on the Wiki which details how to get started with the porting effort, and that developers need not be afraid of helping. *** Storage Summit Roundup Earlier this week a number of developers from FreeBSD, as well as various vendors that use FreeBSD, or provide products used with FreeBSD met for a Storage Summit (https://wiki.freebsd.org/201602StorageSummit), to discuss the future of these technologies The summit was co-located with the USENIX FAST (Filesystems And Storage Technologies) conference The summit was sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation and FlightAware After a short introduction, the event opened with a Networking Synergy panel The focus of this panel was to see if there were techniques and lessons learned in improving the networking stack over the last 10 years that could be applied to improving the storage stack A lot of time was spent discussing issues like multi-queue support, CPU scheduling, and ways to modernize the stack CAM Scheduling & Locking Revamp (https://wiki.freebsd.org/201602StorageSummit/CAM) No notes posted User Space Storage Stack (https://wiki.freebsd.org/201602StorageSummit/UserSpace) One of the user space storage stacks discussed was Diskmap Like netmap, but for disks (diskmap) Kernel bypass for accessing disks Ilias Marinos, who is working on diskmap at Cambridge University, described diskmap to the group A design discussion then followed in which the memory management was covered as that's an issue for any sort of "IO" map system Action Items: Discuss with Luigi the idea of code merges Need a reset path API Kernel buffer mapping for reliability Support for other interfaces (SATA/SCSI) GEOM layer adaptation Adapting to New Storage Technologies (https://wiki.freebsd.org/201602StorageSummit/NewStorageTechnologies) This working group was led by Adrian Palmer, from Seagate SMR Persistent Memory Session 1: Device Identification and the structural requirements Agenda: We'll look over the Identification nuances and what needs to change to support the structure. Support for IO order guarantees, forward-write only requirements, new commands and topology. Dig into CAM and GEOM layers. Solutions should be fast and have as few code paths as possible Results: Small audience. We talked about zoned characteristics, and how it can be used in various workloads, projected to be implemented in years Session 2: Information dissemination and consumption Agenda: Where and how will information from the report_zones command be gathered, stored, combined and used. This will include userspace storage and multi-volume management. Will CAM store this data, or will GEOM? How frequently will this need to be queried/updated/verified from the drive? Results: Merged with ZFS working group to discuss SMR. Came up with idea that could be implemented as circular buffer zone type. Began to discuss solutions among developers ZFS (https://wiki.freebsd.org/201602StorageSummit/ZFS) During the first session we discussed how to improve dedup support + A dedup throttle or cap was discussed. When the size of the DDT grows beyond this size, new entries would not be deduped. An alternative to this was also discussed, where when the DDT reached the cap size, it would remove a random entry with only a single reference from the DDT to make room for the new entry. When a block is going to be freed, if it is not found in the DDT, it is assumed to have only 1 reference, and removed. There was also discussion of replacing the DDT with an in-memory hash table and a “log” of increment/decrement operations, that is periodically compacted. The hash table is recreated from the log at pool import time. This would reduce the in-memory footprint of the DDT, as well as speed up all write operations as adding an entry to the dedup log will be less expensive than updating the DDT. There was also discussion of using dedicated device(s) for the DDT, either using the DDT on SSD work by Nexenta, or the Metadata Classes work by Intel The first session also discussed Secure Delete and related things The desire for an implementation of TRIM that uses the “secure erase” functionality provided by some disks was expressed Overwriting sectors with patterns of garbage may be insufficient because SSDs may internally remap where a specific LBA physically resides The possibility of using something like the “eager zero” feature to periodically write zeros over all free blocks in the pool to erase any lingering data fragments Problems with the FreeBSD TRIM implementation were discussed, as well as looking at ways to implement the new ZFS TRIM implementation on FreeBSD ABD (ARC Buf Data) was discussed, a new design that lessens the requirement for contiguous memory. Only a small area of contiguous blocks is reserved at boot, and compressed ARC blocks are constructed of scatter-gather lists of individual pages The second session combined with the SMR group and talked about SMR support in ZFS Later in the second session ZFS Encryption was also discussed, mostly with a focus on what the use cases are The third session combined all of the groups for an overview of upcoming ZFS features including device removal and channel programs There was also a request for code review, for mostly finished projects like Persistent L2ARC, Writeback cache, and Large dnode support Hallway Track ZFS / VFS Interaction Adrian Palmer has been a FreeBSD hobbyist since FreeBSD 7, and I think I managed to convince him to start contributing *** News Roundup One Week with NetBSD 7.0: Back to Unix basics (http://jamesdeagle.blogspot.com/2016/02/one-week-with-netbsd-70-back-to-unix.html) The author of this blog series is sending a week using NetBSD 7.0, following a previous series on Solaris 10 “This is actually familiar territory, as I've been using BSD variants almost exclusively since 2006. My recent SunOS explorations were triggered last summer by OpenBSD having choked on my current laptop's NVIDIA card, and from what I could see at the time, FreeBSD had the same problem, although I now know NVIDIA drivers exist for that system. The thing that keeps me from going all-in with FreeBSD 10.x, however, is the fact that Firefox crashes and leaves "core dump" messages in its wake, and I'm just not a Chrome kinda guy.” “For those with a catholic taste in Unix, NetBSD is a keg party at the Vatican. If you're an absolute Unix beginner, or have been living on Ubuntu-based Linux distros for too long, then you may feel stranded at first by NetBSD's sparseness. You'll find yourself staring into the abyss and seeing only a blinking cursor staring back. If you have the presence of mind to type startx, you'll be greeted by twm, a window manager offering little more than an xterm window with the same blinking cursor until you learn how to configure the .twmrc file to include whatever applications you want or need in the right-click menu.” “As for NetBSD itself, I can't think of any major productivity applications that can't be installed, and most multimedia stuff works fine.” Issues the author hopes to sort out in later posts: Audio playback (youtube videos in Firefox) Wireless Flash Digital Camera SD Card readability, video playback Audacity A “fancy” desktop like Gnome 2, KDE, or xfce In a follow-up post (http://jamesdeagle.blogspot.com/2016/02/one-week-with-netbsd-70-libreoffice.html), the author got LibreOffice installed and sorted out the audio issues they were having In a later follow-up (http://jamesdeagle.blogspot.com/2016/02/one-week-with-netbsd-70-mixed-review-of.html) XFCE is up and running as well *** ZFS is for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04 (http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/02/zfs-is-fs-for-containers-in-ubuntu-1604.html) As you may have heard, Ubuntu 16.04 will include ZFS -- baked directly into Ubuntu -- supported by Canonical “ZFS one of the most beloved features of Solaris, universally coveted by every Linux sysadmin with a Solaris background. To our delight, we're happy to make to OpenZFS available on every Ubuntu system.” What does “supported by Canonical” mean? “You'll find zfs.ko automatically built and installed on your Ubuntu systems. No more DKMS-built modules” “The user space zfsutils-linux package will be included in Ubuntu Main, with security updates provided by Canonical” The article then provides a quick tutorial for setting up Linux Containers (LXC) backed by ZFS In the example, ZFS is backed by a file on the existing disk, not by a real disk, and with no redundancy However, the setup script seems to support using real block devices The Software Freedom Conservancy (https://sfconservancy.org/) is expected to issue a statement detailing their opinion on the legalities and licensing issues of bundling ZFS with Linux. *** Polling is a Hack: Server Sent Events (EventSource) with gevent, Flask, nginx, and FreeBSD (http://hypatia.software/2016/01/29/polling-is-a-hack-server-sent-events-eventsource-with-gevent-flask-nginx-and-freebsd/) A tutorial on setting up ‘Server-Sent Events', also know as EventSource in javascript, to notify website clients of new data, rather than having the javascript constantly poll for new data. The setup uses FreeBSD, nginx, gevent, Python, and the Flask framework The tutorial walks through setting a basic Python application using the Flask framework Then setting up the client side in Javascript Then for the server side setup, it covers installing and configuring nginx, and py-supervisor on FreeBSD The tutorial also includes links to additional resources and examples, including how to rate limit the Flash application *** Why FreeBSD? (http://www.aikchar.me/blog/why-freebsd.html) An excellent article written by Hamza Sheikh, discussing why FreeBSD is now his clear choice for learning UNIX. The article is pretty well written and lengthy, but has some great parts which we wanted to share with you: There were many rough edges in the Linux world and some of them exist even today. Choosing the right distribution (distro) for the task at hand is always the first and most difficult decision to make. While this is a strength of the Linux community it is also its weakness. This is exacerbated with the toxic infighting within the community in the last few years. A herd of voices believes it is their right to bring down a distro community because it is not like their distro of choice. Forking upstream projects has somehow become taboo. Hurling abuse in mailing lists is acceptable. Helping new users is limited to lambasting their distro of choice. Creating conspiracy theories over software decisions is the way to go. Copyleft zealots roam social media declaring non-copyleft free software heretic abominations. It all boils down to an ecosystem soured by the presence of maniacs who have the loudest voices and they seem to be everywhere you turn. Where is the engineering among all this noise? Btrfs - baking for a long time - is still nowhere near ZFS in stability or feature parity. systemd is an insatiable entity that feeds on every idea in sight and just devours indiscriminately. Wayland was promised years ago and its time has yet to arrive. Containers are represented by Docker that neither securely contains applications nor makes them easy to manage in production. Firewalling is dithering between firewalld, nftables, etc. SystemTap cannot match DTrace. In the same time span what do various BSDs offer? pf, CARP, ZFS, Hammer, OpenSSH, jails, pkgsrc, (software) ports, DTrace, hardware portability; just to name a few. Few would deny that BSDs have delivered great engineering with free software licenses to the entire world. To me they appear to be better flag bearers of free software with engineering to back it. He then goes through some of the various BSD's and the specifics on why FreeBSD was the logical choice for his situation. But at the end has a great summary on the community as a whole: Finally - and maybe repeating myself here - I have nothing but praise for the community. Be it BSD Now, mailing lists, Reddit, Twitter, LFNW, or SeaGL, people have encouraged me, answered my questions, and filed bugs for me. I have been welcomed and made a part of the community with open arms. These reasons are (good) enough for me to use FreeBSD and contribute to it. BeastieBits OPNsense 16.1.3 released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-16-1-3-released/) Copies of "FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems" seen in the wild (https://twitter.com/Savagedlight/status/700001944547491842) pfsense training available in Europe (http://www.netgate.com/training/) LiteBSD now has 50 ports in its ports tree (https://github.com/ibara/LiteBSD-Ports) Ports tree locked for OpenBSD 5.9 (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=145615281431064&w=2) “FreeBSD Filesystem Fun” at March semibug (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2556) Event #46 — Embedded Platforms (BSD, OpenWRT, Plan 9 & Inferno) (http://oshug.org/event/46) Feedback/Questions Frank - ZFS RAM? (http://slexy.org/view/s21lcCKrSB) David - ARM Porting (http://slexy.org/view/s204lxjvlq) Johnny - Lumina Default? (http://slexy.org/view/s2xMiSNLYn) Adam - PC-BSD Install and Q's (http://slexy.org/view/s214gJbLwD) Jeremy - Video Card Q (http://slexy.org/view/s20UNyzEeh) ***

This week on the show, we've got something pretty different. We went to a Linux convention and asked various people if they've ever tried BSD and what they know about it. Stay tuned for that, all this week's news and, of course, answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines LUKS in OpenBSD (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=143247114716771&w=2) Last week, we were surprised to find out that DragonFlyBSD has support (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=cryptsetup§ion=8) for dm-crypt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dm-crypt), sometimes referred to as LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup)) It looks like they might not be the only BSD with support for it for much longer, as OpenBSD is currently reviewing a patch for it as well LUKS would presumably be an additional option in OpenBSD's softraid (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/softraid.4) system, which already provides native disk encryption Support hasn't been officially committed yet, it's still going through testing, but the code is there if you want to try it out and report your findings If enabled, this might pave the way for the first (semi-)cross platform encryption scheme since the demise of TrueCrypt (and maybe other BSDs will get it too in time) *** FreeBSD gets 64bit Linux emulation (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2015-May/072255.html) For those who might be unfamiliar, FreeBSD has an emulation layer (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu.html) to run Linux-only binaries (as rare as they may be) The most common use case is for desktop users, enabling them to run proprietary applications like Adobe Flash or Skype Similar systems can also be found in NetBSD (https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-linux.html) and OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq9.html#Interact) (though disabled by default on the latter) However, until now, it's only supported binaries compiled for the i386 architecture This new update, already committed to -CURRENT, will open some new possibilities that weren't previously possible Meanwhile, HardenedBSD considers removing the emulation layer (https://hardenedbsd.org/content/poll-linuxulator-removal) entirely *** BSD at Open Source Conference 2015 Nagoya (https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/05/23/msg000686.html) We've covered the Japanese NetBSD users group setting up lots of machines at various conferences in the past, but now they're expanding Their latest report includes many of the NetBSD things you'd expect, but also a couple OpenBSD machines Some of the NetBSD ones included a Power Mac G4, SHARP NetWalker, Cubieboard2 and the not-so-foreign Raspberry Pi One new addition of interest is the OMRON LUNA88k, running the luna88k (http://www.openbsd.org/luna88k.html) port of OpenBSD There was even an old cell phone running Windows games (https://twitter.com/tsutsuii/status/601458973338775553) on NetBSD Check the mailing list post for some (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFrSmztWEAAS2uE.jpg) links (http://image.movapic.com/pic/m_201505230541335560130d49213.jpeg) to (http://image.movapic.com/pic/m_2015052305145455600ccea723a.jpeg) all (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFjPv9_UEAA8iEx.jpg:large) of (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CD4k6ZUUMAA0tEM.jpg) the (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFqn1GXUsAAFuro.jpg) nice (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFdIS2IUkAAZvjc.jpg) pictures (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFf5mToUIAAFrRU.jpg) *** LLVM introduces OpenMP support (http://blog.llvm.org/2015/05/openmp-support_22.html) One of the things that has kept some people in the GCC camp is the lack of OpenMP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMP) support in LLVM According to the blog post, it "enables Clang users to harness full power of modern multi-core processors with vector units" With Clang being the default in FreeBSD, Bitrig and OS X, and with some other BSDs exploring the option of switching, the need for this potential speed boost was definitely there This could also open some doors for more BSD in the area of high performance computing, putting an end to the current Linux monopoly *** Interview - Eric, FSF, John, Jose, Kris and Stewart Various "man on the street" style mini-interviews News Roundup BSD-licensed gettext replacement (https://gitlab.com/worr/libintl/blob/master/src/usr.bin/gettext/gettext.c) If you've ever installed ports on any of the BSDs, you've probably had GNU's gettext pulled in as a dependency Wikipedia says "gettext is an internationalization and localization (i18n) system commonly used for writing multilingual programs on Unix-like computer operating systems" A new BSD-licensed rewrite has begun, with the initial version being for NetBSD (but it's likely to be portable) If you've got some coding skills, get involved with the project - the more freely-licensed replacements, the better *** Unix history git repo (https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo) A git repository was recently created to show off some Unix source code history The repository contains 659 thousand commits and 2306 merges You can see early 386BSD commits all the way up to some of the more modern FreeBSD code If you want to browse through the giant codebase, it can be a great history lesson *** PCBSD 10.1.2 and Lumina updates (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2015/05/hotfix-release-to-10-1-2-now-available/) We mentioned 10.1.1 being released last week (and all the cool features a couple weeks before) but now 10.1.2 is out This minor update contained a few hotfixes: RAID-Z installation, cache and log devices and the text-only installer in UEFI mode There's also a new post (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2015/05/lumina-desktop-status-updatefaq/) on the PCBSD blog about Lumina, answering some frequently asked questions and giving a general status update *** Feedback/Questions Jake writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s25h4Biwzq) Van writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2AF0bGmL6) Anonymous writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20Ie1USFD) Dominik writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20vBtoKqL) (text answer (http://slexy.org/view/s20RjbIT5v)) Chris writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20USR3WzT) *** Mailing List Gold Death by chocolate (https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2015-May/033945.html) ***

In this post-LFNW episode, we go OVER THE TOP with several games finally out of early access, most notably, "Verdun," and "Kerbal Space Program." Then we visit a slew of games we've been playing over the last two weeks; "Volgarr The Viking," "Kings of Kung Fu," and the Sonic-esque "Slinki." Plus!: ARMIKROG!!!!