Podcasts about LinuxFest Northwest

We're live from LinuxFest Northwest 2025. We're joined by guests from the audience, try our hand at Linux trivia and share our experiences from the best fest in the West.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're live from LinuxFest Northwest 2025. We're joined by guests from the audience, try our hand at Linux trivia and share our experiences from the best fest in the West.

Live from LinuxFest Norhtwest 2025 Day 1. Exclusive coverage, chats, interviews, and more.

Live from LinuxFest Norhtwest 2025 Day 1. Exclusive coverage, chats, interviews, and more. Catch day two in episode 612 of LINUX Unplugged.

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:

Listen to the latest System76 news with Alex and Emma! App developer guest, Luc Morvan joins the show to talk about his python development and experience with Pop!_OS and System76.00:50 How did Emma lose her voice?03:00 Thelio Mega News03:40 Spring Sale04:20 LinuxFest Northwest coming and Thelio Mega with PNY at GTC conference 05:46 Guest Introduction: Luc Morvan, app developer07:00 The application Luc is working on 10:15 Luc's Start in Linux + Distro Hopping “drove my wife crazy”13:10 Discovering Pop!_OS & System7617:10 Raspberry Pi experience18:50 Learning MySql with the Darter Pro19:45 Next steps with the apps21:09 Emma and Alex play a game

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:

We tested out the OpenWRT One and tried it in a unique use case. Then, Wes goes back to 1999 to solve a problem.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:

This week it's a recap of Linuxfest Northwest! We circle back to creating your own ISO, and we'll touch on the recent events in the Nix Community have resulted in Jonathan Ringer no longer be fulfilling the role of release manager. -- During The Show -- 00:48 Steve's Camera Experiences Axis PTZ camera died Factory reset Replaced with Riolink camera Be aware of what you are buying 08:00 Arcolinux for Building ISOs - Wiggy Automate logins Selenium (https://www.selenium.dev/) Kwallet Arcolinux (https://arcolinux.com/) 13:20 Home Assistant ESP32 ESP32 devices falling off the network Trouble shooting Solution #### 19:32 Tempest Weather Station Tempest Weather Station (https://shop.tempest.earth/products/tempest) Can find other local stations 20:57 Fixing Dad's House Overview of nightmare Shelly Pro 4 PM (https://www.shelly.com/en/products/shop/shelly-pro-4-pm) ZigBee Network Scene Controller (https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Control-Transmitter-Requires-Compatible/dp/B099KDS3W9) ZWave Network Scene Controller (https://www.amazon.com/Z-Wave-Network-Scene-Controller-Required/dp/B09B6S4TSL) Portable/Small Scene Switch (https://www.amazon.com/Minoston-Controller-Control-Support-MR40Z/dp/B09BQKD5FQ) Aeotec Aeon Labs WallMote (https://www.amazon.com/Aeotec-Aeon-Labs-ZW129-WallMote/dp/B01NCEJAOD) Aeotec NanoMote Quad (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CXMD83J) 26:20 System76 Interview Carl Richell - CEO of System76 Cosmic Gnome Shell Building Cosmic Desktop Built in Rust Tiling WM High positive response Did you think System76 would get into software development? How it works Keyboard shortcuts Cosmic GitHub (https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch) 38:35 Boot.dev Gameified backend coding platform Not a bootcamp or degree Gameified learning is not always practical Gameified learning may not keep you motivated long term Boot.dev (https://www.boot.dev/tracks/backend) Scrapli (https://carlmontanari.github.io/scrapli/) Python library for configuring network devices 47:30 Nix Drama Jonathan Ringer no longer release manager There is a human on the other side of the keyboard How is this "inclusive and accepting"? Many open source projects came from tax dollars Focus on meritocracy Singling out a person is sad Hope it all works out Save Nix Together (https://save-nix-together.org/) Nix News (https://nixpkgs.news/) Kilo Byte Size (https://kilo.bytesize.xyz/nix-the-breaking-point) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/387) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.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 live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

The first LinuxFest is back and better than ever. We share stories and friends from one of the best Linux gatherings of the year: LinuxFest Northwest.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:

Listen to the latest on System76 computers, manufacturing, Pop!_OS and COSMIC DE. This episode features an interview with Streaming Global and their work with GPU servers to create media and data delivery pipelines. We'll also talk about new hardware updates, community happenings and even play a fun game at the end!00:00:38 Marketing Summit00:01:49 Hardware News00:01:52 40 series GPUs available on THelio Desktops00:03:20 Serval WS and Bonobo WS laptops with updated CPU and display options00:04:06 Adder WS, Lemur and Oryx Pro coming soon00:04:30 COSMIC Updates00:04:33 Text shaping00:05:17 OSDs designed00:06:08 More updates coming to COSMIC in March00:06:35 Community Efforts for COSMIC are amazing00:07:07 Carl Richell at LinuxFest Northwest to talk about COSMIC00:08:41 Interview with Brandon from Streaming Global00:08:50 ABout Streaming Global00:11:03 Technology behind Streaming Global's media delivery systems00:13:47 GPU Multi tenancy00:14:45 SG-RT and Pixel Streaming00:15:42 Sectors where Streaming Global has impact00:17:49 Corporate training improvements with streaming00:19:34 What the future holds for Streaming Global00:23:30 Why Choose System76?00:26:21 Linux Alphabet Game00:29:09 Outro00:29:47 BlooperFive facts about us:-Desktops and keyboards handcrafted in the US-Pop!_OS is free and collects zero user data-Laptops ship to over 60 countries-In-house support for the life of your hardware-Advocate for Right to Repair, Linux, and open sourceCheck out what we make!Blog: blog.system76.comLaptops: s76.co/WuEDOnoSDesktops: s76.co/Zn4NXTf9Pop!_OS: s76.co/D_IWRvWDShare what you make with us!twitter.com/system76facebook.com/system76instagram.com/system76_com

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.

Alex shares a new build integrating WLED, and Chirs reviews hardware that can get you started with WLED in 45 seconds. Then, one last big update on the Year of Voice and our thoughts on self-hosting push notifications.

We test two popular methods to run local language models on your Linux box. Then, we push the limits to see which language models will toe the line and which won't.

We did Proxmox dirty last week, so we try to explain our thinking. But first, a few things have gone down that you should know about.

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.

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.

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.

Can we build an indestructible server that stands up to the test of giving out root login to the Internet?

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We take a "Rust-only tools" challenge for a week and admit what worked, and what sucked. Plus, a surprise guest.

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.

The long shot that has me driving to Denver next week, my extreme backup plans if LinuxFest Northwest is canceled, and update on my podcast consulting experiment. Plus my tweaks to make macOS more like Desktop Linux.

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.

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.

Brent sits down with Joe Ressington, Jupiter Broadcasting Podcast Content Director, Late Night Linux host, and musician, for an exploration of his journey in podcasting, a behind-the-scenes of User Error and Linux Action News, how music led to Linux, the origins of Brunch with Brent's theme music, and more. Special Guest: Joe Ressington.

Brent sits down with Emma Marshall, Customer Happiness Manager at System76 (https://system76.com) for a fun chat touching on her love of pinball and puppies, spreading happiness, women in tech, and more. Note: This episode was recorded before the Superfans 3 event, which occurred between November 15-17, 2019. Special Guest: Emma Marshall.

Brent sits down with Martin Wimpress, co-founder and project lead for Ubuntu MATE https://ubuntu-mate.org/, Director of Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical, and co-host of Ubuntu Podcast https://ubuntupodcast.org/. We dive into why innovative, creative people are attracted to open source, his journey through Linux and podcasting, his feelings on his new position in the Desktop Team at Canonical, and much more. Special Guest: Martin Wimpress.

Brent sits down with Angela Fisher, Executive Producer at Linux Academy, Jupiter Broadcasting co-founder, co-host of many JB productions including The FauxShow (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/fauxshow/), and Tech Talk Today (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/today/), among others. We touch on a variety of topics including the early beginnings of Jupiter Broadcasting, the origins of Brunch with Brent, aswell as many that are closer to her heart - from painting to parenting. "You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose. But you can't pick your friends' nose." - A Wise Painted Rock

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fresh back from LinuxFest Northwest we share a few of our favorite stories and memories. Plus our concerns with Purism's new subscription services, Fedora 30 is released, and we spin up the Distro Hoppers. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Ell Marquez.

Fresh back from LinuxFest Northwest we share a few of our favorite stories and memories.

Docker Hub gets hacked, Nextcloud 16 has a new feature to prevent hacks, and France's 'Secure" Telegram replacement gets hacked within an hour. Plus who is spending $30m a month on AWS? Docker on ARM, and some LinuxFest Northwest thoughts.

Docker Hub gets hacked, Nextcloud 16 has a new feature to prevent hacks, and France's 'Secure" Telegram replacement gets hacked within an hour. Plus who is spending $30m a month on AWS? Docker on ARM, and some LinuxFest Northwest thoughts.

We recap the amazingly fun, awesome time we had this year's 20th Anniversay Linux Fest Northwest in glorious Bellingham WA 92 hours outside Seattle, in the utterly magical Pacific Northwest). We even spare a few loose seconds to mention some Linux games, but really just a cliffs notes-sized recap of our travelogue. ALSO, we take a moment to remember one of the truly greatest heroes of our glorious Revolution, Ian Murdock (the "Ian" part of "debIAN"). Cheers to everyone (old and new) we got to meet at the fest, and hope to see YOU there this time next year! Happy Ian Murdock Day everyone! -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):--- --Yuppie Psycho (-10% $14.99, through May 2nd) https://store.steampowered.com/app/597760/Yuppie_Psycho/ --3030 Deathwar Redux ($14.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/464360/3030_Deathwar_Redux__A_Space_Odyssey/ --Zombotron ($14.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/664830/Zombotron/ --Strider (-70%, $4.49 through April 29th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/235210/STRIDER/ --Lost Planet (-80%, $2.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/6510/Lost_Planet_Extreme_Condition/ --Strider (-70%, $4.49 through April 29th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/235210/STRIDER/

Docker Hub gets hacked, Nextcloud 16 has a new feature to prevent hacks, and France's 'Secure" Telegram replacement gets hacked within an hour. Plus who is spending $30m a month on AWS? Docker on ARM, and some LinuxFest Northwest thoughts.

The party before the party, it's Friday! A full crew getting ready for LinuxFest Northwest join us from all over the world to share stories, meet new friends, and give each other a hard time.

Well, the Barr-redacted long-witheld Mueller Report was released yesterday, after one of the single weirdest pieces of kabuki press-conference ever, so this week, we match my mood (bewildered, frothy anger-crazy) with a selection of excellent 2D hyper-violent games ("Guns, Guts, and Cannoli 2," "Katana Zero," etc.). In news of interest to Linuxers who have love hate relationships with the service, we talk about a fantastic new method to exfiltrate your books from their site, liberating them from their DRM chains (and vendor lock-in). And we also take a moment to highlight the excellent "Supraland," discuss our plans for next week's LinuxFest Northwest, and much more in this enormous show! -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):--- --openaudible (FOSS) www.openaudible.org --Supraland (free demo available, $19.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/813630/Supraland/ --Guns, Gore and Cannoli 2 (-50% $6.49 through April 22nd) https://store.steampowered.com/app/525510/Guns_Gore_and_Cannoli_2/ --God's Trigger ($14.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/488730/Gods_Trigger/ --Katana ZERO ($14.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/460950/Katana_ZERO/ --One Finger Death Punch 2 (-25% $5.99 through April 22nd) https://store.steampowered.com/app/980300/One_Finger_Death_Punch_2/ --Pathway ($15.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/546430/Pathway/ --Echo ($24.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/551770/ECHO/

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.

Not A Blog Episode 03 Welcome to Not A Blog, the podcast, that as you can hear... Is Not A Blog.This is our third episode and foray into this wild wild world of podcasting! This week we talk about Linux Fest Northwest 2018 and Microsoft's new Linux chips! Sounds zesty!If you would like to reach out to us, you can find us at:Twitter: @NotABlogPodcastFacebook: @NotABlogPodcastEmail: NotABlogWasTaken@gmail.comPlease Rate and Subscribe! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ubuntu and Fedora have new releases, and our early impressions are great. We’ll share the features that we think make these distros some of the best Linux desktop releases ever. Plus some important community news, some Darktable tips for beginners, and some select clips from this year’s LinuxFest Northwest. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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.

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)

Windows 10 users are getting a big update, but we're a little unimpressed, the tragic story of Eric Lundgren, someone is trying to extort GrayShift, and scientist have buckets with living pig brains. Also - how GEDmatch was helpful in busting the Golden State Killer. Plus the new horrible truth we just learned about online dating... All live from LinuxFest Northwest with special guests! Special Guests: Allan Jude and Chase Nunes.

We provide you with updates to Spectre and Meltdown from various BSD projects, a review of TrueOS from Linux, how to set up FreeBSD on ThinkPad x240, and a whole bunch of beastie bits. This episode was brought to you by Headlines KPTI patch lands in FreeBSD -current (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=328083) After a heroic effort by Konstantin Belousov kib@FreeBSD.org, the first meltdown patch has landed in FreeBSD This creates separate page tables for the Kernel and userland, and switches between them when executions enters the kernel, and when it returns to userland It is currently off by default, but you are encouraged to test it, so it can be merged back to the release branches. Set vm.pmap.pti=1 in /boot/loader.conf The existing implementation of PCID (process-context identifiers), is not compatible with the new PTI code, and is disabled when PTI is enabled, decreasing performance. A future patch will use PCID in a way that is compatible with PTI. PCID allows the OS to annotate memory mappings to specific processes, so that they can be flushed selectively, and so that they are only used when in the context of that application. Once the developers are relatively confident in the correctness of the code that has landed in -current, it will be ported back to FreeBSD 10 and 11, and released as a security advisory. Apparently porting back to FreeBSD 11 only has some relatively simple merge conflicts, but 10 will be more work. Former FreeBSD Security Officer Dag-Erling Smørgrav has created a meltdown testing and PoC tool (https://github.com/dag-erling/meltdown) that you can use to check your system. It is not finished yet, and doesn't seem to work with newer processors (haswell and newer). The first partial mitigation for Spectre variant 2 (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/328011) for bhyve on AMD64 has also been committed The latest information is always available on the FreeBSD Wiki (https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/edit/SpeculativeExecutionVulnerabilities) *** Some thoughts on Spectre and Meltdown (http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2018-01-17-some-thoughts-on-spectre-and-meltdown.html) Colin Percival breaks down how these vulnerabilities work, with same nice analogies What is a side channel: I want to know when my girlfriend's passport expires, but she won't show me her passport (she complains that it has a horrible photo) and refuses to tell me the expiry date. I tell her that I'm going to take her to Europe on vacation in August and watch what happens: If she runs out to renew her passport, I know that it will expire before August; while if she doesn't get her passport renewed, I know that it will remain valid beyond that date. Her desire to ensure that her passport would be valid inadvertently revealed to me some information: Whether its expiry date was before or after August. Spectre Variant 1: I tell my girlfriend that I'm going to take her on vacation in June, but I don't tell her where yet; however, she knows that it will either be somewhere within Canada (for which she doesn't need a passport, since we live in Vancouver) or somewhere in Europe. She knows that it takes time to get a passport renewed, so she checks her passport and (if it was about to expire) gets it renewed just in case I later reveal that I'm going to take her to Europe. If I tell her later that I'm only taking her to Ottawa — well, she didn't need to renew her passport after all, but in the meantime her behaviour has already revealed to me whether her passport was about to expire. This is what Google refers to "variant 1" of the Spectre vulnerability: Even though she didn't need her passport, she made sure it was still valid just in case she was going to need it. Spectre Variant 2: I spend a week talking about how Oxford is a wonderful place to visit and I really enjoyed the years I spent there, and then I tell her that I want to take her on vacation. She very reasonably assumes that — since I've been talking about Oxford so much — I must be planning on taking her to England, and runs off to check her passport and potentially renew it... but in fact I tricked her and I'm only planning on taking her to Ottawa. Meltdown: I tell my girlfriend that I want to take her to the Korean peninsula. She knows that her passport is valid for long enough; but she immediately runs off to check that her North Korean visa hasn't expired. Why does she have a North Korean visa, you ask? Good question. She doesn't — but she runs off to check its expiry date anyway! Because she doesn't have a North Korean visa, she (somehow) checks the expiry date on someone else's North Korean visa, and then (if it is about to expire) runs out to renew it — and so by telling her that I want to take her to Korea for a vacation I find out something she couldn't have told me even if she wanted to. Final thoughts on vulnerability disclosure The way these issues were handled was a mess; frankly, I expected better of Google, I expected better of Intel, and I expected better of the Linux community. When I found that Hyper-Threading was easily exploitable, I spent five months notifying the security community and preparing everyone for my announcement of the vulnerability; but when the embargo ended at midnight UTC and FreeBSD published its advisory a few minutes later, the broader world was taken entirely by surprise. Nobody knew what was coming aside from the people who needed to know; and the people who needed to know had months of warning. Contrast that with what happened this time around. Google discovered a problem and reported it to Intel, AMD, and ARM on June 1st. Did they then go around contacting all of the operating systems which would need to work on fixes for this? Not even close. FreeBSD was notified the week before Christmas, over six months after the vulnerabilities were discovered. Now, FreeBSD can occasionally respond very quickly to security vulnerabilities, even when they arise at inconvenient times — on November 30th 2009 a vulnerability was reported at 22:12 UTC, and on December 1st I provided a patch at 01:20 UTC, barely over 3 hours later — but that was an extremely simple bug which needed only a few lines of code to fix; the Spectre and Meltdown issues are orders of magnitude more complex. To make things worse, the Linux community was notified and couldn't keep their mouths shut. Standard practice for multi-vendor advisories like this is that an embargo date is set, and nobody does anything publicly prior to that date. People don't publish advisories; they don't commit patches into their public source code repositories; and they definitely don't engage in arguments on public mailing lists about whether the patches are needed for different CPUs. As a result, despite an embargo date being set for January 9th, by January 4th anyone who cared knew about the issues and there was code being passed around on Twitter for exploiting them. This is not the first time I've seen people get sloppy with embargoes recently, but it's by far the worst case. As an industry we pride ourselves on the concept of responsible disclosure — ensuring that people are notified in time to prepare fixes before an issue is disclosed publicly — but in this case there was far too much disclosure and nowhere near enough responsibility. We can do better, and I sincerely hope that next time we do. CPU microcode update code for amd64 (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20180115073406) (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=151588857304763&w=2) Patrick Wildt (patrick@) recently committed some code that will update the Intel microcode on many Intel CPUs, a diff initially written by Stefan Fritsch (sf@). The microcode of your CPU is basically the firmware that runs on your (Intel) processor, defining its instruction set in terms of so called "microinstructions". The new code depends, of course, on the corresponding firmware package, ported by Patrick which can be installed using a very recent fw_update(1). Of course, this all plays into the recently revealed problems in Intel (and other) CPUs, Meltdown and Spectre. Now Theo has explained the workings of the code on openbsd-tech, detailing some of the challenges in updating microcode on CPUs where your OS is already starting to run. Theo hints at future updates to the intel-firmware package in his mail: (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=151588857304763&w=2) Patrick and others committed amd64 Intel cpu microcode update code over the last few days. The approach isn't perfect, but it is good enough for a start. I want to explain the situation. When you fw_update, you'll get the firmware files. Upon a reboot, it will attempt to update the microcode on your cpus. Maybe there isn't a new microcode. Maybe your BIOS has a copy of the microcode and installs it before booting OpenBSD. This firmware installation is done a little late. Doing it better will require some work in the bootblocks to find the firmware files, but time is a bit short to do that right now. The branch-target-cache flushing features added in new microcode are not being used yet. There is more code which has to be written, but again other work is happening first. Also, Intel is saying their new microcodes sucks and people should wait a little. "Hi, my name is Intel and I'm an cheating speculator". Several developers are working on mitigations for these issues, attacking the problem from several angles. Expect to see more updates to a CVS tree near you soon. Intel: as a *BSD user, I am fucking pissed! (https://malcont.net/2018/01/dont-like-meltdown-spectre-releated-bugs-handled/) I wasn't going to write anything on the recently found x64 architecture – related bugs. I'm not a kernel developer nor even a programmer and I can't say that I have a solid understanding of what Meltdown and Spectre attacks are. Also there already is a ton of articles and posts written by people who have no grasp of the subject. I'm however a malcontent and I find this a good way to express my feelings: Intel: as a *BSD user, I am fucking pissed! Meltdown, Spectre and BSD – the “pissed” part Part of my work is UNIX-like systems administration – including BSDs and Linuces. As much as I am happy with Linux changes already made, I am beyond pissed about how the BSDs were handled by Intel – because they were not. FreeBSD Security Team received some heads-up just before Xmas, while OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonflyBSD teams received no prior warnings. Meltdown and Spectre attacks are hard to perform. It is a hard work to mitigate them in the software, as the bugs lay in the CPUs and are not fixable by microcode updates. Developers are trying to mitigate these bugs in a way that will deliver smallest performance losses. A lot of time consuming work is needed to fix CPU vendors' mistakes. Linux developers had this time. BSD developers did not. BSD user base too small? BSD user base is small in comparison to Linux. Seems that it's too small for Intel. PlayStation4 consoles are FreeBSD-based (and use AMD CPUs) but I think it's safe to say that gaming devices are not the most important systems to be fixed. Netflix serves their content off FreeBSD but the bugs are not remotely exploitable (possibly not including JavaScript, but it's running someone's code locally) so there's probably not much harm to be done here either. However gamers and Netflix aren't the only ones who use *BSD systems. I'd say that there is more than a few FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD servers on the internet. In March 2017, Intel promised “more timely support to FreeBSD”. They knew about flaws in their CPUs in June and decided that a timely manner is the end of December – short before the embargo was to be lifted. Intel and Google (probably Intel more): it was your job to pick the correct people to whom the bugs can be disclosed. In my humble opinion you chose poorly by disclosing these issues with ONLY Apple, Microsoft, and the Linux Foundation, of OS vendors. You did much harm to the BSD community. Intel: It's your bugs. And you offered “more support” to the FreeBSD Foundation less than 3 months prior to being informed (my guess is that you knew much earlier) on the flaws in YOUR products. I don't want to write more here as the wording would be too strong. Interview - Viewer Questions These days, do you consider yourself more of an programmer or a sysadmin? Which one do you enjoy more? Does FreeBSD/BSD enable your business or would another OS suit your needs just as well? You've hinted that you use FreeBSD as part of your business. Can you elaborate on that and give some technical detail on how it's used in that environment? If you were allowed three wishes for anything at all to be implemented or changed in ZFS, what would they be, and why? Per Dataset throughput and IOPS limiting Per-File Cloning and/or zfsmv (move a file from one dataset to another, without copying) Cluster support Allan, you have previously mentioned that you have worked on FreeBSD on MIPS, what made you choose the Onion Omega over something like the Raspberry Pi? What is BSD Now's association with Jupiter broadcasting, and how did the relationship come to be? Jupiter seems to be associated with several Linux-themed podcasts, and I'm wondering how and why BSD Now joined Jupiter. The two communities (the Linuxes and BSDs) don't always seem to mix freely -- or do they? What kind of keyboard is that? Have you ever tried an ErgoDox? The ErgoDox EZ is made by a Canadian. You mentioned when doing one of your talks on UCL for FreeBSD that you had only recently learned C. I am also aware of your history also on contributing to the FreeBSD handbook and to documentation in general. Given you started with C relatively recently, what made you want to learn it, how quickly did you pick it up, and is it your favourite language? It is most inspiring to me, as you are clearly so talented, and of all the languages I have learned (including C++), I still prefer C in my heart of hearts. I'd be really interested to hear your answer, many thanks. *** News Roundup LinuxAndUbuntu Review Of TrueOS A Unix Based OS (http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/linuxandubuntu-review-of-trueos-a-unix-based-os) Trust me, the name TrueOS takes me back to 1990s when Tru64 UNIX operating system made its presence. TrueOS is PC-BSD's new unified brand built upon FreeBSD-CURRENT code base. Note that TrueOS is not a Linux distro but is BSD Unix. FreeBSD is known for its cutting-edge features, security, scalability, and ability to work both as a server and desktop operating system. TrueOS aims at having user-friendliness with the power of FreeBSD OS. Let us start with going into details of different aspects of the TrueOS. TrueOS History ? TrueOS was founded by Kris Moore in 2005 with name PC-BSD. Initial version focused to make FreeBSD easy to use starting with providing GUI based installer (to relatively complicated FreeBSD installer). In the year 2006, PC-BSD was acquired by iXsystems. Before rebranding as TrueOS in Sept 2016, PC-BSD reached a stage starting considering better than vanilla FreeBSD. Older PC-BSD version used to support both x86 and x86-64 architecture. Kris Moore, the developer founder, says about rebranding: “We've already been using TrueOS for the server side of PC-BSD, and it made sense to unify the names. PC-BSD doesn't reflect server or embedded well. TrueOS Desktop/Server/Embedded can be real products, avoids some of the alphabet soup, and gives us a more catchy name.” TrueOS First Impression ? The startup is little longer; may be due to starting up of many services. The heavy KDE well suited to PC-BSD. The C++/Qt5 based Lumina desktop environment is light and fast. The Lumina offers an easy way to configure menu and panels. I did not face any problems for continuous use of two weeks on a virtual machine having the minimal configuration: 1 GB RAM, 20 GB hard disk and Intel 3.06 GHz i3 processor. The Lumina desktop is light and fast. The developers of Lumina know what they are doing and have a good idea of what makes a good IDE. As it happens with any new desktop environment, it needs some time to settle. Let us hope that they keep to the path they are on with it. Conclusion ? The TrueOS is impressive when consider it as relatively young. It is a daring step that TrueOS developers took FreeBSD Current rather than FreeBSD Stable code base. Overall it has created its own place from the legacy shadow of PC-BSD. Starting with easy installation TrueOS is a good combination of software and utilities that make the system ready to use. Go and get a TrueOS ISO to unleash the “bleeding edge” tag of FreeBSD Thinkpad x240 - FreeBSD Setup (http://stygix.org/nix/x240-freebsd.php) What follows is a record of how I set up FreeBSD to be my daily driver OS on the Lenovo Thinkpad X240. Everything seems to work great. Although, the touchpad needs some tweaking. I've tried several configurations, even recompiling Xorg with EVDEV support and all that, to no avail. Eventually I will figure it out. Do not sleep the laptop from the command line. Do it from within Xorg, or it will not wake up. I don't know why. You can do it from a terminal within Xorg, just not from the naked command line without Xorg started. It also will not sleep by closing the lid. I included a sudo config that allows you to run /usr/sbin/zzz without a password, so what I do is I have a key combo assigned within i3wm to run "sudo /usr/sbin/zzz". It works fine this way. I go into detail when it comes to setting up Xorg with i3wm. You can skip this if you want, but if you've never used a tiling window manager, it will handle screen real estate very efficiently on a laptop with a 12.5-inch screen and a touchpad. First, download the amd64 image for 11.1-RELEASE and flash it to a USB pen drive. For the Unices, use this: # dd if=FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=1M conv=sync Obviously, you'll change /dev/da0 to whatever the USB pen drive is assigned. Plug it in, check dmesg. Leave it plugged in, restart the laptop. When prompted, tap Enter to halt the boot process, then F12 to select a bootable device. Choose the USB drive. I won't go through the actual install process, but it is pretty damn easy so just look at a guide or two and you'll be fine. If you can install Debian, you can install FreeBSD. I will, however, recommend ZFS if you have over 4GB of RAM (my particular variant of the X240 has 8GB of RAM, so yours should have at least 4GB), along with an encrypted disk, and an encrypted SWAP partition. When prompted to add an additional user, and you get to the question where it asks for additional groups, please make sure you add the user to "wheel". The rest should be self-explanatory during the install. Now for the good shit. You just booted into a fresh FreeBSD install. Now what? Well, time to fire up vi and open some config files... CNN Article about CDROM.com and FreeBSD, from 1999 (https://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/08/cdrom.idg/index.html) Walnut Creek CDROM sells a lot of CD-ROMs, but it gives away even more data. Specifically, anyone who has Internet access is free to log into wcarchive (ftp.cdrom.com) and start downloading bits. Even with a good Internet connection, however, you should expect to be at it for a while. At the present time, wcarchive resides on half a terabyte (500 GB) of RAID 5-disk storage. Even if your 56-Kbps modem can deliver seven kilobytes per second, downloading the complete archive would take you 70 million seconds. Even then, some of the files would be more than two years out of date, so a bit of "back and fill" would be needed. Of course, nobody uses wcarchive that way. Instead, they just drop in when they need the odd file or two. The FTP server is very accommodating; 3,600 simultaneous download sessions is the current limit and an upgrade to 10,000 sessions is in the works. This translates to about 800 GB per day of downloads. Bob Bruce (Walnut Creek's founder) says he's thinking about issuing a press release when they reach a terabyte a day. But 800 GB isn't all that shabby.... The hardware Because FTP archives don't do a lot of thinking, wcarchive doesn't need a massive cluster of CPUs. In fact, it gets by with a single 200-MHz P6 Pentium Pro and a measly(!) 1 GB of RAM. The I/O support, however, is fairly impressive. A six-channel Mylex RAID controller (DAC960SXI; Ultra-Wide SCSI-SCSI) is the centerpiece of the I/O subsystem. Two channels link it to the PC ("Personal Computer"!?!), via a dual-channel Adaptec card (AHA-3940AUW; PCI to Ultra-Wide SCSI). An 256-MB internal cache helps it to eliminate recurring disk accesses. Four nine-drive disk arrays provide the actual storage. The two larger arrays use 18-GB IBM drives; the two smaller arrays use 9-GB Micropolis and Quantum drives. A separate 4-GB Quantum drive is used as the "system disk." The output side is handled by a single Intel 100Base-T controller (Pro/100B PCI), which feeds into the Internet through a number of shared DS3 (45 Mbps) and OC3 (155 Mbps) circuits. A detailed description of the system is available as ftp.cdrom.com/archive-info/configuration; The software The system software is rather prosaic: a copy of FreeBSD, supplemented by home-grown FTP mirroring and server code. Because of the massive hardware support, the software "only" needs to keep the I/O going in an efficient and reliable manner. FreeBSD, the "prosaic" operating system mentioned above, merits a bit more discussion. Like Linux, FreeBSD is open source. Anyone can examine, modify, and/or redistribute the source code. And, like Linux, an active user community helps the authors to find bugs, improve documentation, and generally support the OS. Unlike Linux, FreeBSD is derived from the Berkeley Unix code that forms the foundation for most commercial Unix variants. When you use the "fast file system" (cylinder groups, long file names, symbolic links, etc.), TCP/IP networking, termcap, or even vi, you are using Berkeley Unix additions. The version of BSD underlying FreeBSD, however, is "pure" BSD; don't look for the System V modifications you see in Solaris. Instead, think of it as SunOS, brought up to date with Kerberos, modern sendmail, an updated filesystem, and more. Solid, fast, and free! One of FreeBSD's finest innovations, the Ports Collection, makes FreeBSD a delight for open source application users. The Ports Collection automates the downloading, building, and installation (including de-installation) of 2,300+ open source packages. The company Walnut Creek CDROM has been around for several years now, so you are likely to be familiar with its offerings. You may not realize, however, that it provides the major financial support for FreeBSD. The FreeBSD support has two purposes. First, it provides the company with a solid base to run wcarchive and other massive projects. Second, it ties in with the company's mission of making software (and data) economically accessible. Bob Bruce, the firm's founder, is an interesting guy: laid back and somewhat conservative in manner, but productive and innovative in practice. Here is a possibly illustrative story. When Bob started selling CD-ROMs, disc caddies were selling for $15 each. Bob thought that was rather high, so he started investigating the marketplace. A long-distance call to Japan got him Sony's fax number; a series of faxes got him in touch with the salespeople. It turned out that caddies were available, in bulk, for only a few dollars each. Bulk, in this case, meant pallet-loads of 10,000 caddies. In an act of great faith, Bob purchased a pallet of caddies, then proceeded to sell them for five dollars each. The results were everything he might have wished. Folks who bought his CD-ROMs added caddies to their orders; folks who bought piles of caddies added in a disc or two. Either way, Walnut Creek CDROM was making a name for itself. Many pallet-loads later, the company is still selling caddies, making and distributing CD-ROMs, and giving away bits. Walnut Creek CDROM is a real open-source success story; its breadth and depth of offerings is well worth a look. Beastie Bits OpenBSD adds kqueue event support to DRM, to detect device changes like HDMI cables being plugged in, and trigger randr events (https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/b8584f4233dc11a328cd245a5843ec3d67462200) Thesis describing QUAD3, a unix-like, multi-tasking operating system for the 6502 processor (https://archive.org/details/AMultiTaskingOperatingSystemForMicrocomputers) Windows is getting chmod and chown... (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/01/12/chmod-chown-wsl-improvements/) Timeline: How they kept Meltdown and Spectre secret for so long (https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/1/11/16878670/meltdown-spectre-disclosure-embargo-google-microsoft-linux) bsd.network is a *BSD-themed Mastodon Instance (https://bsd.network/): Peter Hessler is administering a new Mastodon instance, running in an OpenBSD VM on top of an OpenBSD vmm hypervisor Computer-Aided Instruction on UNIX (https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/whfUb.pdf) AsiaBSDCon 2018 Travel Grant Application Now Open (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/asiabsdcon-2018-travel-grant-application-now-open/) AsiaBSDCon 2018 FreeBSD Developers Summit Call for Proposals (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/call-for-papers/asiabsdcon-2018-freebsd-developers-summit-call-for-proposals/) LinuxFest Northwest 2018 Call for Proposals (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/call-for-papers/linuxfest-northwest-2018-call-for-proposals/) Feedback/Questions Jason - Dont break my ports (http://dpaste.com/05PRNG2) Wilyarti - show content (http://dpaste.com/1BG8GZW) https://clinetworking.wordpress.com/2017/12/08/data-de-duplication-file-diff-ing-and-s3-style-object-storage-using-digital-ocean-spaces Scott - Your show is Perfect! (http://dpaste.com/0KER8YE#wrap) Ken - Community Culture (http://dpaste.com/0WT8285#wrap)

On this episode of the Ask Noah Show, we're LIVE from LinuxFest Northwest! We have the head of Ubuntu Mate on the show & he gives us hope on the future of the Linux Desktop, then talk about Electron and it's roll, plus take your questions live on the air.

On this episode of the Ask Noah Show, we're LIVE from LinuxFest Northwest! We have the head of Ubuntu Mate on the show & he gives us hope on the future of the Linux Desktop, then talk about Electron and it's roll, plus take your questions live on the air.

On this episode of the Ask Noah Show, we're LIVE from LinuxFest Northwest! We have the head of Ubuntu Mate on the show & he gives us hope on the future of the Linux Desktop, then talk about Electron and it's roll, plus take your questions live on the air.

Big improvements are coming to a grub near you, Wes has a batch of really useful new open source projects & we consider the “threat” posed by Windows 10 S. Plus the dirty secret about Linux’s battery life, some of our LinuxFest Northwest plans & a lot more!

This week LTS has a new meaning as we reflect on a couple of weeks with Ubuntu 16.04 & why we’re dumping it. We pick up the mood with some exclusive LinuxFest Northwest clips, projects updates & another clip that was never meant to air.

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

So everyone is in love with "Enter The Gungeon..." this week, we'll tell you why you should be too (and why you must also NEVER EVER ENTER IT) in our full review. Plus, the latest on our Linux Fest Northwest plans, "Marble Mountain," and three awesome deals (one of which is an absolute "YOU MUST BUY THIS NOW" bargain)... all this, plus a poem! www.bestlinuxgames.com Here's our vid of Gungeon from last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cSpJblz5f0

This week, we rant about CSGO, then reveal our plans for the HTC Vive and LinuxFest Northwest before taking a look at the futuristic air-hockey-meets tennis of "Gyrodisc Super League," go "Beyond Dimensions," and finally hit the course with "Intergalactic Road Warrirors." All of which is rounded out by 4 excellent deals you don't want to miss.

Bradley and Karen discuss the VMware lawsuit that Software Freedom Conservancy is funding. Show Notes: Bradley and Karen discuss the lawsuit that Christoph Hellwig filed. (07:37) Karen mentioned her LibrePlanet keynote about the VMware lawsuit. (21:30) Bradley's talk at LinuxConf Australia 2015, Considering The Future of Copyleft, is available online. (22:04) Bradley mentioned the discussion on pump.io about NPR fundraisers. (24:23) Bradley mentioned a Debian 8 release party at LinuxFest Northwest, which Microsoft didn't invite him to, since he wasn't willing to give Microsoft his contact info for marketing purposes. (29:16) Karen and Bradley promoted the Conservancy supporter program (31:40) Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Bradley and Karen discuss the VMware lawsuit that Software Freedom Conservancy is funding. Show Notes: Bradley and Karen discuss the lawsuit that Christoph Hellwig filed. (07:37) Karen mentioned her LibrePlanet keynote about the VMware lawsuit. (21:30) Bradley's talk at LinuxConf Australia 2015, Considering The Future of Copyleft, is available online. (22:04) Bradley mentioned the discussion on pump.io about NPR fundraisers. (24:23) Bradley mentioned a Debian 8 release party at LinuxFest Northwest, which Microsoft didn't invite him to, since he wasn't willing to give Microsoft his contact info for marketing purposes. (29:16) Karen and Bradley promoted the Conservancy supporter program (31:40) Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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) ***

Exclusive interviews from the floor of LinuxFest Northwest 2015, meet the man who brought Netflix to Linux & changed the WINE project forever, how Intel builds the MinnowBoard for Linux, the state of ZFS on Linux & how we had so much fun it just might be illegal. Plus a quick look at the new KDE Plasma update, Telegram’s surprising popularity & more!

In this episode, we're away attending LinuxFest Northwest, so we have 3 reviews: Reassembly, Pillars of Eternity, and 99 Waves To Die. Also: A tip on how to better organize your games in the steam client.

We had a chance to chat with folks from Firefox, the EFF, SUSE, and more. Plus we discuss the real benefits to Linux conventions like LinuxFest Northwest.

We made our yearly trip up to LinuxFest Northwest and had a great time. This year we had the opportunity to have a few quick chats with some people and projects in the Open Source community.

Bryan gave a talk on what areas, as he puts it, “suck” on the Linux Desktop and what could be done to solve those problems.

Near the end of every April Bellingham Washington’s technical college hosts LinuxFest Northwest. This video is some of what we saw last year, with LinuxFest Northwest around the corner we thought it would be a good time to show all what it is about! Find out more at: http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/