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Show Notes
Headlines
OpenBSD 5.4 released
- The usual 6 month release cycle continues with 5.4
- People who bought the CD get the release very early, but now it's on the public FTP
- New platforms "octeon" and "beagle"
- Improved Intel DRM, reworked checksumming for network protocols, ECDHE support in httpd, inetd no longer started by default, DHCP improvements, lots of new OpenSMTPD work, OpenSSH 6.3
- Over 7,800 ports available, comes with another new song and fun artwork, lots of new features - check out the full release notes
- A special thanks to Nick Holland and Bob Beck for their behind-the-scenes work
- Experimental FUSE support was enabled shortly after the release, so look forward to that in the future ***
FreeBSD pkgng repos are official
- Built weekly from a snapshot of the Ports Collection every Wednesday
- Signed packages coming soon with pkg 1.2
- Added official public key to -STABLE and -CURRENT
- New "pkg+http" protocol identifier for SRV records
- If you need something more up to date or with custom options, it's easy to make your own with just the packages you want using our tutorial
- If you need a guide on how to use pkgng itself, check our tutorial for that too!
- What does this mean for PCBSD repo users? Should they switch? Differences? ***
DragonflyBSD 3.6 branched
- SMP improvements and GCC changes are all in, so it's time to branch
- Release planned for a little under 2 weeks from today
- Features will include i915 support, mdocml imported, crazy SMP improvements, dports being default
- We're hoping to get someone from Dragonfly on the show next week to talk about the final release ***
FreeBSD portmgr lurkers
- Over the course of the next two years, volunteers from a group of ports committers will participate in portmgr activities
- At four month intervals, two committers at a time will be brought in to work on various projects and learn the inner workings of the team
- The first two -lurkers are Mathieu Arnold (mat@) and Antoine Brodin (antoine@). ***
Interview - Michael W. Lucas - [email protected] / @mwlauthor
Tutorial
Configuring FreeBSD as a desktop system
News Roundup
Capsicum in DragonflyBSD
- Dragonfly has no security framework yet besides the traditional unix DAC model
- Port of Capsicum to Dragonfly has begun
- Quite a bit of technical detail in the show notes ***
NYCBSDCon 2014
- After a three year hiatus, NYCBSDCon is back on February 8, 2014
- Theme of "The BSDs in Production" this year
- Held in New York City, more information to come as the time draws closer ***
FreeBSD newcons progress update
- This project will provide a replacement for the legacy syscons system console
- Newcons provides a number of improvements, including better integration with graphics modes, and broader character set support
- More details on the project can be found on the FreeBSD wiki ***
Weekly PCBSD feature digest
- PBI 10 format is about ready and they'll begin populating the 10.0 appcafe starting next week
- PCDM login manager is back and is ready to be tested
- New PC-BSD Disk Manager Utility with lots of features ***
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