FreeBSD Multimedia Resources List

bsdtalk - DragonFlyBSD 2.8 with Matthew Dillon - MP3 version

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

DragonFlyBSD 2.8 with Matthew Dillon - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, meetbsd, meetbsd2010, dragonflybsd, matthew dillon, mp3
Interview from MeetBSD California 2010 with Matthew Dillon about the recent 2.8 release of DragonFlyBSD. More information at http://www.dragonflybsd.org/

bsdtalk - DragonFlyBSD 2.8 with Matthew Dillon - Ogg version

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

DragonFlyBSD 2.8 with Matthew Dillon - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, meetbsd, meetbsd2010, dragonflybsd, matthew dillon, ogg
Interview from MeetBSD California 2010 with Matthew Dillon about the recent 2.8 release of DragonFlyBSD. More information at http://www.dragonflybsd.org/

bsdtalk - PC-BSD 9 Alpha with Kris Moore - MP3 version

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

PC-BSD 9 Alpha with Kris Moore - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pc-bsd, meetbsd, meetbsd2010, kris moore, mp3
Interview from MeetBSD California 2010 with Kris Moore. We talk about the new alpha snapshot of PC-BSD 9. More information at http://blog.pcbsd.org/

bsdtalk - PC-BSD 9 Alpha with Kris Moore - Ogg version

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

PC-BSD 9 Alpha with Kris Moore - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pc-bsd, meetbsd, meetbsd2010, kris moore, ogg
Interview from MeetBSD California 2010 with Kris Moore. We talk about the new alpha snapshot of PC-BSD 9. More information at http://blog.pcbsd.org/

bsdtalk - The mg text editor with Kjell Wooding - MP3 version

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EST

The mg text editor with Kjell Wooding - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, mg, kjell wooding, mp3
Interivew with Kjell Wooding. We talk about the mg text editor. More information can be found in the OpenBSD man page: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mg

bsdtalk - The mg text editor with Kjell Wooding - Ogg version

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EST

The mg text editor with Kjell Wooding - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, mg, kjell wooding, ogg
Interivew with Kjell Wooding. We talk about the mg text editor. More information can be found in the OpenBSD man page: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mg

bsdtalk - PC-Sysinstall with John Hixson - MP3 version

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EST

PC-Sysinstall with John Hixson - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pc-sysinstall, pc-bsd, john hixson, mp3
Interview with John Hixson. We talk about his work on PC-Sysinstall, the PC-BSD installer and possible alternative to the FreeBSD sysinstall.

bsdtalk - PC-Sysinstall with John Hixson - Ogg version

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EST

PC-Sysinstall with John Hixson - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pc-sysinstall, pc-bsd, john hixson, ogg
Interview with John Hixson. We talk about his work on PC-Sysinstall, the PC-BSD installer and possible alternative to the FreeBSD sysinstall.

bsdtalk - MeetBSD California 2010 - MP3 version

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD California 2010 - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, meetbsd, meetbsd2010, matt olander, james nixon, mp3
Interview with Matt Olander and James T. Nixon. We talk about MeetBSD California 2010. More information at http://www.meetbsd.com/

bsdtalk - MeetBSD California 2010 - Ogg version

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD California 2010 - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, meetbsd, meetbsd2010, matt olander, james nixon, ogg
Interview with Matt Olander and James T. Nixon. We talk about MeetBSD California 2010. More information at http://www.meetbsd.com/

bsdtalk - FreeNAS 8 with M. Warner Losh - MP3 version

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EST

FreeNAS 8 with M. Warner Losh - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freenas, warner losh, mp3
Interview with M. Warner Losh about FreeNAS 8. More information at http://freenas.org.

bsdtalk - FreeNAS 8 with M. Warner Losh - Ogg version

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EST

FreeNAS 8 with M. Warner Losh - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freenas, warner losh, ogg
Interview with M. Warner Losh about FreeNAS 8. More information at http://freenas.org.

bsdtalk - NYCBSDCon with Mark Saad and George Neville-Neil - MP3 version

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EST

NYCBSDCon with Mark Saad and George Neville-Neil - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2010, mark saad, george neville-neil, mp3
Interview with Mark Saad and George Neville-Neil about the NYCBSDCon 2010. Details can be found at http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2010/

bsdtalk - NYCBSDCon with Mark Saad and George Neville-Neil - Ogg version

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EST

NYCBSDCon with Mark Saad and George Neville-Neil - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2010, mark saad, george neville-neil, ogg
Interview with Mark Saad and George Neville-Neil about the NYCBSDCon 2010. Details can be found at http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2010/

bsdtalk - Mike Larkin - MP3 version

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST

Mike Larkin - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, acpi, mike larkin, mp3
Interview with Mike Larkin. We talk about ACPI and OpenBSD.

bsdtalk - Mike Larkin - Ogg version

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST

Mike Larkin - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, acpi, mike larkin, ogg
Interview with Mike Larkin. We talk about ACPI and OpenBSD.

bsdtalk - Fossil SCM with D. Richard Hipp - MP3 version

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EST

Fossil SCM with D. Richard Hipp - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, fossil scm, richard hipp, mp3
Interview with D. Richard Hipp. We talk about the Fossil distributed software configuration management system. More information can be found at http://www.fossil-scm.org.

bsdtalk - Fossil SCM with D. Richard Hipp - Ogg version

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EST

Fossil SCM with D. Richard Hipp - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, fossil scm, richard hipp, ogg
Interview with D. Richard Hipp. We talk about the Fossil distributed software configuration management system. More information can be found at http://www.fossil-scm.org.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Security Officer Colin Percival - MP3 version

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Security Officer Colin Percival - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan, bsdcan2010, freebsd, portsnap, freebsd-update, tarsnap, colin percival, mp3
Interview from BSDCan 2010 with Colin Percival. We talk about cryptography, Portsnap, FreeBSD Update, and Tarsnap.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Security Officer Colin Percival - Ogg version

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Security Officer Colin Percival - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan, bsdcan2010, freebsd, portsnap, freebsd-update, tarsnap, colin percival, ogg
Interview from BSDCan 2010 with Colin Percival. We talk about cryptography, Portsnap, FreeBSD Update, and Tarsnap.

bsdtalk - PF update with Henning Brauer and Peter Hansteen - MP3 version

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EST

PF update with Henning Brauer and Peter Hansteen - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan, bsdcan2010, openbsd, pf packet filter, henning brauer, peter hansteen, mp3
Interview from BSDCan 2010 with Henning Brauer and Peter Hansteen. We talk about recent changes to the OpenBSD PF packet filter.

bsdtalk - PF update with Henning Brauer and Peter Hansteen - Ogg version

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EST

PF update with Henning Brauer and Peter Hansteen - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan, bsdcan2010, openbsd, pf packet filter, henning brauer, peter hansteen, ogg
Interview from BSDCan 2010 with Henning Brauer and Peter Hansteen. We talk about recent changes to the OpenBSD PF packet filter.

bsdtalk - Clang and llvm with Roman Divacky and Ed Schouten - MP3 version

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EST

Clang and llvm with Roman Divacky and Ed Schouten - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan, bsdcan2010, clang, llvm, roman divacky, ed schouten, mp3
Interview from BSDCan 2010 with Roman DivC!ckC= and Ed Schouten. We talk about the work being done to build FreeBSD with Clang/LLVM.

bsdtalk - Clang and llvm with Roman Divacky and Ed Schouten - Ogg version

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EST

Clang and llvm with Roman Divacky and Ed Schouten - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan, bsdcan2010, clang, llvm, roman divacky, ed schouten, ogg
Interview from BSDCan 2010 with Roman DivC!ckC= and Ed Schouten. We talk about the work being done to build FreeBSD with Clang/LLVM.

bsdtalk - Netflow with Michael Lucas - MP3 version

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 EST

Netflow with Michael Lucas - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, netflow, michael lucas, mp3
Interview from BSDCan 2010 with Michael Lucas about his new book "Network Flow Analysis." More information at http://www.networkflowanalysis.com/

bsdtalk - Netflow with Michael Lucas - Ogg version

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 EST

Netflow with Michael Lucas - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, netflow, michael lucas, ogg
Interview from BSDCan 2010 with Michael Lucas about his new book "Network Flow Analysis." More information at http://www.networkflowanalysis.com/

bsdtalk - TheorArm with Robin Watts - MP3 version

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EST

TheorArm with Robin Watts - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, theorarm, robin watts, mp3
Interview with Robin Watts about TheorArm, an Ogg Theora/Vorbis decoding library optimized for use on ARM processors. We also talk about the history of ARM and video formats for the web.

bsdtalk - TheorArm with Robin Watts - Ogg version

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EST

TheorArm with Robin Watts - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, theorarm, robin watts, ogg
Interview with Robin Watts about TheorArm, an Ogg Theora/Vorbis decoding library optimized for use on ARM processors. We also talk about the history of ARM and video formats for the web.

bsdtalk - Dru Lavigne - MP3 version

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EST

Dru Lavigne - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pc-bsd, dru lavigne, mp3
Interview with Dru Lavigne. We talk about her new book, The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD, and also the upcoming BSD Professional Certification.

bsdtalk - Dru Lavigne - Ogg version

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EST

Dru Lavigne - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pc-bsd, dru lavigne, ogg
Interview with Dru Lavigne. We talk about her new book, The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD, and also the upcoming BSD Professional Certification.

bsdtalk - Sam Smith - MP3 version

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

Sam Smith - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2009, ukuug, sam smith, mp3
Interview with Sam Smith, EuroBSDcon 2009 co-organizer and a UKUUG event organizer.

bsdtalk - Sam Smith - Ogg version

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

Sam Smith - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2009, ukuug, sam smith, ogg
Interview with Sam Smith, EuroBSDcon 2009 co-organizer and a UKUUG event organizer.

bsdtalk - Jeff Roberson - MP3 version

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

Jeff Roberson - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ule, freebsd, jeff roberson, mp3
Interview with FreeBSD committer Jeff Roberson. We talk about his recent work on softupdates journaling (SUJ) and also the ULE scheduler.

bsdtalk - Jeff Roberson - Ogg version

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

Jeff Roberson - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ule, freebsd, jeff roberson, ogg
Interview with FreeBSD committer Jeff Roberson. We talk about his recent work on softupdates journaling (SUJ) and also the ULE scheduler.

bsdtalk - James Nixon from iXsystems - MP3 version

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

James Nixon from iXsystems - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ixsystems, pc-bsd, james nixon, mp3
Interview with James Nixon, webmaster and committer for PC-BSD. We talk about some of the new features coming up in 8.0, gaming on BSD, his work on the unique look and feel of PC-BSD, and Camp KDE.

bsdtalk - James Nixon from iXsystems - Ogg version

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

James Nixon from iXsystems - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ixsystems, pc-bsd, james nixon, ogg
Interview with James Nixon, webmaster and committer for PC-BSD. We talk about some of the new features coming up in 8.0, gaming on BSD, his work on the unique look and feel of PC-BSD, and Camp KDE.

bsdtalk - DragonFlyBSD with Matthew Dillon - MP3 version

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

DragonFlyBSD with Matthew Dillon - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, dragonflybsd, matthew dillon, mp3
An interview with Matthew Dillon. We talk about recent developments in DragonFlyBSD.

bsdtalk - DragonFlyBSD with Matthew Dillon - Ogg version

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

DragonFlyBSD with Matthew Dillon - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, dragonflybsd, matthew dillon, ogg
An interview with Matthew Dillon. We talk about recent developments in DragonFlyBSD.

bsdtalk - Randal L. Schwartz - MP3 version

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

Randal L. Schwartz - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, randal schwartz, mp3
Interview with Randal Schwartz. We talk about his early experiences with BSD, permissive licenses, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, perl, the BSDFund credit card, and the Floss Weekly podcast.

bsdtalk - Randal L. Schwartz - Ogg version

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

Randal L. Schwartz - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, randal schwartz, ogg
Interview with Randal Schwartz. We talk about his early experiences with BSD, permissive licenses, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, perl, the BSDFund credit card, and the Floss Weekly podcast.

bsdtalk - FreeNAS with Josh Paetzel from iXsystems - MP3 version

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

FreeNAS with Josh Paetzel from iXsystems - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ixsystems, freenas, josh paetzel, mp3
A quick update on FreeNAS with Josh Paetzel from iXsystems.

bsdtalk - FreeNAS with Josh Paetzel from iXsystems - Ogg version

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

FreeNAS with Josh Paetzel from iXsystems - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ixsystems, freenas, josh paetzel, ogg
A quick update on FreeNAS with Josh Paetzel from iXsystems.

bsdtalk - BSDCan and PGCon with Dan Langille - MP3 version

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

BSDCan and PGCon with Dan Langille - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan, bsdcan2010, pgcon, dan langille, mp3
Interview with Dan Langille. We talk about the 2010 BSDCan and PGCon conferences. More information at www.bsdcan.org and www.pgcon.org. We also talk briefly about FreeBSD 8.

bsdtalk - BSDCan and PGCon with Dan Langille - Ogg version

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

BSDCan and PGCon with Dan Langille - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan, bsdcan2010, pgcon, dan langille, ogg
Interview with Dan Langille. We talk about the 2010 BSDCan and PGCon conferences. More information at www.bsdcan.org and www.pgcon.org. We also talk briefly about FreeBSD 8.

bsdtalk - OpenBSD Enthusiast Girish Venkatachalam - MP3 version

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Enthusiast Girish Venkatachalam - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, girish venkatachalam, mp3
Interview with OpenBSD enthusiast Girish Venkatachalam.

bsdtalk - OpenBSD Enthusiast Girish Venkatachalam - Ogg version

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Enthusiast Girish Venkatachalam - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, girish venkatachalam, ogg
Interview with OpenBSD enthusiast Girish Venkatachalam.

bsdtalk - OpenBSD Developer Jacek Masiulaniec - MP3 version

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Developer Jacek Masiulaniec - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, opensmtpd, jacek masiulaniec, mp3
Interview with OpenBSD developer Jacek Masiulaniec. We talk about the OpenSMTPd Mail Transfer Agent and also a little bit about the Epitome data deduplication project.

bsdtalk - OpenBSD Developer Jacek Masiulaniec - Ogg version

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Developer Jacek Masiulaniec - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, opensmtpd, jacek masiulaniec, ogg
Interview with OpenBSD developer Jacek Masiulaniec. We talk about the OpenSMTPd Mail Transfer Agent and also a little bit about the Epitome data deduplication project.

bsdtalk - Richard Clayton - Evil on the Internet - EuroBSDCon - MP3 version

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST

Richard Clayton - Evil on the Internet - EuroBSDCon - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2009, richard clayton, mp3
A recording from EuroBSDCon 2009: Richard Clayton - Evil on the Internet. A perfect topic for Halloween. This talk covers phishing, mule recruitment, fake escrow, fake pharmacies, fake banks, ponzi schemes, link spammers, etc. Scary stuff.

bsdtalk - Richard Clayton - Evil on the Internet - EuroBSDCon - Ogg version

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST

Richard Clayton - Evil on the Internet - EuroBSDCon - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2009, richard clayton, ogg
A recording from EuroBSDCon 2009: Richard Clayton - Evil on the Internet. A perfect topic for Halloween. This talk covers phishing, mule recruitment, fake escrow, fake pharmacies, fake banks, ponzi schemes, link spammers, etc. Scary stuff.

bsdtalk - Giorgos Kermamidas - MP3 version

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST

Giorgos Kermamidas - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, giorgos keramidas, mp3
Interview with Giorgos Keramidas. We talk about contributing to FreeBSD and creating a welcoming experience for new developers.

bsdtalk - Giorgos Kermamidas - Ogg version

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST

Giorgos Kermamidas - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, giorgos keramidas, ogg
Interview with Giorgos Keramidas. We talk about contributing to FreeBSD and creating a welcoming experience for new developers.

bsdtalk - Unbound with W.C.A. Wijngaards - MP3 version

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST

Unbound with W.C.A. Wijngaards - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, unbound, wouter wijngaards, mp3
Interview with Wouter Wijngaards from NLnet Labs. We talk about the Unbound DNS resolver. More information at unbound.net.

bsdtalk - Unbound with W.C.A. Wijngaards - Ogg version

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST

Unbound with W.C.A. Wijngaards - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, unbound, wouter wijngaards, ogg
Interview with Wouter Wijngaards from NLnet Labs. We talk about the Unbound DNS resolver. More information at unbound.net.

bsdtalk - BSD Fund with Michael Dexter - MP3 version

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST

BSD Fund with Michael Dexter - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsd fund, michael dexter, mp3
Interview with Michael Dexter about BSD Fund. We talk about the release of the BSD Fund Visa Credit Card, PCC, and various other projects. More info at BSDFund.org.

bsdtalk - BSD Fund with Michael Dexter - Ogg version

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST

BSD Fund with Michael Dexter - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsd fund, michael dexter, ogg
Interview with Michael Dexter about BSD Fund. We talk about the release of the BSD Fund Visa Credit Card, PCC, and various other projects. More info at BSDFund.org.

bsdtalk - Kris Moore at BSDCan2009 - MP3 version

Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Kris Moore at BSDCan2009 - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan, kris moore, mp3
Interview with Kris Moore at BSDCan2009.

bsdtalk - Kris Moore at BSDCan2009 - Ogg version

Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Kris Moore at BSDCan2009 - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan, kris moore, ogg
Interview with Kris Moore at BSDCan2009.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Cat Allman and Leslie Hawthorn - Getting Started in Free and Open Source - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Cat Allman and Leslie Hawthorn - Getting Started in Free and Open Source - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, getting started, cat allman, leslie hawthorn, odf

Getting Started in Free and Open Source
Interested in getting involved? But don't really know where or how to start?

The talk is called "Getting Started in Free and Open Source". It's a talk for beginners who are interested to getting involved but don't really know where or how to start.

We cover the basics of: -why you might want to get involved -what you can get out of participating -more than coding is needed -how to chose a project -how to get started -etiquette of lists and other communication -dos and don't of joining a community

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Randi Harper - Automating FreeBSD Installations - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Randi Harper - Automating FreeBSD Installations - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, freebsd, pxe, sysinstall, randi harper, odp

Automating FreeBSD Installations
PXE Booting and install.cfg Demystified

This paper will provide an explanation of the tools involved in performing an automated FreeBSD install and a live demonstration of the process.

FreeBSD's sysinstall provides a powerful and flexible mechanism for automated installs but doesn't get used very often because of a lack of documentation.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Joerg Sonnenberger - Journaling FFS with WAPBL - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Joerg Sonnenberger - Journaling FFS with WAPBL - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, netbsd, wapbl, ffs, joerg sonnenberger, html

Journaling FFS with WAPBL

NetBSD 5 is the first NetBSD release with a journaling filesystem. This lecture introduces the structure of the Fast File System, the modifications for WAPBL and specific constraints of the implementation.

The Fast File System (FFS) has been used in the BSD land for more than two decades. The original implementation offered two operational modes:

safe and slow (sync)
unsafe and fast (async) One decade ago, Kirk McKusick introduced the soft dependency mechanism to offset the performance impact without risk of mortal peril on the first crash. With the advent of Terabyte hard disks, the need for a file system check (fsck) after a crash becomes finally unacceptable. Even a background fsck like supported on FreeBSD consumes lots of CPU time and IO bandwidth.

Based on a donation from Wasabi Systems, Write Ahead Physical Block Logging (WAPBL) provides journaling for FFS with similar or better performance than soft dependencies during normal operation. Recovery time after crashes depends on the amount of outstanding IO operations and normally takes a few seconds.

This lecture gives a short overview of FFS and the consistency constraints for meta data updates. It introduces the WAPBL changes, both in terms of the on-disk format and the implementation in NetBSD. Finally the implementation is compared to the design of comparable file systems and specific issues of and plans for the current implementation are discussed.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Philip Paeps - Crypto Acceleration on FreeBSD - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Philip Paeps - Crypto Acceleration on FreeBSD - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, crypto acceleration, freebsd, philip paeps, pdf

Crypto Acceleration on FreeBSD

As more and more services on the internet become cryptographically secured, the load of cryptography on systems becomes heavier and heavier. Crypto acceleration hardware is available in different forms for different workloads. Embedded communications processors from VIA and AMD have limited acceleration facilities in silicon and various manufacturers build hardware for accelerating secure web traffic and IPSEC VPN tunnels.

This talk gives an overview of FreeBSD's crypto framework in the kernel and how it can be used together with OpenSSL to leverage acceleration hardware. Some numbers will be presented to demonstrate how acceleration can improve performance - and how it can curiously bring a system to a grinding halt.

Philip originally started playing with crypto acceleration when he saw the "crypto block" in one of his Soekris boards. As usual, addiction was instant and by the grace of the "you touch it, you own it" principle, he has been fiddling the crypto framework more than is good for him.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - John Baldwin - Multiple Passes of the FreeBSD Device Tree - Paper

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

John Baldwin - Multiple Passes of the FreeBSD Device Tree - Paper
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, freebsd, device tree, john baldwin, pdf

Multiple Passes of the FreeBSD Device Tree

The existing device driver framework in FreeBSD works fairly well for many tasks. However, there are a few problems that are not easily solved with the current design. These problems include having "real" device drivers for low-level hardware such as clocks and interrupt controllers, proper resource discovery and management, and allowing most drivers to always probe and attach in an environment where interrupts are enabled. I propose extending the device driver framework to support multiple passes over the device tree during boot. This would allow certain classes of drivers to be attached earlier and perform boot-time setup before other drivers are probed and attached. This in turn can be used to develop solutions to the earlier list of problems.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - John Baldwin - Multiple Passes of the FreeBSD Device Tree - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

John Baldwin - Multiple Passes of the FreeBSD Device Tree - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, freebsd, device tree, john baldwin, pdf

Multiple Passes of the FreeBSD Device Tree

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Brooks Davis - Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Brooks Davis - Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, freebsd, cluster, brooks davis, pdf

Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability

At The Aerospace Corporation, we run a large FreeBSD based computing cluster to support engineering applications. These applications come in all shapes, sizes, and qualities of implementation. To support them and our diverse userbase we have been searching for ways to isolate jobs from one another in ways that are more effective than Unix time sharing and more fine grained than allocating whole nodes to jobs.

In this talk we discuss the problem space and our efforts so far. These efforts include implementation of partial file systems virtualization and CPU isolation using CPU sets.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - George Neville-Neil - Understanding and Tuning SCHED_ULE - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

George Neville-Neil - Understanding and Tuning SCHED_ULE - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, freebsd, sched_ule, george neville-neil, pdf

Understanding and Tuning SCHED_ULE

With the advent of widespread SMP and multicore CPU architectures it was necessary to implement a new scheduler in the FreeBSD operating system. The SCHEDULE scheduler was added for the 5 series of FreeBSD releases and has now matured to the point where it is the default scheduler in the 7.1 release. While scheduling processes was a difficult enough task in the uniprocessor world, moving to multiple processors, and multiple cores, has significantly increased the number of problems that await engineers who wish to squeeze every last ounce of performance out of their system. This talk will cover the basic design of SCHEDULE and focus a great deal of attention on how to tune the scheduler for different workloads, using the sysctl interfaces that have been provided for that purpose.

Understanding and tuning a scheduler used to be done only by operating systems designers and perhaps a small minority of engineers focusing on esoteric high performance systems. With the advent of widespread multi-processor and multi-core architectures it has become necessary for more users and administrators to decide how to tune their systems for the best performance. The SCHEDULE scheduler in FreeBSD provides a set of sysctl interfaces for tuning the scheduler at run time, but in order to use these interfaces effectively the scheduling process must first be understood. This presentation will give an overview of how SCHEDULE works and then will show several examples of tuning the system with the interfaces provided.

The goal of modifying the scheduler's parameters is to change the overall performance of programs on the system. One of the first problems presented to the person who wants to tune the scheduler is how to measure the effects of their changes. Simply tweaking the parameters and hoping that that will help is not going to lead to good results. In our recent experiments we have used the top(1) program to measure our results.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Fernando Gont - Results of a Security Assessment of the TCP and IP protocols and Common implementation Strategies - Proposal

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Fernando Gont - Results of a Security Assessment of the TCP and IP protocols and Common implementation Strategies - Proposal
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, bsd, security assessment, fernado gont, pdf

Results of a Security Assessment of the TCP and IP protocols and Common implementation Strategies

Fernando Gont will present the results of security assessment of the TCP and IP protocols carried out on behalf of the United Kingdom's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure). His presentation will provide an overview of the aforementioned project, and will describe some of the new insights that were gained as a result of this project. Additionally, it will provide an overview of the state of affairs of the different TCP/IP implementations found in BSD operating systems with respect to the aforementioned issues.

During the last twenty years, many vulnerabilities have been identified in the TCP/IP stacks of a number of systems. The discovery of these vulnerabilities led in most cases to reports being published by a number of CSIRTs and vendors, which helped to raise awareness about the threats and the best possible mitigations known at the time the reports were published. For some reason, much of the effort of the security community on the Internet protocols did not result in official documents (RFCs) being issued by the organization in charge of the standardization of the communication protocols in use by the Internet: the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). This basically led to a situation in which "known" security problems have not always been addressed by all vendors. In addition, in many cases vendors have implemented quick "fixes" to the identified vulnerabilities without a careful analysis of their effectiveness and their impact on interoperability. As a result, producing a secure TCP/IP implementation nowadays is a very difficult task, in large part because of the hard task of identifying relevant documentation and differentiating between that which provides correct advisory, and that which provides misleading advisory based on inaccurate or wrong assumptions. During 2006, the United Kingdom's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure embarked itself in an ambitious and arduous project: performing a security assessment of the TCP and IP protocols. The project did not limit itself to an analysis of the relevant IETF specifications, but also included an analysis of common implementation strategies found in the most popular TCP and IP implementations. The result of the project was a set of documents which identifies possible threats for the TCP and IP protocols and, where possible, proposes counter-measures to mitigate the identified threats. This presentation will will describe some of the new insights that were gained as a result of this project. Additionally, it will provide an overview of the state of affairs of the different TCP/IP implementations found in BSD operating systems.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Fernando Gont - Results of a Security Assessment of the TCP and IP protocols and Common implementation Strategies - Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Fernando Gont - Results of a Security Assessment of the TCP and IP protocols and Common implementation Strategies - Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, bsd, security assessment, fernado gont, pdf

Results of a Security Assessment of the TCP and IP protocols and Common implementation Strategies

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Fernando Gont - Results of a Security Assessment of the TCP and IP protocols and Common implementation Strategies - Security Assessment of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Fernando Gont - Results of a Security Assessment of the TCP and IP protocols and Common implementation Strategies - Security Assessment of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, bsd, security assessment, fernado gont, pdf

Results of a Security Assessment of the TCP and IP protocols and Common implementation Strategies

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Fernando Gont - Results of a Security Assessment of the TCP and IP protocols and Common implementation Strategies - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Fernando Gont - Results of a Security Assessment of the TCP and IP protocols and Common implementation Strategies - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, bsd, security assessment, fernado gont, pdf

Results of a Security Assessment of the TCP and IP protocols and Common implementation Strategies

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Sean Bruno - Implementation of TARGET_MODE applications - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Sean Bruno - Implementation of TARGET_MODE applications - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, freebsd, firewire, sean bruno, pdf

Implementation of TARGET_MODE applications
How we used TARGET_MODE in the kernel to create and interesting product

This presentation will cover a real world implementation of the TARGET_MODE infrastructure in the kernel (stable/6). Topics to include: drivers used (isp, aic7xxx, firewire). scsi_target userland code vs kernel drivers missing drivers (4/8G isp support, iSCSI target)

Target Mode describes a feature within certain drivers that allows a FreeBSD system to emulate a Target in the SCSI sense of the word. By recompiling your kernel with this feature enabled, it permits one to turn a FreeBSD system into an external hard disk. This feature of the FreeBSD kernel provides many interesting implementations and is highly desirable to many organizations whom run FreeBSD as their platform.

I have been tasked with the maintenance of a proprietary target driver that interfaces with the FreeBSD kernel to do offsite data mirroring at the block level. This talk will discuss the implementation of that kernel mode driver and the process my employer went through to implement a robust and flexible appliance.

Since I took over the implementation, we have implemented U160 SCSI(via aic7xxx), 2G Fibre Channel(via isp) and Firewire 400 (via sbp_targ). Each driver has it's own subtleties and requirements. I personally enhanced the existing Firewire target driver and was able to get some interesting results.

I hope to demonstrate a functional Firewire 400/800 target and show how useful this application can be for the embedded space. Also, I wish to demonstrate the need for iSCSI. USB and 4/8G Fibre Channel target implementations that use the TARGET_MODE infrastructure that is currently in place to allow others to expand their various interface types.

The presentation should consist of a high level overview, followed by detailed implementation instructions with regards to the Firewire implementation and finish up with a hands-on demonstration with a FreeBSD PC flipped into TARGET_MODE and a Mac.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Peter Hansteen - Building the Network You Need with PF, the OpenBSD packet filter - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Peter Hansteen - Building the Network You Need with PF, the OpenBSD packet filter - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, tutorial, pf, openbsd, peter hansteen, html

Building the Network You Need with PF, the OpenBSD packet filter.

Building the network you need is the central theme for any network admin. This tutorial is for aspiring or seasoned network professionals with at least a basic knowledge of networking in general and TCP/IP particular. The session aims at teaching tools and techniques to make sure you build your network to work the way it's supposed to, keeping you in charge. Central to the toolbox is the OpenBSD PF packet filter, supplemented with tools that interact with it. Whether you are a greybeard looking for ways to optimize your setups or a greenhorn just starting out, this session will give you valuable insight into the inner life of your network and provide pointers to how to use that knowledge to build the network you need. The session will also offer some fresh information on changes introduced in OpenBSD 4.5, the most recent version of PF and OpenBSD. The tutorial is loosely based on Hansteen's recent book, /The Book of PF/ (No Starch Press), with updates and adaptations based on developments since the book's publication date.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Sean Bruno - Firewire BoF Plugfest - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Sean Bruno - Firewire BoF Plugfest - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, firewire, plugfest, sean bruno, odp

Firewire BoF Plugfest
Debugging and testing of Firewire products with FreeBSD

Come one come all to a Firewire plugfest. Let's debug and test together and see if we can't knock out some features and bugs.

A hands-on testing and debugging session of the Firewire stack in FreeBSD.

Everyone who wishes to attend should bring their Firewire devices, ext Drives and Cameras, and their Laptops. I will be debugging and capturing data points to enhance and improve features in the Firewire stack.

We should be able to knock out quite a bunch of bugs if folks can bring their various Firewire devices along with their various PCs.

Even if your Firewire device works perfectly, bring it by so it can be documented as supported by the Firewire team!

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Ivan Voras - Remote and mass management of systems with finstall - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Ivan Voras - Remote and mass management of systems with finstall - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, finstall, management, freebsd, ivan voras, pdf

Remote and mass management of systems with finstall
Automated management on a largish scale

An important part of the "finstall" project, created as a graphical installer for FreeBSD, is a configuration server that can be used to remotely administer and configure arbitrary systems. It allows for remote scripting of administration tasks and is flexible enough to support complete reconfiguration of running systems.

The finstall project has two major parts - the front-end and the back-end. The front-end is just a GUI allowing the users to install the system in a convenient way. The back-end is a network-enabled XML-RPC server that is used by the front-end to perform its tasks. It can be used as a stand-alone configuration daemon. This talk will describe a way to make use of this property of finstall to remotely manage large groups of systems.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Colin Percival - scrypt: A new key derivation function - Paper

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Colin Percival - scrypt: A new key derivation function - Paper
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, scrypt, colin percival, pdf

scrypt: A new key derivation function
Doing our best to thwart TLAs armed with ASICs

Password-based key derivation functions are used for two primary purposes: First, to hash passwords so that an attacker who gains access to a password file does not immediately possess the passwords contained therewithin; and second, to generate cryptographic keys to be used for encrypting or authenticating data.

In both cases, if passwords do not have sufficient entropy, an attacker with the relevant data can perform a brute force attack, hashing potential passwords repeatedly until the correct key is found. While commonly used key derivation functions, such as Kamp's iterated MD5, Provos and Mazieres' bcrypt, and RSA Laboratories' PBKDF1 and PBKDF2 make an attempt to increase the difficulty of brute-force attacks, they all require very little memory, making them ideally suited to attack by custom hardware.

In this talk, I will introduce the concepts of memory-hard and sequential memory-hard functions, and argue that key derivation functions should be sequential memory-hard. I will present a key derivation function which, subject to common assumptions about cryptographic hash functions, is provably sequential memory-hard, and a variation which appears to be stronger (but not provably so). Finally, I will provide some estimates of the cost of performing brute force attacks on a variety of password strengths and key derivation functions.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Colin Percival - scrypt: A new key derivation function - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Colin Percival - scrypt: A new key derivation function - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, scrypt, colin percival, pdf

scrypt: A new key derivation function
Doing our best to thwart TLAs armed with ASICs

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking in code - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking in code - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, keynote, bsd, george neville-neil, pdf

Thinking about thinking in code
Proposed keynote talk

This is not a talk that's specific to any BSD but is a more general talk about how we think about coding and how our thinking changes the way we code.

I compare how we built systems to how other industries build their products and talk about what we can learn from how we work and from how others work as well.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - George Neville-Neil - Networking from the Bottom Up: Device Drivers - PDF file

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

George Neville-Neil - Networking from the Bottom Up: Device Drivers - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, tutorial, device drivers, george neville-neil, pdf

Networking from the Bottom Up: Device Drivers.

In this tutorial I will describe how to write and maintain network drivers in FreeBSD and use the example of the Intel Gigabit Ethernet driver (igb) throughout the course.

Students will learn the basic data structures and APIs necessary to implement a network driver in FreeBSD. The tutorial is general enough that it can be applied to other BSDs, and likely to other embedded and UNIX like systems while being specific enough that given a device and a manual the student should be able to develop a working driver on their own. This is the first of a series of lectures on network that I am developing over the next year or so.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Chris Buechler and Scott Ullrich - pfSense: 2.0 and beyond - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Chris Buechler and Scott Ullrich - pfSense: 2.0 and beyond - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, pfsense, chris buechler, scott ullrich, pdf

pfSense: 2.0 and beyond
From firewall distribution to appliance building platform

pfSense is a BSD licensed customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and a package system allowing further expandability without adding bloat and potential security vulnerabilities to the base distribution.

This session will start with an introduction to the project and its common uses, which have expanded considerably beyond firewalling. We will cover much of the new functionality coming in the 2.0 release, which contains significant enhancements to nearly every portion of the system as well as numerous new features.

While the primary function of the project is a firewalling and routing platform, with changes coming in pfSense 2.0, it has also become an appliance building framework enabling the creation of customized special purpose appliances. The m0n0wall code where pfSense originated has proved popular for this purpose, with AskoziaPBX and FreeNAS also based upon it, in addition to a number of commercial solutions. The goal of this appliance building framework is to enable creation of projects such as these without having to fork and maintain another code base. The existing appliances, including a DNS server using TinyDNS, VoIP with FreeSWITCH, and others will be discussed. For those interested in creating appliances, an overview of the process will be provided along with references for additional information.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Kris Moore - PC-BSD - Making FreeBSD on the desktop a reality - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Kris Moore - PC-BSD - Making FreeBSD on the desktop a reality - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, pc-bsd, freebsd, kris moore, pdf

PC-BSD - Making FreeBSD on the desktop a reality
FreeBSD on the Desktop

While FreeBSD is a all-around great operating system, it is greatly lagging behind in desktop appeal. Why is this? In this talk, we will take a look at some of the desktop drawbacks of FreeBSD, and how are are attempting to fix them through PC-BSD.

FreeBSD has a reputation for its rock-solid reliability, and top-notch performance in the server world, but is noticeably absent when it comes to the vast market of desktop computing. Why is this? FreeBSD offers many, if not almost all of the same open-source packages and software that can be found in the more popular Linux desktop distributions, yet even with the speed and reliability FreeBSD offers, a relative few number of users are deploying it on their desktops.

In this presentation we will take a look at some of the reasons why FreeBSD has not been as widely adopted in the desktop market as it has on the server side. Several of the desktop weaknesses of FreeBSD will be shown, along with how we are trying to fix these short-comings through a desktop-centric version of FreeBSD, known as PC-BSD. We will also take a look at the package management system employed by all open-source operating systems alike, and some of the pitfalls it brings, which may hinder widespread desktop adoption.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Kris Moore - PC-BSD - Making FreeBSD on the desktop a reality - Paper

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Kris Moore - PC-BSD - Making FreeBSD on the desktop a reality - Paper
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, pc-bsd, freebsd, kris moore, pdf

PC-BSD - Making FreeBSD on the desktop a reality
FreeBSD on the Desktop

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Mike Silbersack - Detecting TCP regressions with tcpdiff - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Mike Silbersack - Detecting TCP regressions with tcpdiff - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, tcpdiff, freebsd, mike silbersack, pdf

Detecting TCP regressions with tcpdiff

Determining if a TCP stack is working correctly is hard. The tcpdiff project aims for a simpler goal: To automatically detect differences in TCP behavior between different versions of an operating system and display those differences in an easy to understand format. The value judgement of whether a certain change between version X and Y of a TCP stack is good or bad will be left to human eyes.

The initial version of tcpdiff presented at NYCBSDCon 2008 demonstrated that it could be used to detect at least two major TCP bugs that were introduced into FreeBSD in the past few years. The work from that presentation can be viewed at http://www.silby.com/nycbsdcon08/.

For BSDCan 2009, I hope to fix a number of bugs in tcpdiff, make it easier to use, set up nightly tests of FreeBSD, and improve it so that additional known bugs can be detected. Additionally, I plan to run it on OSes other than FreeBSD.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Constantine A. Murenin - Quiet Computing with BSD - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Constantine A. Murenin - Quiet Computing with BSD - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, bsd, hardware monitors, canstantine murenin, pdf

Quiet Computing with BSD
Programming system hardware monitors for quiet computing

In this talk, we will present a detailed overview of the features and common problems of microprocessor system hardware monitors as they relate to the topic of silent computing. In a nutshell, the topic of programmable fan control will be explored.

Silent computing is an important subject as its practice reduces the amount of unnecessary stress and improves the motivation of the workforce, at home and in the office.

Attendees will gain knowledge on how to effectively programme the chips to minimise fan noise and avoid system failure or shutdown during temperature fluctuations, as well as some basic principles regarding quiet computing.

Shortly before the talk, a patch for programming the most popular chips (like those from Winbond) will be released for the OpenBSD operating system, although the talk itself will be more specific to the microprocessor system hardware monitors themselves, as opposed to the interfacing with thereof in modern operating systems like OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD and FreeBSD.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Lawrence Stewart - Improving the FreeBSD TCP Implementation - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Lawrence Stewart - Improving the FreeBSD TCP Implementation - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, freebsd, tcp, lawrence stewart, pdf

Improving the FreeBSD TCP Implementation.
An update on all things TCP in FreeBSD and how they affect you.

My involvement in improving the FreeBSD TCP stack has continued this past year, with much of the work targeted at FreeBSD 8. This talk will cover what these changes entail, why they are of interest to the FreeBSD community and how they help to improve our TCP implementation.

It has been a busy year since attending my inaugural BSDCan in 2008, where I talked about some of my work with TCP in FreeBSD.

I have continued the work on TCP analysis/debugging tools and integrating modular congestion control into FreeBSD as part of the NewTCP research project. I will provide a progress update on this work.

Additionally, a grant win from the FreeBSD Foundation to undertake a project titled "Improving the FreeBSD TCP Implementation" at Swinburne University's Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures has been progressing well. The project focuses on bringing TCP Appropriate Byte Counting (RFC 3465), reassembly queue auto-tuning and integration of low-level analysis/debugging tools to the base system, all of which I will also discuss.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Stephen Borrill - Building products with NetBSD - thin-clients - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Stephen Borrill - Building products with NetBSD - thin-clients - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, netbsd, thin client, stephen borrill, pdf

Building products with NetBSD - thin-clients
NetBSD: delivering the goods

This talk will discuss what thin-clients are, why they are useful and why NetBSD is good choice to build such a device.

This talk will provide information on some alternatives and the strengths and weaknesses of NetBSD when used in such a device.

It will discuss problems that needed to be addressed such as how to get a device with rich functionality running from a small amount of flash storage, as well as recent developments in NetBSD that have helped improve the product.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Luigi Rizzo - GEOM based disk schedulers for FreeBSD - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Luigi Rizzo - GEOM based disk schedulers for FreeBSD - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, freebsd, geom, disk schedulers, luigi rzzo, pdf

GEOM based disk schedulers for FreeBSD

The high cost of seek operations makes the throughput of disk devices very sensitive to the offered workload. A disk scheduler can then help reorder requests to improve the overall throughput of the device, or improve the service guarantees for individual users, or both.

Research results in recent years have introduced, and proven the effectiveness of, a technique called "anticipatory scheduling". The basic idea behind this technique is that, in some cases, requests that cause a seek should not be served immediately; instead, the scheduler should wait for a short period of time in case other requests arrive that do not require a seek to be served. With many common workloads, dominated by sequential synchronous requests, the potential loss of throughput caused by the disk idling times is more than balanced by the overall reduction of seeks.

While a fair amount of research on disk scheduling has been conducted on FreeBSD, the results were never integrated in the OS, perhaps because the various prototype implementations were very device-specific and operated within the device drivers. Ironically, anticipatory schedulers are instead a standard part of Linux kernels.

This talk has two major contributions:

First, we will show how, thanks to the flexibility of the GEOM architecture, an anticipatory disk scheduling framework has been implemented in FreeBSD with little or no modification to a GENERIC kernel. While these schedulers operate slightly above the layer where one would naturally put a scheduler, they can still achieve substantial performance improvements over the standard disk scheduler; in particular, even the simplest anticipatory schedulers can prevent the complete trashing of the disk performance that often occurs in presence of multiple processes accessing the disk.

Secondly, we will discuss how the basic anticipatory scheduling technique can be used not only to improve the overall throughput of the disk, but also to give service guarantees to individual disk clients, a feature that is extremely important in practice e.g., when serving applications with pseudo-real-time constraints such as audio or video streaming ones.

A prototype implementation of the scheduler that will be covered in the presentation is available at http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Warner Losh - Tracking FreeBSD in a commercial Environment - Slides

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Warner Losh - Tracking FreeBSD in a commercial Environment - Slides
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, freebsd, commercial environment, waner losh, pdf

Tracking FreeBSD in a commercial Environment
How to stay current while staying sane

The FreeBSD project publishes two lines of source code: current and stable. All changes must first be committed to current and then are merged into stable. Commercial organizations wishing to use FreeBSD in their products must be aware of this policy. Four different strategies have developed for tracking FreeBSD over time. A company can choose to run only unmodified release versions of FreeBSD. A company may choose to import FreeBSD's sources once and then never merge newer versions. A company can choose to import each new stable branch as it is created, adding its own changes to that branch, as well as integrating new versions from FreeBSD from time to time. A company can track FreeBSD's current branch, adding to it their changes as well as newer FreeBSD changes. Which method a company chooses depends on the needs of the company. These methods are explored in detail, and their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Tracking FreeBSD's ports and packages is not discussed.

Companies building products based upon FreeBSD have many choices in how to use the projects sources and binaries. The choices range from using unmodified binaries from FreeBSD's releases, to tracking modify FreeBSD heavily and tracking FreeBSD's evolution in a merged tree. Some companies may only need to maintain a stable version of FreeBSD with more bug fixes or customizations than the FreeBSD project wishes to place in that branch. Some companies also wish to contribute some subset of their changes back to the FreeBSD project.

FreeBSD provides an excellent base technology with which to base products. It is a proven leader in performance, reliability and scalability. The technology also offers a very business friendly license that allows companies to pick and choose which changes they wish to contribute to the community rather than forcing all changes to be contributed back, or attaching other undesirable license conditions to the code.

However, the FreeBSD project does not focus on integration of its technology into customized commercial products. Instead, the project focuses on producing a good, reliable, fast and scalable operating system and associated packages. The project maintains two lines of development. A current branch, where the main development of the project takes place, and a stable branch which is managed for stability and reliability. While the project maintains documentation on the system, including its development model, relatively little guidance has been given to companies in how to integrate FreeBSD into their products with a minimum of trouble.

Developing a sensible strategy to deal with both these portions of FreeBSD requires careful planning and analysis. FreeBSD's lack of guidelines to companies leaves it up to them to develop a strategy. FreeBSD's development model differs from some of the other Free and Open Source projects. People familiar with those systems often discover that methods that were well suited to them may not work as well with FreeBSD's development model. These two issues cause many companies to make poor decisions without understanding the problems that lie in their future.

Very little formal guidance exists for companies wishing to integrate FreeBSD into their products. Some email threads can be located via a Google search that could help companies, but many of them are full of contradictory information, and it is very disorganized. While the information about the FreeBSD development process is in the FreeBSD handbook, the implications of that process for companies integrating FreeBSD into their products are not discussed.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Warner Losh - Tracking FreeBSD in a commercial Environment - Paper

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Warner Losh - Tracking FreeBSD in a commercial Environment - Paper
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, freebsd, commercial environment, waner losh, pdf

Tracking FreeBSD in a commercial Environment
How to stay current while staying sane

DCBSDCon - Ken Caruso - Using BSD in Shmoocon labs - PDF

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Ken Caruso - Using BSD in Shmoocon labs - PDF
From: DCBSDCon
Tags: dcbsdcon, dcbsdcon2009, slides, freebsd, scmoocon, ken caruso, pdf
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bsdtalk - A Few FreeBSD Core Team Members - MP3 version

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

A Few FreeBSD Core Team Members - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan, freebsd core team, robert watson, brooks davis, hiroki sato, philip paeps, george neville-neil, mp3
Interview with a few of the FreeBSD Core Team members at BSDCan 2009: Robert Watson, Brooks Davis, Hiroki Sato, Philip Paeps, and George V. Neville-Neil. We talk about the recent 7.2 release, and what is coming for 8.

bsdtalk - A Few FreeBSD Core Team Members - Ogg version

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

A Few FreeBSD Core Team Members - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan, freebsd core team, robert watson, brooks davis, hiroki sato, philip paeps, george neville-neil, ogg
Interview with a few of the FreeBSD Core Team members at BSDCan 2009: Robert Watson, Brooks Davis, Hiroki Sato, Philip Paeps, and George V. Neville-Neil. We talk about the recent 7.2 release, and what is coming for 8.

DCBSDCon - George Neville-Neil - Performance analysis with (hwpmc) - PDF

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

George Neville-Neil - Performance analysis with (hwpmc) - PDF
From: DCBSDCon
Tags: dcbsdcon, dcbsdcon2009, slides, freebsd, hwpmc, george neville-neil, pdf
FreeBSD has included support for Hardware Performance Monitoring Counters (hwpmc) for several years now. The hwpmc system provides access to counters that are present in all modern Intel and AMD CPUs, as well as other chipsets, and which give the programmer the ability to understand the low level performance issues that may effect their code. This talk will cover the motivation behind and basic usage of HWPMC.

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - PC-BSD - Making FreeBSD on the Desktop a reality by Kris Moore

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - PC-BSD - Making FreeBSD on the Desktop a reality by Kris Moore
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2009, pdf, paper, freebsd, pcbsd, kris moore
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2009

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - Crypto Acceleration on FreeBSD by Philip Paeps

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - Crypto Acceleration on FreeBSD by Philip Paeps
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2009, pdf, paper, crypto acceleration, freebsd, philip paeps
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2009

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - OpenBGPD - Bringing full views to OpenBSD since by 2004 Claudio Jeker

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - OpenBGPD - Bringing full views to OpenBSD since by 2004 Claudio Jeker
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2009, pdf, paper, openbgpd, openbsd, claudio jeker
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2009

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - FreeBSD on high performance multi-core embedded PowerPC systems - Rafal Jaworowski

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - FreeBSD on high performance multi-core embedded PowerPC systems - Rafal Jaworowski
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2009, pdf, paper, freebsd, high performance, rafal jaworowski
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2009

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - Isolating Cluster Users (and Their Jobs) for Performance and Predictability by Brooks Davis

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - Isolating Cluster Users (and Their Jobs) for Performance and Predictability by Brooks Davis
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2009, pdf, paper, clusters, brooks, davis
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2009

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - OpenBSD Hardware Sensors Framework by Constantine A. Murenin

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - OpenBSD Hardware Sensors Framework by Constantine A. Murenin
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2009, pdf, paper, openbsd, hardware sensors framework, constantine murenin
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2009

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - FreeBSD and SOI-Asia Project Mohamad by Dikshie Fauzie

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - FreeBSD and SOI-Asia Project Mohamad by Dikshie Fauzie
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2009, pdf, paper, freebsd, dikshie fauzie
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2009

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - An Overview of FreeBSD/mips by M. Warner Losh

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - An Overview of FreeBSD/mips by M. Warner Losh
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2009, pdf, paper, freebsd, mips, warner losh
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2009

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - Environmental Independence: BSD Kernel TCP/IP in Userspace by Antti Kantee

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - Environmental Independence: BSD Kernel TCP/IP in Userspace by Antti Kantee
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2009, pdf, paper, tcpip, antti kantee
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2009

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - Active-Active Firewall Cluster Support in OpenBSD by David Gwynne

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - Active-Active Firewall Cluster Support in OpenBSD by David Gwynne
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2009, pdf, paper, firewall cluster, openbsd, david gwynne
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2009

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - The Locking Infrastructure in the FreeBSD kernel by Attilio Rao

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - The Locking Infrastructure in the FreeBSD kernel by Attilio Rao
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2009, pdf, paper, locking, freebsd, attilio Rao
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2009

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - Deprecating groff for BSD manual display by Kristaps Dzonsons

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - Deprecating groff for BSD manual display by Kristaps Dzonsons
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2009, pdf, paper, groff, kristaps dzonsons
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2009

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - Mail system for distributed network by Andrey Zakharchenko

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2009 Paper List - Mail system for distributed network by Andrey Zakharchenko
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2009, pdf, paper, mail, andrey zakharchenko
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2009

DCBSDCon - Ted Unangst - OpenBSD vs SMP, threading, and concurrency - PDF

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Ted Unangst - OpenBSD vs SMP, threading, and concurrency - PDF
From: DCBSDCon
Tags: dcbsdcon, dcbsdcon2009, slides, openbsd, smp, threading, concurrency, ted unangst, pdf
I will discuss the current status of kernel SMP support, the rthreads thread library, and relevant future developments. Over the years, we have accumulated several concurrency primitives in the kernel, causing some confusion amongst developers, so I will lay out the origin and correct usage for each. The talk is primarily targeted at the budding OpenBSD kernel developer, but I will also describe the end-user effects of each topic.

YouTube bsdconferences channel - Sleeping Beauty - NetBSD on Modern laptops - Flash

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Sleeping Beauty - NetBSD on Modern laptops - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, presentation, asiabsdcon2008, asiabsdcon, netbsd, laptops, jorg sonnenberger, flash
P9A: Sleeping Beauty - NetBSD on Modern Laptops
AsiaBSDCon 2008, Jorg Sonnenberger
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9ygBFjGR50

DCBSDCon - Brooks Davis - Isolating cluster jobs for performance and predictability - PDF

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Brooks Davis - Isolating cluster jobs for performance and predictability - PDF
From: DCBSDCon
Tags: dcbsdcon, dcbsdcon2009, slides, freebsd, clusters, brooks davis, pdf
At The Aerospace Corporation, we run a large FreeBSD based computing cluster to support engineering applications. These applications come in all shapes, sizes, and qualities of implementation. To support them and our diverse userbase we have been searching for ways to isolate jobs from one another in ways that are more effective than Unix time sharing and more fine grained than allocating whole nodes to jobs. In this paper we discuss the problem space and our efforts so far. These efforts include implementation of partial file systems vitalization and CPU isolation using CPU sets.

DCBSDCon - Robert Luciani - M:N threading in DragonflyBSD - PDF

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Robert Luciani - M:N threading in DragonflyBSD - PDF
From: DCBSDCon
Tags: dcbsdcon, dcbsdcon2009, slides, dragonflybsd, concurrency, robert luciani, pdf
Ineffective concurrency mechanisms in an operating system can lead to low performance in both single and multiprocessor environments. Practical setbacks involved with attempting overly invasive kernel changes have made it difficult in the past to implement new and innovative concurrency systems. This paper describes the rationale behind interfaces in the DragonFly BSD operating system intended to provide high performance and scalability on multiprocessor architectures. Using a lock-free processor centric approach, DragonFly BSD has developed a unique thread system with the potential for excellent scalability.

DCBSDCon - Chris Buechler - Network perimeter redundancy with pfsense - PDF

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Chris Buechler - Network perimeter redundancy with pfsense - PDF
From: DCBSDCon
Tags: dcbsdcon, dcbsdcon2009, slides, pfsense, chris buechler, pdf
This session will first provide an introduction and overview of pfSense and its common uses. It will then go on to cover means of providing redundancy for the critical portions of your network perimeter using pfSense, including redundancy for your Internet connections, firewalls and DNS. Live configuration examples will be shown for as many of these topics as the session's length permits. This session will cover pfSense 1.2.1, but will also offer an overview of some of the enhanced capabilities in this area that pfSense 2.0 will provide in the future.

YouTube bsdconferences channel - Using BSD in SchmooCon Labs - Flash

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Using BSD in SchmooCon Labs - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, presentation, dcbsdcon, dcbsdcon2009, bsd, schmoocon, ken caruso, flash
Using BSD in SchmooCon Labs
DCBSDCon 2009, Ken Caruso
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZhfuP4jghY

DCBSDCon - Richard Bejtlich - Network security monitoring using FreeBSD - PDF

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Richard Bejtlich - Network security monitoring using FreeBSD - PDF
From: DCBSDCon
Tags: dcbsdcon, dcbsdcon2009, slides, freebsd, network security, monitoring, richard bejtlich, pdf
I've been using FreeBSD as my preferred platform for Network Security Monitoring (NSM) since 2000. In this presentation I'll discuss my latest thinking on using FreeBSD to identify normal, suspicious, and malicious traffic in enterprise networks. FreeBSD is a powerful platform for network traffic inspection and log analysis, and I'll share a few ways I use it in production environments.

YouTube bsdconferences channel - P6A: A Portable iSCSI Initiator - Flash

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

P6A: A Portable iSCSI Initiator - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, presentation, asiabsdcon2008, asiabsdcon, iscsi, alistair crooks, flash
P3B: A Portable iSCSI Initiator
AsiaBSDCon 2008, Alistair Crooks
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiZY7PMu7Ic

Joseph Koshy - PmcTools talk at the Bangalore chapter of the ACM - PDF version

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

PmcTools talk at the Bangalore chapter of the ACM - PDF version
From: Joseph Koshy
Tags: freebsd, presentation, freebsd, pmctools, joseph koshy, pdf

In April 2009 I was invited to speak on FreeBSD/PmcTools by the Bangalore chapter of the ACM.

This was an overview talk. The talk briefly touched upon: the motivations and goals of the project, the programming APIs, some aspects of the implementation and on possible future work.

DCBSDCon - Kurt Miller - Implementing PIE on OpenBSD - PDF

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Kurt Miller - Implementing PIE on OpenBSD - PDF
From: DCBSDCon
Tags: dcbsdcon, dcbsdcon2009, slides, openbsd, pie, kurt miller, pdf
In this session, Kurt will discuss OpenBSD's PIE implementation, its impact on existing security mechanisms such as W^X on i386, and the various enhancements needed to the runtime linker, kernel and other system libs.

YouTube bsdconferences channel - 25 years with BSD - Flash

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

25 years with BSD - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, keynote, asiabsdcon2008, asiabsdcon, bsd, hideki sunahara, flash
Thinking RealSpace: Life with BSD - ~25 years with BSD
AsiaBSDCon 2008, Hideki Sunahara
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brYdkQ120Do

DCBSDCon - Henning Brauer - Faster packets: Performance tuning in the OpenBSD network stack and PF - PDF

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Henning Brauer - Faster packets: Performance tuning in the OpenBSD network stack and PF - PDF
From: DCBSDCon
Tags: dcbsdcon, dcbsdcon2009, slides, openbsd, performance, henning brauer, pdf
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bsdtalk - BSDCan 2009 with Dan Langille - MP3 version

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

BSDCan 2009 with Dan Langille - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan, dan langille, mp3
Interview with Dan Langille. We talk about BSDCan 2009. More information at http://www.bsdcan.org.

bsdtalk - BSDCan 2009 with Dan Langille - Ogg version

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

BSDCan 2009 with Dan Langille - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan, dan langille, ogg
Interview with Dan Langille. We talk about BSDCan 2009. More information at http://www.bsdcan.org.

DCBSDCon - Kristaps Dzonsons - Process isolation for NetBSD and OpenBSD - PDF

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Kristaps Dzonsons - Process isolation for NetBSD and OpenBSD - PDF
From: DCBSDCon
Tags: dcbsdcon, dcbsdcon2009, slides, openbsd, netbsd, process isolation, kristaps dzonsons, pdf
In NetBSD and OpenBSD, user-land process and process-context isolation is limited to credential cross-checks, file-system chroot and explicit systrace/kauth applications. I'll demonstrate a working mechanism of isolated process trees in branched OpenBSD-4.4 and NetBSD-5.0-beta kernels where an isolated process is started by a system call similar to fork; following that, the child process and its descendants execute in a context isolated from the caller. This system is the continued work of "mult" -- first prototyped in a branched NetBSD-3.1 kernel and isolating all system resources -- pared down to a lightweight, auditable patch of process-only separation for both OpenBSD and NetBSD. I specifically address solutions to performance issues and mechanism design with an eye toward more resources being isolated in the future.

YouTube bsdconferences channel - OpenBSD Network Stack Internals - Flash

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Network Stack Internals - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, presentation, asiabsdcon2008, asiabsdcon, openbsd, claudio jeker, flash
P8A: OpenBSD Network Stack Internals
AsiaBSDCon 2008, Claudio Jeker
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V85It0dGUF4

DCBSDCon - Marco Peereboom - Epitome - PDF

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Marco Peereboom - Epitome - PDF
From: DCBSDCon
Tags: dcbsdcon, dcbsdcon2009, slides, epitome, backup, marco peereboom, pdf

Tired of tape and their weaknesses? So am I!

Epitome is the next generation backup mechanism. It is based on the idea of providing instant available backup data while removing duplicate files & blocks from backups (yes really!). It is a disk based WORM backup system.

This talk will go into the Epitome protocol and its application. The code is generic enough that it can address all 3 major (buzzword compliant) technologies known as: CAS, DEDUP & SIS.

YouTube bsdconferences channel - P1B: Tracking FreeBSD in a Commercial Setting - Flash

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

P1B: Tracking FreeBSD in a Commercial Setting - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, presentation, asiabsdcon2008, asiabsdcon, freebsd, warner losh, flash
P1B: Tracking FreeBSD in a Commercial Setting
AsiaBSDCon 2008, M. Warner Losh
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaZ9Ef04bJg

YouTube bsdconferences channel - P4B: Send and Receive of File System Protocols: Userspace Approach With puffs - Flash

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

P4B: Send and Receive of File System Protocols: Userspace Approach With puffs - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, presentation, asiabsdcon2008, asiabsdcon, puffs, antti kantee, flash
P4B: Send and Receive of File System Protocols: Userspace Approach With puffs
AsiaBSDCon 2008, Antti Kantee
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziGeB8iRA0c

YouTube bsdconferences channel - P3B: BSD Implementations of XCAST6 - Flash

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

P3B: BSD Implementations of XCAST6 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, presentation, asiabsdcon2008, asiabsdcon, xcast6, yuji imai, flash
P3B: BSD Implementations of XCAST6
AsiaBSDCon 2008, Yuji Imai
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Ga48smqyI

YouTube bsdconferences channel - P5A: Logical Resource Isolation in the NetBSD Kernel - Flash

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

P5A: Logical Resource Isolation in the NetBSD Kernel - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, presentation, asiabsdcon2008, asiabsdcon, netbsd, kristaps dzonsons, flash
P5A: Logical Resource Isolation in the NetBSD Kernel
AsiaBSDCon 2008, Kristaps Dzonsons
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c63VneyQI-k

FreeBSD Google Summer of Code - FreeBSD Google Summer of Code posters - PNG version

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Google Summer of Code posters - PNG version
From: FreeBSD Google Summer of Code
Tags: freebsd, google, summer of code, png
Two posters usable for the announcement of the participation of the FreeBSD Project in the Google Summer of Code.

FreeBSD Google Summer of Code - FreeBSD Google Summer of Code posters - PDF version

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Google Summer of Code posters - PDF version
From: FreeBSD Google Summer of Code
Tags: freebsd, google, summer of code, pdf
Two posters usable for the announcement of the participation of the FreeBSD Project in the Google Summer of Code.

bsdtalk - Andrew Doran from the NetBSD Project - MP3 version

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

Andrew Doran from the NetBSD Project - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, netbsd, andrew doran, mp3
Interview with Andrew Doran from the NetBSD Project. We talk about the upcoming 5.0 release.

bsdtalk - Andrew Doran from the NetBSD Project - Ogg version

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

Andrew Doran from the NetBSD Project - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, netbsd, andrew doran, ogg
Interview with Andrew Doran from the NetBSD Project. We talk about the upcoming 5.0 release.

YouTube bsdconferences channel - A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem, Kirk McKusick - Flash

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem, Kirk McKusick - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, presentation, asiabsdcon2008, asiabsdcon, bsd fast filesystem, kirk mckusick, flash
A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem, Kirk McKusick
AsiaBSDCon 2008, Dr. Kirk McKusick
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzieR5MM06M

New York City *BSD User Group - What's your biggest Time Management problem? - MP3 version

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

What's your biggest Time Management problem? - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, time management, tom limoncelli, mp3

What's your biggest Time Management problem?

Tom Limoncelli is a FreeBSD user and the author of the O'Reilly book,"Time Management for System Administrators". He`ll be giving a brief presentation with highlights from his book then will take questions from the audience. Whether you are a system administrator, a developer (or even a Linux user) this presentation will help you with something more precious a quad-processor AMD box.

bsdtalk - Marshall Kirk McKusick at DCBSDCon - MP3 version

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Marshall Kirk McKusick at DCBSDCon - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, presentation, bsd, history, kirk mckusick, mp3
A recording of Marshall Kirk McKusick's talk "A Narrative History of BSD" at DCBSDCon this past weekend.
You can get a much more complete history here: http://www.mckusick.com/history/index.html

bsdtalk - Marshall Kirk McKusick at DCBSDCon - Ogg version

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Marshall Kirk McKusick at DCBSDCon - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, presentation, bsd, history, kirk mckusick, ogg
A recording of Marshall Kirk McKusick's talk "A Narrative History of BSD" at DCBSDCon this past weekend.
You can get a much more complete history here: http://www.mckusick.com/history/index.html

New York City *BSD User Group - Postfix Performance Tuning - MP3 version

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Postfix Performance Tuning - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, postfix, john mashey, mp3

Money can buy you bandwidth, but latency is forever!

John Mashey, MIPS

Victor will cover an array of issues connected to Postfix performance tuning, including:

Latency, concurrency and throughput
Postfix input processing
Queue file format rationale
Input processing bottlenecks
Pre-queue filters, milters, content filters
Tuning for fast (enough) input
Postfix on-disk queues, requirements and architecture
What is a "transport"?
Postfix "nqmgr" scheduler algorithm
Per-destination in memory queues
Per-destination scheduler controls
SMTP delivery
Understanding delay logging
Transport process limits, concurrency limits
Scaling to thousands of output processes
Connection caching, TLS session caching, feedback controls

Speaker Bio
Victor Duchovni trained in mathematics, switched tracks to CS in 1980s leaving Princeton with a master`s degree in mathematics and newly acquired skills in Unix system administration and system programming. In 1990 moved to Lehman Brothers, worked on system management tooling, and network engineering. Ported "Moira" from MIT to Lehman, built efficient build systems that predated (and partly inspired) Jumpstart. In 1994 joined ESM to market "CMDB" tools to enterprise users, but this did not pan out, in the mean time learned Tcl, and contributed bunch of patches to the 7.x early 8.x TCL releases. In 1997 returned to New York, working in IT Security at Morgan Stanley since late 1999. At Morgan Stanley, developed a hobby in perimeter email security, becoming an active Postfix user and very soon contributor in May of 2001. In addition to many smaller feature improvements, contributed initial implementation of SMTP connection caching, overhauled and currently maintain LDAP and TLS support. Made significant design contributions to queue manager in collaboration with Wietse and Patrik Raq. In 2.6 contributing support for TLS EC ciphers and multi-instance management tooling, ideally also TLS SNI if time permits.

YouTube bsdconferences channel - PC-BSD, Matt Olander, AsiaBSDCon 2008 - Flash

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

PC-BSD, Matt Olander, AsiaBSDCon 2008 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, presentation, asiabsdcon2008, asiabsdcon, pc-bsd, matt olander, flash
PC-BSD, Matt Olander, AsiaBSDCon 2008
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0q37X-MJzY

YouTube bsdconferences channel - Reducing Lock Contention in a Multi-Core System, Randall Stewart, AsiaBSDCon 2008 - Flash

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Reducing Lock Contention in a Multi-Core System, Randall Stewart, AsiaBSDCon 2008 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, presentation, asiabsdcon2008, asiabsdcon, multicore, lock contention, randall stewart, flash
Reducing Lock Contention in a Multi-Core System, Randall Stewart, AsiaBSDCon 2008
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQOMva1SmbY

YouTube bsdconferences channel - GEOM - in Infrastructure We Trust, Pawel Jakub Dawidek, AsiaBSDCon 2008 - Flash

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

GEOM - in Infrastructure We Trust, Pawel Jakub Dawidek, AsiaBSDCon 2008 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, presentation, asiabsdcon2008, asiabsdcon, geom, pawel jakub dawidek, flash
GEOM - in Infrastructure We Trust, Pawel Jakub Dawidek, AsiaBSDCon 2008
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMpmOezBJZo

YouTube bsdconferences channel - Keynote, Peter Losher, Internet Systems Consortium, AsiaBSDCon 2008 - Flash

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Keynote, Peter Losher, Internet Systems Consortium, AsiaBSDCon 2008 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, keynote, asiabsdcon2008, asiabsdcon, peter losher, flash
Keynote, Peter Losher, Internet Systems Consortium, AsiaBSDCon 2008
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQbdG7TwhKo

YouTube bsdconferences channel - Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods, Brooks Davis, AsiaBSDCon 2008 - Flash

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods, Brooks Davis, AsiaBSDCon 2008 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, presentation, asiabsdcon2008, asiabsdcon, freebsd, promotion, open source development models, brooks davis, flash
Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods, Brooks Davis, AsiaBSDCon 2008
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lcrinKBMas

YouTube bsdconferences channel - FreeBSD Kernel Internals, Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick - Flash

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Kernel Internals, Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, course, freebsd, design and implementation of the freebsd operating system, kirk mckusick, flash
The first hour of Marshall Kirk McKusick's course on FreeBSD kernel internals based on his book, The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System. This course has been given at BSD Conferences and technology companies around the world.
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwbqBdghh6E

bsdtalk - Justin Sherrill of the DragonFlyBSD Digest - MP3 version

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Justin Sherrill of the DragonFlyBSD Digest - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, dragonflybsd, justin sherril, mp3
Interview with Justin Sherrill of the DragonFlyBSD Digest, which can be found at http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/

bsdtalk - Justin Sherrill of the DragonFlyBSD Digest - Ogg version

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Justin Sherrill of the DragonFlyBSD Digest - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, dragonflybsd, justin sherril, ogg
Interview with Justin Sherrill of the DragonFlyBSD Digest, which can be found at http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/

New York City *BSD User Group - Introduction to Puppet - MP3 version

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Introduction to Puppet - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, puppet, larry ludwig, mp3

What it is and how can it make system administration less painful

About the speaker:
Larry Ludwig - Principal Consultant/Founder of Empowering Media. Empowering Media is a consulting firm and managed hosting provider. Larry Ludwig has been in the industry for over 15 years as a system administration and system programmer. He`s had previous experience working for many Fortune 500 corporations and holds a BS in CS from Clemson University. Larry, along with Eric E. Moore and Brian Gupta are founding members of the NYC Puppet usergroup.

Nederlandse Linux Gebruikers Group - Een historisch overzicht van BSD - Hans van de Looy - PDF version

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Een historisch overzicht van BSD - Hans van de Looy - PDF version
From: Nederlandse Linux Gebruikers Group
Tags: nllgg, bsd, history, hans van de looy, pdf

Hans zal een historisch overzicht geven van het ontstaan van *BSD vanaf de oorsprong van UNIX tot aan de nu bekende *BSD varianten. Hij zal daarbij met name ingaan wat de oorsprong en het ontstaan van een aantal *BSD-projecten zijn. Hierbij zal hij zeer kort ingaan op de verschillende licentieproblemen die we in het verleden gezien hebben en worden een aantal bekende personen en data weer eens even op de kaart geplaatst.

Hans van de Looy is oprichter van Madison Gurkha. Een bedrijf dat gespecialiseerd is op het gebied van het uitvoeren van technische ICT-beveiligingsonderzoeken, in de media ook wel aangeduid met Etisch Hacken. Tijdens dergelijke onderzoeken maakt hij ook regelmatig gebruik van op BSD* gebaseerde systemen.

YouTube bsdconferences channel - May 2008 developer Vimage report - Flash

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

May 2008 developer Vimage report - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, freebsd, vimage, marko zec, julian elischer, flash
A sneak peak into the FreeBSD development process.
Warning 2 hours! filmed over 2 days. (The schedule worked out was optimistic to say the least but it's still looking ok...)
Marko Zec and Julian Elischer report back to the developers at BSDCan on the progress on virtualizing the network stack in FreeBSD. This has been a long term project but at the time of this recording was just reaching the point of feasibility. In this video you can see some of the dynamics of the group as developers become familiar with the project and discussions take place regarding such things as maintainability, ABI compatibility, and even what to call the feature. In this video you can see the decision being made by a "quorum" of developers to take this project mainstream.
The sound is less that perfect, but it's what we have.
This is a montage of 3 video sources, one of which is a lower resolution, but at times it was the only camera capturing the action. (the other ran out of tape for a while)
Thanks to Ed Maste for the added footage.
I will be doing more editing later and will be substituting in better footage in some places.
clive URL: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Px-pSXm32dE

YouTube bsdconferences channel - Isilon and FreeBSD - Flash

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Isilon and FreeBSD - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, freebsd, isilon, zach loafman, flash
Zach Loafman explains how Isilon uses FreeBSD and how the company adds to it and interacts with the FreeBSD community.
clive URL: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=OlMocIwM5QU

YouTube bsdconferences channel - ZFS in FreeBSD, by Pawel Jakub Dawidek - Flash

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

ZFS in FreeBSD, by Pawel Jakub Dawidek - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, freebsd, zfs, pawel jakub, flash
Pawel goes over ZFS, and tells us the state of the FreeBSD port. Source: Julian
clive URL: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=5-CR3o-Q2CU

Nederlandse Linux Gebruikers Group - Van FreeBSD Documentatie projectleider tot FreeBSD Developer - Remko Lodder - PDF version

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Van FreeBSD Documentatie projectleider tot FreeBSD Developer - Remko Lodder - PDF version
From: Nederlandse Linux Gebruikers Group
Tags: nllgg, freebsd, documentation, nederlands, remko lodder, pdf

In 2004 ben ik begonnen met het FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project, een project dat inmiddels bijna het complete handboek vertaald heeft. Sinds die tijd zijn er vele wegen geweest die ik behandeld heb, van documentatie projectleider naar Security Team-lid tot aan FreeBSD Developer.

Remko Lodder is momenteel 25 jaar en werkt als Unix Engineer voor het bedrijf Snow B.V. waar hij zich momenteel met name bezig houd met security (firewalls etc). Hij is sinds 2004 lid van het FreeBSD Development team en is momenteel 1 van de meest actieve developers binnen het team.

bsdtalk - Michael Lauth from iXsystems - MP3 version

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Michael Lauth from iXsystems - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ixsystems, michael lauth, mp3
Interview with Michael Lauth, CEO of iXsystems. We talk about his experiences with running a business using BSD.

bsdtalk - Michael Lauth from iXsystems - Ogg version

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Michael Lauth from iXsystems - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ixsystems, michael lauth, ogg
Interview with Michael Lauth, CEO of iXsystems. We talk about his experiences with running a business using BSD.

YouTube bsdconferences channel - FreeBSD networking work summary - Flash

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD networking work summary - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, freebsd, networking, robert watson, flash
Robert Watson reports on work currently under way to optimize the networking stack for new hardware. Source: Julian
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohLVNmI3lCg

YouTube bsdconferences channel - Hardware Crypto Suport- Philip Paep. MeetBSD 2008 - Flash

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Hardware Crypto Suport- Philip Paep. MeetBSD 2008 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2008, crypto, philip paep, flash
Philip gives a short talk on hs experience developing a driver for hardware crypto. Source: Julian
clive URL: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=2oV2ZGXO33o

YouTube bsdconferences channel - Kris Moore and PCBSD - Flash

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Kris Moore and PCBSD - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, pcbsd, kris moore, flash
PCBSD from a developer's perspective. Source: Julian
clive URL: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=aHRRa-OvwxM

bsdtalk - DCBSDCon with Jason Dixon - MP3 version

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

DCBSDCon with Jason Dixon - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, dcbsdcon, dcbsdcon2009, jason dixon, mp3
I speak with Jason Dixon about DCBSDCon, which will take place in February 2009. For more info see www.dcbsdcon.org

bsdtalk - DCBSDCon with Jason Dixon - Ogg version

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

DCBSDCon with Jason Dixon - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, dcbsdcon, dcbsdcon2009, jason dixon, ogg
I speak with Jason Dixon about DCBSDCon, which will take place in February 2009. For more info see www.dcbsdcon.org

YouTube bsdconferences channel - Google Summer of Code 2008. BSD summary - Flash

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Google Summer of Code 2008. BSD summary - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2008, google soc, flash
A panel discusses the GSOC project an how it and BSD get on. Source: Julian
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l3tuhSmp_E

YouTube bsdconferences channel - Embedded FreeBSD - Flash

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Embedded FreeBSD - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2007, embedded, freebsd, polish, rafal jaworowski, flash
"FreeBSD do zabudowy czyli nie tylko pecety", Rafal Jaworowski at MeetBSD 2007 in Warsaw, Poland.
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HcIJvJX4y8

YouTube bsdconferences channel - New features in FreeBSD 7 - Flash

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

New features in FreeBSD 7 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2007, freebsd, kris kennaway, flash
"New features and improvements in FreeBSD 7", Kris Kennaway at MeetBSD 2007 in Warsaw, Poland
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUjJWhlnujQ

YouTube bsdconferences channel - DTrace - Flash

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

DTrace - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2007, dtrace, polish, slawomir zak, flash
"DTrace - Monitoring i strojenie systemu w XXI wieku", Slawomir Zak at MeetBSD 2007 in Warsaw, Poland.
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VK6tV4y3r0

YouTube bsdconferences channel - Meet BSD projects from GSoC 2007 - Flash

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Meet BSD projects from GSoC 2007 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2007, google soc, pawel solyga, flash
"Meet BSD projects from Google Summer of Code 2007", Pawel Solyga at MeetBSD 2007 in Warsaw, Poland.
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snVtilaj-KI

YouTube bsdconferences channel - FreeBSD, klaster pocztowy - Flash

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD, klaster pocztowy - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2007, polish, jan srzednicki, flash
"Projektowanie korporacyjnego klastra pocztowego", Jan Srzednicki at MeetBSD 2007 in Warsaw, Poland.
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B8MDy-37TI

YouTube bsdconferences channel - BSD is Dying, Jason Dixon, NYCBSDCon 2007 - Flash

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

BSD is Dying, Jason Dixon, NYCBSDCon 2007 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2007, bsd is dying, jason dixon, flash
A tongue-in-cheek look at the history and future of the BSD movement. Modeled after the presentation styles of Lessig and Hardt, the talk provides a light-hearted introspection of the leaders, technologies, and community that forges ahead despite having been left for dead some 15 years past. This presentation was given by Jason Dixon at the NYC BSD Conference at Columbia University on October 28, 2006
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tvI6JCXD0

YouTube bsdconferences channel - FreeBSD, Building a Computing Cluster - Flash

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD, Building a Computing Cluster - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2007, freebsd, cluster, performance, brooks davis, flash
"Reflections on Building a High-Performance Computing Cluster using FreeBSD", Brooks Davis at MeetBSD 2007 in Warsaw, Poland.
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpsRb9fJ4Ds

YouTube bsdconferences channel - Embedding FreeBSD, MeetBSD 2008 - Flash

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Embedding FreeBSD, MeetBSD 2008 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2008, embedded, freebsd, philip paeps, warner losh, flash
Embedding FreeBSD by Warner Losh and Philip Paeps, MeetBSD November 15, 2008
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc3xYrxvIU0

YouTube bsdconferences channel - BSD Certification, MeetBSD 2008 - Flash

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

BSD Certification, MeetBSD 2008 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2008, bsd certification, dru lavigne, flash
BSD Certification by Dru Lavigne, Chair, BSD Certification Group, MeetBSD November 15, 2008
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGQmLYplO9U

YouTube bsdconferences channel - BSD v. GPL, Jason Dixon, NYCBSDCon 2008 - Flash

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

BSD v. GPL, Jason Dixon, NYCBSDCon 2008 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2008, bsd versus gpl, jason dixon, flash
BSD vs GPL is a sweeping epic, focused on the dichotomy between good and evil. It peers inside the hearts and minds of the creators of these movements and dissects their battle for world domination. No common documentary will dare to follow the path that BSD vs GPL blazes. This presentation was given by Jason Dixon at the NYC BSD Conference at Columbia University on October 11, 2008
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMmbjJI5su0

YouTube bsdconferences channel - FreeBSD, Protecting Privacy with Tor - Flash

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD, Protecting Privacy with Tor - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2007, freebsd, tor, privacy, christian bruffer, flash
"Protecting your Privacy with FreeBSD and Tor", Christian Brffer at MeetBSD 2007 in Warsaw, Poland.
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwBh8ro7xHQ

YouTube bsdconferences channel - Detangling and debugging - Flash

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Detangling and debugging - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2007, debugging, philip paeps, flash
"Detangling and debugging: friends in unexpected places", Philip Paeps at MeetBSD 2007 in Warsaw, Poland.
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Fm8mgPyDc

YouTube bsdconferences channel - PC-BSD: FreeBSD on the Desktop - Flash

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

PC-BSD: FreeBSD on the Desktop - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2007, pc-bsd, matt olander, flash
"PC-BSD: FreeBSD on the Desktop", Matt Olander at MeetBSD 2007 in Warsaw, Poland.
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC4gsipGfQU

YouTube bsdconferences channel - Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability, Brooks Davis, MeetBSD 2008 - Flash

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability, Brooks Davis, MeetBSD 2008 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2008, cluster, performance, brooks davis, flash
Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability by Brooks Davis, The Aerospace Corporation, MeetBSD November 15, 2008
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uBFLJm7IHc

YouTube bsdconferences channel - FreeBSD Foundation Update & Recognition, MeetBSD 2008 - Flash

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Foundation Update & Recognition, MeetBSD 2008 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2008, freebsd foundation, robert watson, flash
Robert Watson provides a status update on the non-profit FreeBSD Foundation at MeetBSD November 16, 2008
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNQ2d41Vn2A

YouTube bsdconferences channel - FreeBSD Profiling, Kris Kennaway, MeetBSD 2008 - Flash

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Profiling, Kris Kennaway, MeetBSD 2008 - Flash
From: YouTube bsdconferences channel
Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2008, freebsd, profiling, kris kennaway, flash
FreeBSD Profiling tools, tips and tricks, Kris Kennaway, MeetBSD 2008
clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfb5_uG7BCA

bsdtalk - Asterisk Open Source Community Director John Todd - MP3 version

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

Asterisk Open Source Community Director John Todd - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, john todd, asterisk, openbsd, mp3
An interview with Asterisk Open Source Community Director John Todd, who also happens to be a user of BSD. We talk about Asterisk on BSD, and his choice of OpenBSD for his systems.

bsdtalk - Asterisk Open Source Community Director John Todd - Ogg version

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

Asterisk Open Source Community Director John Todd - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, john todd, asterisk, openbsd, ogg
An interview with Asterisk Open Source Community Director John Todd, who also happens to be a user of BSD. We talk about Asterisk on BSD, and his choice of OpenBSD for his systems.

Hostobzor, the Russian conference of hosting provider - Server deployment in mass-hosting environment using FreeBSD Ports system by Stanislav Sedov (in russian) - PDF version

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

Server deployment in mass-hosting environment using FreeBSD Ports system by Stanislav Sedov (in russian) - PDF version
From: Hostobzor, the Russian conference of hosting provider
Tags: hostobzor, hostobzor12, freebsd, ports, stanislav sedov, russian, paper, pdf

Recently I have been attending Hostobzor 12th, the Russian conference of hosting providers, beeing held at Raivola hotel near St. Petersburg. The event was great as always thanks to organizers. There was a number of intersting talks given, a lot of interesting discussions held, and, what I appreciate better, a lot of new people with great ideas met.

I gave a talk on using the FreeBSD Ports system to mange a large-scale virtual hosting installations based on Hosting Telesystems experience. I tried to describe in detail how we use the ports collection to deploy a large number of servers diverced by architecture and OS versions, how we build packages and distribute them among servers, talked about how we use Mercurial VCS to incrementally merge upstream changes into our modified ports collection and FreeBSD src trees. Hopefully, I've not screwed it much... At least, some people was interested a lot and asked interesting questions.

Hostobzor, the Russian conference of hosting provider - Server deployment in mass-hosting environment using FreeBSD Ports system by Stanislav Sedov (in russian) - PDF version

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Adrian Chadd: High-throughput concurrent disk IO in FreeBSD.

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Adrian Chadd: High-throughput concurrent disk IO in FreeBSD.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, pdf, freebsd, high performance, adrian chadd
Slides of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Metthew Dillon: The HAMMER File System.

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Metthew Dillon: The HAMMER File System.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, html, hammer, metthew dillon
Slides of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Anders Magnusson: Design and Implementation of the Portable C Compiler.

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Anders Magnusson: Design and Implementation of the Portable C Compiler.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, pdf, pcc, anders magnusson
Slides of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Kurt Miller: OpenBSD's Position Independent Executables (PIE) Implementation.

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Kurt Miller: OpenBSD's Position Independent Executables (PIE) Implementation.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, html, openbsd, pie, kurt miller
Slides of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Mike Silbersack: Detecting TCP regressions with tcpdiff.

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Mike Silbersack: Detecting TCP regressions with tcpdiff.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, pdf, tcp regression, tcpdiff, mike silbersack
Slides of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Jason L Wright: When Hardware Is Wrong, or "They can Fix It In Software".

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Jason L Wright: When Hardware Is Wrong, or "They can Fix It In Software".
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, pdf, hardware, jason l wright
Slides of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Julio M. Merino Vidal: An introduction to the Automated Testing Framework (ATF) for NetBSD.

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Julio M. Merino Vidal: An introduction to the Automated Testing Framework (ATF) for NetBSD.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, pdf, netbsd, atf, julio m merino vidal
Slides of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008.

bsdtalk - Julian Elischer - MP3 version

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

Julian Elischer - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, julian elischer, ironport, mp3
An interview with Julian Elischer at MeetBSD in California. We talk about his early days with BSD and his work using BSD at various companies. He is currently with IronPort, which was bought by Cisco.

bsdtalk - Julian Elischer - Ogg version

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

Julian Elischer - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, julian elischer, ironport, ogg
An interview with Julian Elischer at MeetBSD in California. We talk about his early days with BSD and his work using BSD at various companies. He is currently with IronPort, which was bought by Cisco.

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - FreeBSD Network Stack Performance - Optimizations for Modern Hardware by Robert Watson

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - FreeBSD Network Stack Performance - Optimizations for Modern Hardware by Robert Watson
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2008, freebsd, presentations, robert watson, network stack performance, modern hardware, pdf
MeetBSD 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to celebrate FreeBSD's 15th Anniversary!

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability by Brooks Davis

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability by Brooks Davis
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2008, freebsd, presentations, brooks davis, cluster, pdf
MeetBSD 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to celebrate FreeBSD's 15th Anniversary!

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - Embedding FreeBSD by M. Warner Losh

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - Embedding FreeBSD by M. Warner Losh
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2008, freebsd, presentations, warner losh, embedding freebsd, pdf
MeetBSD 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to celebrate FreeBSD's 15th Anniversary!

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - BSD Certification by Dru Lavigne

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - BSD Certification by Dru Lavigne
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2008, freebsd, presentations, dru lavigne, bsd certification, pdf
MeetBSD 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to celebrate FreeBSD's 15th Anniversary!

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - PC-BSD 7 - A Developer's Perspective by Kris Moore

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - PC-BSD 7 - A Developer's Perspective by Kris Moore
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2008, freebsd, presentations, kris moore, pc-bsd, pdf
MeetBSD 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to celebrate FreeBSD's 15th Anniversary!

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - A closer look at the ZFS file system by Pawel Jakub Dawidek

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - A closer look at the ZFS file system by Pawel Jakub Dawidek
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2008, freebsd, presentations, pawel jakub dawidek, zfs, pdf
MeetBSD 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to celebrate FreeBSD's 15th Anniversary!

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - FreeBSD Foundation Update & Recognition by Robert Watson

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - FreeBSD Foundation Update & Recognition by Robert Watson
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2008, freebsd, presentations, robert watsom, freebsd foundation, pdf
MeetBSD 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to celebrate FreeBSD's 15th Anniversary!

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - Crypto Acceleration by Philip Paeps

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - Crypto Acceleration by Philip Paeps
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2008, freebsd, presentations, philip paeps, crypto acecelaration, pdf
MeetBSD 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to celebrate FreeBSD's 15th Anniversary!

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - Isilon and FreeBSD by Zach Loafman

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - Isilon and FreeBSD by Zach Loafman
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2008, freebsd, presentations, zach loafman, isilon, pdf
MeetBSD 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to celebrate FreeBSD's 15th Anniversary!

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - "Help, my system is slow!" Profiling tools, tips and tricks by Kris Kennaway

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation - "Help, my system is slow!" Profiling tools, tips and tricks by Kris Kennaway
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2008, freebsd, presentations, kris kennaway, profiling, pdf
MeetBSD 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to celebrate FreeBSD's 15th Anniversary!

OpenBSD - OpenBSD 4.4 Release Song - "Source Wars - Episode IV - Trial of the BSD Knights" - MP3 version

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD 4.4 Release Song - "Source Wars - Episode IV - Trial of the BSD Knights" - MP3 version
From: OpenBSD
Tags: openbsd, artwork, mp3

Nearly 10 years ago Kirk McKusick wrote a history of the Berkeley Unix distributions for the O'Reilly book "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution". We recommend you read his story, entitled "Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable" first, to see how Kirk remembers how we got here. Sadly, since it showed up in book form originally, this text has probably not been read by enough people.

The USL(AT&T) vs BSDI/UCB court case settlement documents were not public until recently; their disclosure has made the facts more clear. But the story of how three people decided to free the BSD codebase of corporate pollution -- and release it freely -- is more interesting than the lawsuit which followed. Sure, a stupid lawsuit happened which hindered the acceptance of the BSD code during a critical period. But how did a bunch of guys go through the effort of replacing so much AT&T code in the first place? After all, companies had lots of really evil lawyers back then too -- were they not afraid?

After a decade of development, most of the AT&T code had already been replaced by university researchers and their associates. So Keith Bostic, Mike Karels and Kirk McKusick (the main UCB CSRG group) started going through the 4.3BSD codebase to cleanse the rest. Keith, in particular, built a ragtag team (in those days, USENIX conferences were a gold mine for such team building) and led these rebels to rewrite and replace all the Imperial AT&T code, piece by piece, starting with the libraries and userland programs. Anyone who helped only got credit as a Contributor -- people like Chris Torek and a cast of .. hundreds more.

Then Mike and Kirk purified the kernel. After a bit more careful checking, this led to the release of a clean tree called Net/2 which was given to the world in June 1991 -- the largest dump of free source code the world had ever received (for those days -- not modern monsters like OpenOffice).

Some of these ragtags formed a company (BSDi) to sell a production system based on this free code base, and a year later Unix System Laboratories (basically AT&T) sued BSDi and UCB. Eventually AT&T lost and after a few trifling fixes (described in the lawsuit documents) the codebase was free. A few newer developments (and more free code) were added, and released in June 1994 as 4.4BSD-Lite. Just over 14 years later OpenBSD is releasing its own 4.4 release (and for a lot less than $1000 per copy).

The OpenBSD 4.4 release is dedicated to Keith Bostic, Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, and all of those who contributed to making Net/2 and 4.4BSD-Lite free.

OpenBSD - OpenBSD 4.4 Release Song - "Source Wars - Episode IV - Trial of the BSD Knights" - Ogg version

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD 4.4 Release Song - "Source Wars - Episode IV - Trial of the BSD Knights" - Ogg version
From: OpenBSD
Tags: openbsd, artwork, ogg

The OpenBSD 4.4 release is dedicated to Keith Bostic, Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, and all of those who contributed to making Net/2 and 4.4BSD-Lite free.

bsdtalk - At MeetBSD with some of the FreeBSD Core Team - MP3 version

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

At MeetBSD with some of the FreeBSD Core Team - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd core team, meetbsd2008, meetbsd, robert watson, brooks davis, kris kennaway, peter wemm, philip paeps, freebsd, subversion, mp3
A conversation with some of the FreeBSD Core Team at MeetBSD California 2008. I speak with Brooks Davis, Kris Kennaway, Robert Watson, Peter Wemm, and Philip Paeps about the recent core team election, FreeBSD 7.1 and 8, Developer Summits, and the move to Subversion.

bsdtalk - At MeetBSD with some of the FreeBSD Core Team - Ogg version

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

At MeetBSD with some of the FreeBSD Core Team - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd core team, meetbsd2008, meetbsd, robert watson, brooks davis, kris kennaway, peter wemm, philip paeps, freebsd, subversion, ogg
A conversation with some of the FreeBSD Core Team at MeetBSD California 2008. I speak with Brooks Davis, Kris Kennaway, Robert Watson, Peter Wemm, and Philip Paeps about the recent core team election, FreeBSD 7.1 and 8, Developer Summits, and the move to Subversion.

bsdtalk - A Tour of iXsystems - MP3 version

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

A Tour of iXsystems - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ixsystems, mp3
A brief description of my visit to iXsystems in California prior to MeetBSD 2008.

bsdtalk - A Tour of iXsystems - Ogg version

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

A Tour of iXsystems - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ixsystems, ogg
A brief description of my visit to iXsystems in California prior to MeetBSD 2008.

New York City *BSD User Group - Hardware Performance Monitoring Counters - MP3 version

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

Hardware Performance Monitoring Counters - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, george neville-neil, counters, mp3

Many modern CPUs provide on chip counters for performance events such as retiring instructions and cache misses. The hwpmc driver and libraries in FreeBSD give systems administrators and programmers access to APIs which make it possible to measure performance without modifying source code and with minimal intrusion into application execution. This talk will be a brief introduction to HWPMC, and how to use it.

Bio: George Neville-Neil is the co-author with Kirk McKusick of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System. He works on networking an operating systems for fun and profit.

bsdtalk - BSD on a eeePC 900A - MP3 version

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

BSD on a eeePC 900A - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, eeepc, mp3
I look forward to attending MeetBSD this weekend.
A brief description of my first attempts to get BSD on a eeePC 900A. I try OpenBSD 4.4, DragonFlyBSD 2.0.1, PC-BSD 7.0.1, and FreeBSD 7.

bsdtalk - BSD on a eeePC 900A - Ogg version

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

BSD on a eeePC 900A - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, eeepc, ogg
I look forward to attending MeetBSD this weekend.
A brief description of my first attempts to get BSD on a eeePC 900A. I try OpenBSD 4.4, DragonFlyBSD 2.0.1, PC-BSD 7.0.1, and FreeBSD 7.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 Keynote - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking code - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 Keynote - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking code - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, george neville-neil, ogg
EuroBSDCon 2008 Keynote - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking code

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 Keynote - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking code - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 Keynote - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking code - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, george neville-neil, mp3
EuroBSDCon 2008 Keynote - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking code

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 Keynote - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking code - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 Keynote - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking code - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, george neville-neil, pdf
EuroBSDCon 2008 Keynote - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking code

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Matthieu Herrb - Input handling in wscons and X.Org - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Matthieu Herrb - Input handling in wscons and X.Org - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, wscons, x.org, matthieu herrb, ogg
This talk will present the different layers that handle input, from the key that gets pressed or the mouse motion to the applications, all the way through the kernel drivers, X drivers and libraries, in the case of the OpenBSD/NetBSD wscons driver and the current and future X.Org server. It will cover stuff like keyboard mappings, touch-screen calibration, multi-pointer X or input coordinates transformations. It will show some problems of current implementations and try to show how current evolutions can solve them.
Matthieu Herrb is maintaing X on OpenBSD. I've been using X on various systems (SunOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X,...) since 1989. He has been a member of the XFree86 Core Team for a short period in 2003 and is now a member of the X.Org Foundation BoD. Matthieu Herrb works at LAAS a research laborarory of the French National Research Agency (CNRS) both on robotics and network security.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Matthieu Herrb - Input handling in wscons and X.Org - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Matthieu Herrb - Input handling in wscons and X.Org - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, wscons, x.org, matthieu herrb, mp3
This talk will present the different layers that handle input, from the key that gets pressed or the mouse motion to the applications, all the way through the kernel drivers, X drivers and libraries, in the case of the OpenBSD/NetBSD wscons driver and the current and future X.Org server. It will cover stuff like keyboard mappings, touch-screen calibration, multi-pointer X or input coordinates transformations. It will show some problems of current implementations and try to show how current evolutions can solve them.
Matthieu Herrb is maintaing X on OpenBSD. I've been using X on various systems (SunOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X,...) since 1989. He has been a member of the XFree86 Core Team for a short period in 2003 and is now a member of the X.Org Foundation BoD. Matthieu Herrb works at LAAS a research laborarory of the French National Research Agency (CNRS) both on robotics and network security.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Matthieu Herrb - Input handling in wscons and X.Org - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Matthieu Herrb - Input handling in wscons and X.Org - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, wscons, x.org, matthieu herrb, pdf
This talk will present the different layers that handle input, from the key that gets pressed or the mouse motion to the applications, all the way through the kernel drivers, X drivers and libraries, in the case of the OpenBSD/NetBSD wscons driver and the current and future X.Org server. It will cover stuff like keyboard mappings, touch-screen calibration, multi-pointer X or input coordinates transformations. It will show some problems of current implementations and try to show how current evolutions can solve them.
Matthieu Herrb is maintaing X on OpenBSD. I've been using X on various systems (SunOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X,...) since 1989. He has been a member of the XFree86 Core Team for a short period in 2003 and is now a member of the X.Org Foundation BoD. Matthieu Herrb works at LAAS a research laborarory of the French National Research Agency (CNRS) both on robotics and network security.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Martin Schuette - Improved NetBSD Syslogd - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Martin Schuette - Improved NetBSD Syslogd - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, netbsd, syslogd, martin schuette, ogg
Martin Schuette has three main goals, defined by three internet drafts to implement:

TLS transport is the most obvious improvement: it provides a reliable network transport with data encryption and peer authentication. To make full use of this a buffering mechanism to bridge temporary network errors is implemented as well.
Syslog-protocol extends the message format to use a complete timestamp, include a fully qualified domain name, and allow UTF-8 messages. It also offers a structured data field to unambiguously encode application dependent information.
Syslog-sign will allow any syslog sender to digitally sign its messages, so their integrity can be verified later. This enable the detection of loss, deletion or other manipulation syslog data after network transfer or archiving on storage media.

Martin Schuette is a student of computer science in Potsdam, Germany, and has been working as a part-time system administrator for BSD servers since 2004.
In 2007 Martin Schuette already gave a talk on Syslog at the Chemnitze Linux-Tage (http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2007/vortraege/detail.html?idx=547 in german; for a newer english version see these slides for a seminar talk: http://fara.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~mschuett/uni/syslog-protocols-080522.pdf).

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Martin Schuette - Improved NetBSD Syslogd - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Martin Schuette - Improved NetBSD Syslogd - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, netbsd, syslogd, martin schuette, mp3
Martin Schuette has three main goals, defined by three internet drafts to implement:

TLS transport is the most obvious improvement: it provides a reliable network transport with data encryption and peer authentication. To make full use of this a buffering mechanism to bridge temporary network errors is implemented as well.
Syslog-protocol extends the message format to use a complete timestamp, include a fully qualified domain name, and allow UTF-8 messages. It also offers a structured data field to unambiguously encode application dependent information.
Syslog-sign will allow any syslog sender to digitally sign its messages, so their integrity can be verified later. This enable the detection of loss, deletion or other manipulation syslog data after network transfer or archiving on storage media.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Martin Schuette - Improved NetBSD Syslogd - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Martin Schuette - Improved NetBSD Syslogd - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, netbsd, syslogd, martin schuette, pdf
Martin Schuette has three main goals, defined by three internet drafts to implement:

TLS transport is the most obvious improvement: it provides a reliable network transport with data encryption and peer authentication. To make full use of this a buffering mechanism to bridge temporary network errors is implemented as well.
Syslog-protocol extends the message format to use a complete timestamp, include a fully qualified domain name, and allow UTF-8 messages. It also offers a structured data field to unambiguously encode application dependent information.
Syslog-sign will allow any syslog sender to digitally sign its messages, so their integrity can be verified later. This enable the detection of loss, deletion or other manipulation syslog data after network transfer or archiving on storage media.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Michael Dexter - Zen and the Art of Multiplicity Maintenance: An applied survey of BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies from chroot to mult - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Michael Dexter - Zen and the Art of Multiplicity Maintenance: An applied survey of BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies from chroot to mult - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, bsd, michael dexter, ogg
Many BSD-licensed strategies of various levels of maturity exist to implement multiplicity, herein defined as the introduction of plurality to traditionally singular computing environments via isolation, virtualization, or other method. For example, the chroot utility introduces an additional isolated root execution environment within that of the host; or an emulator provides highly-isolated virtual systems that can run complete native or foreign operating systems. Motivations for multiplicity vary, but a demonstrable desire exists for users to obtain root or run a foreign binary or operating system. We propose a hands-on survey of portable and integrated BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies applicable to the FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD and NetBSD operating systems on the i386 architecture. We will also address three oft-coupled disciplines: software storage devices, the installation of operating system and userlands in multiplicity environments plus the management of select multiplicity environments. Finally we will comment on each strategies potential limits of isolation, compatibility, independence and potential overhead in comparison to traditional systems. Keywords: multiplicity, virtualization, chroot, jail, hypervisor, xen, compat.
Michael Dexter has used Unix systems since 1991 and BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies for over five years. He is the Program Manager at the BSD Fund and Project Manager of the BSD.lv Project.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Michael Dexter - Zen and the Art of Multiplicity Maintenance: An applied survey of BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies from chroot to mult - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Michael Dexter - Zen and the Art of Multiplicity Maintenance: An applied survey of BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies from chroot to mult - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, bsd, michael dexter, mp3
Many BSD-licensed strategies of various levels of maturity exist to implement multiplicity, herein defined as the introduction of plurality to traditionally singular computing environments via isolation, virtualization, or other method. For example, the chroot utility introduces an additional isolated root execution environment within that of the host; or an emulator provides highly-isolated virtual systems that can run complete native or foreign operating systems. Motivations for multiplicity vary, but a demonstrable desire exists for users to obtain root or run a foreign binary or operating system. We propose a hands-on survey of portable and integrated BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies applicable to the FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD and NetBSD operating systems on the i386 architecture. We will also address three oft-coupled disciplines: software storage devices, the installation of operating system and userlands in multiplicity environments plus the management of select multiplicity environments. Finally we will comment on each strategies potential limits of isolation, compatibility, independence and potential overhead in comparison to traditional systems. Keywords: multiplicity, virtualization, chroot, jail, hypervisor, xen, compat.
Michael Dexter has used Unix systems since 1991 and BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies for over five years. He is the Program Manager at the BSD Fund and Project Manager of the BSD.lv Project.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Michael Dexter - Zen and the Art of Multiplicity Maintenance: An applied survey of BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies from chroot to mult - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Michael Dexter - Zen and the Art of Multiplicity Maintenance: An applied survey of BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies from chroot to mult - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, bsd, michael dexter, pdf
Many BSD-licensed strategies of various levels of maturity exist to implement multiplicity, herein defined as the introduction of plurality to traditionally singular computing environments via isolation, virtualization, or other method. For example, the chroot utility introduces an additional isolated root execution environment within that of the host; or an emulator provides highly-isolated virtual systems that can run complete native or foreign operating systems. Motivations for multiplicity vary, but a demonstrable desire exists for users to obtain root or run a foreign binary or operating system. We propose a hands-on survey of portable and integrated BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies applicable to the FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD and NetBSD operating systems on the i386 architecture. We will also address three oft-coupled disciplines: software storage devices, the installation of operating system and userlands in multiplicity environments plus the management of select multiplicity environments. Finally we will comment on each strategies potential limits of isolation, compatibility, independence and potential overhead in comparison to traditional systems. Keywords: multiplicity, virtualization, chroot, jail, hypervisor, xen, compat.
Michael Dexter has used Unix systems since 1991 and BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies for over five years. He is the Program Manager at the BSD Fund and Project Manager of the BSD.lv Project.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Four years of summer of code - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Four years of summer of code - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, google soc, george neville-neil, ogg
The Google Summer of Code is a program designed to provide students with real world experience contributing to open source projects during the summer break in university studies. Each year Google selects a number of open source projects to act as mentoring organizations. Students are invited to submit project proposals for the open source projects that are most interesting to them. FreeBSD was one of the projects selected to participate in the inaugural Summer of Code in 2005 and we have participated each year since then. Over the past 4 years a total of 79 students have participated in the program and it has become a very significant source of new committers to FreeBSD. This talk will examine in detail the selection criteria for projects, the impact that successful projects have had, and some suggestions for how we can better leverage this program in the future.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Four years of summer of code - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Four years of summer of code - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, google soc, george neville-neil, mp3
The Google Summer of Code is a program designed to provide students with real world experience contributing to open source projects during the summer break in university studies. Each year Google selects a number of open source projects to act as mentoring organizations. Students are invited to submit project proposals for the open source projects that are most interesting to them. FreeBSD was one of the projects selected to participate in the inaugural Summer of Code in 2005 and we have participated each year since then. Over the past 4 years a total of 79 students have participated in the program and it has become a very significant source of new committers to FreeBSD. This talk will examine in detail the selection criteria for projects, the impact that successful projects have had, and some suggestions for how we can better leverage this program in the future.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Four years of summer of code - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Four years of summer of code - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, google soc, george neville-neil, pdf
The Google Summer of Code is a program designed to provide students with real world experience contributing to open source projects during the summer break in university studies. Each year Google selects a number of open source projects to act as mentoring organizations. Students are invited to submit project proposals for the open source projects that are most interesting to them. FreeBSD was one of the projects selected to participate in the inaugural Summer of Code in 2005 and we have participated each year since then. Over the past 4 years a total of 79 students have participated in the program and it has become a very significant source of new committers to FreeBSD. This talk will examine in detail the selection criteria for projects, the impact that successful projects have had, and some suggestions for how we can better leverage this program in the future.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Pedro Giffuni - Working with Engineering Applications in FreeBSD - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Pedro Giffuni - Working with Engineering Applications in FreeBSD - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, engineering applications, pedro giffuni, ogg
In recent years, traditional branches of engineering like Civil, Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical and Industrial Engineering are requiring extensive computing facilities for their needs. Several well known labs (Sandia, Lawrence Livermore) rely on huge clusters to do all types of complex analysis that were unthinkable a couple of decades ago. While the free BSD variants share the environment with traditional UNIX systems, frequently used for such computations, it was not common to find adequate free software packages to carry complex calculations. Eventually commercial versions of important math related packages started to appear for the Linux platform. Even when the big packages were distant, the BSDs learned and adapted in resourceful ways: Matlab and Mathematica, running under Linux emulation, demanded functionality from the BSDs and NetBSD implemented a signal trampoline to be able to run AutoCAD with IRIX binary compatibility. A notable project that was always available under a free license was Berkeley's Spice circuit analysis program, however it was an exception rather than the rule. Even when the scientific community pressed for a while to get other important tools like NASA's FEA package Nastran under a free license, the objective of being able to access and enhance open scientific tools was elusive. About a decade ago the situation started to improve: FreeBSD's ports system started growing exponentially, first with a high content in the math category, afterwards with a CAD section and after sustained growth in those categories a science section was created. This growth was mostly pushed by Universities and their research projects and in general are not well known with respect to the commercial counterparts. I started porting math/engineering code for FreeBSD around 1996. Back then it was absolutely unthinkable for a Mechanical Engineer to depend only on FreeBSD for it's daily work. The situation nowadays is different: there are some very high quality engineering analysis packages like EDF's Code Aster, with more than 12 years of professional development, that just can't be ignored. A Finite Element package, like Code Aster, can easily cost 5000 US$, is priced according to the maximum problem size it can solve, can require yearly licenses, and is rarely available with source code. In NASTRAN's case the source code is only available for US citizens under a yearly fee. Free software does have serious limitations though; just like in office applications there are proprietary CAD formats or sometimes the package simply doesn't have the required functionality. Having the sources, of course, always has the advantage of being able to implement (or pay for) some specific functionality you might need. Many commercial packages have been recently ported to Linux, but even when they gain some of the advantages of an open environment they still have yet another limitation: they have been very slow to make use of the multicored features of the new processors in the market, a huge limitation now that the speed war between processors has been limited by the overheating problem. The objective of the talk is to give an overview of several CAD/CAE packages that have been made available recently as part of FreeBSD's ports system and the decisions that were made to port them. BRLCAD and Varkon are two CAD utilities that made a transition from closed source to an open environment and in the process in the process of getting ported to BSD have gained greater portability and general "bug" fixes critical for their consolidation as usable and maintainable projects. There are also some tricks that have not been well documented: it is possible to enable threads and some extra optimizations on some packages, and it is also possible to replace the standard BLAS library with the faster GOTO BLAS without rebuilding the package. It is also possible to build the packages optimized for a clustered environment, but perhaps what is most interesting of all is how all the packages interrelate with each other and can turn FreeBSD into a complete enginering environment. No OS distribution so far is offering all the engineering specific utilities offered through FreeBSD's ports system: from design to visualization, passing through analysis FreeBSD is becoming an option that can't be ignored, and best of all, it is an effort that will benefit not only FreeBSD but the wider audience.
Pedro F. Giffuni M. Sc. Industrial Engineering - University of Pittsburgh Mechanical Engineer - Universidad Nacional de Colombia I was born in Bogota, Colombia but I am an Italian citizen. My experience with computers started when I was about 12 years old With the TRS-80 Color Computer first using Basic and the OS-9. I studied electronics for 3 years but became tired of worrying about "whatever happened to electrons in there" and moved to Mechanical Engineering. For a while I rested from the computer world until the Internet came stepping along. I started using FreeBSD around 1995 and soon fell in love with the idea of being able to install a complete version of UNIX from the net with just one floppy. After submitting a the 999th port to the FreeBSD project Walnut Creek was kind enough to give me a subscription for several years to FreeBSD's CD-ROM. Since then I've been on and off porting software packages or fixing the bugs I have caused while porting them. Of course there has always been great respect for the other BSDs and their wonderful license and while I've given up on the idea of one day seeing a "UnifiedBSD" I am glad to see different approaches sharing ideas in a healthful environment.
Keywords: BSD, engineering, CAE, CAD, math, mechanical, FreeBSD ports

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Pedro Giffuni - Working with Engineering Applications in FreeBSD - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Pedro Giffuni - Working with Engineering Applications in FreeBSD - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, engineering applications, pedro giffuni, mp3
In recent years, traditional branches of engineering like Civil, Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical and Industrial Engineering are requiring extensive computing facilities for their needs. Several well known labs (Sandia, Lawrence Livermore) rely on huge clusters to do all types of complex analysis that were unthinkable a couple of decades ago. While the free BSD variants share the environment with traditional UNIX systems, frequently used for such computations, it was not common to find adequate free software packages to carry complex calculations. Eventually commercial versions of important math related packages started to appear for the Linux platform. Even when the big packages were distant, the BSDs learned and adapted in resourceful ways: Matlab and Mathematica, running under Linux emulation, demanded functionality from the BSDs and NetBSD implemented a signal trampoline to be able to run AutoCAD with IRIX binary compatibility. A notable project that was always available under a free license was Berkeley's Spice circuit analysis program, however it was an exception rather than the rule. Even when the scientific community pressed for a while to get other important tools like NASA's FEA package Nastran under a free license, the objective of being able to access and enhance open scientific tools was elusive. About a decade ago the situation started to improve: FreeBSD's ports system started growing exponentially, first with a high content in the math category, afterwards with a CAD section and after sustained growth in those categories a science section was created. This growth was mostly pushed by Universities and their research projects and in general are not well known with respect to the commercial counterparts. I started porting math/engineering code for FreeBSD around 1996. Back then it was absolutely unthinkable for a Mechanical Engineer to depend only on FreeBSD for it's daily work. The situation nowadays is different: there are some very high quality engineering analysis packages like EDF's Code Aster, with more than 12 years of professional development, that just can't be ignored. A Finite Element package, like Code Aster, can easily cost 5000 US$, is priced according to the maximum problem size it can solve, can require yearly licenses, and is rarely available with source code. In NASTRAN's case the source code is only available for US citizens under a yearly fee. Free software does have serious limitations though; just like in office applications there are proprietary CAD formats or sometimes the package simply doesn't have the required functionality. Having the sources, of course, always has the advantage of being able to implement (or pay for) some specific functionality you might need. Many commercial packages have been recently ported to Linux, but even when they gain some of the advantages of an open environment they still have yet another limitation: they have been very slow to make use of the multicored features of the new processors in the market, a huge limitation now that the speed war between processors has been limited by the overheating problem. The objective of the talk is to give an overview of several CAD/CAE packages that have been made available recently as part of FreeBSD's ports system and the decisions that were made to port them. BRLCAD and Varkon are two CAD utilities that made a transition from closed source to an open environment and in the process in the process of getting ported to BSD have gained greater portability and general "bug" fixes critical for their consolidation as usable and maintainable projects. There are also some tricks that have not been well documented: it is possible to enable threads and some extra optimizations on some packages, and it is also possible to replace the standard BLAS library with the faster GOTO BLAS without rebuilding the package. It is also possible to build the packages optimized for a clustered environment, but perhaps what is most interesting of all is how all the packages interrelate with each other and can turn FreeBSD into a complete enginering environment. No OS distribution so far is offering all the engineering specific utilities offered through FreeBSD's ports system: from design to visualization, passing through analysis FreeBSD is becoming an option that can't be ignored, and best of all, it is an effort that will benefit not only FreeBSD but the wider audience.
Pedro F. Giffuni M. Sc. Industrial Engineering - University of Pittsburgh Mechanical Engineer - Universidad Nacional de Colombia I was born in Bogota, Colombia but I am an Italian citizen. My experience with computers started when I was about 12 years old With the TRS-80 Color Computer first using Basic and the OS-9. I studied electronics for 3 years but became tired of worrying about "whatever happened to electrons in there" and moved to Mechanical Engineering. For a while I rested from the computer world until the Internet came stepping along. I started using FreeBSD around 1995 and soon fell in love with the idea of being able to install a complete version of UNIX from the net with just one floppy. After submitting a the 999th port to the FreeBSD project Walnut Creek was kind enough to give me a subscription for several years to FreeBSD's CD-ROM. Since then I've been on and off porting software packages or fixing the bugs I have caused while porting them. Of course there has always been great respect for the other BSDs and their wonderful license and while I've given up on the idea of one day seeing a "UnifiedBSD" I am glad to see different approaches sharing ideas in a healthful environment.
Keywords: BSD, engineering, CAE, CAD, math, mechanical, FreeBSD ports

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Pedro Giffuni - Working with Engineering Applications in FreeBSD - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Pedro Giffuni - Working with Engineering Applications in FreeBSD - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, engineering applications, pedro giffuni, pdf
In recent years, traditional branches of engineering like Civil, Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical and Industrial Engineering are requiring extensive computing facilities for their needs. Several well known labs (Sandia, Lawrence Livermore) rely on huge clusters to do all types of complex analysis that were unthinkable a couple of decades ago. While the free BSD variants share the environment with traditional UNIX systems, frequently used for such computations, it was not common to find adequate free software packages to carry complex calculations. Eventually commercial versions of important math related packages started to appear for the Linux platform. Even when the big packages were distant, the BSDs learned and adapted in resourceful ways: Matlab and Mathematica, running under Linux emulation, demanded functionality from the BSDs and NetBSD implemented a signal trampoline to be able to run AutoCAD with IRIX binary compatibility. A notable project that was always available under a free license was Berkeley's Spice circuit analysis program, however it was an exception rather than the rule. Even when the scientific community pressed for a while to get other important tools like NASA's FEA package Nastran under a free license, the objective of being able to access and enhance open scientific tools was elusive. About a decade ago the situation started to improve: FreeBSD's ports system started growing exponentially, first with a high content in the math category, afterwards with a CAD section and after sustained growth in those categories a science section was created. This growth was mostly pushed by Universities and their research projects and in general are not well known with respect to the commercial counterparts. I started porting math/engineering code for FreeBSD around 1996. Back then it was absolutely unthinkable for a Mechanical Engineer to depend only on FreeBSD for it's daily work. The situation nowadays is different: there are some very high quality engineering analysis packages like EDF's Code Aster, with more than 12 years of professional development, that just can't be ignored. A Finite Element package, like Code Aster, can easily cost 5000 US$, is priced according to the maximum problem size it can solve, can require yearly licenses, and is rarely available with source code. In NASTRAN's case the source code is only available for US citizens under a yearly fee. Free software does have serious limitations though; just like in office applications there are proprietary CAD formats or sometimes the package simply doesn't have the required functionality. Having the sources, of course, always has the advantage of being able to implement (or pay for) some specific functionality you might need. Many commercial packages have been recently ported to Linux, but even when they gain some of the advantages of an open environment they still have yet another limitation: they have been very slow to make use of the multicored features of the new processors in the market, a huge limitation now that the speed war between processors has been limited by the overheating problem. The objective of the talk is to give an overview of several CAD/CAE packages that have been made available recently as part of FreeBSD's ports system and the decisions that were made to port them. BRLCAD and Varkon are two CAD utilities that made a transition from closed source to an open environment and in the process in the process of getting ported to BSD have gained greater portability and general "bug" fixes critical for their consolidation as usable and maintainable projects. There are also some tricks that have not been well documented: it is possible to enable threads and some extra optimizations on some packages, and it is also possible to replace the standard BLAS library with the faster GOTO BLAS without rebuilding the package. It is also possible to build the packages optimized for a clustered environment, but perhaps what is most interesting of all is how all the packages interrelate with each other and can turn FreeBSD into a complete enginering environment. No OS distribution so far is offering all the engineering specific utilities offered through FreeBSD's ports system: from design to visualization, passing through analysis FreeBSD is becoming an option that can't be ignored, and best of all, it is an effort that will benefit not only FreeBSD but the wider audience.
Pedro F. Giffuni M. Sc. Industrial Engineering - University of Pittsburgh Mechanical Engineer - Universidad Nacional de Colombia I was born in Bogota, Colombia but I am an Italian citizen. My experience with computers started when I was about 12 years old With the TRS-80 Color Computer first using Basic and the OS-9. I studied electronics for 3 years but became tired of worrying about "whatever happened to electrons in there" and moved to Mechanical Engineering. For a while I rested from the computer world until the Internet came stepping along. I started using FreeBSD around 1995 and soon fell in love with the idea of being able to install a complete version of UNIX from the net with just one floppy. After submitting a the 999th port to the FreeBSD project Walnut Creek was kind enough to give me a subscription for several years to FreeBSD's CD-ROM. Since then I've been on and off porting software packages or fixing the bugs I have caused while porting them. Of course there has always been great respect for the other BSDs and their wonderful license and while I've given up on the idea of one day seeing a "UnifiedBSD" I am glad to see different approaches sharing ideas in a healthful environment.
Keywords: BSD, engineering, CAE, CAD, math, mechanical, FreeBSD ports

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Multicast Performance in FreeBSD - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Multicast Performance in FreeBSD - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, multicast, freebsd, george neville-neil, ogg
In the past ten years most of the research in network protocols has gone into TCP, leaving UDP to languish as a local configuration protocol. While the majority of Internet traffic is TCP, UDP remains the only IP protocol that works over multicast and as such has some specific, and interesting uses in some areas of computing. In 2008 we undertook a study of the performance of UDP multicast on both 1Gbps and 10Gbps Ethernet networks in order to see if changing the physical layer of the network would give a linear decrease in packet latency. To measure the possible gains we developed a new network protocol test program, mctest, which is capable of recording packet round trip times from many hosts simultaneously and which we believe accurately represents how many environments use multicast. The mctest program has been integrated into FreeBSD and is now being used to verify the proper operation of multicast on various pieces of 10Gbps hardware.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Multicast Performance in FreeBSD - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Multicast Performance in FreeBSD - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, multicast, freebsd, george neville-neil, mp3
In the past ten years most of the research in network protocols has gone into TCP, leaving UDP to languish as a local configuration protocol. While the majority of Internet traffic is TCP, UDP remains the only IP protocol that works over multicast and as such has some specific, and interesting uses in some areas of computing. In 2008 we undertook a study of the performance of UDP multicast on both 1Gbps and 10Gbps Ethernet networks in order to see if changing the physical layer of the network would give a linear decrease in packet latency. To measure the possible gains we developed a new network protocol test program, mctest, which is capable of recording packet round trip times from many hosts simultaneously and which we believe accurately represents how many environments use multicast. The mctest program has been integrated into FreeBSD and is now being used to verify the proper operation of multicast on various pieces of 10Gbps hardware.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Multicast Performance in FreeBSD - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Multicast Performance in FreeBSD - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, multicast, freebsd, george neville-neil, pdf
In the past ten years most of the research in network protocols has gone into TCP, leaving UDP to languish as a local configuration protocol. While the majority of Internet traffic is TCP, UDP remains the only IP protocol that works over multicast and as such has some specific, and interesting uses in some areas of computing. In 2008 we undertook a study of the performance of UDP multicast on both 1Gbps and 10Gbps Ethernet networks in order to see if changing the physical layer of the network would give a linear decrease in packet latency. To measure the possible gains we developed a new network protocol test program, mctest, which is capable of recording packet round trip times from many hosts simultaneously and which we believe accurately represents how many environments use multicast. The mctest program has been integrated into FreeBSD and is now being used to verify the proper operation of multicast on various pieces of 10Gbps hardware.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Hauke Fath - Managing BSD desktop clients - Fencing in the herd - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Hauke Fath - Managing BSD desktop clients - Fencing in the herd - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, bsd, desktop, hauke fath, ogg
The members of the BSD family have traditionally prospered off the desktop, as operating systems on servers and embedded systems. The advent of MacOS X has marked a change, and moved the desktop more into focus. Modern desktop systems create a richer software landscape, with more diverse requirements, than their server counterparts. User demands, software package interdependencies and frequent security issues result in a change rate that can put a considerable load on the admin staff. Without central management tools, previously identical installations diverge quickly. This paper looks at concepts and strategies for managing tens to hundreds of modern, Unix-like desktop clients. The available management tools range from simple, image-based software distribution, mainly used for setting up uniform clients, to "intelligent" rule-based engines capable of search-and-replace operations on configuration files. We will briefly compare their properties and limitations, then take a closer look at Radmind, a suite for file level administration of Unix clients. Radmind has been in use in the Institute of Telecommunication at Technische Universitt Darmstadt for over three years, managing NetBSD and Debian Linux clients in the labs as well as faculty members' machines. We will explore the Radmind suite's underlying concepts and functionality. In order to see how the concept holds up, we will discuss real-world scenarios from the system life-cycle of Installation, configuration changes, security updates, component updates, and system upgrades.
Hauke Fath works as a systems administrator for the Institut fr Nachrichtentechnik (telecommunication) at Technische Universitt Darmstadt. He has been using NetBSD since 1994, when he first booted a NetBSD 1.0A kernel on a Macintosh SE/30. NetBSD helped shaping his career by causing a slow drift from application programmer's work towards systems and network administration. Hauke Fath holds a MS in Physics and became a NetBSD developer in late 2006.
Keywords: Managing Unix desktop clients, software distribution, tripwire

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Hauke Fath - Managing BSD desktop clients - Fencing in the herd - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Hauke Fath - Managing BSD desktop clients - Fencing in the herd - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, bsd, desktop, hauke fath, mp3
The members of the BSD family have traditionally prospered off the desktop, as operating systems on servers and embedded systems. The advent of MacOS X has marked a change, and moved the desktop more into focus. Modern desktop systems create a richer software landscape, with more diverse requirements, than their server counterparts. User demands, software package interdependencies and frequent security issues result in a change rate that can put a considerable load on the admin staff. Without central management tools, previously identical installations diverge quickly. This paper looks at concepts and strategies for managing tens to hundreds of modern, Unix-like desktop clients. The available management tools range from simple, image-based software distribution, mainly used for setting up uniform clients, to "intelligent" rule-based engines capable of search-and-replace operations on configuration files. We will briefly compare their properties and limitations, then take a closer look at Radmind, a suite for file level administration of Unix clients. Radmind has been in use in the Institute of Telecommunication at Technische Universitt Darmstadt for over three years, managing NetBSD and Debian Linux clients in the labs as well as faculty members' machines. We will explore the Radmind suite's underlying concepts and functionality. In order to see how the concept holds up, we will discuss real-world scenarios from the system life-cycle of Installation, configuration changes, security updates, component updates, and system upgrades.
Hauke Fath works as a systems administrator for the Institut fr Nachrichtentechnik (telecommunication) at Technische Universitt Darmstadt. He has been using NetBSD since 1994, when he first booted a NetBSD 1.0A kernel on a Macintosh SE/30. NetBSD helped shaping his career by causing a slow drift from application programmer's work towards systems and network administration. Hauke Fath holds a MS in Physics and became a NetBSD developer in late 2006.
Keywords: Managing Unix desktop clients, software distribution, tripwire

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Hauke Fath - Managing BSD desktop clients - Fencing in the herd - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Hauke Fath - Managing BSD desktop clients - Fencing in the herd - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, bsd, desktop, hauke fath, pdf
The members of the BSD family have traditionally prospered off the desktop, as operating systems on servers and embedded systems. The advent of MacOS X has marked a change, and moved the desktop more into focus. Modern desktop systems create a richer software landscape, with more diverse requirements, than their server counterparts. User demands, software package interdependencies and frequent security issues result in a change rate that can put a considerable load on the admin staff. Without central management tools, previously identical installations diverge quickly. This paper looks at concepts and strategies for managing tens to hundreds of modern, Unix-like desktop clients. The available management tools range from simple, image-based software distribution, mainly used for setting up uniform clients, to "intelligent" rule-based engines capable of search-and-replace operations on configuration files. We will briefly compare their properties and limitations, then take a closer look at Radmind, a suite for file level administration of Unix clients. Radmind has been in use in the Institute of Telecommunication at Technische Universitt Darmstadt for over three years, managing NetBSD and Debian Linux clients in the labs as well as faculty members' machines. We will explore the Radmind suite's underlying concepts and functionality. In order to see how the concept holds up, we will discuss real-world scenarios from the system life-cycle of Installation, configuration changes, security updates, component updates, and system upgrades.
Hauke Fath works as a systems administrator for the Institut fr Nachrichtentechnik (telecommunication) at Technische Universitt Darmstadt. He has been using NetBSD since 1994, when he first booted a NetBSD 1.0A kernel on a Macintosh SE/30. NetBSD helped shaping his career by causing a slow drift from application programmer's work towards systems and network administration. Hauke Fath holds a MS in Physics and became a NetBSD developer in late 2006.
Keywords: Managing Unix desktop clients, software distribution, tripwire

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Russel Sutherland - UTORvpn: A BSD based VPN service for the masses - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Russel Sutherland - UTORvpn: A BSD based VPN service for the masses - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, vpn, russel sutherland, ogg
The University of Toronto is a large educational institutional with over 70,000 students and 10,000 staff and faculty. For the past three years, we have developed and implemented a ubiquitous VPN service, based up on OpenVPN and FreeBSD. The service has over 3000 active customers, with up to 35 simultaneous users. The system supports, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista/2000 clients. Tools have been developed to create a central CA which enables users to log in to a secure server and get their customized client, certificates and configuration. The NSIS installer is used to generate the customized windows installers. Similar packages are generated for the various Unix based clients. Additional WWW/PHP based tools, have been developed to monitor and log usage of the service, using standard graphs, alarms for excessive use and a certificate revocation mechanism. The system has been integrated into the local identity management system (Kerberos/LDAP) in order to authorize and authenticate users upon initiation and per session usage. All code is Open Source and freely available.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Russel Sutherland - UTORvpn: A BSD based VPN service for the masses - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Russel Sutherland - UTORvpn: A BSD based VPN service for the masses - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, vpn, russel sutherland, mp3
The University of Toronto is a large educational institutional with over 70,000 students and 10,000 staff and faculty. For the past three years, we have developed and implemented a ubiquitous VPN service, based up on OpenVPN and FreeBSD. The service has over 3000 active customers, with up to 35 simultaneous users. The system supports, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista/2000 clients. Tools have been developed to create a central CA which enables users to log in to a secure server and get their customized client, certificates and configuration. The NSIS installer is used to generate the customized windows installers. Similar packages are generated for the various Unix based clients. Additional WWW/PHP based tools, have been developed to monitor and log usage of the service, using standard graphs, alarms for excessive use and a certificate revocation mechanism. The system has been integrated into the local identity management system (Kerberos/LDAP) in order to authorize and authenticate users upon initiation and per session usage. All code is Open Source and freely available.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Russel Sutherland - UTORvpn: A BSD based VPN service for the masses - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Russel Sutherland - UTORvpn: A BSD based VPN service for the masses - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, vpn, russel sutherland, pdf
The University of Toronto is a large educational institutional with over 70,000 students and 10,000 staff and faculty. For the past three years, we have developed and implemented a ubiquitous VPN service, based up on OpenVPN and FreeBSD. The service has over 3000 active customers, with up to 35 simultaneous users. The system supports, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista/2000 clients. Tools have been developed to create a central CA which enables users to log in to a secure server and get their customized client, certificates and configuration. The NSIS installer is used to generate the customized windows installers. Similar packages are generated for the various Unix based clients. Additional WWW/PHP based tools, have been developed to monitor and log usage of the service, using standard graphs, alarms for excessive use and a certificate revocation mechanism. The system has been integrated into the local identity management system (Kerberos/LDAP) in order to authorize and authenticate users upon initiation and per session usage. All code is Open Source and freely available.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Yvan Vanhullebus - IPSec tools: past, present and future - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Yvan Vanhullebus - IPSec tools: past, present and future - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, ipsec, yvan vanhullebus, ogg
The first part will explain what have been major changes since Manu's presentation at Bale's EuroBSDCon, including more detailed informations on changes which have a significant impact on administrator's bad habits (why the common way of doing it is bad, why it was sometimes needed in the past, how to do it the good way now, why this is far better), on both the UserLand (ipsec-tools project) and maybe in [Free|Net]BSD kernels/ IPSec stacks.
The second part will talk about the future of the project. News of the next major version (which may be out or about to be out when we'll be ate EuroBSDCon), news works which are planned or which are done but not yet public, but also news about the team: it's new members, new tools, what we would like to do in tue future, a
Yvan VANHULLEBUS works as an R&D security engineer for NETASQ since 2000, where he works on FreeBSD OS. He started to work on KAME's IPSec stack in 2001, provided many patches for various parts of the stack, then became one of the maintainers of ipsec-tools project, a fork of KAME's userland daemon. He became a NetBSD developper when ipsec-tools was migrated to NetBSD's CVS.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Yvan Vanhullebus - IPSec tools: past, present and future - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Yvan Vanhullebus - IPSec tools: past, present and future - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, ipsec, yvan vanhullebus, mp3
The first part will explain what have been major changes since Manu's presentation at Bale's EuroBSDCon, including more detailed informations on changes which have a significant impact on administrator's bad habits (why the common way of doing it is bad, why it was sometimes needed in the past, how to do it the good way now, why this is far better), on both the UserLand (ipsec-tools project) and maybe in [Free|Net]BSD kernels/ IPSec stacks.
The second part will talk about the future of the project. News of the next major version (which may be out or about to be out when we'll be ate EuroBSDCon), news works which are planned or which are done but not yet public, but also news about the team: it's new members, new tools, what we would like to do in tue future, a
Yvan VANHULLEBUS works as an R&D security engineer for NETASQ since 2000, where he works on FreeBSD OS. He started to work on KAME's IPSec stack in 2001, provided many patches for various parts of the stack, then became one of the maintainers of ipsec-tools project, a fork of KAME's userland daemon. He became a NetBSD developper when ipsec-tools was migrated to NetBSD's CVS.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Yvan Vanhullebus - IPSec tools: past, present and future - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Yvan Vanhullebus - IPSec tools: past, present and future - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, ipsec, yvan vanhullebus, pdf
The first part will explain what have been major changes since Manu's presentation at Bale's EuroBSDCon, including more detailed informations on changes which have a significant impact on administrator's bad habits (why the common way of doing it is bad, why it was sometimes needed in the past, how to do it the good way now, why this is far better), on both the UserLand (ipsec-tools project) and maybe in [Free|Net]BSD kernels/ IPSec stacks.
The second part will talk about the future of the project. News of the next major version (which may be out or about to be out when we'll be ate EuroBSDCon), news works which are planned or which are done but not yet public, but also news about the team: it's new members, new tools, what we would like to do in tue future, a
Yvan VANHULLEBUS works as an R&D security engineer for NETASQ since 2000, where he works on FreeBSD OS. He started to work on KAME's IPSec stack in 2001, provided many patches for various parts of the stack, then became one of the maintainers of ipsec-tools project, a fork of KAME's userland daemon. He became a NetBSD developper when ipsec-tools was migrated to NetBSD's CVS.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paul Richards - eXtreme Programming: FreeBSD a case study - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paul Richards - eXtreme Programming: FreeBSD a case study - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, extreme programming, paul richards, ogg
Traditional project management methodologies are typically based on the waterfall model where there are distinct phases: requirements capture, design, implementation, testing, delivery. Once a project has moved on to the next phase there is no going back. The end result is often a late project that no-one wants anymore because the requirements have fundamentally changed by the time the project is delivered.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paul Richards - eXtreme Programming: FreeBSD a case study - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paul Richards - eXtreme Programming: FreeBSD a case study - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, extreme programming, paul richards, mp3
Traditional project management methodologies are typically based on the waterfall model where there are distinct phases: requirements capture, design, implementation, testing, delivery. Once a project has moved on to the next phase there is no going back. The end result is often a late project that no-one wants anymore because the requirements have fundamentally changed by the time the project is delivered.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paul Richards - eXtreme Programming: FreeBSD a case study - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paul Richards - eXtreme Programming: FreeBSD a case study - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, extreme programming, paul richards, pdf
Traditional project management methodologies are typically based on the waterfall model where there are distinct phases: requirements capture, design, implementation, testing, delivery. Once a project has moved on to the next phase there is no going back. The end result is often a late project that no-one wants anymore because the requirements have fundamentally changed by the time the project is delivered.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paeps Philip - How-to embed FreeBSD - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paeps Philip - How-to embed FreeBSD - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, embed, freebsd, philip paeps, ogg
This paper provides a how-to embed FreeBSD. A console server built form an AT91RM9200 based ARM system will be explored. This paper will talk about the selection of hardware. It will explore creating images for the target system, as well as concentrate on different alternatives for deploying the system. A number of different options exist today, and no comprehensive guide for navigating through the choices exists today. This paper will explore the different alternatives that exist today for producing images targeted at different size requirements. The differing choices for storage in an embedded environment are explored. The techniques used to access rich debugging environments are discussed.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paeps Philip - How-to embed FreeBSD - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paeps Philip - How-to embed FreeBSD - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, embed, freebsd, philip paeps, mp3
This paper provides a how-to embed FreeBSD. A console server built form an AT91RM9200 based ARM system will be explored. This paper will talk about the selection of hardware. It will explore creating images for the target system, as well as concentrate on different alternatives for deploying the system. A number of different options exist today, and no comprehensive guide for navigating through the choices exists today. This paper will explore the different alternatives that exist today for producing images targeted at different size requirements. The differing choices for storage in an embedded environment are explored. The techniques used to access rich debugging environments are discussed.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paeps Philip - How-to embed FreeBSD - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paeps Philip - How-to embed FreeBSD - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, embed, freebsd, philip paeps, pdf
This paper provides a how-to embed FreeBSD. A console server built form an AT91RM9200 based ARM system will be explored. This paper will talk about the selection of hardware. It will explore creating images for the target system, as well as concentrate on different alternatives for deploying the system. A number of different options exist today, and no comprehensive guide for navigating through the choices exists today. This paper will explore the different alternatives that exist today for producing images targeted at different size requirements. The differing choices for storage in an embedded environment are explored. The techniques used to access rich debugging environments are discussed.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Constantine Murenin - OpenBSD Hardware Sensors Framework - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Constantine Murenin - OpenBSD Hardware Sensors Framework - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, openbsd, hardware sensors, constantine murenin, ogg
In this talk, we will discuss the past and present history and the design principles of the OpenBSD hardware sensors framework. Sensors framework provides a unified interface for storing, registering and accessing information about hardware monitoring sensors. Sensor types include, but are not limited to, temperature, voltage, fan RPM, time offset and logical drive status. The framework spans sensor_attach(9), sysctl(3), sysctl(8), sensorsd(8), ntpd(8), snmpd(8) and more than 67 drivers, ranging from I2C temperature sensors and Super I/O hardware monitors to IPMI, RAID and SCSI enclosures. Several third-party tools are also available, for example, a plug-in for Nagios and ports/sysutils/symon. Originally based on some ideas from NetBSD, the framework has sustained many improvements in OpenBSD, and was ported and committed to FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD.
Constantine A. Murenin is an MMath graduate student at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (CA). Prior to his graduate appointment, Constantine attended and subsequently graduated from East Carolina University (US) and De Montfort University (UK), receiving two bachelor degrees in computer science, with honors and honours respectively. A FreeBSD Google Summer of Code 2007 Student, OpenBSD Committer and Mozilla Contributor, Constantine's interests range from standards compliance and usability at all levels, to quiet computing and hardware monitoring.
http://Constantine.SU/

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Constantine Murenin - OpenBSD Hardware Sensors Framework - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Constantine Murenin - OpenBSD Hardware Sensors Framework - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, openbsd, hardware sensors, constantine murenin, mp3
In this talk, we will discuss the past and present history and the design principles of the OpenBSD hardware sensors framework. Sensors framework provides a unified interface for storing, registering and accessing information about hardware monitoring sensors. Sensor types include, but are not limited to, temperature, voltage, fan RPM, time offset and logical drive status. The framework spans sensor_attach(9), sysctl(3), sysctl(8), sensorsd(8), ntpd(8), snmpd(8) and more than 67 drivers, ranging from I2C temperature sensors and Super I/O hardware monitors to IPMI, RAID and SCSI enclosures. Several third-party tools are also available, for example, a plug-in for Nagios and ports/sysutils/symon. Originally based on some ideas from NetBSD, the framework has sustained many improvements in OpenBSD, and was ported and committed to FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD.
Constantine A. Murenin is an MMath graduate student at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (CA). Prior to his graduate appointment, Constantine attended and subsequently graduated from East Carolina University (US) and De Montfort University (UK), receiving two bachelor degrees in computer science, with honors and honours respectively. A FreeBSD Google Summer of Code 2007 Student, OpenBSD Committer and Mozilla Contributor, Constantine's interests range from standards compliance and usability at all levels, to quiet computing and hardware monitoring.
http://Constantine.SU/

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Constantine Murenin - OpenBSD Hardware Sensors Framework - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Constantine Murenin - OpenBSD Hardware Sensors Framework - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, openbsd, hardware sensors, constantine murenin, pdf
In this talk, we will discuss the past and present history and the design principles of the OpenBSD hardware sensors framework. Sensors framework provides a unified interface for storing, registering and accessing information about hardware monitoring sensors. Sensor types include, but are not limited to, temperature, voltage, fan RPM, time offset and logical drive status. The framework spans sensor_attach(9), sysctl(3), sysctl(8), sensorsd(8), ntpd(8), snmpd(8) and more than 67 drivers, ranging from I2C temperature sensors and Super I/O hardware monitors to IPMI, RAID and SCSI enclosures. Several third-party tools are also available, for example, a plug-in for Nagios and ports/sysutils/symon. Originally based on some ideas from NetBSD, the framework has sustained many improvements in OpenBSD, and was ported and committed to FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD.
Constantine A. Murenin is an MMath graduate student at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (CA). Prior to his graduate appointment, Constantine attended and subsequently graduated from East Carolina University (US) and De Montfort University (UK), receiving two bachelor degrees in computer science, with honors and honours respectively. A FreeBSD Google Summer of Code 2007 Student, OpenBSD Committer and Mozilla Contributor, Constantine's interests range from standards compliance and usability at all levels, to quiet computing and hardware monitoring.
http://Constantine.SU/

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Ion-Mihai Tetcu - Improving FreeBSD ports/packages quality - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Ion-Mihai Tetcu - Improving FreeBSD ports/packages quality - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, ports, packages, ion-mihai tetcu, ogg
This talk is focused on ways to improve the quality of FreeBSD's ports and packages and it's partially based on the 5 months experience of writing and running the consecutive versions of "QA Tindy".
Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu is a 28 years old FreeBSD ports committer and maintains about 40 ports scattered in the Ports Tree. He lives in Bucharest, Romania where he runs and co-owns an IT& company and he's a member of Romanian FreeBSD and FreeUnix User Group (RoFUG). His non-IT interests include history, philosophy and mountain climbing.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Ion-Mihai Tetcu - Improving FreeBSD ports/packages quality - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Ion-Mihai Tetcu - Improving FreeBSD ports/packages quality - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, ports, packages, ion-mihai tetcu, mp3
This talk is focused on ways to improve the quality of FreeBSD's ports and packages and it's partially based on the 5 months experience of writing and running the consecutive versions of "QA Tindy".
Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu is a 28 years old FreeBSD ports committer and maintains about 40 ports scattered in the Ports Tree. He lives in Bucharest, Romania where he runs and co-owns an IT& company and he's a member of Romanian FreeBSD and FreeUnix User Group (RoFUG). His non-IT interests include history, philosophy and mountain climbing.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Ion-Mihai Tetcu - Improving FreeBSD ports/packages quality - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Ion-Mihai Tetcu - Improving FreeBSD ports/packages quality - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, ports, packages, ion-mihai tetcu, pdf
This talk is focused on ways to improve the quality of FreeBSD's ports and packages and it's partially based on the 5 months experience of writing and running the consecutive versions of "QA Tindy".
Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu is a 28 years old FreeBSD ports committer and maintains about 40 ports scattered in the Ports Tree. He lives in Bucharest, Romania where he runs and co-owns an IT& company and he's a member of Romanian FreeBSD and FreeUnix User Group (RoFUG). His non-IT interests include history, philosophy and mountain climbing.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Nick Barkas - Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2 - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Nick Barkas - Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2 - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, ufs2, nick barkas, ogg
Hello My name is Nick Barkas. I'm a master's student studying scientific computing at Kungliga Tekniska hgskolan (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. I have just begun work on a Google Summer of Code project with FreeBSD: Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2 . I would like to present my results from this project at EuroBSDCon this year. This project is very much a work in progress now so it is a bit difficult to summarize what I would ultimately present. I will try to describe an outline, though. First I will give background information on dirhash: an explanation of the directory data structure in UFS2, how directory lookups in this structure necessitate a linear search, and how dirhash speeds these lookups up without having to change anything about the directory data structure. Next I will explain the current limitation that dirhash's maximum memory use must be manually specified by administrators, or left at a small conservative default of 2MB. I will explain some different methods I will have explored to try and make this maximum memory limit dynamically increase and decrease as the system has more or less free memory, and which method I will have ultimately settled on and implemented. Then I'll present some test results of performance of operations on very large directories with and without dynamic memory allocation enabled for dirhash. Next I will talk about how speed gains from dirhash are limited by the fact that the hash tables exist only in memory and must be recreated after each system boot, as big directories are scanned for the first time, or even have to be recreated for a directory that has not been scanned in some time if its dirhash has been discarded to free memory. These problems can be eliminated by using an on-disk index for directory entries. I will talk about some of the challenges of implementing on-disk indexing, such as remaining backwards compatible with older versions of UFS2 and interoperating properly with softupdates. Then, if my SoC project has permitted me time to work on this aspect of it, I will explain some possible methods for adding directory indexing to UFS2 that meets these challenges, and which of those ideas I will have implemented. Finally I will present results of some benchmarks on this filesystem with indices, and compare to performance with dirhash, and with no indices or dirhashes.
Keywords: dirhash, ufs2, filesystems, performance tuning

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Nick Barkas - Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2 - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Nick Barkas - Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2 - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, ufs2, nick barkas, mp3
Hello My name is Nick Barkas. I'm a master's student studying scientific computing at Kungliga Tekniska hgskolan (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. I have just begun work on a Google Summer of Code project with FreeBSD: Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2 . I would like to present my results from this project at EuroBSDCon this year. This project is very much a work in progress now so it is a bit difficult to summarize what I would ultimately present. I will try to describe an outline, though. First I will give background information on dirhash: an explanation of the directory data structure in UFS2, how directory lookups in this structure necessitate a linear search, and how dirhash speeds these lookups up without having to change anything about the directory data structure. Next I will explain the current limitation that dirhash's maximum memory use must be manually specified by administrators, or left at a small conservative default of 2MB. I will explain some different methods I will have explored to try and make this maximum memory limit dynamically increase and decrease as the system has more or less free memory, and which method I will have ultimately settled on and implemented. Then I'll present some test results of performance of operations on very large directories with and without dynamic memory allocation enabled for dirhash. Next I will talk about how speed gains from dirhash are limited by the fact that the hash tables exist only in memory and must be recreated after each system boot, as big directories are scanned for the first time, or even have to be recreated for a directory that has not been scanned in some time if its dirhash has been discarded to free memory. These problems can be eliminated by using an on-disk index for directory entries. I will talk about some of the challenges of implementing on-disk indexing, such as remaining backwards compatible with older versions of UFS2 and interoperating properly with softupdates. Then, if my SoC project has permitted me time to work on this aspect of it, I will explain some possible methods for adding directory indexing to UFS2 that meets these challenges, and which of those ideas I will have implemented. Finally I will present results of some benchmarks on this filesystem with indices, and compare to performance with dirhash, and with no indices or dirhashes.
Keywords: dirhash, ufs2, filesystems, performance tuning

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Nick Barkas - Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2 - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Nick Barkas - Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2 - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, ufs2, nick barkas, pdf
Hello My name is Nick Barkas. I'm a master's student studying scientific computing at Kungliga Tekniska hgskolan (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. I have just begun work on a Google Summer of Code project with FreeBSD: Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2 . I would like to present my results from this project at EuroBSDCon this year. This project is very much a work in progress now so it is a bit difficult to summarize what I would ultimately present. I will try to describe an outline, though. First I will give background information on dirhash: an explanation of the directory data structure in UFS2, how directory lookups in this structure necessitate a linear search, and how dirhash speeds these lookups up without having to change anything about the directory data structure. Next I will explain the current limitation that dirhash's maximum memory use must be manually specified by administrators, or left at a small conservative default of 2MB. I will explain some different methods I will have explored to try and make this maximum memory limit dynamically increase and decrease as the system has more or less free memory, and which method I will have ultimately settled on and implemented. Then I'll present some test results of performance of operations on very large directories with and without dynamic memory allocation enabled for dirhash. Next I will talk about how speed gains from dirhash are limited by the fact that the hash tables exist only in memory and must be recreated after each system boot, as big directories are scanned for the first time, or even have to be recreated for a directory that has not been scanned in some time if its dirhash has been discarded to free memory. These problems can be eliminated by using an on-disk index for directory entries. I will talk about some of the challenges of implementing on-disk indexing, such as remaining backwards compatible with older versions of UFS2 and interoperating properly with softupdates. Then, if my SoC project has permitted me time to work on this aspect of it, I will explain some possible methods for adding directory indexing to UFS2 that meets these challenges, and which of those ideas I will have implemented. Finally I will present results of some benchmarks on this filesystem with indices, and compare to performance with dirhash, and with no indices or dirhashes.
Keywords: dirhash, ufs2, filesystems, performance tuning

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Aggelos Economopoulos - An MP-capable network stack for DragonFlyBSD with minimal use of locks - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Aggelos Economopoulos - An MP-capable network stack for DragonFlyBSD with minimal use of locks - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, dragonflybsd, mp, network stack, aggelos economopoulos, ogg
Given the modern trend towards multi-core shared memory multiprocessors, it is inconceivable for production OS kernels not to be reentrant. The typical approach for allowing multiple execution contexts to simultaneously execute in kernel mode has been to use fine-grained locking for synchronising access to shared resources. While this technique has been proven efficient, empirical evidence suggests that the resulting locking rules tend to be cumbersome even for the experienced kernel programmer, leading to bugs that are hard to diagnose. Moreover, scaling to more processors requires extensive use of locks, which may impose unnecessary locking overhead for small scale multiprocessor systems. This talk will describe the typical approach and then discuss the alternative approach taken in the DragonFlyBSD network stack. We will give an overview of the various protocol threads employed for network I/O processing and the common-case code paths for packet reception and transmission. Additionally, we'll need to make a passing reference to DragonFlyBSD's message passing model. This should establish a baseline, allowing us to focus on the recent work by the author to eliminate use of the Big Giant Lock in the performance-critical paths for the TCP and UDP protocols. The decision to constrain this work on the two by far most widely-used transport protocols was made in order to (a) limit the amount of work necessary and (b) explore the effectiveness of the approach on the cases that matter at this point in time.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Aggelos Economopoulos - An MP-capable network stack for DragonFlyBSD with minimal use of locks - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Aggelos Economopoulos - An MP-capable network stack for DragonFlyBSD with minimal use of locks - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, dragonflybsd, mp, network stack, aggelos economopoulos, mp3
Given the modern trend towards multi-core shared memory multiprocessors, it is inconceivable for production OS kernels not to be reentrant. The typical approach for allowing multiple execution contexts to simultaneously execute in kernel mode has been to use fine-grained locking for synchronising access to shared resources. While this technique has been proven efficient, empirical evidence suggests that the resulting locking rules tend to be cumbersome even for the experienced kernel programmer, leading to bugs that are hard to diagnose. Moreover, scaling to more processors requires extensive use of locks, which may impose unnecessary locking overhead for small scale multiprocessor systems. This talk will describe the typical approach and then discuss the alternative approach taken in the DragonFlyBSD network stack. We will give an overview of the various protocol threads employed for network I/O processing and the common-case code paths for packet reception and transmission. Additionally, we'll need to make a passing reference to DragonFlyBSD's message passing model. This should establish a baseline, allowing us to focus on the recent work by the author to eliminate use of the Big Giant Lock in the performance-critical paths for the TCP and UDP protocols. The decision to constrain this work on the two by far most widely-used transport protocols was made in order to (a) limit the amount of work necessary and (b) explore the effectiveness of the approach on the cases that matter at this point in time.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Aggelos Economopoulos - An MP-capable network stack for DragonFlyBSD with minimal use of locks - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Aggelos Economopoulos - An MP-capable network stack for DragonFlyBSD with minimal use of locks - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, dragonflybsd, mp, network stack, aggelos economopoulos, pdf
Given the modern trend towards multi-core shared memory multiprocessors, it is inconceivable for production OS kernels not to be reentrant. The typical approach for allowing multiple execution contexts to simultaneously execute in kernel mode has been to use fine-grained locking for synchronising access to shared resources. While this technique has been proven efficient, empirical evidence suggests that the resulting locking rules tend to be cumbersome even for the experienced kernel programmer, leading to bugs that are hard to diagnose. Moreover, scaling to more processors requires extensive use of locks, which may impose unnecessary locking overhead for small scale multiprocessor systems. This talk will describe the typical approach and then discuss the alternative approach taken in the DragonFlyBSD network stack. We will give an overview of the various protocol threads employed for network I/O processing and the common-case code paths for packet reception and transmission. Additionally, we'll need to make a passing reference to DragonFlyBSD's message passing model. This should establish a baseline, allowing us to focus on the recent work by the author to eliminate use of the Big Giant Lock in the performance-critical paths for the TCP and UDP protocols. The decision to constrain this work on the two by far most widely-used transport protocols was made in order to (a) limit the amount of work necessary and (b) explore the effectiveness of the approach on the cases that matter at this point in time.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Brooks Davis - Isolating cluster jobs for performance and predictability - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Brooks Davis - Isolating cluster jobs for performance and predictability - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, cluster, brooks davis, ogg
The Aerospace Corporation operates a federally funded research and development center in support of national-security, civil and commercial space programs. Many of our 2400+ engineers use a variety of computing technologies to support their work. Applications range from small models which are easily handled by desktops to parameter studies involving thousands of cpu hours and traditional, large scale parallel codes such as computational fluid dynamics and molecular modeling applications. Our primary resources used to support these large applications are computing clusters. Our current primary cluster, the Fellowship cluster consists of 352 dual-processor nodes with a total of 14xx cores. Two additional clusters, beginning at 150 dual-processor nodes each are being constructed to augment Fellowship. As in In any multiuser computing environment with limited resources, user competition for resources is a significant burden. Users want everything they need to do their job, right now. Unfortunately, other users may need those resources at the same time. Thus, systems to arbitrate this resource contention are necessary. On Fellowship we have deployed the Sun Grid Engine scheduler which scheduled batch jobs across the nodes. In the next section we discuss the performance problems that can occur when sharing resources in a high performance computing cluster. We then discuss range of possibilities to address these problems. We then explain the solutions we are investigating and describe our experiments with them. We then conclude with a discussion of future work.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Brooks Davis - Isolating cluster jobs for performance and predictability - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Brooks Davis - Isolating cluster jobs for performance and predictability - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, cluster, brooks davis, mp3
The Aerospace Corporation operates a federally funded research and development center in support of national-security, civil and commercial space programs. Many of our 2400+ engineers use a variety of computing technologies to support their work. Applications range from small models which are easily handled by desktops to parameter studies involving thousands of cpu hours and traditional, large scale parallel codes such as computational fluid dynamics and molecular modeling applications. Our primary resources used to support these large applications are computing clusters. Our current primary cluster, the Fellowship cluster consists of 352 dual-processor nodes with a total of 14xx cores. Two additional clusters, beginning at 150 dual-processor nodes each are being constructed to augment Fellowship. As in In any multiuser computing environment with limited resources, user competition for resources is a significant burden. Users want everything they need to do their job, right now. Unfortunately, other users may need those resources at the same time. Thus, systems to arbitrate this resource contention are necessary. On Fellowship we have deployed the Sun Grid Engine scheduler which scheduled batch jobs across the nodes. In the next section we discuss the performance problems that can occur when sharing resources in a high performance computing cluster. We then discuss range of possibilities to address these problems. We then explain the solutions we are investigating and describe our experiments with them. We then conclude with a discussion of future work.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Brooks Davis - Isolating cluster jobs for performance and predictability - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Brooks Davis - Isolating cluster jobs for performance and predictability - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, cluster, brooks davis, pdf
The Aerospace Corporation operates a federally funded research and development center in support of national-security, civil and commercial space programs. Many of our 2400+ engineers use a variety of computing technologies to support their work. Applications range from small models which are easily handled by desktops to parameter studies involving thousands of cpu hours and traditional, large scale parallel codes such as computational fluid dynamics and molecular modeling applications. Our primary resources used to support these large applications are computing clusters. Our current primary cluster, the Fellowship cluster consists of 352 dual-processor nodes with a total of 14xx cores. Two additional clusters, beginning at 150 dual-processor nodes each are being constructed to augment Fellowship. As in In any multiuser computing environment with limited resources, user competition for resources is a significant burden. Users want everything they need to do their job, right now. Unfortunately, other users may need those resources at the same time. Thus, systems to arbitrate this resource contention are necessary. On Fellowship we have deployed the Sun Grid Engine scheduler which scheduled batch jobs across the nodes. In the next section we discuss the performance problems that can occur when sharing resources in a high performance computing cluster. We then discuss range of possibilities to address these problems. We then explain the solutions we are investigating and describe our experiments with them. We then conclude with a discussion of future work.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Robert Watson - FreeBSD Network Stack Performance Optimizations for Modern Hardware - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Robert Watson - FreeBSD Network Stack Performance Optimizations for Modern Hardware - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, network stack, hardware, robert watson, ogg
The arrival of high CPU core density, with commodity quad-core notebooks and 32-core servers, combined with 10gbps networking have transformed network design principles for operating systems. This talk will describe changes in the FreeBSD 6.x, 7.x, and forthcoming 8.x network stacks required to exploit multiple cores and serve 10gbps networks. The goal of the session will be to introduce the audience to general strategies used to improve performance, their rationales, and their impact on applications and users:

Introduction to the SMPng Project and the follow-on Netperf Project
Workloads and performance measurement
Efficient primitives to support modern network stacks
Multi-core and cache-aware network memory allocator
Fine-grained network stack locking
Load-balancing and contention-avoidance across multiple CPUs
CPU affinity for network stack data structures
TCP performance enhancements including TSO, LRO, and TOE
Zero-copy Berkely Packet Filter (BPF) buffers
Direct network stack dispatch from interrupt handlers
Multiple input and output queues

Robert Watson is a researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory investinging operating system and network security. Prior to joining the Computer Laboratory to work on a PhD, he was Senior Principal Scientist at McAfee Research, now SPARTA ISSO, a leading security research and development organization, directing government and commercial research contracts for customers that include DARPA, the US Navy, and Apple Computer. His research interests include operating system security, network stack structure and performance, and windowing system structure. He is also a member of the FreeBSD Core Team and president of the FreeBSD Foundation.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Robert Watson - FreeBSD Network Stack Performance Optimizations for Modern Hardware - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Robert Watson - FreeBSD Network Stack Performance Optimizations for Modern Hardware - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, network stack, hardware, robert watson, mp3
The arrival of high CPU core density, with commodity quad-core notebooks and 32-core servers, combined with 10gbps networking have transformed network design principles for operating systems. This talk will describe changes in the FreeBSD 6.x, 7.x, and forthcoming 8.x network stacks required to exploit multiple cores and serve 10gbps networks. The goal of the session will be to introduce the audience to general strategies used to improve performance, their rationales, and their impact on applications and users:

Introduction to the SMPng Project and the follow-on Netperf Project
Workloads and performance measurement
Efficient primitives to support modern network stacks
Multi-core and cache-aware network memory allocator
Fine-grained network stack locking
Load-balancing and contention-avoidance across multiple CPUs
CPU affinity for network stack data structures
TCP performance enhancements including TSO, LRO, and TOE
Zero-copy Berkely Packet Filter (BPF) buffers
Direct network stack dispatch from interrupt handlers
Multiple input and output queues

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Robert Watson - FreeBSD Network Stack Performance Optimizations for Modern Hardware - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Robert Watson - FreeBSD Network Stack Performance Optimizations for Modern Hardware - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, network stack, hardware, robert watson, pdf
The arrival of high CPU core density, with commodity quad-core notebooks and 32-core servers, combined with 10gbps networking have transformed network design principles for operating systems. This talk will describe changes in the FreeBSD 6.x, 7.x, and forthcoming 8.x network stacks required to exploit multiple cores and serve 10gbps networks. The goal of the session will be to introduce the audience to general strategies used to improve performance, their rationales, and their impact on applications and users:

Introduction to the SMPng Project and the follow-on Netperf Project
Workloads and performance measurement
Efficient primitives to support modern network stacks
Multi-core and cache-aware network memory allocator
Fine-grained network stack locking
Load-balancing and contention-avoidance across multiple CPUs
CPU affinity for network stack data structures
TCP performance enhancements including TSO, LRO, and TOE
Zero-copy Berkely Packet Filter (BPF) buffers
Direct network stack dispatch from interrupt handlers
Multiple input and output queues

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Edd Barret - Modern Typesetting on BSD - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Edd Barret - Modern Typesetting on BSD - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, typesetting, bsd, edd barrett, ogg
Edd Barrett will speak about using the BSD Platform as a means of typesetting from a practical standpoint at EuroBSDcon 2008. Edd Barrett does not wish to go into the technicalities of each typesetter, but rather state which are good for certain types of document, and which tools (ports and packages), integrate well with the available typesetters.
Edd Barrett os a student from the UK, currently on "placement year" as a systems administrator for Bournemouth University. Open Source *NIX has been his platform of choice for many years and he has been using OpenBSD for about 3 years now, simply because it is small, clean, correct and secure. Just recently he has started developing things I want or need for OpenBSD.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Edd Barret - Modern Typesetting on BSD - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Edd Barret - Modern Typesetting on BSD - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, typesetting, bsd, edd barrett, mp3
Edd Barrett will speak about using the BSD Platform as a means of typesetting from a practical standpoint at EuroBSDcon 2008. Edd Barrett does not wish to go into the technicalities of each typesetter, but rather state which are good for certain types of document, and which tools (ports and packages), integrate well with the available typesetters.
Edd Barrett os a student from the UK, currently on "placement year" as a systems administrator for Bournemouth University. Open Source *NIX has been his platform of choice for many years and he has been using OpenBSD for about 3 years now, simply because it is small, clean, correct and secure. Just recently he has started developing things I want or need for OpenBSD.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Edd Barret - Modern Typesetting on BSD - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Edd Barret - Modern Typesetting on BSD - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, typesetting, bsd, edd barrett, pdf
Edd Barrett will speak about using the BSD Platform as a means of typesetting from a practical standpoint at EuroBSDcon 2008. Edd Barrett does not wish to go into the technicalities of each typesetter, but rather state which are good for certain types of document, and which tools (ports and packages), integrate well with the available typesetters.
Edd Barrett os a student from the UK, currently on "placement year" as a systems administrator for Bournemouth University. Open Source *NIX has been his platform of choice for many years and he has been using OpenBSD for about 3 years now, simply because it is small, clean, correct and secure. Just recently he has started developing things I want or need for OpenBSD.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Joerg Sonnenberger - Sleeping beauty - NetBSD on Modern Laptops - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Joerg Sonnenberger - Sleeping beauty - NetBSD on Modern Laptops - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, netbsd, laptops, joerg sonnenberger, ogg
This paper discusses the NetBSD Power Management Framework (PMF) and related changes to the kernel. The outlined changes allow NetBSD to support essential functions like suspend-to-RAM on most post-Y2K X86 machines. They are also the fundation for intelligent handling of device activity by enabling devices on-demand. This work is still progressing. Many of the features will be available in the up-coming NetBSD 5.0 release The NetBSD kernel is widely regarded to be one of the cleanest and most portable Operating System kernels available. For various reasons it is also assumed that NetBSD only runs well on older hardware. In the summer of 2006 Charles Hannum, one of the founders of NetBSD, left with a long mail mentioning as important issues the lack of proper power management and suspendto- RAM support. One year later, Jared D. McNeill posted a plan for attacking this issue based on ideas derived from the Windows Driver Model. This plan would evolve into the new NetBSD Power Management Framework (PMF for short).

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Joerg Sonnenberger - Sleeping beauty - NetBSD on Modern Laptops - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Joerg Sonnenberger - Sleeping beauty - NetBSD on Modern Laptops - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, netbsd, laptops, joerg sonnenberger, mp3
This paper discusses the NetBSD Power Management Framework (PMF) and related changes to the kernel. The outlined changes allow NetBSD to support essential functions like suspend-to-RAM on most post-Y2K X86 machines. They are also the fundation for intelligent handling of device activity by enabling devices on-demand. This work is still progressing. Many of the features will be available in the up-coming NetBSD 5.0 release The NetBSD kernel is widely regarded to be one of the cleanest and most portable Operating System kernels available. For various reasons it is also assumed that NetBSD only runs well on older hardware. In the summer of 2006 Charles Hannum, one of the founders of NetBSD, left with a long mail mentioning as important issues the lack of proper power management and suspendto- RAM support. One year later, Jared D. McNeill posted a plan for attacking this issue based on ideas derived from the Windows Driver Model. This plan would evolve into the new NetBSD Power Management Framework (PMF for short).

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Joerg Sonnenberger - Sleeping beauty - NetBSD on Modern Laptops - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Joerg Sonnenberger - Sleeping beauty - NetBSD on Modern Laptops - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, netbsd, laptops, joerg sonnenberger, pdf
This paper discusses the NetBSD Power Management Framework (PMF) and related changes to the kernel. The outlined changes allow NetBSD to support essential functions like suspend-to-RAM on most post-Y2K X86 machines. They are also the fundation for intelligent handling of device activity by enabling devices on-demand. This work is still progressing. Many of the features will be available in the up-coming NetBSD 5.0 release The NetBSD kernel is widely regarded to be one of the cleanest and most portable Operating System kernels available. For various reasons it is also assumed that NetBSD only runs well on older hardware. In the summer of 2006 Charles Hannum, one of the founders of NetBSD, left with a long mail mentioning as important issues the lack of proper power management and suspendto- RAM support. One year later, Jared D. McNeill posted a plan for attacking this issue based on ideas derived from the Windows Driver Model. This plan would evolve into the new NetBSD Power Management Framework (PMF for short).

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Anttii Kantee - Converting kernel file systems to services - OGG

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Anttii Kantee - Converting kernel file systems to services - OGG
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, anttii kantee, ogg
ABSD/UNIX operating system is traditionally split into two pieces: the kernel and userspace. Historically the reasons for this were clear: the UNIX kernel was a simple entity. However, over time the kernel has grown more and more complex. Currently, most of the same functionality is available both in userspace and the kernel, but under different names. Examples include synchronization routines and threading support. For instance, to lock a mutex in the NetBSD kernel, the call is mutex_enter(), while in userspace the routine which does exactly the same thing is known as pthread_mutex_enter(). Taking another classic example, a BSD style OS has malloc()/free() available both in userspace and the kernel, but with different linkage (the kernel malloc interface is currently being widely deprecated, though). This imposes a completely arbitrary division between the kernel and userspace. Most functionality provided by an opearating system should be treated as a service instead of explicitly pinning it down as a userspace daemon or a kernel driver. Currently, due to the arbitrarily difference in programming interface names, functionality must be explicitly ported between the kernel and userspace if it is to run in one or the other environment. By unifying the environments where possible, the arbitrary division is weakened and porting between these environments becomes simpler.
Antti Kantee has been a NetBSD developer for many many moons. He has managed to work on quite a few bits and pieces of a BSD system: userland utilities, the pkgsrc packaging system, networking, virtual memory, device drivers, hardware support and file systems.
See also http://www.netbsd.org/docs/puffs/rump.htm

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Anttii Kantee - Converting kernel file systems to services - MP3

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Anttii Kantee - Converting kernel file systems to services - MP3
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, anttii kantee, mp3
ABSD/UNIX operating system is traditionally split into two pieces: the kernel and userspace. Historically the reasons for this were clear: the UNIX kernel was a simple entity. However, over time the kernel has grown more and more complex. Currently, most of the same functionality is available both in userspace and the kernel, but under different names. Examples include synchronization routines and threading support. For instance, to lock a mutex in the NetBSD kernel, the call is mutex_enter(), while in userspace the routine which does exactly the same thing is known as pthread_mutex_enter(). Taking another classic example, a BSD style OS has malloc()/free() available both in userspace and the kernel, but with different linkage (the kernel malloc interface is currently being widely deprecated, though). This imposes a completely arbitrary division between the kernel and userspace. Most functionality provided by an opearating system should be treated as a service instead of explicitly pinning it down as a userspace daemon or a kernel driver. Currently, due to the arbitrarily difference in programming interface names, functionality must be explicitly ported between the kernel and userspace if it is to run in one or the other environment. By unifying the environments where possible, the arbitrary division is weakened and porting between these environments becomes simpler.
Antti Kantee has been a NetBSD developer for many many moons. He has managed to work on quite a few bits and pieces of a BSD system: userland utilities, the pkgsrc packaging system, networking, virtual memory, device drivers, hardware support and file systems.
See also http://www.netbsd.org/docs/puffs/rump.htm

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2008 - Anttii Kantee - Converting kernel file systems to services - PDF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2008 - Anttii Kantee - Converting kernel file systems to services - PDF
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, anttii kantee, pdf
ABSD/UNIX operating system is traditionally split into two pieces: the kernel and userspace. Historically the reasons for this were clear: the UNIX kernel was a simple entity. However, over time the kernel has grown more and more complex. Currently, most of the same functionality is available both in userspace and the kernel, but under different names. Examples include synchronization routines and threading support. For instance, to lock a mutex in the NetBSD kernel, the call is mutex_enter(), while in userspace the routine which does exactly the same thing is known as pthread_mutex_enter(). Taking another classic example, a BSD style OS has malloc()/free() available both in userspace and the kernel, but with different linkage (the kernel malloc interface is currently being widely deprecated, though). This imposes a completely arbitrary division between the kernel and userspace. Most functionality provided by an opearating system should be treated as a service instead of explicitly pinning it down as a userspace daemon or a kernel driver. Currently, due to the arbitrarily difference in programming interface names, functionality must be explicitly ported between the kernel and userspace if it is to run in one or the other environment. By unifying the environments where possible, the arbitrary division is weakened and porting between these environments becomes simpler.
Antti Kantee has been a NetBSD developer for many many moons. He has managed to work on quite a few bits and pieces of a BSD system: userland utilities, the pkgsrc packaging system, networking, virtual memory, device drivers, hardware support and file systems.
See also http://www.netbsd.org/docs/puffs/rump.htm

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008: BSD v. GPL - a.k.a. not the sequel to "BSD is Dying" - MP4

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008: BSD v. GPL - a.k.a. not the sequel to "BSD is Dying" - MP4
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2008, presentation, humor, bsd versus gpl, jason dixon, mp4

BSD vs GPL is a sweeping epic, focused on the dichotomy between good and evil. It peers inside the hearts and minds of the creators of these movements and dissects their battle for world domination. No common documentary will dare to follow the path that BSD vs GPL blazes.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Adrian Chadd: High-throughput concurrent disk IO in FreeBSD.

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Adrian Chadd: High-throughput concurrent disk IO in FreeBSD.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, mp3, freebsd, high performance, adrian chadd
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Jason L Wright: When Hardware Is Wrong, or "They can Fix It In Software".

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Jason L Wright: When Hardware Is Wrong, or "They can Fix It In Software".
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, mp3, hardware, jason l wright
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Metthew Dillon: The HAMMER File System.

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Metthew Dillon: The HAMMER File System.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, mp3, hammer, metthew dillon
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Anders Magnusson: Design and Implementation of the Portable C Compiler.

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Anders Magnusson: Design and Implementation of the Portable C Compiler.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, mp3, pcc, anders magnusson
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Michael Shalayeff: Porting PCC.

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Michael Shalayeff: Porting PCC.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, mp3, pcc, michael shalayeff
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Julio M. Merino Vidal: An introduction to the Automated Testing Framework (ATF) for NetBSD.

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Julio M. Merino Vidal: An introduction to the Automated Testing Framework (ATF) for NetBSD.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, mp3, netbsd, atf, julio m merino vidal
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Jeremy C. Reed: Introduction to DNSSEC.

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Jeremy C. Reed: Introduction to DNSSEC.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, mp3, dnssec, jeremy c reed
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Jason Dixon: BSD versus GPL.

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Jason Dixon: BSD versus GPL.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, mp3, bsd versus gpl, jason dixon
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Pawel Jakub Dawidek: A closer look at the ZFS file system.

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Pawel Jakub Dawidek: A closer look at the ZFS file system.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, mp3, freebsd, zfs, pawel jakub dawidek
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Kurt Miller: OpenBSD's Position Independent Executables (PIE) Implementation.

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Kurt Miller: OpenBSD's Position Independent Executables (PIE) Implementation.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, mp3, openbsd, pie, kurt miller
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Mike Silbersack: Detecting TCP regressions with tcpdiff.

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Mike Silbersack: Detecting TCP regressions with tcpdiff.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, mp3, tcp regression, tcpdiff, mike silbersack
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2008 - Michael Lucas: Network Refactoring, or doing an oil change at 80 MPH.

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2008 - Michael Lucas: Network Refactoring, or doing an oil change at 80 MPH.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, presentation, mp3, network refactoring, michael lucas
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2008. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

bsdtalk - Live from NYCBSDCon Sunday - MP3 version

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

Live from NYCBSDCon Sunday - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, interview, mp3
A copy of Sunday's live stream from NYCBSDCon 2008.

bsdtalk - Live from NYCBSDCon Sunday - Ogg version

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

Live from NYCBSDCon Sunday - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, interview, ogg
A copy of Sunday's live stream from NYCBSDCon 2008.

bsdtalk - Live from NYCBSDCon Saturday - MP3 version

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

Live from NYCBSDCon Saturday - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, interview, jason dixon, pawel jakub dawidek, kris more, matt olander, george neville-neil, phillip coblentz, jason wright, mp3
A copy of Saturday's live stream from NYCBSDCon 2008. I wander around during lunch talking to random people. Voices include Jason Dixon, Pawel Jakub Dawidek, Kris Moore, Matt Olander, George Neville-Neil, Phillip Coblentz, and Jason Wright.

bsdtalk - Live from NYCBSDCon Saturday - Ogg version

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

Live from NYCBSDCon Saturday - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, interview, jason dixon, pawel jakub dawidek, kris more, matt olander, george neville-neil, phillip coblentz, jason wright, ogg
A copy of Saturday's live stream from NYCBSDCon 2008. I wander around during lunch talking to random people. Voices include Jason Dixon, Pawel Jakub Dawidek, Kris Moore, Matt Olander, George Neville-Neil, Phillip Coblentz, and Jason Wright.

bsdtalk - Kris Moore - MP3 version

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

Kris Moore - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, kris more, pc-bsd, mp3
Interview with Kris Moore. We talk about the recent release of PC-BSD 7.0.

bsdtalk - Kris Moore - Ogg version

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

Kris Moore - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, kris more, pc-bsd, ogg
Interview with Kris Moore. We talk about the recent release of PC-BSD 7.0.

bsdtalk - Interview with Chess Griffin - MP3 version

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Chess Griffin - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, chess griffin, linuxreality, mp3
Interview with Chess Griffin, host of the LinuxReality podcast. We talk about his use of Linux and recent exploration into the BSDs.

bsdtalk - Interview with Chess Griffin - Ogg version

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Chess Griffin - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, chess griffin, linuxreality, ogg
Interview with Chess Griffin, host of the LinuxReality podcast. We talk about his use of Linux and recent exploration into the BSDs.

bsdtalk - Questions for you - MP3 version

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST

Questions for you - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, mp3

Things have been very busy at the beginning of the school year, so I'm sorry that I haven't been producing as many shows as usual.
Registration is open for NYCBSDCon and the list of speakers is available. Are you going?
I plan on streaming live during the conference. Do you have any suggestions for live streaming software that is known to work well on the BSDs? Are there any live CDs like Dyne:bolic?
I've come into possession of a Soekris 5501. What are your suggestions for soekris-friendly projects to test?

bsdtalk - Questions for you - Ogg version

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST

Questions for you - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, ogg

Things have been very busy at the beginning of the school year, so I'm sorry that I haven't been producing as many shows as usual.
Registration is open for NYCBSDCon and the list of speakers is available. Are you going?
I plan on streaming live during the conference. Do you have any suggestions for live streaming software that is known to work well on the BSDs? Are there any live CDs like Dyne:bolic?
I've come into possession of a Soekris 5501. What are your suggestions for soekris-friendly projects to test?

FreeBSD Developer Summit - Cambridge - Welcome - Cambridge University FreeBSD DevSummit - Robert Watson - PDF version

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Welcome - Cambridge University FreeBSD DevSummit - Robert Watson - PDF version
From: FreeBSD Developer Summit - Cambridge
Tags: devsummit2008, devsummit, pdf, freebsd, robert watson, pdf
Welcome by Robert Watson

FreeBSD Developer Summit - Cambridge - variant Symlinks - Brooks Davis - PDF version

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

variant Symlinks - Brooks Davis - PDF version
From: FreeBSD Developer Summit - Cambridge
Tags: devsummit2008, devsummit, pdf, freebsd, variant symlinks, brooks davis, pdf
Variant Symlinks by Brooks Davis

bsdtalk - NYCBSDCon Update with Isaac Levy and Steven Kreuzer - MP3 version

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

NYCBSDCon Update with Isaac Levy and Steven Kreuzer - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, nycbug, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2008, isaac levy, steven kreuzer, mp3
An update on NYCBSDCon 2008 with Isaac Levy and Steven Kreuzer. More information on the conference can be found at http://www.nycbsdcon.org/

bsdtalk - NYCBSDCon Update with Isaac Levy and Steven Kreuzer - Ogg version

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

NYCBSDCon Update with Isaac Levy and Steven Kreuzer - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, nycbug, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2008, isaac levy, steven kreuzer, ogg
An update on NYCBSDCon 2008 with Isaac Levy and Steven Kreuzer. More information on the conference can be found at http://www.nycbsdcon.org/

New York City *BSD User Group - Public Key sudo - MP3 version

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Public Key sudo - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, sudo, public key, matthew burnside, mp3

Two tools which have become the norm in Linux- and Unix-based environments are SSH for secure communications, and sudo for performing administrative tasks. These are independent programs with substantially different purposes, but they are often used in conjunction. In this talk, I describe a flaw in their interaction, and then present our solution called public-key sudo.

Public-key sudo is an extension to the sudo authentication mechanism which allows for public key authentication using the SSH public key framework. I describe our implementation of a generic SSH authentication module and the sudo modifications required to use this module.

Bio:
Matthew Burnside is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department at Columbia University, in New York. He works for Professor Angelos Keromytis in the Network Security Lab. He received his B.A and M.Eng from MIT in 2000, and 2002, respectively. His research interests are in network anonymity, trust management, and enterprise-scale policy enforcement.

bsdtalk - Martin Tournoij from DaemonForums.org - MP3 version

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST

Martin Tournoij from DaemonForums.org - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, daemonforums, martin tournoij, mp3
A brief interview with Martin Tournoij, one of the founders of DaemonForums.org.

bsdtalk - Martin Tournoij from DaemonForums.org - Ogg version

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST

Martin Tournoij from DaemonForums.org - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, daemonforums, martin tournoij, ogg
A brief interview with Martin Tournoij, one of the founders of DaemonForums.org.

bsdtalk - Matthew Dillon - MP3 version

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST

Matthew Dillon - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, hammer, matthew dillon, mp3
An interview with Matthew Dillon. He gives a fairly technical description of the HAMMER filesystem features that will make it in the DragonflyBSD 2.0 release.

bsdtalk - Matthew Dillon - Ogg version

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST

Matthew Dillon - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, hammer, matthew dillon, ogg
An interview with Matthew Dillon. He gives a fairly technical description of the HAMMER filesystem features that will make it in the DragonflyBSD 2.0 release.

New York City *BSD User Group - Configuration Management with Cfengine - MP3 version

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST

Configuration Management with Cfengine - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, configuration management, cfengine, mp3

Configuration Management with Cfengine

Cfengine is a policy-based configuration management system. Its primary function is to provide automated configuration and maintenance of computers, from a policy specification.

The cfengine project was started in 1993 as a reaction to the complexity and non-portability of shell scripting for Unix configuration management, and continues today. The aim was to absorb frequently used coding paradigms into a declarative, domain-specific language that would offer self-documenting configuration.

about the speaker:
Steven Kreuzer has been working with Open Source technologies since as long as he can remember, starting out with a 486 salvaged from a dumpster behind his neighborhood computer store. In his spare time he enjoys doing things with technology that have absolutely no redeeming social value.

bsdtalk - Michael W. Lucas - MP3 version

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST

Michael W. Lucas - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan2008, michael lucas, mp3
Interview with Michael W. Lucas at BSDCan 2008. We talk about some of his books and strategies for writing technical publications.

bsdtalk - Michael W. Lucas - Ogg version

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST

Michael W. Lucas - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan2008, michael lucas, ogg
Interview with Michael W. Lucas at BSDCan 2008. We talk about some of his books and strategies for writing technical publications.

bsdtalk - A Few FreeBSD Core Team Members - MP3 version

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST

A Few FreeBSD Core Team Members - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan2008, freebsd core, warner losh, george neville-neil murray stokely, hiroki sato, robert watson, brooks davis, philip paeps, mp3
An interview with a few of the FreeBSD Core Team members: Warner Losh, George V. Neville-Neil, Murray Stokeley, Hiroki Sato, Robert Watson, Brooks Davis, and Philip Paeps. The interview was recorded at BSDCan2008 in Ottawa, Cananda.

bsdtalk - A Few FreeBSD Core Team Members - Ogg version

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST

A Few FreeBSD Core Team Members - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan2008, freebsd core, warner losh, george neville-neil murray stokely, hiroki sato, robert watson, brooks davis, philip paeps, ogg
An interview with a few of the FreeBSD Core Team members: Warner Losh, George V. Neville-Neil, Murray Stokeley, Hiroki Sato, Robert Watson, Brooks Davis, and Philip Paeps. The interview was recorded at BSDCan2008 in Ottawa, Cananda.

bsdtalk - Sean Cody from Frantic Films VFX - MP3 version

Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Sean Cody from Frantic Films VFX - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan2008, frantic films, sean cody, mp3
Interview with Sean Cody at BSDCan2008. We talk about his use of BSD at a visual effects studio.

bsdtalk - Sean Cody from Frantic Films VFX - Ogg version

Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Sean Cody from Frantic Films VFX - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan2008, frantic films, sean cody, ogg
Interview with Sean Cody at BSDCan2008. We talk about his use of BSD at a visual effects studio.

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Matt Olander - PC-BSD: FreeBSD on the Desktop

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Matt Olander - PC-BSD: FreeBSD on the Desktop
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, pc-bsd, matt olander, avi
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Dominik Hamera, Jakub Klausa - Nowoczesne rozwiazania bezprzewodowe w systemie FreeBSD

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Dominik Hamera, Jakub Klausa - Nowoczesne rozwiazania bezprzewodowe w systemie FreeBSD
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, freebsd, wireless, polish, dominik hamera, jakub klausa, avi
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Rafal Jaworowski - FreeBSD do zabudowy, czyli nie tylko pecety

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Rafal Jaworowski - FreeBSD do zabudowy, czyli nie tylko pecety
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, freebsd, polish, rafal jaworowski, pdf
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Rafal Jaworowski - FreeBSD do zabudowy, czyli nie tylko pecety

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Rafal Jaworowski - FreeBSD do zabudowy, czyli nie tylko pecety
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, freebsd, polish, rafal jaworowski, avi
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Kris Kennaway - New features and improvements in FreeBSD 7

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Kris Kennaway - New features and improvements in FreeBSD 7
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, freebsd, kris kennaway, pdf
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Kris Kennaway - New features and improvements in FreeBSD 7

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Kris Kennaway - New features and improvements in FreeBSD 7
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, freebsd, kris kennaway, avi
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Brooks Davis - Reflections on Building a High-Performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Brooks Davis - Reflections on Building a High-Performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, freebsd, high performance, brooks davis, pdf
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Brooks Davis - Reflections on Building a High-Performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Brooks Davis - Reflections on Building a High-Performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, freebsd, high performance, brooks davis, avi
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Philip Paeps - Detangling and debugging: friends in unexpected places

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Philip Paeps - Detangling and debugging: friends in unexpected places
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, freebsd, debugging, philip paeps, pdf
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Philip Paeps - Detangling and debugging: friends in unexpected places

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Philip Paeps - Detangling and debugging: friends in unexpected places
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, freebsd, debugging, philip paeps, avi
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Slawomir Zak - DTrace - Monitoring i strojenie systemu w XXI wieku

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Slawomir Zak - DTrace - Monitoring i strojenie systemu w XXI wieku
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, tuning, monitoring, dtrace, slawomir zak, pdf
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Slawomir Zak - DTrace - Monitoring i strojenie systemu w XXI wieku

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Slawomir Zak - DTrace - Monitoring i strojenie systemu w XXI wieku
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, tuning, monitoring, dtrace, polish, slawomir zak, avi
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Pawel Solyga - Meet BSD projects from Google Summer of Code 2007

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Pawel Solyga - Meet BSD projects from Google Summer of Code 2007
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, google, gsoc, freebsd, netbsd, pawel solyga, pdf
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Pawel Solyga - Meet BSD projects from Google Summer of Code 2007

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Pawel Solyga - Meet BSD projects from Google Summer of Code 2007
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, google, gsoc, freebsd, netbsd, pawel solyga, quicktime
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Pawel Solyga - Meet BSD projects from Google Summer of Code 2007

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Pawel Solyga - Meet BSD projects from Google Summer of Code 2007
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, google, gsoc, freebsd, netbsd, polish, pawel solyga, avi
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Adam Bartman, Rafal Grzebyk - Nowoczesna infrastruktura telefoniczna w oparciu o systemy z rodziny BSD

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Adam Bartman, Rafal Grzebyk - Nowoczesna infrastruktura telefoniczna w oparciu o systemy z rodziny BSD
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, telephony, voip, freebsd, polish, adam bartman, rafal grzebyk, pdf
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Adam Bartman, Rafal Grzebyk - Nowoczesna infrastruktura telefoniczna w oparciu o systemy z rodziny BSD

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Adam Bartman, Rafal Grzebyk - Nowoczesna infrastruktura telefoniczna w oparciu o systemy z rodziny BSD
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, telephony, voip, freebsd, polish, adam bartman, rafal grzebyk, avi
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Christian Brüffer - Protecting your Privacy with FreeBSD and Tor

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Christian Brüffer - Protecting your Privacy with FreeBSD and Tor
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, tor, freebsd, christian bruffer, pdf
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

MeetBSD - MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Christian Brüffer - Protecting your Privacy with FreeBSD and Tor

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings - Christian Brüffer - Protecting your Privacy with FreeBSD and Tor
From: MeetBSD
Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2007, tor, freebsd, christian bruffer, avi
MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Scott Ullrich, Chris Buechler - pfSense Tutorial - PDF file

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Scott Ullrich, Chris Buechler - pfSense Tutorial - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, tutorial, freebsd, pfsense, scott ullrich, chris buechler, pdf

pfSense Tutorial

From Zero to Hero with pfSense

pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and a package system allowing further expandability without adding bloat and potential security vulnerabilities to the base distribution. pfSense is a popular project with more than 1 million downloads since its inception, and proven in countless installations ranging from small home networks protecting a PC and an Xbox to large corporations, universities and other organizations protecting thousands of network devices.

This tutorial is being presented by the founders of the pfSense project, Chris Buechler and Scott Ullrich.

The session will start with an introduction to the project, hardware sizing and selection, installation, firewalling concepts and basic configuration, and continue to cover all the most popular features of the system. Common usage scenarios, deployment considerations, step by step configuration guidance, and best practices will be covered for each feature. Most configurations will be demonstrated in a live lab environment.

Attendees are assumed to have basic knowledge of TCP/IP and firewalling concepts, however no in-depth knowledge in these areas or prior knowledge of pfSense or FreeBSD is necessary.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Daniel Braniss - PDF file

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Daniel Braniss - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, presentation, iscsi, daniel braniss, pdf

iSCSI

not an Apple appliance.

iSCSI is not an Apple appliance.

The i in iSCSI stands for internet, some say for insecure, personally I like to think interesting. I'll try to share the road followed from RFC-3720 to the actual working driver, the challenges, the frustrations.

BSDCon Spain - Manuel Trujillo - FreeBSD para usuarios de GNU/Linux

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Manuel Trujillo - FreeBSD para usuarios de GNU/Linux
From: BSDCon Spain
Tags: bsdcon-barcelona, spanish, presentation, freebsd, linux, manuel trujillo, pdf

Charla sobre las diferencias que puede encontrar un usuario de un sistema operativo GNU/Linux cuando accede a un sistema operativo FreeBSD, y sugerencias superar la posible desorientación.

BSDCon Spain - Julio M. Merino Vidal - ATF: Sistema de pruebas automatizado para NetBSD

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Julio M. Merino Vidal - ATF: Sistema de pruebas automatizado para NetBSD
From: BSDCon Spain
Tags: bsdcon-barcelona, spanish, presentation, atf, netbsd, julio m merino vidal, ppt

La presentación empezará describiendo la necesidad de poder probar automáticamente la validez del código del sistema operativo NetBSD para así saber que se comporta correctamente en cualquiera de las plataformas soportadas. Luego se explicará cómo se estructura ATF, cómo se integra con NetBSD y se daran ejemplos prácticos de su uso tanto como programador o usuario.

ATF es un proyecto autocontenido que funciona en multitud de plataformas (y no sólo BSD). Aún así, está centrado en NetBSD y las pruebas automatizadas para este sistema son específicas de él, no del proyecto ATF en sí.

Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting - Robert Watson - How a large scale opensource project works

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Robert Watson - How a large scale opensource project works
From: Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting
Tags: fosdem, fosdem2008, presentation, freebsd project, robert watson, ogg, video

The FreeBSD Project is one of the oldest and most successful open source operating system projects, seeing wide deployment across the IT industry. From the root name servers, to top tier ISPs, to core router operating systems, to firewalls, to embedded appliances, you can't use a networked computer for ten minutes without using FreeBSD dozens of times.

Part of FreeBSD's reputation for quality and reliability comes from the nature of its development organization -- driven by a hundreds of highly skilled volunteers, from high school students to university professors. And unlike most open source projects, the FreeBSD Project has developers who have been working on the same source base for over twenty years.

But how does this organization work? Who pays the bandwidth bills, runs the web servers, writes the documentation, writes the code, and calls the shots? And how can developers in a dozen time zones reach agreement on the time of day, let alone a kernel architecture?

This presentation will attempt to provide, in 45 minutes, a brief if entertaining snapshot into what makes FreeBSD run.

BSDCon Spain - Jordi Espasa Clofent - Sistema de cortafuegos redundantes con OpenBSD y Packet Filter en modo bridge

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Jordi Espasa Clofent - Sistema de cortafuegos redundantes con OpenBSD y Packet Filter en modo bridge
From: BSDCon Spain
Tags: bsdcon-barcelona, spanish, presentation, openbsd, firewall, pf, jordi espasa clofent, ppt

Se trataran los siguientes apartados: Porqué OpenBSD y porqué PF. Eligiendo un buen hardware para el cortafuegos. Redundancia en modo bridge: RSTP. Implementación en si.

BSDCon Spain - Jordi Prats - Uso de OpenBSD en dispositivos empotrados

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Jordi Prats - Uso de OpenBSD en dispositivos empotrados
From: BSDCon Spain
Tags: bsdcon-barcelona, spanish, presentation, openbsd, embedded, jordi prats, pdf

Los sistemas empotrados gracias a un menor consumo energético y unas dimensiones reducidas, a costa de ciertas limitaciones del hardware, permiten su uso en multitud de entornos. En esta presentación veremos como usarlos con OpenBSD y sus posibles aplicaciones.

BSDCon Spain - Jesús Rodriguez - SIP y VozIP con FreeBSD

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Jesús Rodriguez - SIP y VozIP con FreeBSD
From: BSDCon Spain
Tags: bsdcon-barcelona, spanish, presentation, asterisk, openser, freebsd, sip, voip, jesus rodriguez, pdf

Repaso a las diferentes aplicaciones y servicios relacionados con SIP y VozIP que pueden usarse en FreeBSD. Entre estas apliaciones destacan OpenSER y Asterisk, ya que usados de forma conjunta pueden ofrecer una larga lista de servicios de forma rápida, segura y escalable.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Rafal Jaworowski - FreeBSD Embedded Report - PDF file

Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Rafal Jaworowski - FreeBSD Embedded Report - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, devsummit, devsummit2008, freebsd, embedded, rafal jaworowski, pdf
FreeBSD Embedded Report

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Kern Sibbald - Bacula - PDF file

Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Kern Sibbald - Bacula - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, bacula, kern sibbald, pdf

Bacula

The Open Source Enterprise Backup Solution

The Bacula project started in January 2000 with several goals, one of which was the ability to backup any client from a Palm to a mainframe computer. Bacula is available under a GPL license.

Bacula uses several distinct components, each communicating via TCP/IP, to achieve a very scalable and robust solution to backups.

Kern is one of the original project founders and still one of the most productive Bacula developers.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Robert Watson - TCP SMP Scalability - PDF file

Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Robert Watson - TCP SMP Scalability - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, devsummit, devsummit2008, freebsd, smp, robert watson, pdf
TCP SMP Scalability

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Poul-Henning Kamp - Measured (almost) does Air Traffic Control - PDF file

Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Poul-Henning Kamp - Measured (almost) does Air Traffic Control - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, air traffic control, scada, poul-henning kamp, pdf

Measured (almost) does Air Traffic Control

Monitoring weird hardware reliably

The new Danish Air Traffic Control system, CASIMO, prompted the development on a modular and general software platform for data collection, control and monitoring of "weird hardware" of all sorts.

The talk will present the "measured" daemon, and detail some of the uses it has been put to, as an, admittedly peripheral, component of the ATC system.

Many "SCADA" systems suffer from lack of usable interfaces for external access to the data. Measured takes the opposite point of view and makes real-time situation available, and accepts control instructions as ASCII text stream over TCP connections. Several examples of how this can be used will be demonstrated.

Measured will run on any FreeBSD system, but has not been ported to other UNIX variants yet, and it is perfect for that "intelligent house" project of yours.

I believe I gave a WIP presentation of this about two years ago.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Warner Losh - FreeBSD/mips - PDF file

Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Warner Losh - FreeBSD/mips - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, freebsd, mips, embedded, warner losh, pdf

FreeBSD/mips

Embedding FreeBSD

FreeBSD now runs on the MIPS platform. FreeBSD/mips supports MIPS-32 and MIPS-64 targets, including SMP for multicore support.

FreeBSD/mips is targeted at the embedded MIPS marketplace. FreeBSD has run on the MIPS platform for many years. Juniper ported FreeBSD to the Mips platform in the late 1990's. However, concern about intellectual property issues kept Juniper from contributing the port back to FreeBSD until recently. The contributed port was a 64-bit mips port.

In the mean time, many efforts were made to bring FreeBSD to the mips platform. The first substantial effort to bring FreeBSD to the Mips platform was done by Juli Mallet. This effort made it to single user, but never further than that. This effort was abandoned due to a change in Juli's life. The port languished.

Two years ago at BSDcan, as my involvement with FreeBSD/arm was growing, I tried to rally the troops into doing a FreeBSD/mips port. My efforts resulted in what has been commonly called the "mips2" effort. The name comes from the choice of //depot/projects/mips2 to host the work in perforce. A number of people worked on the earliest versions of the port, but it too languished and seemed destined to suffer the same fate as earlier efforts. Then, two individuals stood up and started working on the port. Wojciech A. Koszek and Oleksandr Tymoshenko pulled in code from the prior efforts. Through their efforts of stabilizing this code, the port to the single user stage and ported it to three different platforms. Others ported it to a few more. Snapshots of this work were released from time to time.

Cavium Networks picked up one of these snapshots and ported it to their multicore mips64 network processor. Cavium has kindly donated much of their work to the comminuty.

In December, I started at Cisco systems. My first job was to merge all the divergent variants of FreeBSD/mips and get it into shape to push into the tree. With luck, this should be in the tree before I give my talk.

In parallel to this, other advances in the embedded support for FreeBSD have been happening as well. I'll talk about new device drivers, new subsystems, and new build tools that help to support the embedded developer.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Kris Moore - Building self-contained PBIs from Ports (Automagically) - PDF file

Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Kris Moore - Building self-contained PBIs from Ports (Automagically) - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, pc-bsd, ports, pbi, kris moore, pdf

Building self-contained PBIs from Ports (Automagically)

Creating a self-contained application from the ports tree

PC-BSD provides a user-friendly desktop experience, for experts and casual users alike. PC-BSD is 100% FreeBSD under the hood, while providing desktop essentials, such as a graphical installation system, point-n-click package-management using the PBI system, and easy to use system management tools; All integrated into an easy to use K Desktop Environment (KDE).

The PBI (Push Button Installer) format is the cornerstone of the PC-BSD desktop, which allows users to install applications in a self-contained format, free from dependency problems, and compile issues that stop most casual users from desktop adoption. The PBI format also provides power and flexibility in user interaction, and scripting support, which allows applications to be fine-tuned to the best possible user experience.

This talk would go over in some detail our new PBI building system, which converts a FreeBSD port, such as FireFox, into a standalone self-contained PBI installer for PC-BSD desktops.

The presentation will be divided into two main sections:
The Push Button Installer (PBI) Format

The basics of the PBI format
The PBI format construction
Add & Remove scripting support within PBI

Building PBIs from Ports "Auto-magically"

The PBI build server & standalone software
Module creation & configuration
Converting messy ports into PBIs

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - John Pertalion - An Open Source Enterprise VPN Solution with OpenVPN and OpenBSD - PDF file

Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

John Pertalion - An Open Source Enterprise VPN Solution with OpenVPN and OpenBSD - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, openbsd, openvpn, john pertalion, pdf

An Open Source Enterprise VPN Solution with OpenVPN and OpenBSD

Solving the problem

At Appalachian State University, we utilize an open source VPN to allow faculty, staff and vendors secure access to Appalachian State University's internal network from any location that has an Internet connection. To implement our virtual private network project, we needed a secure VPN that is flexible enough to work with our existing network registration and LDAP authentication systems, has simple client installation, is redundant, allows multiple VPN server instances for special site-to-site tunnels and unique configurations, and can run on multiple platforms. Using OpenVPN running on OpenBSD, we met those requirements and added a distributed administration system that allows select users to allow VPN access to specific computers for external users and vendors without requiring intervention from our network or security personnel. Our presentation will start with a quick overview of OpenVPN and OpenBSD and then detail the specifics of our VPN implementation.

Dissatisfied with IPSec for road warrior VPN usage we went looking for a better solution. We had hopped that we could find a solution that would run on multiple platforms, was flexible and worked well. We found OpenVPN and have been pleased. Initially we ran it on RHEL. We migrated to OpenBSD for pf functionality and general security concerns. ...and because we like OpenBSD.

Our presentation will focus on the specifics of our VPN implementation. We will quickly cover the basics of OpenVPN and the most used features of OpenBSD. Moving along we will cover multiple authentication methods, redundancy, running multiple instances, integration with our netreg system, how pf has extended functionality, embedding in appliances, and client configuration. The system has proven helpful with providing vendor access where needed and we'll cover this aspect as well. Time permitting we will cover current enhancement efforts and future plans.

OpenVPN has been called the "Swiss army knife" of VPN solutions. We hope our presentation leaves participants with that feeling.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Ivan Voras - "finstall" - the new FreeBSD installer - PDF file

Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Ivan Voras - "finstall" - the new FreeBSD installer - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, freebsd, installer, ivan voras, pdf

"finstall" - the new FreeBSD installer

A graphical installer for FreeBSD

The "finstall" project, sponsored by Google as a Summer of Code 2007 project, is an attempt to create a user-friendly graphical installer for FreeBSD, with enough strong technical features to appeal to the more professional users. A long term goal for it is to be a replacement for sysinstall, and as such should support almost all of the features present in sysinstall, as well as add support for new FreeBSD features such as GEOM, ZFS, etc. This talk will describe the architecture of "finstall" and focus on its lesser known features such as remote installation.

"finstall" is funded by Google SoC as a possible long-term replacement for sysinstall, as a "LiveCD" with the whole FreeBSD base system on the CD, with X11 and XFCE4 GUI. In the talk I intend to describe what I did so far, and what are the future plans for it. This includes the installer GUI, the backend (which has the potential to become a generic FreeBSD configuration backend) and the assorted tools developed for finstall ("LiveCD" creation scripts). More information on finstall can be found here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/finstall.

OpenBSD - OpenBSD 4.5 Release Songs - Games - MP3 version

Sun, 25 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD 4.5 Release Songs - Games - MP3 version
From: OpenBSD
Tags: openbsd, artwork, openbsd, artwork

[Commentary still being written]

For RSS readers: Please note that the download URL is an FTP site.

OpenBSD - OpenBSD 4.5 Release Songs - Games - Ogg version

Sun, 25 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD 4.5 Release Songs - Games - Ogg version
From: OpenBSD
Tags: openbsd, artwork, openbsd, artwork

[Commentary still being written]

For RSS readers: Please note that the download URL is an FTP site.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Erwin Lansing - What's happening in the world of ports and portmgr - PDF file

Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Erwin Lansing - What's happening in the world of ports and portmgr - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, devsummit, devsummit2008, freebsd, portmgr, erwin lansing, pdf
What's happening in the world of ports and portmgr

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Leslie Hawthorn - Google SoC - PDF file

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Leslie Hawthorn - Google SoC - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, google, summer of code, leslie hawthorn, pdf

Google SoC

Summer of Code

In this talk, I will briefly discuss some general ways Google's Open Source Team contributes to the wider community. The rest of the talk will explore some highlights of the Google Summer of Code program, our initiative to get university students involved in Open Source development.

I will cover the program's inception, lessons learned over time and tips for success in the program for both mentors and students. In particular, the talk will detail some experiences of the *BSD mentoring organizations involved in the program as a case study in successfully managing the program from the Open Source project's perspective. Any Google Summer of Code participants in the audience are welcome and encouraged to chime in with their own insights.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Dan Langille - BSDCan 2008 - Opening session - PDF file

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Dan Langille - BSDCan 2008 - Opening session - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, dan langille, pdf

Opening session

Welcome to BSDCan 2008
Traditional greetings

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - John Baldwin - Introduction to Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel - slides, PDF file

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

John Baldwin - Introduction to Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel - slides, PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, paper, debugging, freebsd, john baldwin, pdf

Introduction to Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel

Just like every other piece of software, the FreeBSD kernel has bugs. Debugging a kernel is a bit different from debugging a userland program as there is nothing underneath the kernel to provide debugging facilities such as ptrace() or procfs. This paper will give a brief overview of some of the tools available for investigating bugs in the FreeBSD kernel. It will cover the in-kernel debugger DDB and the external debugger kgdb which is used to perform post-mortem analysis on kernel crash dumps.

Introduction to Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel

Basic crash messages, what a crash looks like
- typical panic() invocation
- page fault example
"live" debugging with DDB
- stack traces
- ps
- deadlock examples
- show lockchain
- show sleepchain
- Adding new DDB commands
KGDB
- inspecting processes and threads
- working with kernel modules
- using scripts to extend
examining crashdumps using utilities
- ps, netstat, etc.
debugging strategies
- kernel crashes
- system hangs

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - John Baldwin - Introduction to Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel - paper, PDF file

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

John Baldwin - Introduction to Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel - paper, PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, paper, debugging, freebsd, john baldwin, pdf

Introduction to Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel

Basic crash messages, what a crash looks like
- typical panic() invocation
- page fault example
"live" debugging with DDB
- stack traces
- ps
- deadlock examples
- show lockchain
- show sleepchain
- Adding new DDB commands
KGDB
- inspecting processes and threads
- working with kernel modules
- using scripts to extend
examining crashdumps using utilities
- ps, netstat, etc.
debugging strategies
- kernel crashes
- system hangs

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Adrian Chad - What Not To Do When Writing Network Applications - PDF file

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Adrian Chad - What Not To Do When Writing Network Applications - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, network applications, adrian chad, pdf

What Not To Do When Writing Network Applications

The lessons learnt working with not-so-high-performance network applications

This talk will look at issues which face the modern network application developer, from the point of view of poorly-designed examples. This will cover internal code structure and dataflow, interaction with the TCP stack, IO scheduling in high and low latency environments and high-availability considerations. In essence, this presentation should be seen as a checklist of what not to do when writing network applications.

Plenty of examples of well designed network applications exist in the open and closed source world today. Unfortunately there are just as many examples of fast network applications as there are "fast but workload specific"; sometimes failing miserably in handling the general case. This may be due to explicit design (eg Varnish) but many are simply due to the designer not fully appreciating the wide variance in "networks" - and their network application degrades ungracefully when under duress. My aim in this presentation is to touch on a wide number of issues which face network application programmers - most of which seem not "application related" to the newcomer - such as including pipelining into network communication, managing a balance between accepting new requests and servicing existing requests, or providing back-pressure to a L4 loadbalancer in case of traffic bursts. Various schemes for working with these issues will be presented, and hopefully participants will walk away with more of an understanding about how the network, application and operating systems interact.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Rafal Jaworowski - Porting FreeBSD/ARM to Marvell Orion System-On-Chip - PDF file

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Rafal Jaworowski - Porting FreeBSD/ARM to Marvell Orion System-On-Chip - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, freebsd, arm, marvell orion, rafal jaworowski, pdf

Porting FreeBSD/ARM to Marvell Orion System-On-Chip

This talk covers the development work on porting the FreeBSD/ARM to Marvell Orion family of highly integrated chips.

ARM architecture is widely adopted in the embedded devices, and since the architecture can be licensed, many implementation variations exist: Orion is a derivative compliant with the ARMv5TE definition, it provides a rich set of on-chip peripherals.

Present state of the FreeBSD support for ARM is explained, areas for improvement highlighted and its overall shape and condition presented.

The main discussion covers scope of the Orion port (what integrated peripherals required new development, what was adapted from existing code base); design decisions are explained for the most critical items, and implementation details revealed.

Summary notes are given on general porting methodology, debugging techniques and difficulties encountered during such undertaking.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Matthieu Herrb - X.org - PDF file

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Matthieu Herrb - X.org - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, x.org, matthieu herrb, pdf

X.org

upcoming plans

The X.Org project provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. The development work is being done in conjunction with the freedesktop.org community. The X.Org Foundation is the educational non-profit corporation whose Board serves this effort, and whose Members lead this work.

The X window system has been changing a lot in the recent years, and still changing. This talk will present this evolution, summarizing what has already been done and showing the current roadmap for future evolutions, with some focus on how *BSD kernels can be affected by the developments done with Linux as the primary target.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - John Birrell - DTrace for FreeBSD - PDF file

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

John Birrell - DTrace for FreeBSD - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, dtrace, freebsd, john birrell, pdf

DTrace for FreeBSD

What on earth is that system doing?!

DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing facility originally developed for Solaris that can be used by administrators and developers on live production systems to examine the behavior of both user programs and of the operating system itself. DTrace enables users to explore their system to understand how it works, track down performance problems across many layers of software, or locate the cause of aberrant behavior. DTrace lets users create their own custom programs to dynamically instrument the system and provide immediate, concise answers to arbitrary questions you can formulate using the DTrace D programming language.

This talk discusses the port of the DTrace facility to FreeBSD and demonstrates examples on a live FreeBSD system.

Introduction to the D language - probes, predicates and actions.
dtrace(8) and libdtrace - the userland side of the DTrace story.
The DTrace kernel module, it's ioctl interface to userland and the provider infrastructure in the kernel.
DTrace kernel hooks and the problem of code licensed under Sun's CDDL.
What does a DTrace probe actually do?
DTrace safety and how it is implemented.
Build system changes to add CTF (Compact C Type Format) data to objects, shared libraries and executables.
The DTrace test suite.
A brief list of things to do to port the DTrace facility to other BSD-derived operating systems.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Randall Stewart - SCTP what it is and how to use it - PDF file

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Randall Stewart - SCTP what it is and how to use it - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, abstract, freebsd, sctp, randall stewart, pdf

SCTP - SCTP what it is and how to use it

This talk will introduce the attendee into the interesting world of SCTP.

We will first discuss the new and different features that SCTP (a new transport in FreeBSD 7.0) provide to the user. Then we will shift gears and discuss the extended socket API that is available to SCTP users and will cover such items as:

The two socket programming models
Extended system calls that support the SCTP feature set.
What model may fit you best

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Robert Watson - BSDCan 2008 - Closing - PDF file

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Robert Watson - BSDCan 2008 - Closing - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, robert watson, pdf

Closing

Beer, prizes, secrets, Works In Progress

The traditional closing...
with some new and interesting twists. Sleep in if you must, but don't miss this session.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Pawel Jakub Dawidek - A closer look at the ZFS file system - PDF file

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Pawel Jakub Dawidek - A closer look at the ZFS file system - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, zfs, freebsd, pawel jakub dawidek, pdf

A closer look at the ZFS file system

simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity

SUN's ZFS file system became part of FreeBSD on 6th April 2007. ZFS is a new kind of file system that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We've blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at the source, and created a storage system that's actually a pleasure to use.

ZFS presents a pooled storage model that completely eliminates the concept of volumes and the associated problems of partitions, provisioning, wasted bandwidth and stranded storage. Thousands of file systems can draw from a common storage pool, each one consuming only as much space as it actually needs. The combined I/O bandwidth of all devices in the pool is available to all filesystems at all times.

All operations are copy-on-write transactions, so the on-disk state is always valid. There is no need to fsck(1M) a ZFS file system, ever. Every block is checksummed to prevent silent data corruption, and the data is self-healing in replicated (mirrored or RAID) configurations. If one copy is damaged, ZFS detects it and uses another copy to repair it.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Rafal Jaworowski - Interfacing embedded FreeBSD with U-Boot - PDF file

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Rafal Jaworowski - Interfacing embedded FreeBSD with U-Boot - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, embedded, freebsd, u-boot, rafal jaworowski, pdf

Interfacing embedded FreeBSD with U-Boot

Working with the de facto standard for an initial level boot loader

In the embedded world U-Boot is a de facto standard for an initial level boot loader (firmware). It runs on a great number of platforms and architectures, and is open source.

This talk covers the development work on integrating FreeBSD with U-Boot-based systems. Starting with an overview of differences between booting an all-purpose desktop computer vs. embedded system, FreeBSD booting concepts are explained along with requirements for the underlying firmware.

Historical attempts to interface FreeBSD with this firmware are mentioned and explanation given on why they failed or proved incomplete. Finally, the recently developed approach to integrate FreeBSD and U-Boot is presented, with implementation details and particular attention on how it's been made architecture and platform independent, and how loader(8) has been bound to it.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Brooks Davis - Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods - PDF file

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Brooks Davis - Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, abstract, software development, brooks davis, pdf

Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods

In this talk we present Aerosource, an initiative to bring Open Source Software development methods to internal software developers at The Aerospace Corporation.

Within Aerosource, FreeBSD is used in several key roles. First, we run most of our tools on top of FreeBSD. Second, the ports collection (both official ports and custom internal ones) eases our administrative burden. Third, the FreeBSD project serves as an example and role model for the results that can be achieved by an Open Source Software projects. We discuss the development infrastructure we have built for Aerosource based largely on BSD licensed software including FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, Apache, and Trac. We will also discuss our custom management tools including our system for managing our custom internal ports. Finally, we will cover our development successes and how we use projects like FreeBSD as exemplars of OSS development.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Brooks Davis - Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods - PDF file

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods

In this talk we present Aerosource, an initiative to bring Open Source Software development methods to internal software developers at The Aerospace Corporation.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - Chris Lattner - BSD licensed C++ compiler - PDF file

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Chris Lattner - BSD licensed C++ compiler - PDF file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, bsdl, llvm, chris lattner, pdf

BSD licensed C++ compiler

LLVM is a suite of carefully designed open source libraries that implement compiler components (like language front-ends, code generators, aggressive optimizers, Just-In-Time compiler support, debug support, link-time optimization, etc.). The goal of the LLVM project is to build these components in a way that allows them to be combined together to create familiar tools (like a C compiler), interesting new tools (like an OpenGL JIT compiler), and many other things we haven't thought of yet. Because LLVM is under continuous development, clients of these components naturally benefit from improvements in the libraries.

This talk gives an overview of LLVM's design and approach to compiler construction, and gives several example applications. It describes applications of LLVM technology to llvm-gcc (a C/C++/Objective C compiler based on the GNU GCC front-end), the OpenGL stack in Mac OS/X Leopard, and Clang. Among other things, the Clang+LLVM Compiler provides a fully BSD-Licensed C and Objective-C compiler (with C++ in development) which compiles code several times faster than GCC, produces code that is faster than GCC in many cases, produces better warnings and error messages, and supports many other applications (e.g. static analysis and refactoring).

bsdtalk - Alex Feldman from Sangoma - MP3 version

Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Alex Feldman from Sangoma - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, sangoma, alex feldman, mp3
Interview at BSDCan2008 with Alex Feldman from Sangoma.

bsdtalk - Alex Feldman from Sangoma - Ogg version

Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Alex Feldman from Sangoma - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, sangoma, alex feldman, ogg
Interview at BSDCan2008 with Alex Feldman from Sangoma.

bsdtalk - Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation - MP3 version

Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd foundation, justin gibbs, mp3
Interview with Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation.

bsdtalk - Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation - Ogg version

Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd foundation, justin gibbs, ogg
Interview with Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation.

Diomidis Spinellis - A Tale of Four Kernels - Diomidis Spinellis. A tale of four kernels. In Wilhem Schfer, Matthew B. Dwyer, and Volker Gruhn, editors, ICSE '08: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering, pages 381-390, New York, May 2008. Association for Computing Machinery.

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

A Tale of Four Kernels - Diomidis Spinellis. A tale of four kernels. In Wilhem Schfer, Matthew B. Dwyer, and Volker Gruhn, editors, ICSE '08: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering, pages 381-390, New York, May 2008. Association for Computing Machinery.
From: Diomidis Spinellis
Tags: freebsd, linux, solaris, windows, article, kernel, diomidis spinellis, html
The FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Solaris, and Windows operating systems have kernels that provide comparable facilities. Interestingly, their code bases share almost no common parts, while their development processes vary dramatically. We analyze the source code of the four systems by collecting metrics in the areas of file organization, code structure, code style, the use of the C preprocessor, and data organization. The aggregate results indicate that across various areas and many different metrics, four systems developed using wildly different processes score comparably. This allows us to posit that the structure and internal quality attributes of a working, non-trivial software artifact will represent first and foremost the engineering requirements of its construction, with the influence of process being marginal, if any.

Diomidis Spinellis - A Tale of Four Kernels - Diomidis Spinellis. A tale of four kernels. In Wilhem Schfer, Matthew B. Dwyer, and Volker Gruhn, editors, ICSE '08: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering, pages 381-390, New York, May 2008. Association for Computing Machinery.

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

A Tale of Four Kernels - Diomidis Spinellis. A tale of four kernels. In Wilhem Schfer, Matthew B. Dwyer, and Volker Gruhn, editors, ICSE '08: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering, pages 381-390, New York, May 2008. Association for Computing Machinery.
From: Diomidis Spinellis
Tags: freebsd, linux, solaris, windows, article, kernel, diomidis spinellis, pdf
The FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Solaris, and Windows operating systems have kernels that provide comparable facilities. Interestingly, their code bases share almost no common parts, while their development processes vary dramatically. We analyze the source code of the four systems by collecting metrics in the areas of file organization, code structure, code style, the use of the C preprocessor, and data organization. The aggregate results indicate that across various areas and many different metrics, four systems developed using wildly different processes score comparably. This allows us to posit that the structure and internal quality attributes of a working, non-trivial software artifact will represent first and foremost the engineering requirements of its construction, with the influence of process being marginal, if any.

New York City *BSD User Group - Managing OpenBSD Environments - MP3 version

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Managing OpenBSD Environments - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, openbsd, system management, mp3

This talk is the result of an after-meeting discussion with a few folks, when it became apparent that there is some confusion as to how to deal with OpenBSD in small and large environments. The topic of installation and upgrading came up again. This talk is aimed to hopefully dispel many of the rumors, provide a thorough description and walk through of the various stages of running OpenBSD in any size environment, and some of the features and tools at the administrator`s disposal.

Okan Demirmen has been working with UNIX-like systems for as long as he can remember and has found OpenBSD to match some of the same philosophies in which he believes, namely simplicity and correctness, and reap the benefits of such.

OpenBSD - OpenBSD 4.3 Release Song - "Home to Hypocrisy" - MP3 version

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD 4.3 Release Song - "Home to Hypocrisy" - MP3 version
From: OpenBSD
Tags: openbsd, artwork, mp3

We are just plain tired of being lectured to by a man who is a lot like Naomi Campbell.

In 1998 when a United Airlines plane was waiting in the queue at Washington Dulles International Airport for take-off to New Orleans (where a Usenix conference was taking place), one man stood up from his seat, demanded that they stop waiting in the queue and be permitted to deplane. Even after orders from the crew and a pilot from the cockpit he refused to sit down. The plane exited the queue and returned to the airport gangway. Security personnel ran onto the plane and removed this man, Richard Stallman, from the plane. After Richard was removed from the plane, everyone else stayed onboard and continued their journey to New Orleans. A few OpenBSD developers were on that same plane, seated very closeby, so we have an accurate story of the events.

This is the man who presumes that he should preach to us about morality, freedom, and what is best for us. He believes it is his God-given role to tell us what is best for us, when he has shown that he takes actions which are not best for everyone. He prefers actions which he thinks are best for him -- and him alone -- and then lies to the public. Richard Stallman is no Spock.

We release our software in ways that are maximally free. We remove all restrictions on use and distribution, but leave a requirement to be known as the authors. We follow a pattern of free source code distribution that started in the mid-1980's in Berkeley, from before Richard Stallman had any powerful influence which he could use so falsely.

We have a development sub-tree called "ports". Our "ports" tree builds software that is 'found on the net' into packages that OpenBSD users can use more easily. A scaffold of Makefiles and scripts automatically fetch these pieces of software, apply patches as required by OpenBSD, and then build them into nice neat little tarballs. This is provided as a convenience for users. The ports tree is maintained by OpenBSD entirely separately from our main source tree. Some of the software which is fetched and compiled is not as free as we would like, but what can we do. All the other operating system projects make exactly the same decision, and provide these same conveniences to their users.

Richard felt that this "ports tree" of ours made OpenBSD non-free. He came to our mailing lists and lectured to us specifically, yet he said nothing to the many other vendors who do the same; many of them donate to the FSF and perhaps that has something to do with it. Meanwhile, Richard has personally made sure that all the official GNU software -- including Emacs -- compiles and runs on Windows.

That man is a false leader. He is a hypocrite. There may be some people who listen to him. But we don't listen to people who do not follow their own stupid rules.

OpenBSD - OpenBSD 4.3 Release Song - "Home to Hypocrisy" - Ogg version

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD 4.3 Release Song - "Home to Hypocrisy" - Ogg version
From: OpenBSD
Tags: openbsd, artwork, ogg

We are just plain tired of being lectured to by a man who is a lot like Naomi Campbell.

That man is a false leader. He is a hypocrite. There may be some people who listen to him. But we don't listen to people who do not follow their own stupid rules.

bsdtalk - Jeremy White, Founder of CodeWeavers - MP3 version

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Jeremy White, Founder of CodeWeavers - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, codeweavers, crossover, jeremy white, mp3
Interview with Jeremy White, Founder of CodeWeavers. We talk about the recent availability of an experimental build of Crossover Games for BSD.

bsdtalk - Jeremy White, Founder of CodeWeavers - Ogg version

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Jeremy White, Founder of CodeWeavers - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, codeweavers, crossover, jeremy white, ogg
Interview with Jeremy White, Founder of CodeWeavers. We talk about the recent availability of an experimental build of Crossover Games for BSD.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Developer Alexander Motin - MP3 version

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Developer Alexander Motin - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, mpd, alexander motin, mp3
Interview with FreeBSD Developer Alexander Motin. We talk about mpd, the netgraph based Multi-link PPP Daemon. For more information, see http://mpd.sourceforge.net/.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Developer Alexander Motin - Ogg version

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Developer Alexander Motin - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, mpd, alexander motin, ogg
Interview with FreeBSD Developer Alexander Motin. We talk about mpd, the netgraph based Multi-link PPP Daemon. For more information, see http://mpd.sourceforge.net/.

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Cover page

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Cover page
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2008, pdf, paper, cover
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Whole of the proceedings

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Whole of the proceedings
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2008, pdf, paper
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - PC-BSD: FreeBSD on the Desktop, Matt Olander (iXsystems)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - PC-BSD: FreeBSD on the Desktop, Matt Olander (iXsystems)
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2008, pdf, paper, pc-bsd, freebsd, desktop, matt olander
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Tracking FreeBSD in a Commercial Setting, M. Warner Losh (Cisco Systems, Inc.)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Tracking FreeBSD in a Commercial Setting, M. Warner Losh (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2008, pdf, paper, freebsd, warner losh
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Gaols: Implementing Jails Under the kauth Framework, Christoph Badura (The NetBSD Foundation)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Gaols: Implementing Jails Under the kauth Framework, Christoph Badura (The NetBSD Foundation)
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2008, pdf, paper, netbsd, jails, kauth, christoph badura
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - BSD implementations of XCAST6, Yuji IMAI, Takahiro KUROSAWA, Koichi SUZUKI, Eiichi MURAMOTO, Katsuomi HAMAJIMA, Hajimu UMEMOTO, and Nobuo KAWAGUTI (XCAST fan club, Japan)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - BSD implementations of XCAST6, Yuji IMAI, Takahiro KUROSAWA, Koichi SUZUKI, Eiichi MURAMOTO, Katsuomi HAMAJIMA, Hajimu UMEMOTO, and Nobuo KAWAGUTI (XCAST fan club, Japan)
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2008, pdf, paper, bsd, xcast6, yuji imai, takahiro kurosawa, koichi suzuki, eiichi muramoto, katsuomi hamajima, hajimu umemoto, nobuo kawaguti
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods, Brooks Davis, Michael AuYeung, Mark Thomas (The Aerospace Corporation)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods, Brooks Davis, Michael AuYeung, Mark Thomas (The Aerospace Corporation)
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2008, pdf, paper, freebsd, promotion, brooks david, michael auyeung, mark thomas
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Send and Receive of File System Protocols: Userspace Approach With puffs, Antti Kantee (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Send and Receive of File System Protocols: Userspace Approach With puffs, Antti Kantee (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2008, pdf, paper, puffs, antti kantee
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Logical Resource Isolation in the NetBSD Kernel, Kristaps Dzonsons (Centre for Parallel Computing, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Logical Resource Isolation in the NetBSD Kernel, Kristaps Dzonsons (Centre for Parallel Computing, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology)
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2008, pdf, paper, netbsd, resources, kristaps dzonsons
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - GEOM --- in Infrastructure We Trust, Pawel Jakub Dawidek (The FreeBSD Project)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - GEOM --- in Infrastructure We Trust, Pawel Jakub Dawidek (The FreeBSD Project)
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2008, pdf, paper, freebsd, geom, pawel jakub dawidek
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - A Portable iSCSI Initiator, Alistair Crooks (The NetBSD Foundation)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - A Portable iSCSI Initiator, Alistair Crooks (The NetBSD Foundation)
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2008, pdf, paper, netbsd, iscsi, alistair crooks
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - OpenBSD Network Stack Internals, Claudio Jeker (The OpenBSD Project)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - OpenBSD Network Stack Internals, Claudio Jeker (The OpenBSD Project)
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2008, pdf, paper, openbsd, network stack, claudio jeker
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Reducing Lock Contention in a Multi-Core System, Randall Stewart (Cisco Systems, Inc.)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Reducing Lock Contention in a Multi-Core System, Randall Stewart (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2008, pdf, paper, freebsd, lock contention, smp, randall stewart
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Sleeping Beauty --- NetBSD on Modern Laptops, Jorg Sonnenberger, Jared D. McNeill (The NetBSD Foundation)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2008 Paper List - Sleeping Beauty --- NetBSD on Modern Laptops, Jorg Sonnenberger, Jared D. McNeill (The NetBSD Foundation)
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2008, pdf, paper, netbsd, laptops, jorg sonnenberger, jared d mcneill
Papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

bsdtalk - James Cornell - MP3 version

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

James Cornell - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, desktop, james cornell, mp3
Another interview with Sysadmin James Cornell. We talk about BSD, OpenSolaris, and Linux on the desktop.

bsdtalk - James Cornell - Ogg version

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

James Cornell - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, desktop, james cornell, ogg
Another interview with Sysadmin James Cornell. We talk about BSD, OpenSolaris, and Linux on the desktop.

bsdtalk - Adam Wright from No Starch Press - MP3 version

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

Adam Wright from No Starch Press - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, books, no starch press, adam wright, mp3

Intro: Some musings on the consistency and simplicity of BSD.

A brief interview with Adam Wright from No Starch Press, recorded by Micheal Dexter on behalf of BSDTalk. They talk about recent and future BSD books.

bsdtalk - Adam Wright from No Starch Press - Ogg version

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

Adam Wright from No Starch Press - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, books, no starch press, adam wright, ogg

Intro: Some musings on the consistency and simplicity of BSD.

A brief interview with Adam Wright from No Starch Press, recorded by Micheal Dexter on behalf of BSDTalk. They talk about recent and future BSD books.

OpenFest - Dimitri Vasileva - Visualizing Security Threats with Social Networking Software - AVI

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

Dimitri Vasileva - Visualizing Security Threats with Social Networking Software - AVI
From: OpenFest
Tags: openfest, openfest2007, presentation, freebsd, security, social networking, dimitri vasileva, avi
Dimitri Vasileva - Visualizing Security Threats with Social Networking Software (Bulgarian)

OpenFest - Atanas Bchvarov - Packet Filtering in FreeBSD - AVI

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

Atanas Bchvarov - Packet Filtering in FreeBSD - AVI
From: OpenFest
Tags: openfest, openfest2007, presentation, freebsd, atanas bchvarov, avi
Atanas Bchvarov - Packet Filtering in FreeBSD (Bulgarian)

OpenFest - Shcheryana Shopova - SNMP monitoring - AVI

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

Shcheryana Shopova - SNMP monitoring - AVI
From: OpenFest
Tags: openfest, openfest2007, presentation, freebsd, snmp, monitoring, shcheryana shopova, avi
Shcheryana Shopova - SNMP monitoring (Bulgarian)

OpenFest - Willow Vachkov - FreeBSD and the new network and transport protocols (IPv6 and SCTP) - AVI

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

Willow Vachkov - FreeBSD and the new network and transport protocols (IPv6 and SCTP) - AVI
From: OpenFest
Tags: openfest, openfest2007, presentation, freebsd, ipv6, sctp, willow vanchkov, avi
Willow Vachkov - FreeBSD and the new network and transport protocols (IPv6 and SCTP) (Bulgarian)

OpenFest - Discussion - What's cooking for FreeBSD 7.0? - AVI

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

Discussion - What's cooking for FreeBSD 7.0? - AVI
From: OpenFest
Tags: openfest, openfest2007, discussion, freebsd, freebsd7, avi
Discussion - What's cooking for FreeBSD 7.0? (Bulgarian)

OpenFest - OpenFest 2005 Videos - FreeBSD Jails - Deyan Dyankov

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

OpenFest 2005 Videos - FreeBSD Jails - Deyan Dyankov
From: OpenFest
Tags: openfest, openfest2005, presentation, freebsd, jail, avi, deyan dyankov
Various videos of OpenFest 2005 (Bulgarian)

OpenFest - OpenFest 2005 Videos - Embedding BSD - Ivo Vachkov

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

OpenFest 2005 Videos - Embedding BSD - Ivo Vachkov
From: OpenFest
Tags: openfest, openfest2005, presentation, embedded systems, avi, ivo vachkov
Various videos of OpenFest 2005 (Bulgarian)

OpenFest - OpenFest 2005 Videos - QoS etc with OpenBSD pf

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

OpenFest 2005 Videos - QoS etc with OpenBSD pf
From: OpenFest
Tags: openfest, openfest2005, presentation, openbsd, qos, pf, avi, mihail paunov
Various videos of OpenFest 2005 (Bulgarian)

OpenFest - OpenFest 2005 Videos - Route and firewall redundancy using CARP and pfsync - Atanas Bachvarov

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

OpenFest 2005 Videos - Route and firewall redundancy using CARP and pfsync - Atanas Bachvarov
From: OpenFest
Tags: openfest, openfest2005, presentation, carp, pfsync, avi, atanas bachvarov
Various videos of OpenFest 2005 (Bulgarian)

OpenFest - OpenFest 2005 Videos - Offical Bulgarian FreeBSD Mirror - Dimiter Vasilev

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

OpenFest 2005 Videos - Offical Bulgarian FreeBSD Mirror - Dimiter Vasilev
From: OpenFest
Tags: openfest, openfest2005, presentation, freebsd, mirror, avi, dimiter vasilev
Various videos of OpenFest 2005 (Bulgarian)

OpenFest - OpenFest 2005 Videos - DIY FreeBSD Port

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

OpenFest 2005 Videos - DIY FreeBSD Port
From: OpenFest
Tags: openfest, openfest2005, presentation, freebsd, ports, avi, peter pentchev
Various videos of OpenFest 2005 (Bulgarian)

OpenFest - Vasil Dimov - The FreeBSD ports collection - tips and tricks - AVI

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

Vasil Dimov - The FreeBSD ports collection - tips and tricks - AVI
From: OpenFest
Tags: openfest, openfest2007, presentation, freebsd, ports collection, vasil dimov, avi
Vasil Dimov - The FreeBSD ports collection - tips and tricks (Bulgarian)

OpenFest - Nikolai Denev - FreeBSD goes Zettabyte - AVI

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

Nikolai Denev - FreeBSD goes Zettabyte - AVI
From: OpenFest
Tags: openfest, openfest2007, presentation, freebsd, zettabyte, nikolai denev, avi
Nikolai Denev - FreeBSD goes Zettabyte (Bulgarian)

bsdtalk - Dan Langille - MP3 version

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

Dan Langille - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, afilias, bsdcan2008, dan langille, mp3
Interview with Dan Langille. We talk about his new job with Afilias, and BSDCan 2008.

bsdtalk - Dan Langille - Ogg version

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

Dan Langille - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, afilias, bsdcan2008, dan langille, ogg
Interview with Dan Langille. We talk about his new job with Afilias, and BSDCan 2008.

New York City *BSD User Group - Building a High-Performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD - MP3 version

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

Building a High-Performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, high performance computing, freebsd, brooks davis, mp3

Special NYC*BUG meeting with FreeBSD developer Brooks Davis
Since late 2000 we have developed and maintained a general purpose technical and scientific computing cluster running the FreeBSD operating system. In that time we have grown from a cluster of 8 dual Intel Pentium III systems to our current mix of 64 dual, quad-core Intel Xeon and 289 dual AMD Opteron systems.

In this talk we reflect on the system architecture as documented in our BSDCon 2003 paper "Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD" and our changes since that time. After a brief overview of the current cluster we revisit the architectural decisions in that paper and reflect on their long term success. We then discuss lessons learned in the process. Finally, we conclude with thoughts on future cluster expansion and designs.

Bio
Brooks Davis is an Engineering Specialist in the High Performance Computing Section of the Computer Systems Research Department at The Aerospace Corporation. He has been a FreeBSD user since 1994, a FreeBSD committer since 2001, and a core team member since 2006. He earned a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College in 1998.

His computing interests include high performance computing, networking, security, mobility, and, of course, finding ways to use FreeBSD in all these areas. When not computing, he enjoys reading, cooking, brewing and pounding on red-hot iron in his garage blacksmith shop.

bsdtalk - BSD Hobbiest Deborah Norling - MP3 version

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

BSD Hobbiest Deborah Norling - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, accessibility, deborah norling, mp3
Interview with Deborah Norling. We talk about her use of BSD on old hardware, accessibility on the BSDs, and Simh (http://simh.trailing-edge.com).

bsdtalk - BSD Hobbiest Deborah Norling - Ogg version

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

BSD Hobbiest Deborah Norling - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, accessibility, deborah norling, ogg
Interview with Deborah Norling. We talk about her use of BSD on old hardware, accessibility on the BSDs, and Simh (http://simh.trailing-edge.com).

New York City *BSD User Group - User Interfaces and How People Think - MP3 version

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

User Interfaces and How People Think - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, user interfaces, mp3

"User Interfaces and How People Think" will introduce concepts of designing software for different users by observing how they think about and do what they do. While much of design today focuses on the front-end of computer systems, there is opportunity to innovate in every area where a human interacts with software.

Bio: Jeffery Mau is a user experience designer with the leading business and technology consulting firm Sapient. He has helped clients create great customer experiences in the financial services, education, entertainment and telecommunications industries. With a passion for connecting people with technology, Jeff specializes in Information Architecture and Business Strategy. Jeff holds a Masters in Design from the IIT Institute of Design in Chicago, Illinois.

New York City *BSD User Group - User Interfaces and How People Think - Slides

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

User Interfaces and How People Think - Slides
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, user interfaces, pdf

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Lead Release Engineer Ken Smith - MP3 version

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Lead Release Engineer Ken Smith - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, release engineer, ken smith, mp3
Interview with FreeBSD Lead Release Engineer Ken Smith.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Lead Release Engineer Ken Smith - Ogg version

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Lead Release Engineer Ken Smith - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, release engineer, ken smith, ogg
Interview with FreeBSD Lead Release Engineer Ken Smith.

bsdtalk - PBI 4 with Kris Moore - MP3 version

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

PBI 4 with Kris Moore - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pc-bsd, kris moore, mp3
Interview with PC-BSD founder Kris Moore about the new features in PBI 4.

bsdtalk - PBI 4 with Kris Moore - Ogg version

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

PBI 4 with Kris Moore - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pc-bsd, kris moore, ogg
Interview with PC-BSD founder Kris Moore about the new features in PBI 4.

New York City *BSD User Group - Open Meeting on OpenSSH - MP3 version

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Open Meeting on OpenSSH - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, openssh, mp3

Open Meeting on OpenSSH

Febrary's NYCBUG meeting is a broad look at OpenSSH, the de facto method for remote administration and more. OpenSSH celebrated its 8th anniversary this past September, and we thought this would be a great opportunity to discuss OpenSSH, and for others to contribute their hacks and interesting applications.

bsdtalk - The Mult Project with Kristaps Dzonsons - MP3 version

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

The Mult Project with Kristaps Dzonsons - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, multi project, kristaps dzonsons, mp3
We talk about the Mult project, which is "an on-going research project to create a high-performance instance multiplicity system." You can find more information at http://mult.bsd.lv/. He also gives a quick update on Sysjail.

bsdtalk - The Mult Project with Kristaps Dzonsons - Ogg version

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

The Mult Project with Kristaps Dzonsons - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, multi project, kristaps dzonsons, ogg
We talk about the Mult project, which is "an on-going research project to create a high-performance instance multiplicity system." You can find more information at http://mult.bsd.lv/. He also gives a quick update on Sysjail.

bsdtalk - Dru Lavigne - MP3 version

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

Dru Lavigne - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, dru lavigne, the best of freebsd basics, mp3

Interview with Dru Lavigne. We talk about her new book "The Best of FreeBSD Basics" and also get an update on some other projects including BSD Certification.

See the following links for more information:

https://register.bsdcertification.org/register/get-a-bsdcg-id
http://reedmedia.net/books/freebsd-basics
http://www.osbr.ca

bsdtalk - Dru Lavigne - Ogg version

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

Dru Lavigne - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, dru lavigne, the best of freebsd basics, ogg

Interview with Dru Lavigne. We talk about her new book "The Best of FreeBSD Basics" and also get an update on some other projects including BSD Certification.

See the following links for more information:

https://register.bsdcertification.org/register/get-a-bsdcg-id
http://reedmedia.net/books/freebsd-basics
http://www.osbr.ca

bsdtalk - Central Syslog - MP3 version

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

Central Syslog - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, syslog, mp3

Setting up a central syslog server.

If you are concerned about the security of your logs, use a dedicated machine and lock it down.
Keep clocks in sync.
You may need to change log rotation schedule in /etc/newsyslog.conf. You can rotate based in size and/or time. This can be as much a policy decision as a hardware decision.
On central log host, change syslogd flags to listen to network. Each BSD does this differently, so check the man pages. Also, check out the -n flag for busy environments.
Make sure host firewall allows syslog traffic through.
Be careful to limit syslog traffic to just the trusted network or hosts. FreeBSD man page refers to syslogd as a "remote disk filling service".
For heavy logging environments, it is important to have a dedicated network. A down syslogd server can create a lot of "ARP who-has" broadcasts.
Most network devices such as printers and commercial firewalls support sending to a central syslog server. Take a look at "Snare" for Windows hosts.
To send messages from a Unix host, specify the host name prepended with @ instead of a file for logging in /etc/syslog.conf. For example, change /var/log/xferlog to @loghost.mydomain.biz. You can also copy and edit the line to have it log to both a local file and a remote host.

bsdtalk - Central Syslog - Ogg version

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

Central Syslog - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, syslog, ogg

Setting up a central syslog server.

If you are concerned about the security of your logs, use a dedicated machine and lock it down.
Keep clocks in sync.
You may need to change log rotation schedule in /etc/newsyslog.conf. You can rotate based in size and/or time. This can be as much a policy decision as a hardware decision.
On central log host, change syslogd flags to listen to network. Each BSD does this differently, so check the man pages. Also, check out the -n flag for busy environments.
Make sure host firewall allows syslog traffic through.
Be careful to limit syslog traffic to just the trusted network or hosts. FreeBSD man page refers to syslogd as a "remote disk filling service".
For heavy logging environments, it is important to have a dedicated network. A down syslogd server can create a lot of "ARP who-has" broadcasts.
Most network devices such as printers and commercial firewalls support sending to a central syslog server. Take a look at "Snare" for Windows hosts.
To send messages from a Unix host, specify the host name prepended with @ instead of a file for logging in /etc/syslog.conf. For example, change /var/log/xferlog to @loghost.mydomain.biz. You can also copy and edit the line to have it log to both a local file and a remote host.

New York City *BSD User Group - SSARES - MP3 version

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

SSARES - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, ipv6, gene cronk, mp3

SSARES: Secure Searchable Automated Remote Email Storage - A usable, secure email system on a remote untrusted server

The increasing centralization of networked services places user data at considerable risk. For example, many users store email on remote servers rather than on their local disk. Doing so allows users to gain the benefit of regular backups and remote access, but it also places a great deal of unwarranted trust in the server. Since most email is stored in plaintext, a compromise of the server implies the loss of confidentiality and integrity of the email stored therein. Although users could employ an end-to-end encryption scheme (e.g., PGP), such measures are not widely adopted, require action on the sender side, only provide partial protection (the email headers remain in the clear), and prevent the users from performing some common operations, such as server-side search.

To address this problem, we present Secure Searchable Automated Remote Email Storage (SSARES), a novel system that offers a practical approach to both securing remotely stored email and allowing privacy-preserving search of that email collection. Our solution encrypts email (the headers, body, and attachments) as it arrives on the server using public-key encryption. SSARES uses a combination of Identity Based Encryption and Bloom Filters to create a searchable index. This index reveals little information about search keywords and queries, even against adversaries that compromise the server. SSARES remains largely transparent to both the sender and recipient. However, the system also incurs significant costs, primarily in terms of expanded storage requirements. We view our work as a starting point toward creating privacy-friendly hosted services.

Angelos Keromytis is an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, and director of the Network Security Laboratory. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Crete, Greece, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Computer and Information Science (CIS) Department, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 papers on refereed conferences and journals, and has served on over 40 conference program committees. He is an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security (TISSEC). He recently co-authored a book on using graphics cards for security, and is a co-founder of StackSafe Inc. His current research interests revolve around systems and network security, and cryptography.

New York City *BSD User Group - SSARES - Paper

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

SSARES - Paper
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, ipv6, gene cronk, pdf

SSARES: Secure Searchable Automated Remote Email Storage - A usable, secure email system on a remote untrusted server

bsdtalk - Open Community Camp with Marten Vijn - MP3 version

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

Open Community Camp with Marten Vijn - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, opencommunitycamp, marten vijn, mp3
Interview with Marten Vijn about www.OpenCommunityCamp.org.

bsdtalk - Open Community Camp with Marten Vijn - Ogg version

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

Open Community Camp with Marten Vijn - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, opencommunitycamp, marten vijn, ogg
Interview with Marten Vijn about www.OpenCommunityCamp.org.

bsdtalk - PF with Peter N. M. Hansteen - MP3 version

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

PF with Peter N. M. Hansteen - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pf, michael dexter, peter n m hansteen, book of pf, mp3
An interview with Peter N. M. Hansteen, recorded by Michael Dexter on behalf of BSDTalk. If you would like to learn more about the PF firewall, check out "The Book of PF" which is available at http://nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=pf

bsdtalk - PF with Peter N. M. Hansteen - Ogg version

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

PF with Peter N. M. Hansteen - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pf, michael dexter, peter n m hansteen, book of pf, ogg
An interview with Peter N. M. Hansteen, recorded by Michael Dexter on behalf of BSDTalk. If you would like to learn more about the PF firewall, check out "The Book of PF" which is available at http://nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=pf

bsdtalk - Joerg Sonnenberger - MP3 version

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST

Joerg Sonnenberger - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, michael dexter, joerg sonnenberger, mp3
Michael Dexter sent me an interview he recorded on behalf of BSDTalk with Joerg Sonnenberger at EuroBSDCon 2007.

bsdtalk - Joerg Sonnenberger - Ogg version

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST

Joerg Sonnenberger - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, michael dexter, joerg sonnenberger, ogg
Michael Dexter sent me an interview he recorded on behalf of BSDTalk with Joerg Sonnenberger at EuroBSDCon 2007.

OpenBSD - OpenBSD 4.2 Release Song - "100001 1010101" - MP3 version

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD 4.2 Release Song - "100001 1010101" - MP3 version
From: OpenBSD
Tags: openbsd, artwork, mp3

Those of us who work on OpenBSD are often asked why we do what we do. This song's lyrics express the core motivations and goals which have remained unchanged over the years - secure, free, reliable software, that can be shared with anyone. Many other projects purport to share these same goals, and love to wrap themselves in a banner of "Open Source" and "Free Software". Given how many projects there are one would think it might be easy to stick to those goals, but it doesn't seem to work out that way. A variety of desires drag many projects away from the ideals very quickly.

Much of any operating system's usability depends on device support, and there are some very tempting alternative ways to support devices available to those who will surrender their moral code. A project could compromise by entering into NDA agreements with vendors, or including binary objects in the operating system for which no source code exists, or tying their users down with contract terms hidden inside copyright notices. All of these choices surrender some subset of the ideals, and we simply will not do this. Sure, we care about getting devices working, but not at the expense of our original goals.

Of course since "free to share with anyone" is part of our goals, we've been at the forefront of many licensing and NDA issues, resulting in a good number of successes. This success had led to much recognition for the advancement of Free Software causes, but has also led to other issues.

We fully admit that some BSD licensed software has been taken and used by many commercial entities, but contributions come back more often than people seem to know, and when they do, they're always still properly attributed to the original authors, and given back in the same spirit that they were given in the first place.

That's the best we can expect from companies. After all, we make our stuff so free so that everyone can benefit -- it remains a core goal; we really have not strayed at all in 10 years. But we can expect more from projects who talk about sharing -- such as the various Linux projects.

Now rather than seeing us as friends who can cooperatively improve all codebases, we are seen as foes who oppose the GPL. The participants of "the race" are being manipulated by the FSF and their legal arm, the SFLC, for the FSF's aims, rather than the goal of getting good source into Linux (and all other code bases). We don't want this to come off as some conspiracy theory, but we simply urge those developers caution -- they should ensure that the path they are being shown by those who have positioned themselves as leaders is still true. Run for yourself, not for their agenda.

The Race is there to be run, for ourselves, not for others. We do what we do to run our own race, and finish it the best we can. We don't rush off at every distraction, or worry how this will affect our image. We are here to have fun doing right.

OpenBSD - OpenBSD 4.2 Release Song - "100001 1010101" - Ogg version

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD 4.2 Release Song - "100001 1010101" - Ogg version
From: OpenBSD
Tags: openbsd, artwork, ogg

BSDConTR - Turkish Conference on BSD Systems - BSDConTR 2007 - Presentations - PDF version

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

BSDConTR 2007 - Presentations - PDF version
From: BSDConTR - Turkish Conference on BSD Systems
Tags: bsdcontr, bsdcontr2007, pdf, freebsd 7.0, freebsd, kris kennaway, pdf
Introducing FreeBSD 7.0

bsdtalk - AsiaBSDCon Update with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil - MP3 version

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon Update with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, asiabsdcon, hiroki sato, george neville-neil, mp3
A quick update on AsiaBSDCon 2008 with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil. More information at http://www.asiabsdcon.org/.

bsdtalk - AsiaBSDCon Update with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil - Ogg version

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon Update with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, asiabsdcon, hiroki sato, george neville-neil, ogg
A quick update on AsiaBSDCon 2008 with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil. More information at http://www.asiabsdcon.org/.

bsdtalk - OpenCon 2007 update from Marc Balmer - MP3 version

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

OpenCon 2007 update from Marc Balmer - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, opencon, marc balmer, mp3
A short update on OpenCon 2007 with Marc Balmer. More information at http://www.opencon.org/.

bsdtalk - OpenCon 2007 update from Marc Balmer - Ogg version

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

OpenCon 2007 update from Marc Balmer - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, opencon, marc balmer, ogg
A short update on OpenCon 2007 with Marc Balmer. More information at http://www.opencon.org/.

bsdtalk - Richard Stallman - Ogg version

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

Richard Stallman - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, rms, richard stallman, ogg
Interview with Richard Stallman.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Antti Kantee - ReFUSE: Userspace FUSE Reimplementation Using puffs

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Antti Kantee - ReFUSE: Userspace FUSE Reimplementation Using puffs
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, refuse, antti kantee
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Brooks Davis - Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Brooks Davis - Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, promotion, freebsd, brooks davis
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Claudio Jeker - Routing on OpenBSD

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Claudio Jeker - Routing on OpenBSD
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, routing, openbsd, claudio jeker
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - George Neville-Neil - Network Protocol Testing in FreeBSD and in General

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - George Neville-Neil - Network Protocol Testing in FreeBSD and in General
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, network testing, freebsd, george neville-neil
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Isaac Levy - FreeBSD jail(8) Overview, the Secure Virtual Server

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Isaac Levy - FreeBSD jail(8) Overview, the Secure Virtual Server
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, freebsd, isaac levy
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - John P Hartmann - Real Men's Pipes - When UNIX meets the mainframe mindset

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - John P Hartmann - Real Men's Pipes - When UNIX meets the mainframe mindset
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, pipes, unix, mainframes, john p hartmann
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Kirk Mckusick - A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Kirk Mckusick - A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, fast file system, kirk mckusick
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Pawel Jakub - FreeBSD/ZFS - last word in operating/file systems

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Pawel Jakub - FreeBSD/ZFS - last word in operating/file systems
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, zfs, freebsd, pawel jakub
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Pierre Yves Ritschard - Load Balancing

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Pierre Yves Ritschard - Load Balancing
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, load balancing, pierre yves ritschard
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Robert Watson - FreeBSD Advanced Security Features

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Robert Watson - FreeBSD Advanced Security Features
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, security, freebsd, robert watson
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Ryan Bickhart - Transparent TCP-to-SCTP Translation Shim Layer

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Ryan Bickhart - Transparent TCP-to-SCTP Translation Shim Layer
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, tcp-to-sctp, freebsd, ryan bickhart
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Soren Straarup - An ARM from shoulder to hand

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Soren Straarup - An ARM from shoulder to hand
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, arm, soren straarup
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Sam Leffler - Long Distance Wireless (for Emerging Regions)

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Sam Leffler - Long Distance Wireless (for Emerging Regions)
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, mov, sam leffler
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Sam Smith - Fighting "Technical fires"

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Sam Smith - Fighting "Technical fires"
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, sam smith
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Simon L Nielsen - The FreeBSD Security Officer function

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Simon L Nielsen - The FreeBSD Security Officer function
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, freebsd, security officer, simon l nielsen
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Stephen Borrill - Building products with NetBSD - thin-clients

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Stephen Borrill - Building products with NetBSD - thin-clients
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, netbsd, thin clients, stephen borrill
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Steven Murdoch - Hot or Not: Fingerprinting hosts through clock skew

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Steven Murdoch - Hot or Not: Fingerprinting hosts through clock skew
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, finger printing, clocks, Steven Murdoch
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Yvan VanHullebus - NETASQ and BSD: a success story

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Yvan VanHullebus - NETASQ and BSD: a success story
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, netasq, yvan vanhullebus
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Gregers Petersen - Open Source - is it something new?

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos - Gregers Petersen - Open Source - is it something new?
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos, avi, open source, gregers petersen
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

bsdtalk - PCC with Anders "Ragge" Magnusson - MP3 version

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

PCC with Anders "Ragge" Magnusson - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pcc, ragge, anders magnusson, mp3
Interview with Anders "Ragge" Magnusson. We talk about his work on the Portable C Compiler. More information can be found at http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/.

bsdtalk - PCC with Anders "Ragge" Magnusson - Ogg version

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

PCC with Anders "Ragge" Magnusson - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pcc, ragge, anders magnusson, ogg
Interview with Anders "Ragge" Magnusson. We talk about his work on the Portable C Compiler. More information can be found at http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/.

New York City *BSD User Group - Gene Cronk on Implementing IPv6 - MP3 version

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

Gene Cronk on Implementing IPv6 - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, ipv6, gene cronk, mp3

This talk will be on some of the basics of IPv6 including addressing, subnetting, and tools to test connectivity. There will be a lab (network permitting), and setups for an as of yet undisclosed flavor of BSD as well as some of the well known daemons (Apache 2, SSHD) will be demonstrated. Setting up a BSD OS as an IPv6 router and tunneling system will also be covered.

Bio
Gene Cronk, CISSP-ISSAP, NSA-IAM is a freelance network security consultant, specializing in *NIX solutions. He has been working with computers for well over 20 years, electronics for over 15, and IPv6 specifically for 4 years. He has given talks on IPv6 and a multitude of other topics at DefCon, ShmooCon and other "underground" venues.

Gene is from Jacksonville, FL. When not involved in matters concerning IPv6, he can be found gaming (Anarchy Online), helping out with the Jacksonville Linux User`s Group, being one of the benevolent dictators of the Hacker Pimps Security Think Tank, or fixing up his house.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Antti Kantee - ReFUSE: Userspace FUSE Reimplementation Using puffs

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Antti Kantee - ReFUSE: Userspace FUSE Reimplementation Using puffs
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, refuse, antti kantee
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Brooks Davis - Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Brooks Davis - Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, promotion, freebsd, brooks davis
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Brooks Davis - Building clusters with FreeBSD

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Brooks Davis - Building clusters with FreeBSD
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, clusters, freebsd, brooks davis
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Claudio Jeker - Routing on OpenBSD

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Claudio Jeker - Routing on OpenBSD
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, tar, routing, openbsd, claudio jeker
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - George Neville-Neil - Network Protocol Testing in FreeBSD and in General

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - George Neville-Neil - Network Protocol Testing in FreeBSD and in General
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, network testing, freebsd, george neville-neil
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Isaac Levy - FreeBSD jail(8) Overview, the Secure Virtual Server

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Isaac Levy - FreeBSD jail(8) Overview, the Secure Virtual Server
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, jail, freebsd, isaac levy
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - John P Hartmann - Real Men's Pipes - When UNIX meets the mainframe mindset

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - John P Hartmann - Real Men's Pipes - When UNIX meets the mainframe mindset
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, odp, pipes, unix, mainframes, john p hartmann
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - John P Hartmann - CMS Pipelines Explained

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - John P Hartmann - CMS Pipelines Explained
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, cms pipes, john p hartmann
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Kirk Mckusick - A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Kirk Mckusick - A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, fast file system, kirk mckusick
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Marc Balmer - Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Marc Balmer - Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, radio clocks, openbsd, marc balmer
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Marko Zec - Network stack virtualization for FreeBSD 7.0

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Marko Zec - Network stack virtualization for FreeBSD 7.0
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, network stack, virtualization, freebsd, marko zec
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Pawel Jakub - FreeBSD/ZFS - last word in operating/file systems

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Pawel Jakub - FreeBSD/ZFS - last word in operating/file systems
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, zfs, freebsd, pawel jakub
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Peter Hansteen - Firewalling with OpenBSD's PF packet filter

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Peter Hansteen - Firewalling with OpenBSD's PF packet filter
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, pf, openbsd, peter hansteen
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Pierre Yves Ritschard - Load Balancing

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Pierre Yves Ritschard - Load Balancing
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, html, load balancing, pierre yves ritschard
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Robert Watson - FreeBSD Advanced Security Features

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Robert Watson - FreeBSD Advanced Security Features
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, security, freebsd, robert watson
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Ryan Bickhart - Transparent TCP-to-SCTP Translation Shim Layer

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Ryan Bickhart - Transparent TCP-to-SCTP Translation Shim Layer
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, tcp-to-sctp, freebsd, ryan bickhart
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Ryan Bickhart - Transparent TCP-to-SCTP Translation Shim Layer

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Ryan Bickhart - Transparent TCP-to-SCTP Translation Shim Layer
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, ppt, tcp-to-sctp, freebsd, ryan bickhart
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Soren Straarup - An ARM from shoulder to hand

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Soren Straarup - An ARM from shoulder to hand
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, arm, soren straarup
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Sam Leffler - Long Distance Wireless (for Emerging Regions)

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Sam Leffler - Long Distance Wireless (for Emerging Regions)
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, sam leffler
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Sam Smith - Fighting "Technical fires"

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Sam Smith - Fighting "Technical fires"
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, sam smith
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Simon L Nielsen - The FreeBSD Security Officer function

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Simon L Nielsen - The FreeBSD Security Officer function
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, freebsd, security officer, simon l nielsen
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Stephen Borrill - Building products with NetBSD - thin-clients

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Stephen Borrill - Building products with NetBSD - thin-clients
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, netbsd, thin clients, stephen borrill
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Steven Murdoch - Hot or Not: Fingerprinting hosts through clock skew

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Steven Murdoch - Hot or Not: Fingerprinting hosts through clock skew
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, finger printing, clocks, Steven Murdoch
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Yvan VanHullebus - NETASQ and BSD: a success story

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers - Yvan VanHullebus - NETASQ and BSD: a success story
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers, pdf, netasq, yvan vanhullebus
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers

bsdtalk - Network Stack Virtualization with Marko Zec - MP3 version

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

Network Stack Virtualization with Marko Zec - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, stack virtualization, marko zec, mp3
Michael Dexter sent me an interview he recorded on behalf of BSDTalk with Marko Zec at EuroBSDCon 2007. More information on the project at http://imunes.tel.fer.hr/virtnet/.

bsdtalk - Network Stack Virtualization with Marko Zec - Ogg version

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST

Network Stack Virtualization with Marko Zec - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, stack virtualization, marko zec, ogg
Michael Dexter sent me an interview he recorded on behalf of BSDTalk with Marko Zec at EuroBSDCon 2007. More information on the project at http://imunes.tel.fer.hr/virtnet/.

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos - Ed Kikkert - EuroBSDCon 2007 taken place in Copenhagen, Denmark 14-15 September 2007 at the Symbion Science Park

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos - Ed Kikkert - EuroBSDCon 2007 taken place in Copenhagen, Denmark 14-15 September 2007 at the Symbion Science Park
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, photos, flickr, ed kikkert
EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos by various people

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos - Tom (Snow) - Foto's taken bij Tom and Robert of www.snow.nl

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos - Tom (Snow) - Foto's taken bij Tom and Robert of www.snow.nl
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, photos, flickr, tom snow
EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos by various people

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos - Rick van der Zwet

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos - Rick van der Zwet
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, photos, flickr, rick van der zwet
EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos by various people

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos - Peternmhansteen

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos - Peternmhansteen
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, photos, flickr, peternmhansteen
EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos by various people

EuroBSDCon - EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos - Eystein.aarseth - Photos from EuroBSDCon in Copenhagen, Denmark, september 2007

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos - Eystein.aarseth - Photos from EuroBSDCon in Copenhagen, Denmark, september 2007
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, photos, flickr, eystein aarseth
EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos by various people

bsdtalk - BSDCertification Update with Dru Lavigne - MP3 version

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST

BSDCertification Update with Dru Lavigne - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcertification, dru lavigne, mp3
Interview with Dru Lavigne. We talk about the progress of BSDCertification.org and also her new position with the Open Source Business Resource at http://www.osbr.ca/.

bsdtalk - BSDCertification Update with Dru Lavigne - Ogg version

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST

BSDCertification Update with Dru Lavigne - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcertification, dru lavigne, ogg
Interview with Dru Lavigne. We talk about the progress of BSDCertification.org and also her new position with the Open Source Business Resource at http://www.osbr.ca/.

bsdtalk - Sysjail Revisited with Michael Dexter - MP3 version

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST

Sysjail Revisited with Michael Dexter - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, sysjail, michael dexter, mp3
Interview with Michael Dexter. We talk about the new sysjail and the recent system call wrapper issues.

bsdtalk - Sysjail Revisited with Michael Dexter - Ogg version

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST

Sysjail Revisited with Michael Dexter - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, sysjail, michael dexter, ogg
Interview with Michael Dexter. We talk about the new sysjail and the recent system call wrapper issues.

New York City *BSD User Group - Using Cryptography to Improve Web Application Performance and Security - MP3 version

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST

Using Cryptography to Improve Web Application Performance and Security - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, cryptography, nick galbreath, mp3

Cryptography has a reputation of slowing down applications. However if done correctly, it can actually be used to improve performance by storing high-value/high-cost results "in public." In addition the same techniques can solve common security problems such as authorization, parameter scanning, and parameter rewriting.

All are welcome - no previous experience with cryptography is required, and the techniques will be presented in a programming-language neutral format.

Nick Galbreath have been working on high performance servers and web security at various high profile startups since 1994 (most recently Right Media). He holds a Master degree of Mathematics from Boston University, and published a book on cryptography. He currently lives in the Lower East Side.

bsdtalk - Why I like the CLI - MP3 version

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST

Why I like the CLI - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, cli, will backman, mp3

Why I like the CLI:

Uses minimal resources. Less space, less memory, fewer dependencies.
Transparency. GUI hides internals, limits options.
Similar between Unix-like systems. GUI tools seem to change every week.
Remote management. SSH rocks.
Everything is text. Configs, devices, output. CLI is natural complement.
Pipes and scripts. One time is hard, a thousand times is easy.
Only need a few tools. Grep, sed, awk, vi, cron.
Text config files. Easy to version, share, and comment.
Requires reading skills instead of clicking skills.
Much faster when you know what you are doing.

bsdtalk - Why I like the CLI - Ogg version

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST

Why I like the CLI - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, cli, will backman, ogg

Why I like the CLI:

Uses minimal resources. Less space, less memory, fewer dependencies.
Transparency. GUI hides internals, limits options.
Similar between Unix-like systems. GUI tools seem to change every week.
Remote management. SSH rocks.
Everything is text. Configs, devices, output. CLI is natural complement.
Pipes and scripts. One time is hard, a thousand times is easy.
Only need a few tools. Grep, sed, awk, vi, cron.
Text config files. Easy to version, share, and comment.
Requires reading skills instead of clicking skills.
Much faster when you know what you are doing.

linuxreality - a podcast for the new linux user - BSD Wrap-Up - MP3 file

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

BSD Wrap-Up - MP3 file
From: linuxreality - a podcast for the new linux user
Tags: linux reality, mp3
In this episode: OReilly discount code for Linux Reality listeners available on the LR website; a new Linux Reality contest where one can win a listener-donated book, LPI Certification in a Nutshell, for the best audio Listener Tip sent in between now and the end of November; a new podcast client I am developing in Python; petition to open source the Main Actor video editing software; a call for guest podcasts; a brief wrap-up discussion of my adventures with the BSD's; audio and email listener feedback.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - BSDCan-2007 - Videos - MOV file

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

BSDCan-2007 - Videos - MOV file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2007, talks, kirk mckusick, quicktime
The 2007 BSDCan conference
Kirk McKusick - Code Reading of Locally-Connected Sockets

bsdtalk - MidnightBSD founder Lucas Holt - MP3 version

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

MidnightBSD founder Lucas Holt - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, midnightbsd, lucas holt, mp3
Interview with MidnightBSD founder Lucas Holt.

bsdtalk - MidnightBSD founder Lucas Holt - Ogg version

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

MidnightBSD founder Lucas Holt - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, midnightbsd, lucas holt, ogg
Interview with MidnightBSD founder Lucas Holt.

linuxreality - a podcast for the new linux user - Interview with Will Backman - MP3 file

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Will Backman - MP3 file
From: linuxreality - a podcast for the new linux user
Tags: linux reality, bsdtalk, interview, will backman, mp3
In this episode: an interview with the host of the BSDTalk Podcast, Will Backman, in which we talk about the history of the BSD's, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, PC-BSD, and DesktopBSD, and discuss some of the goals and features of these projects.

Sites Collide - OpenBSD Networking - Henning Brauer - MP3 file

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Networking - Henning Brauer - MP3 file
From: Sites Collide
Tags: sitescollide, interview, openbsd, openbgpd, henning brauer, mp3
In this episode of Sites Collide, we discuss Open BGPd and OpenBSD as well as other routing-related topics with developer, network guru, and conference speaker, Henning Brauer of the OpenBSD Project. So, if you are interested in the technologies that make the Internet work, or you're looking to learn about Unix/Linux, this show is for you!

Sites Collide - What is OpenBSD - Wim Vandeputte - MP3 file

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

What is OpenBSD - Wim Vandeputte - MP3 file
From: Sites Collide
Tags: sitescollide, interview, openbsd, wim vandeputte, mp3
In this episode of Sites Collide, Wim Vandeputte of the OpenBSD project joins us to educate us about OpenBSD. We talk about a brief history, as well as where you can find it running today. If you don't know the difference between BSD and Linux, you need to hear this episode!!

Sites Collide - OpenBSD Road Warrior - Felix Kronlage - MP3 file

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Road Warrior - Felix Kronlage - MP3 file
From: Sites Collide
Tags: sitescollide, interview, openbsd, road warrior, felix kronlage, mp3
On this Sites Collide, we speak with Felix Kronlage of the OpenBSD Project about using Open-Source tools for effectively and securely getting work done while using your laptop outside your home or office (called a Road Warrior). If you use a laptop on the road, you NEED to hear this episode.

bsdtalk - Matthew Dillon - MP3 version

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

Matthew Dillon - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, dragonflybsd, mattew dillon, mp3
Interview with DragonflyBSD's Matthew Dillon. We talk about the 1.10 release and the design of a new filesystem.

bsdtalk - Matthew Dillon - Ogg version

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

Matthew Dillon - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, dragonflybsd, mattew dillon, ogg
Interview with DragonflyBSD's Matthew Dillon. We talk about the 1.10 release and the design of a new filesystem.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - BSDCan-2007 - Videos - MOV file

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

BSDCan-2007 - Videos - MOV file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2007, talks, erwin lansing, ports, quicktime
The 2007 BSDCan conference
Erwin Lansing - The state of the FreeBSD Ports Tree

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - BSDCan-2007 - Videos - MOV file

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

BSDCan-2007 - Videos - MOV file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2007, talks, marko zec, vimage, quicktime
The 2007 BSDCan conference
Marko Zec explains the vimage architecture

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - BSDCan-2007 - Videos - MOV file

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

BSDCan-2007 - Videos - MOV file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2007, talks, qing li, routing arp and nd6, quicktime
The 2007 BSDCan conference
Qing Li - Routing, ARP and ND6

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - BSDCan-2007 Videos - MOV file

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

BSDCan-2007 Videos - MOV file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2007, talks, quicktime
The 2007 BSDCan conference - Introduction of people.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - BSDCan-2007 - Videos - MOV file

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

BSDCan-2007 - Videos - MOV file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2007, talks, kris kennaway, scalability, quicktime
The 2007 BSDCan conference
Kris Kennaway - Scalability Update 2007
Progress on FreeBSD SMP performance and scalablity since BSDCan Dev Summit 2006

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - BSDCan-2007 - Videos - MOV file

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

BSDCan-2007 - Videos - MOV file
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2007, talks, max laier, ipf, quicktime
The 2007 BSDCan conference
Max Laier - PFIL, firewalls and locking

bsdtalk - PC-BSD Founder Kris Moore - MP3 version

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

PC-BSD Founder Kris Moore - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pc-bsd, kris moore, mp3
Interview with PC-BSD Founder Kris Moore. We talk about the upcoming 1.4 release.

bsdtalk - PC-BSD Founder Kris Moore - Ogg version

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

PC-BSD Founder Kris Moore - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pc-bsd, kris moore, ogg
Interview with PC-BSD Founder Kris Moore. We talk about the upcoming 1.4 release.

New York City *BSD User Group - Marc Spitzer on Nagios - MP3 version

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

Marc Spitzer on Nagios - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, nagios, marc spitzer, mp3

Nagios is a platform for monitoring services and the hosts they reside on. It provides a reasonable tool for monitoring your network and you can not beat the price.

We plan on covering the following topics:

what it is
how it works
where to get it
how to install it
how to configure it
how to customize it for your environment
where the data is stored
how to write a basic plug-in

About the Speaker
Marc Spitzer started as a VAX/VMS operator who taught himself some basic scripting in DCL to help me remember how to do procedures that did not come up enough to actually remember all the steps, this was in 1990. Since then he has worked with HPUX, Solaris, Windows, Linux, and the BSDs, FreeBSD being his favorite. He has held a variety of positions, admin and engineering, where he has been able to introduce BSD into his work place. He currently works for Columbia University as a Systems Administrator.

He is a founding member of NYCBUG and LispNYC and on the board of UNIGroup.

Most of his career has been building tools to solve operational problems, with extra effort going to the ones that irritated him personally. He takes a great deal of pride in not needing a budget to solve most problems.

bsdtalk - William "whurley" Hurley, Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc. - MP3 version

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST

William "whurley" Hurley, Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc. - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bmc software, whurley, william hurley, mp3
Interview with William "whurley" Hurley, Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc. We talk about the BMC Developer Network.

bsdtalk - William "whurley" Hurley, Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc. - Ogg version

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST

William "whurley" Hurley, Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc. - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bmc software, whurley, william hurley, ogg
Interview with William "whurley" Hurley, Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc. We talk about the BMC Developer Network.

bsdtalk - Embedding FreeBSD with M. Warner Losh - MP3 version

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST

Embedding FreeBSD with M. Warner Losh - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, embedding freebsd, m warner losh, mp3
Interview with M. Warner Losh about embedding FreeBSD.

bsdtalk - Embedding FreeBSD with M. Warner Losh - Ogg version

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST

Embedding FreeBSD with M. Warner Losh - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, embedding freebsd, m warner losh, ogg
Interview with M. Warner Losh about embedding FreeBSD.

bsdtalk - Fast IPSec with George Neville-Neil - MP3 version

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST

Fast IPSec with George Neville-Neil - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ipsec, george neville-neil, mp3
Interview with George Neville-Neil about Fast IPSec.

bsdtalk - Fast IPSec with George Neville-Neil - Ogg version

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST

Fast IPSec with George Neville-Neil - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ipsec, george neville-neil, ogg
Interview with George Neville-Neil about Fast IPSec.

bsdtalk - BSD Hacker Isaac "Ike" Levy - MP3 version

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST

BSD Hacker Isaac "Ike" Levy - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, nycbug, isaac levy, mp3
Interview with BSD Hacker Isaac "Ike" Levy. To hear more of Ike and other NYCBUG audio, visit http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/

bsdtalk - BSD Hacker Isaac "Ike" Levy - Ogg version

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST

BSD Hacker Isaac "Ike" Levy - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, nycbug, isaac levy, ogg
Interview with BSD Hacker Isaac "Ike" Levy. To hear more of Ike and other NYCBUG audio, visit http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/

New York City *BSD User Group - Isaac `Ike` Levy on the Real Unix Tradition - MP3 version

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST

Isaac `Ike` Levy on the Real Unix Tradition - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, unix tradition, isaac levy, mp3

"The Real Unix Tradition"

UNIX hackers, all standing on the shoulders of giants.

"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

"Well, it was all Open Source, before anybody really called it that". - Brian Redman, 2003

UNIX is the oldest active and growing computing culture alive today. From it`s humble roots in the back room at Bell Laboratories, to today`s global internet infrastructure- UNIX has consistently been at the core of major advances in computing. Today, the BSD legacy is the most direct continuation of the most successful principles in UNIX, and continues to lead major advances in computing.

Why? What`s so great about UNIX?

This lecture aims to prove that UNIX history is surprisingly useful (and fun)- for developers, sysadmins, and anyone working with BSD systems.

About the speaker
Isaac Levy, (ike) is a freelance BSD hadker based in NYC. He runs Diversaform Inc. as an engine to make his hacking feed itself, (and ike). Diversaform specializes in *BSD based solutions, providing `IT special weapons and tatics` for various sized business clients, as well as running a small high-availability datacenter operation from lower Manhattan. With regard to FreeBSD jail(8), ike was a partner in the first jail (8)-based web hosting ISP in America, iMeme, and has been developing internet applications in and out of jails since 1999. Isaac is a proud member of NYC*BUG (the New York City *BSD Users Group), and a long time member of LESMUUG, (the Lower East Side Mac Unix Users Group).

bsdtalk - Playing with IPv6 - MP3 version

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST

Playing with IPv6 - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, ipv6, mp3
I ramble on about how I have been experimenting with IPv6. For more details, see http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/cis341/resources/ipv6-test-lab.html.

bsdtalk - Playing with IPv6 - Ogg version

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST

Playing with IPv6 - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, ipv6, ogg
I ramble on about how I have been experimenting with IPv6. For more details, see http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/cis341/resources/ipv6-test-lab.html.

Google Tech Talks - Google Tech Talks June 20, 2007: How the FreeBSD Project Works - AVI

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST

Google Tech Talks June 20, 2007: How the FreeBSD Project Works - AVI
From: Google Tech Talks
Tags: google, presentation, freebsd, freebsd project, robert watson, avi

The FreeBSD Project is one of the oldest and most successful open source operating system ... all projects, seeing wide deployment across the IT industry. From the root name servers, to top tier ISPs, to core router operating systems, to firewalls, to embedded appliances, you can't use a networked computer for ten minutes without using FreeBSD dozens of times. Part of FreeBSD's reputation for quality and reliability comes from the nature of its development organization--driven by a hundreds of highly skilled volunteers, from high school students to university professors. And unlike most open source projects, the FreeBSD Project has developers who have been working on the same source base for over twenty years. But how does this organization work? Who pays the bandwidth bills, runs the web servers, writes the documentation, writes the code, and calls the shots? And how can developers in a dozen time zones reach agreement on the time of day, let alone a kernel architecture? This presentation will attempt to provide, in 45 minutes, a brief if entertaining snapshot into what makes FreeBSD run.

Speaker: Robert Watson Robert Watson is a researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory investinging operating system and network security. Prior to joining the Computer Laboratory to work on a PhD, he was a Senior Principal Scientist at McAfee Research, now SPARTA ISSO, a leading security research and development organization, where he directed government and commercial research contracts for customers that include DARPA, the US Navy, and Apple Computer. His research interests include operating system security, network stack structure and performance, and windowing system structure. He is also a member of the FreeBSD Core Team and president of the FreeBSD Foundation.

bsdtalk - Sidsel Jensen from EuroBSDCon - MP3 version

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST

Sidsel Jensen from EuroBSDCon - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, sidsel jensen, mp3
Interview with Sidsel Jensen from www.eurobsdcon.org.

bsdtalk - Sidsel Jensen from EuroBSDCon - Ogg version

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST

Sidsel Jensen from EuroBSDCon - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, sidsel jensen, ogg
Interview with Sidsel Jensen from www.eurobsdcon.org.

bsdtalk - One Time Passwords - MP3 version

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST

One Time Passwords - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, security, one time passwords, mp3

Important when you don't trust the computer you are using, such as a library computer or internet kiosk.
Available by default in Free/Net/Open BSD.
FreeBSD uses OPIE, Net/Open use S/Key.
One time passwords are based on your pass phrase, a non-repeating sequence number, and a seed.
Initial setup should be done directly on the server.
"skeyinit" for Net/Open, "opiepasswd -c" for FreeBSD.
Enter a pass phrase that is not your regular account password.
Find your current sequence number and seed with "opieinfo" or "skeyinfo", for example: "497 pc5246".
Generate a list of the next 10 passwords and write them down, using "opiekey -n 10 497 pc5246" or "skey -n 10 497 pc5246".
When you log in from a remote machine that might have a keystroke logger, you can now use a one time password instead of your regular password.
For OpenBSD, log in as account:skey, for example "bob:skey", which will cause the system to present the s/key challenge.
For NetBSD, the system will always present you with the s/key challenge if it is configured for your account, although you can still use your regular password.
FreeBSD by default will force you to use a one time password if it is configured for your account.
If you want both OPIE and password authentication, FreeBSD allows you to list trusted networks or hosts in /etc/opieaccess.
Instead of carrying a list of passwords around, you can use s/key generators on a portable device that you trust, such as a palm pilot.
For more info, check the man pages.

bsdtalk - One Time Passwords - Ogg version

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST

One Time Passwords - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, security, one time passwords, ogg

Important when you don't trust the computer you are using, such as a library computer or internet kiosk.
Available by default in Free/Net/Open BSD.
FreeBSD uses OPIE, Net/Open use S/Key.
One time passwords are based on your pass phrase, a non-repeating sequence number, and a seed.
Initial setup should be done directly on the server.
"skeyinit" for Net/Open, "opiepasswd -c" for FreeBSD.
Enter a pass phrase that is not your regular account password.
Find your current sequence number and seed with "opieinfo" or "skeyinfo", for example: "497 pc5246".
Generate a list of the next 10 passwords and write them down, using "opiekey -n 10 497 pc5246" or "skey -n 10 497 pc5246".
When you log in from a remote machine that might have a keystroke logger, you can now use a one time password instead of your regular password.
For OpenBSD, log in as account:skey, for example "bob:skey", which will cause the system to present the s/key challenge.
For NetBSD, the system will always present you with the s/key challenge if it is configured for your account, although you can still use your regular password.
FreeBSD by default will force you to use a one time password if it is configured for your account.
If you want both OPIE and password authentication, FreeBSD allows you to list trusted networks or hosts in /etc/opieaccess.
Instead of carrying a list of passwords around, you can use s/key generators on a portable device that you trust, such as a palm pilot.
For more info, check the man pages.

New York City *BSD User Group - Steven Kreuzer on Denial of Service Mitigation Techniques - MP3 version

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST

Steven Kreuzer on Denial of Service Mitigation Techniques - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, denialofservice, steven kreuzer, mp3

Protecting your servers, workstations and networks can only go so far. Attacks which consume your available Internet-facing bandwidth, or overpower your CPU, can still take you offline. His presentation will discuss techniques for mitigating the effects of such attacks on servers designed to provide network intensive services such as HTTP or routing.

About the speaker
Steven Kreuzer is currently employed by Right Media as a Systems Administrator focusing on building and managing high transaction infrastructures around the globe. He has been working with Open Source technologies since as long as he can remember, starting out with a 486 salvaged from a dumpster behind his neighborhood computer store. In his spare time he enjoys doing things with technology that have absolutely no redeeming social value.

bsdtalk - Rick Macklem and NFSv4 - MP3 version

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST

Rick Macklem and NFSv4 - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, nfs, rick macklem, mp3
Interview with Rick Macklem about his work with NFSv4. More information at http://snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca/nfsv4/.

bsdtalk - Rick Macklem and NFSv4 - Ogg version

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST

Rick Macklem and NFSv4 - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, nfs, rick macklem, ogg
Interview with Rick Macklem about his work with NFSv4. More information at http://snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca/nfsv4/.

bsdtalk - Jun-ichiro "itojun" Itoh Hagino - MP3 version

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST

Jun-ichiro "itojun" Itoh Hagino - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, kame, itojun, jun-ichiro itoh hagino, mp3
Interview with KAME project core researcher Jun-ichiro "itojun" Itoh Hagino.

bsdtalk - Jun-ichiro "itojun" Itoh Hagino - Ogg version

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST

Jun-ichiro "itojun" Itoh Hagino - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, kame, itojun, jun-ichiro itoh hagino, ogg
Interview with KAME project core researcher Jun-ichiro "itojun" Itoh Hagino.

bsdtalk - A Few FreeBSD Core Team Members - MP3 version

Sat, 26 May 2007 00:00:00 EST

A Few FreeBSD Core Team Members - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd core, brooks davis, warner losh, george neville-neil, hiroki sato, robert watson, mp3
An interview with a few of the FreeBSD Core Team members: Brooks Davis, Warner Losh, George V. Neville-Neil, Hiroki Sato, and Robert Watson. The interview was recorded at BSDCan in Ottawa, Cananda.

bsdtalk - A Few FreeBSD Core Team Members - Ogg version

Sat, 26 May 2007 00:00:00 EST

A Few FreeBSD Core Team Members - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd core, brooks davis, warner losh, george neville-neil, hiroki sato, robert watson, ogg
An interview with a few of the FreeBSD Core Team members: Brooks Davis, Warner Losh, George V. Neville-Neil, Hiroki Sato, and Robert Watson. The interview was recorded at BSDCan in Ottawa, Cananda.

bsdtalk - Designing BSD Rootkits Author Joseph Kong - MP3 version

Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 EST

Designing BSD Rootkits Author Joseph Kong - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, kernel, rootkits, books, joseph kong, mp3
Interview with Joseph Kong, Author of "Designing BSD Rootkits: An Introduction to Kernel Hacking" from No Starch Press. The interview was recorded at BSDCan in Ottawa.

bsdtalk - Designing BSD Rootkits Author Joseph Kong - Ogg version

Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 EST

Designing BSD Rootkits Author Joseph Kong - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, kernel, rootkits, books, joseph kong, ogg
Interview with Joseph Kong, Author of "Designing BSD Rootkits: An Introduction to Kernel Hacking" from No Starch Press. The interview was recorded at BSDCan in Ottawa.

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - FreeBSD Portsnap - PDF version

Sun, 20 May 2007 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Portsnap - PDF version
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2007, pdf, portsnap, freebsd, colin percival, pdf
"FreeBSD Portsnap - What (it is), Why (it was written), and How (it works)" by Colin Percival (cperciva@FreeBSD.org)
(Note: use ^L to get back in non-fullscreen mode)

BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - The FreeBSD Security Officer function - PDF version

Sun, 20 May 2007 00:00:00 EST

The FreeBSD Security Officer function - PDF version
From: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2007, pdf, freebsd, security officer, simon l nielsen, pdf
"FreeBSD Security Officer function" at BSDCAN 2007 by Simon L. Nielsen (FreeBSD Deputy Security Officer)

bsdtalk - Qing Li and Tatuya Jinmei - MP3 version

Sat, 19 May 2007 00:00:00 EST

Qing Li and Tatuya Jinmei - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ipv6, books, qing li, tatuya jimei, mp3
Interview at at BSDCan with Qing Li and Tatuya Jinmei. We talk about the books that they authored with Keiichi Shima: "IPv6 Core Protocols Implementation" and "IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation." The books are available at Amazon.com or on the publisher's web site, www.mkp.com.

bsdtalk - Qing Li and Tatuya Jinmei - Ogg version

Sat, 19 May 2007 00:00:00 EST

Qing Li and Tatuya Jinmei - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ipv6, books, qing li, tatuya jimei, ogg
Interview at at BSDCan with Qing Li and Tatuya Jinmei. We talk about the books that they authored with Keiichi Shima: "IPv6 Core Protocols Implementation" and "IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation." The books are available at Amazon.com or on the publisher's web site, www.mkp.com.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Developer Diane Bruce - MP3 version

Thu, 10 May 2007 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Developer Diane Bruce - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, diana bruce, mp3
Interview with FreeBSD developer Diane Bruce. We talk about Ham Radio on BSD. Slides from one of her talks: http://www.oarc.net/hamradio_on_freebsd.pdf

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Developer Diane Bruce - Ogg version

Thu, 10 May 2007 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Developer Diane Bruce - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, diana bruce, ogg
Interview with FreeBSD developer Diane Bruce. We talk about Ham Radio on BSD. Slides from one of her talks: http://www.oarc.net/hamradio_on_freebsd.pdf

New York City *BSD User Group - Amitai Schlair on pkgsrcCon. - MP3 version

Fri, 04 May 2007 00:00:00 EST

Amitai Schlair on pkgsrcCon. - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, pkgsrccon, netbsd, amitai schlair, mp3

The fourth annual pkgsrcCon is April 27-29 in Barcelona. As might be expected when brains congregate, pkgsrcCon traditionally results in a flurry of activity toward new directions and initiatives. Mere hours after returning to New York, Amitai will give us a recap of the proceedings, including his presentation, "Packaging djbware."

Amitai Schlair is a pkgsrc developer who has worked in such diverse areas as Mac OS X platform support and packages of software by Dan Bernstein. His full-time undergraduate studies at Columbia are another contributing factor to his impending insanity. He consults in software and IT.

bsdtalk - Josh Berkus, Postgresql Lead at Sun Microsystems - MP3 version

Thu, 03 May 2007 00:00:00 EST

Josh Berkus, Postgresql Lead at Sun Microsystems - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, postgresql, josh berkus, mp3
Interview with Josh Berkus, Postgresql Lead at Sun Microsystems. We talk about the upcoming PGCon on 23-24 May 2007. More info at http://www.pgcon.org.

bsdtalk - Josh Berkus, Postgresql Lead at Sun Microsystems - Ogg version

Thu, 03 May 2007 00:00:00 EST

Josh Berkus, Postgresql Lead at Sun Microsystems - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, postgresql, josh berkus, ogg
Interview with Josh Berkus, Postgresql Lead at Sun Microsystems. We talk about the upcoming PGCon on 23-24 May 2007. More info at http://www.pgcon.org.

OpenBSD - OpenBSD 4.1 Release Song - Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors - MP3 version

Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD 4.1 Release Song - Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors - MP3 version
From: OpenBSD
Tags: openbsd, artwork, mp3

As developers of a free operating system, one of our prime responsibilities is device support. No matter how nice an operating system is, it remains useless and unusable without solid support for a wide percentage of the hardware that is available on the market. It is therefore rather unsurprising that more than half of our efforts focus on various aspects relating to device support.

Most parts of the operating system (from low kernel, through to libraries, all the way up to X, and then even to applications) use fairly obvious interface layers, where the "communication protocols" or "argument passing" mechanisms (ie. APIs) can be understood by any developer who takes the time to read the free code. Device drivers pose an additional and significant challenge though: because many vendors refuse to document the exact behavior of their devices. The devices are black boxes. And often they are surprisingly weird, or even buggy.

When vendor documentation does not exist, the development process can become extremely hairy. Groups of developers have found themselves focused for months at a time, figuring out the most simple steps, simply because the hardware is a complete mystery. Access to documentation can ease these difficulties rapidly. However, getting access to the chip documentation from vendors is ... almost always a negotiation. If we had open access to documentation, anyone would be able to see how simple all these devices actually are, and device driver development would flourish (and not just in OpenBSD, either).

When we proceed into negotiations with vendors, asking for documentation, our position is often weak. One would assume that the modern market is fair, and that selling chips would be the primary focus of these vendors. But unfortunately a number of behemoth software vendors have spent the last 10 or 20 years building political hurdles against the smaller players.

A particularly nasty player in this regard has been the Linux vendors and some Linux developers, who have played along with an American corporate model of requiring NDAs for chip documentation. This has effectively put Linux into the club with Microsoft, but has left all the other operating system communities -- and their developers -- with much less available clout for requesting documentation. In a more fair world, the Linux vendors would work with us, and the device driver support in all free operating systems would be fantastic by now.

We only ask that users help us in changing the political landscape.

OpenBSD - OpenBSD 4.1 Release Song - Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors - Ogg version

Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD 4.1 Release Song - Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors - Ogg version
From: OpenBSD
Tags: openbsd, artwork, ogg

We only ask that users help us in changing the political landscape.

bsdtalk - George Neville-Neil and Using VMs for Development - MP3 version

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST

George Neville-Neil and Using VMs for Development - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, virtual machines, george neville-neil, mp3
George Neville-Neil and Using VMs for Development. See http://blogs.freebsdish.org/gnn for more information.

bsdtalk - George Neville-Neil and Using VMs for Development - Ogg version

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST

George Neville-Neil and Using VMs for Development - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, virtual machines, george neville-neil, ogg
George Neville-Neil and Using VMs for Development. See http://blogs.freebsdish.org/gnn for more information.

bsdtalk - Matt Juszczak from bsdjobs.net - MP3 version

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST

Matt Juszczak from bsdjobs.net - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdjobs, matt juszczak, mp3
Interview with Matt Juszczak from bsdjobs.net.

bsdtalk - Matt Juszczak from bsdjobs.net - Ogg version

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST

Matt Juszczak from bsdjobs.net - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdjobs, matt juszczak, ogg
Interview with Matt Juszczak from bsdjobs.net.

bsdtalk - Contiki OS Developer Adam Dunkels - MP3 version

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST

Contiki OS Developer Adam Dunkels - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, contikios, adam dunkels, mp3
Interview with Contiki OS Developer Adam Dunkels. You can find more information at http://www.sics.se/contiki/.

bsdtalk - Contiki OS Developer Adam Dunkels - Ogg version

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST

Contiki OS Developer Adam Dunkels - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, contikios, adam dunkels, ogg
Interview with Contiki OS Developer Adam Dunkels. You can find more information at http://www.sics.se/contiki/.

bsdtalk - Interview with Matthieu Herrb about Xenocara - MP3 version

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Matthieu Herrb about Xenocara - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, xenocara, matthieu herrb, mp3
Interview with Matthieu Herrb about Xenocara.

bsdtalk - Interview with Matthieu Herrb about Xenocara - Ogg version

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Matthieu Herrb about Xenocara - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, xenocara, matthieu herrb, ogg
Interview with Matthieu Herrb about Xenocara.

New York City *BSD User Group - Ray Lai: on OpenCVS - MP3 version

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST

Ray Lai: on OpenCVS - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, cvs, openbsd, ray lai, mp3

This presentation was inspired by the recent Subversion presentation. It will talk about the origins of OpenRCS and OpenCVS, its real-world usage in the OpenBSD project, and why OpenBSD will continue to use CVS.

Ray is an OpenBSD developer who uses Subversion by day, CVS by night. Taking the phrase "complexity is the enemy of security" to heart, he believes that the beauty of UNIX`s security is in its simplicity.

UKUUG - Lousy virtualization, Happy users: FreeBSD's jail(2) facility - Slides

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST

Lousy virtualization, Happy users: FreeBSD's jail(2) facility - Slides
From: UKUUG
Tags: ukuug, presentation, freebsd, jails, poul-henning kamp, pdf
Lousy virtualization, Happy users: FreeBSD's jail(2) facility by Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)

bsdtalk - Intro to PF with Jason Dixon - MP3 version

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST

Intro to PF with Jason Dixon - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pf, jason dixon, mp3
Introduction to PF with Jason Dixon.

bsdtalk - Intro to PF with Jason Dixon - Ogg version

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST

Intro to PF with Jason Dixon - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pf, jason dixon, ogg
Introduction to PF with Jason Dixon.

bsdtalk - Getting to know X - MP3 version

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

Getting to know X - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, X, mp3

Getting to know the X Window System.
Make sure you are in a text only mode. You might need to change how the system boots, or boot into single user mode.

"startx" to make sure X is working right.
"X" by itself gives the basic grey screen.
"ctrl" and "alt" and "backspace" keys at the same time will zap X.
"X & xterm -display :0"
"xterm -geometry +300+300"
"twm" or "metacity"

bsdtalk - Getting to know X - Ogg version

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

Getting to know X - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, X, ogg

Getting to know the X Window System.
Make sure you are in a text only mode. You might need to change how the system boots, or boot into single user mode.

"startx" to make sure X is working right.
"X" by itself gives the basic grey screen.
"ctrl" and "alt" and "backspace" keys at the same time will zap X.
"X & xterm -display :0"
"xterm -geometry +300+300"
"twm" or "metacity"

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Cover page

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Cover page
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, paper, cover
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Whole of the Proceedings

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Whole of the Proceedings
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, paper
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - A NetBSD-based IPv6 NEMO Mobile Router, Jean Lorchat, Koshiro Mitsuya, Romain Kuntz (Keio University, Japan) [paper]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - A NetBSD-based IPv6 NEMO Mobile Router, Jean Lorchat, Koshiro Mitsuya, Romain Kuntz (Keio University, Japan) [paper]
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, paper, netbsd, ipv6, nemo, jean lorchat, koshiro mitsuya, romain kuntz
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Reflections on Building a High Performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD, Brooks Davis (The Aerospace Corporation/brooks at FreeBSD.org, USA) [paper]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Reflections on Building a High Performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD, Brooks Davis (The Aerospace Corporation/brooks at FreeBSD.org, USA) [paper]
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, paper, freebsd, high performance computing, brooks davis
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD, Marc Balmer (mbalmer at openbsd.org, Switzerland) [paper]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD, Marc Balmer (mbalmer at openbsd.org, Switzerland) [paper]
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, paper, openbsd, radio clocks, marc balmer
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - puffs - Pass to Userspace Framework File System, Antti Kantee (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) [paper]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - puffs - Pass to Userspace Framework File System, Antti Kantee (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) [paper]
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, paper, puffs, antii kantee
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - puffs - Pass to Userspace Framework File System, Antti Kantee (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) [slides]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - puffs - Pass to Userspace Framework File System, Antti Kantee (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) [slides]
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, slides, puffs, antii kantee
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - An ISP Perspective, jail(8) Virtual Private Servers, Isaac Levy (NYC*BUG/LESMUUG, USA) [paper]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - An ISP Perspective, jail(8) Virtual Private Servers, Isaac Levy (NYC*BUG/LESMUUG, USA) [paper]
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, paper, freebsd, jail, isp, isaac levy
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - An ISP Perspective, jail(8) Virtual Private Servers, Isaac Levy (NYC*BUG/LESMUUG, USA) [slides]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - An ISP Perspective, jail(8) Virtual Private Servers, Isaac Levy (NYC*BUG/LESMUUG, USA) [slides]
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, slides, freebsd, jail, isp, isaac levy
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Nsswitch Development: Nss-modules and libc Separation and Caching, Michael A Bushkov (Southern Federal University/bushman at FreeBSD.org, Russia) [paper]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Nsswitch Development: Nss-modules and libc Separation and Caching, Michael A Bushkov (Southern Federal University/bushman at FreeBSD.org, Russia) [paper]
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, paper, nsswitch, michael bushkov
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - How the FreeBSD Project Works, Robert N M Watson (University of Cambridge/rwatson at FreeBSD.org, United Kingdom) [paper]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - How the FreeBSD Project Works, Robert N M Watson (University of Cambridge/rwatson at FreeBSD.org, United Kingdom) [paper]
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, paper, freebsd, freebsd project, robert watson
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - SHISA: The Mobile IPv6/NEMO BS Stack Implementation Current Status, Keiichi Shima (Internet Initiative Japan Inc., Japan), Koshiro Mitsuya, Ryuji Wakikawa (Keio University, Japan), Tsuyoshi Momose (NEC Corporation, Japan), Keisuke Uehara (Keio University, Japan) [paper]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - SHISA: The Mobile IPv6/NEMO BS Stack Implementation Current Status, Keiichi Shima (Internet Initiative Japan Inc., Japan), Koshiro Mitsuya, Ryuji Wakikawa (Keio University, Japan), Tsuyoshi Momose (NEC Corporation, Japan), Keisuke Uehara (Keio University, Japan) [paper]
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, paper, ipv6, nemo, keiichi shima, koshiro mitsuya, ryuji wakikawa, tsoyoshi momose, keisuke uehara
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Bluffs: BSD Logging Updated Fast File System, Stephan Uphoff (Yahoo!, Inc./ups at FreeBSD.org, USA) [slides]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Bluffs: BSD Logging Updated Fast File System, Stephan Uphoff (Yahoo!, Inc./ups at FreeBSD.org, USA) [slides]
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, slides, bluffs, stephan uphoff
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Implementation and Evaluation of the Dual Stack Mobile IPv6, Koshiro Mitsuya, Ryuji Wakikawa, Jun Murai (Keio University, Japan) [paper]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Implementation and Evaluation of the Dual Stack Mobile IPv6, Koshiro Mitsuya, Ryuji Wakikawa, Jun Murai (Keio University, Japan) [paper]
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, paper, ipv6, koshiro mitsuya, ryuji wakikawa, jun murai
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Security Measures in OpenSSH, Damien Miller (djm at openbsd.org, Australia) [paper]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Security Measures in OpenSSH, Damien Miller (djm at openbsd.org, Australia) [paper]
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, paper, openssh, damien miller
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Porting the ZFS File System to the FreeBSD Operating System, Pawel Jakub Dawidek (pjd at FreeBSD.org, Poland) [paper]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Porting the ZFS File System to the FreeBSD Operating System, Pawel Jakub Dawidek (pjd at FreeBSD.org, Poland) [paper]
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, paper, freebsd, zfs, pawel jakub dawidek
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

AsiaBSDCon - AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Porting the ZFS File System to the FreeBSD Operating System, Pawel Jakub Dawidek (pjd at FreeBSD.org, Poland) [slides]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon 2007 Paper/Slides List - Porting the ZFS File System to the FreeBSD Operating System, Pawel Jakub Dawidek (pjd at FreeBSD.org, Poland) [slides]
From: AsiaBSDCon
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, pdf, slides, freebsd, zfs, pawel jakub dawidek
Slides and papers of the AsiaBSDCon 2007

bsdtalk - Robert Ricci from Emulab - MP3 version

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

Robert Ricci from Emulab - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, emulab, robert ricci, mp3
Interview with Robert Ricci from www.Emulab.net.

bsdtalk - Robert Ricci from Emulab - Ogg version

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

Robert Ricci from Emulab - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, emulab, robert ricci, ogg
Interview with Robert Ricci from www.Emulab.net.

New York City *BSD User Group - Matthew Burnside: Integrated Enterprise Security Mgmt - MP3 version

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

Matthew Burnside: Integrated Enterprise Security Mgmt - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: mp3, presentation, enterprise security, matthew burnside, mp3

Integrated Enterprise Security Management

Security policies are a key component in protecting enterprise networks. But, while there are many diverse defensive options available, current models and mechanisms for mechanically-enforced security policies are limited to traditional admission-based access control. Defensive capabilities include among others logging, firewalls, honeypots, rollback/recovery, and intrusion detection systems, while policy enforcement is essentially limited to one-off access control. Furthermore, access-control mechanisms operate independently on each service, which can (and often does) lead to inconsistent or incorrect application of the intended system-wide policy. We propose a new scheme for global security policies. Every policy decision is made with near-global knowledge, and re-evaluated as global knowledge changes. Using a variety of actuators, we make the full array of defensive capabilities available to the global policy. Our goal is a coherent, enterprise-wide response to any network threat.

Biography
Matthew Burnside is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department at Columbia University, in New York. He works for Professor Angelos Keromytis in the Network Security Lab. He received his B.A and M.Eng from MIT in 2000, and 2002, respectively. His main research interests are in computer security, trust management, and network anonymity.

bsdtalk - Cisco Distinguished Engineer Randall Stewart - MP3 version

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

Cisco Distinguished Engineer Randall Stewart - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, cisco, freebsd, stream control transmission protocol, randall stewart, mp3
Interview with Cisco Distinguished Engineer Randall Stewart. We talk about the Stream Control Transmission Protocol and his work bringing it to FreeBSD.

bsdtalk - Cisco Distinguished Engineer Randall Stewart - Ogg version

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

Cisco Distinguished Engineer Randall Stewart - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, cisco, freebsd, stream control transmission protocol, randall stewart, ogg
Interview with Cisco Distinguished Engineer Randall Stewart. We talk about the Stream Control Transmission Protocol and his work bringing it to FreeBSD.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Developer George Neville-Neil - MP3 version

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Developer George Neville-Neil - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, packet construction set, george neville-neil, mp3
Interview with FreeBSD developer George Neville-Neil. We talk about the packet construction set and the packet debugger.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Developer George Neville-Neil - Ogg version

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Developer George Neville-Neil - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, packet construction set, george neville-neil, ogg
Interview with FreeBSD developer George Neville-Neil. We talk about the packet construction set and the packet debugger.

Ottawa Amateur Radio Club - Ham Radio on FreeBSD

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

Ham Radio on FreeBSD
From: Ottawa Amateur Radio Club
Tags: oarc, presentation, radio, diane bruce, mp3

Last month I attended a meeting of the Ottawa Amateur Radio Club (OARC) as a member of my local BUG was giving a presentation on Ham Radio on FreeBSD. Diane Bruce, call sign VA3DB, has had her operator license since 1969 and is well known in the BSD community and for the development of ircd-hybrid. In the past year she has assisted in the creation of the Hamradio category in the FreeBSD ports tree and has become the maintainer of over 20 of the hamradio ports. She also contributed to the FreeBSD entry at Hampedia, the Wikipedia for ham operators.

Her presentation slides are a great introduction to the various ham utilities which are available, including both descriptions and screenshots of the utilities in action.

bsdtalk - NetBSD Developer Lubomir Sedlacik - MP3 version

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

NetBSD Developer Lubomir Sedlacik - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, netbsd, pkgsrccon, lubomir sedlacik, mp3
Interview with NetBSD Developer Lubomir Sedlacik. We talk about pkgsrcCon 2007.

bsdtalk - NetBSD Developer Lubomir Sedlacik - Ogg version

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

NetBSD Developer Lubomir Sedlacik - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, netbsd, pkgsrccon, lubomir sedlacik, ogg
Interview with NetBSD Developer Lubomir Sedlacik. We talk about pkgsrcCon 2007.

The Linux Tink Tech Show - The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 179

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 179
From: The Linux Tink Tech Show
Tags: linux link tech show, talk, will backman, mp3
Special Guests Will Backman and Scott Ruecker. Will's talks about his podcast bsdtalk and about Linux and BSD in general. We are joined by Troels also. Dann on Devede and hopes for MythTV. Scott Ruecker talks about Scale and general linux and lxer stuff.

bsdtalk - AsiaBSDCon PC Chair George Neville-Neil - MP3 version

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon PC Chair George Neville-Neil - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, george neville-neil, mp3
Interview with AsiaBSDCon 2007 Program Committee Chair George Neville-Neil.

bsdtalk - AsiaBSDCon PC Chair George Neville-Neil - Ogg version

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

AsiaBSDCon PC Chair George Neville-Neil - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, george neville-neil, ogg
Interview with AsiaBSDCon 2007 Program Committee Chair George Neville-Neil.

New York City *BSD User Group - Ivan Ivanov on The Version Control System Subversion - MP3 version

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

Ivan Ivanov on The Version Control System Subversion - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, subversion, ivan ivanov, nycbug, presentation, subversion, ivan ivanov

The presentation will discuss Subversion from both client and server points of view. It will show how to create repositories and how to make them accessible over the network using different access schemes like http://, file:// or svn://. Pointers are given on securing the repositories and on authenticating and authorizing the clients. Next, the presentation shows how an user interacts with the repository and describes some of the important Subversion client commands. Finally, it deals with administrating the repository using "hook scripts".

Ivan Ivanov is generally interested in Version Control Systems since his student years in Sofia University, Bulgaria, where he set up and maintained a CVS server for an academic project. When Subversion became a fact and proved to be "a better CVS" he researched it and last year deployed it for his NYC-based employer Ariel Partners (http://www.arielpartners.com/). He intergrated the Subversion repositories with Apache Web Server over https to enable a reliable and secure way to access them from any point.

bsdtalk - DragonFlyBSD Developer Matthew Dillon - MP3 version

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

DragonFlyBSD Developer Matthew Dillon - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, dragonflybsd, mathew dillon, mp3
Interview with DragonFlyBSD developer Matthew Dillon. We talk about the 1.8 release.

bsdtalk - DragonFlyBSD Developer Matthew Dillon - Ogg version

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

DragonFlyBSD Developer Matthew Dillon - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, dragonflybsd, mathew dillon, ogg
Interview with DragonFlyBSD developer Matthew Dillon. We talk about the 1.8 release.

bsdtalk - OpenBSD Developer Pierre-Yves Ritschard - MP3 version

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Developer Pierre-Yves Ritschard - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, hoststated, pierre-yves ritschard, mp3
Interview with OpenBSD Developer Pierre-Yves Ritschard. We talk about hoststated.

bsdtalk - OpenBSD Developer Pierre-Yves Ritschard - Ogg version

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Developer Pierre-Yves Ritschard - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, hoststated, pierre-yves ritschard, ogg
Interview with OpenBSD Developer Pierre-Yves Ritschard. We talk about hoststated.

bsdtalk - Artist and Musician Ty Semaka - MP3 version

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Artist and Musician Ty Semaka - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, artwork, ty semaka, mp3
Interview with Artist and Musician Ty Semaka. You can find his work at http://www.tysemaka.com/, and also on the OpenBSD CDs, posters, and shirts.

bsdtalk - Artist and Musician Ty Semaka - Ogg version

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Artist and Musician Ty Semaka - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, artwork, ty semaka, ogg
Interview with Artist and Musician Ty Semaka. You can find his work at http://www.tysemaka.com/, and also on the OpenBSD CDs, posters, and shirts.

bsdtalk - OpenBSD Developer Claudio Jeker - MP3 version

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Developer Claudio Jeker - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, claudio jeker, mp3
Interview with OpenBSD Developer Claudio Jeker.

bsdtalk - OpenBSD Developer Claudio Jeker - Ogg version

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Developer Claudio Jeker - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, claudio jeker, ogg
Interview with OpenBSD Developer Claudio Jeker.

Diomidis Spinellis - Global software development in the FreeBSD project - International Workshop on Global Software Development for the Practitioner, pages 73-79. ACM Press, May 2006

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Global software development in the FreeBSD project - International Workshop on Global Software Development for the Practitioner, pages 73-79. ACM Press, May 2006
From: Diomidis Spinellis
Tags: freebsd, article, global software development, domidis spinellis, html
FreeBSD is a sophisticated operating system developed and maintained as open-source software by a team of more than 350 individuals located throughout the world. This study uses developer location data, the configuration management repository, and records from the issue database to examine the extent of global development and its effect on productivity, quality, and developer cooperation. The key findings are that global development allows round-the-clock work, but there are some marked differences between the type of work performed at different regions. The effects of multiple dispersed developers on the quality of code and productivity are negligible. Mentoring appears to be sometimes associated with developers living closer together, but ad-hoc cooperation seems to work fine across continents.

Diomidis Spinellis - Global software development in the FreeBSD project - In NASSCOM Quality Summit 2006: Setting benchmarks in global outsourcing, Bangalore, India, September 2006. National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM).

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Global software development in the FreeBSD project - In NASSCOM Quality Summit 2006: Setting benchmarks in global outsourcing, Bangalore, India, September 2006. National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM).
From: Diomidis Spinellis
Tags: freebsd, article, global software development, domidis spinellis, html
FreeBSD is a sophisticated operating system developed and maintained as open-source software by a team of more than 350 individuals located throughout the world. This study uses developer location data, the configuration management repository, and records from the issue database to examine the extent of global development and its effect on productivity, quality, and developer cooperation. The key findings are that global development allows round-the-clock work, but there are some marked differences between the type of work performed at different regions. The effects of multiple dispersed developers on the quality of code and productivity are negligible. Mentoring appears to be sometimes associated with developers living closer together, but ad-hoc cooperation seems to work fine across continents.

Diomidis Spinellis - Global software development in the FreeBSD project - Linux Format, (11):60?63, September/October 2006. In Greek.

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Global software development in the FreeBSD project - Linux Format, (11):60?63, September/October 2006. In Greek.
From: Diomidis Spinellis
Tags: freebsd, article, global software development, domidis spinellis, html
FreeBSD is a sophisticated operating system developed and maintained as open-source software by a team of more than 350 individuals located throughout the world. This study uses developer location data, the configuration management repository, and records from the issue database to examine the extent of global development and its effect on productivity, quality, and developer cooperation. The key findings are that global development allows round-the-clock work, but there are some marked differences between the type of work performed at different regions. The effects of multiple dispersed developers on the quality of code and productivity are negligible. Mentoring appears to be sometimes associated with developers living closer together, but ad-hoc cooperation seems to work fine across continents.

bsdtalk - EMC Lab Admin Glen R. J. Neff - MP3 version

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

EMC Lab Admin Glen R. J. Neff - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, emc lab, glen r j neff, mp3
Interview with EMC Lab Administrator Glen R. J. Neff.

bsdtalk - EMC Lab Admin Glen R. J. Neff - Ogg version

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

EMC Lab Admin Glen R. J. Neff - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, emc lab, glen r j neff, ogg
Interview with EMC Lab Administrator Glen R. J. Neff.

bsdtalk - BSD Consultant Jeremy C. Reed - MP3 version

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

BSD Consultant Jeremy C. Reed - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, consultancy, jeremy c reed, mp3
Interview with BSD Consultant Jeremy C. Reed from http://www.reedmedia.net/

bsdtalk - BSD Consultant Jeremy C. Reed - Ogg version

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

BSD Consultant Jeremy C. Reed - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, consultancy, jeremy c reed, ogg
Interview with BSD Consultant Jeremy C. Reed from http://www.reedmedia.net/

BSD UNIX bruger gruppe i Danmark - FreeBSD Security Officer funktionen

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Security Officer funktionen
From: BSD UNIX bruger gruppe i Danmark
Tags: aauug, presentation, danish, freebsd, security officer, simon l nielsen, pdf
"FreeBSD Security Officer funktionen" at the BSD-DK, 26 August 2006 by Simon L. Nielsen (FreeBSD Deputy Security Officer)

OpenFest - FreeBSD ports Erwin Lansing - PDF

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD ports Erwin Lansing - PDF
From: OpenFest
Tags: openfest, openfest2006, presentation, freebsd, port manager, erwin lansing, pdf
Case study : managing a worldwide open source project: FreeBSD port manager

AArhus Unix Users Group - FreeBSD Security Officer funktionen - PDF (danish)

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Security Officer funktionen - PDF (danish)
From: AArhus Unix Users Group
Tags: h, freebsd, security officer, simon l nielsen, pdf
"FreeBSD Security Officer funktionen" at the AAUUG, AAUUG, 22 August 2006 by Simon L. Nielsen (FreeBSD Deputy Security Officer)

Robert Watson - Robert Watson's Slides from BSDCan 2006 and FreeBSD Developer Summit - Notes from the 10 May 2006 Meeting of the Network Stack Cabal (Developer Summit)

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Robert Watson's Slides from BSDCan 2006 and FreeBSD Developer Summit - Notes from the 10 May 2006 Meeting of the Network Stack Cabal (Developer Summit)
From: Robert Watson
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2006, notes, devsummit, robert watson, pdf, freebsd
As usual, Dan Langille ran an excellent BSDCan conference. On this page, you can find my slides from the developer summit and full conference, excluding the contents of the WIPs, for which I don't have permission to redistribute the slides.

Robert Watson - Robert Watson's Slides from BSDCan 2006 and FreeBSD Developer Summit - SMPng Network Stack Update (Developer Summit)

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Robert Watson's Slides from BSDCan 2006 and FreeBSD Developer Summit - SMPng Network Stack Update (Developer Summit)
From: Robert Watson
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2006, notes, devsummit, robert watson, pdf, smp
As usual, Dan Langille ran an excellent BSDCan conference. On this page, you can find my slides from the developer summit and full conference, excluding the contents of the WIPs, for which I don't have permission to redistribute the slides.

Robert Watson - Robert Watson's Slides from BSDCan 2006 and FreeBSD Developer Summit - TrustedBSD Project Update (Developer Summit)

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Robert Watson's Slides from BSDCan 2006 and FreeBSD Developer Summit - TrustedBSD Project Update (Developer Summit)
From: Robert Watson
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2006, notes, devsummit, robert watson, pdf, trustedbsd
As usual, Dan Langille ran an excellent BSDCan conference. On this page, you can find my slides from the developer summit and full conference, excluding the contents of the WIPs, for which I don't have permission to redistribute the slides.

Robert Watson - Robert Watson's Slides from BSDCan 2006 and FreeBSD Developer Summit - How the FreeBSD Project Works (BSDCan 2006 Full Conference)

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Robert Watson's Slides from BSDCan 2006 and FreeBSD Developer Summit - How the FreeBSD Project Works (BSDCan 2006 Full Conference)
From: Robert Watson
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2006, notes, devsummit, robert watson, pdf, freebsd, freebsd project
As usual, Dan Langille ran an excellent BSDCan conference. On this page, you can find my slides from the developer summit and full conference, excluding the contents of the WIPs, for which I don't have permission to redistribute the slides.

Robert Watson - Robert Watson's Slides from AsiaBSDCon 2004 - Extensible Kernel Security through the TrustedBSD MAC Framework.

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Robert Watson's Slides from AsiaBSDCon 2004 - Extensible Kernel Security through the TrustedBSD MAC Framework.
From: Robert Watson
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2004, robert watson, pdf, slides, trustedbsd, mac
AsiaBSDCon 2004 took place in Taipei, Taiwan, in March 2004, and was hosted by Academia Sinica.

Robert Watson - Robert Watson's Slides from AsiaBSDCon 2004 - AsiaBSDCon 2004 BSD (FreeBSD) BoF session

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Robert Watson's Slides from AsiaBSDCon 2004 - AsiaBSDCon 2004 BSD (FreeBSD) BoF session
From: Robert Watson
Tags: asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2004, robert watson, pdf, slides, freebsd
AsiaBSDCon 2004 took place in Taipei, Taiwan, in March 2004, and was hosted by Academia Sinica.

Swiss Unix Users Group Conference 2004 - Poul-Henning Kamp - GBDE -- Spook strength disk encryption - Paper

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Poul-Henning Kamp - GBDE -- Spook strength disk encryption - Paper
From: Swiss Unix Users Group Conference 2004
Tags: suug, presentation, gbde, poul-henning kamp, pdf
GBDE is a disk encryption facility designed with both usability and strength as requirements and it attempts to protect both the user and the data. The talk is about avoiding self-deceiving analysis, how to make real world usable cryptography and generally protect yourself and your data. Required skill level: Laptop user.

Swiss Unix Users Group Conference 2004 - Poul-Henning Kamp - GBDE -- Spook strength disk encryption - Slides

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Poul-Henning Kamp - GBDE -- Spook strength disk encryption - Slides
From: Swiss Unix Users Group Conference 2004
Tags: suug, presentation, gbde, poul-henning kamp, pdf
GBDE is a disk encryption facility designed with both usability and strength as requirements and it attempts to protect both the user and the data. The talk is about avoiding self-deceiving analysis, how to make real world usable cryptography and generally protect yourself and your data. Required skill level: Laptop user.

Robert Watson - Robert Watson's Slides from EuroBSDCon 2005 - Introduction to Multithreading and Multiprocessing in the FreeBSD SMPng Network Stack

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Robert Watson's Slides from EuroBSDCon 2005 - Introduction to Multithreading and Multiprocessing in the FreeBSD SMPng Network Stack
From: Robert Watson
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2005, slides, freebsd, smp, robert watson, poul-henning kamp, ed maste, pdf
EuroBSDCon 2005 took place in Basel, Switzerland in November, 2005. Due to an injury, I was unable to attend the conference itself, and my talks were presented in absentia by Poul-Henning Kamp and Ed Maste, who have my greatest appreciation!
The FreeBSD SMPng Project has spent the past five years redesigning and reimplementing SMP support for the FreeBSD operating system, moving from a Giant-locked kernel to a fine-grained locking implementation with greater kernel threading and parallelism. This paper introduces the FreeBSD SMPng Project, its architectural goals and implementation approach. It then explores the impact of SMPng on the FreeBSD network stack, including strategies for integrating SMP support into the network stack, locking approaches, optimizations, and challenges.

Robert Watson - Robert Watson's Slides from EuroBSDCon 2004 - TrustedBSD MAC Framework on FreeBSD and Darwin

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Robert Watson's Slides from EuroBSDCon 2004 - TrustedBSD MAC Framework on FreeBSD and Darwin
From: Robert Watson
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2004, slides, trustedbsd, freebsd, mac, robert watson, pdf
Robert Watson will describe the design and application of the TrustedBSD MAC Framework, a flexible kernel security framework developed on FreeBSD, and recently experimentally ported to Apple's Darwin operating system. The MAC Framework permits loadable access control kernel modules to be loaded, modifying the security behavior of the operating system, including SEBSD, a port of the SELinux FLASK/TE security model to FreeBSD.

Robert Watson - Robert Watson's Slides from BSDCan 2004 - TrustedBSD: Trusted Operating System Features for BSD

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Robert Watson's Slides from BSDCan 2004 - TrustedBSD: Trusted Operating System Features for BSD
From: Robert Watson
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2004, slides, trustedbsd, freebsd, robert watson, pdf
BSDCan 2004 took place at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. On this page, you can find my slides from the conference.
Robert Watson will describe a variety of pieces of work done as part of the TrustedBSD Project, including the TrustedBSD MAC Framework, Audit facilities for FreeBSD, as well as supporting infrastructure work such as GEOM/GBDE, UFS2, OpenPAM. He will also discuss how certification and evaluation play into feature selection, design, and documentation.

Robert Watson - Robert Watson's Slides from UKUUG LISA 2006 - CAPP-Compliant Security Event Audit System for Mac OS X and FreeBSD (UKUUG LISA 2006).

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Robert Watson's Slides from UKUUG LISA 2006 - CAPP-Compliant Security Event Audit System for Mac OS X and FreeBSD (UKUUG LISA 2006).
From: Robert Watson
Tags: ukuug, slides, openbsm, trustedbsd, freebsd, robert watson, pdf
UKUUG LISA 2006 took place in Durham, UK in March, 2006. On this page, you can find my slides from this conference.
OpenBSM is a BSD-licensed implementation of Sun's Basic Security Module (BSM) API and file format, and is the foundation of the TrustedBSD audit implementation for FreeBSD. This talk will cover the requirements, design, and implementation of audit support for FreeBSD. Security audit support provides detailed logging of security-relevant events, and meets the requirements of the CAPP Common Criteria protection profile.

Swiss Unix Users Group Conference 2004 - Max Laier - PF - Extended Introduction - Slides

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Max Laier - PF - Extended Introduction - Slides
From: Swiss Unix Users Group Conference 2004
Tags: suug, presentation, pf, altq, max laier, pdf
The talk will introduce packet filter (pf) - a *BSD firewall system - and summarize its history and projected future. After providing a short overview of pf's general functionality and some firewall basics, it will concentrate on packet filter's advanced feature-set from the administrator's point of view. The talk will also cover the integration of ALTQ, a mature framework for traffic shaping and priorization. Finally it will provide a short overview of the "Common Address Redundancy Protocol" (CARP) and its integration in pf.

Swiss Unix Users Group Conference 2004 - Max Laier - PF - Extended Introduction - Video/MPEG

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Max Laier - PF - Extended Introduction - Video/MPEG
From: Swiss Unix Users Group Conference 2004
Tags: suug, presentation, pf, altq, max laier, avi
The talk will introduce packet filter (pf) - a *BSD firewall system - and summarize its history and projected future. After providing a short overview of pf's general functionality and some firewall basics, it will concentrate on packet filter's advanced feature-set from the administrator's point of view. The talk will also cover the integration of ALTQ, a mature framework for traffic shaping and priorization. Finally it will provide a short overview of the "Common Address Redundancy Protocol" (CARP) and its integration in pf.

Swiss Unix Users Group Conference 2004 - Max Laier - PF - Extended Introduction - Audio/MP3

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Max Laier - PF - Extended Introduction - Audio/MP3
From: Swiss Unix Users Group Conference 2004
Tags: suug, presentation, pf, altq, max laier, mp3
The talk will introduce packet filter (pf) - a *BSD firewall system - and summarize its history and projected future. After providing a short overview of pf's general functionality and some firewall basics, it will concentrate on packet filter's advanced feature-set from the administrator's point of view. The talk will also cover the integration of ALTQ, a mature framework for traffic shaping and priorization. Finally it will provide a short overview of the "Common Address Redundancy Protocol" (CARP) and its integration in pf.

EuroBSDCon - Andre Opperman - The papers I write for EuroBSDCon 05 - New Networking Features in FreeBSD 6

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Andre Opperman - The papers I write for EuroBSDCon 05 - New Networking Features in FreeBSD 6
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2005, paper, freebsd, networking, andre opperman, pdf
The papers I write for EuroBSDCon 05 on New Networking Feature in FreeBSD 6.0 and Optimizing FreeBSD IP and TCP in 7-CURRENT

EuroBSDCon - Andre Opperman - The papers I write for EuroBSDCon 05 - Optimizing the FreeBSD IP and TCP Stack

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Andre Opperman - The papers I write for EuroBSDCon 05 - Optimizing the FreeBSD IP and TCP Stack
From: EuroBSDCon
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2005, paper, freebsd, networking, andre opperman, pdf
The papers I write for EuroBSDCon 05 on New Networking Feature in FreeBSD 6.0 and Optimizing FreeBSD IP and TCP in 7-CURRENT

Swiss Unix Users Group Conference 2004 - Poul-Henning Kamp - Old mistakes repeated (but you do get the source code now) - Slides

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Poul-Henning Kamp - Old mistakes repeated (but you do get the source code now) - Slides
From: Swiss Unix Users Group Conference 2004
Tags: suug, presentation, unix, mistakes, poul-henning kamp, pdf
UNIX is the best operating system ever designed so everybody is running UNIX on their computer, right ? This presentation takes a partisan looks a why UNIX never became a big success in the eighties, failed to win the market in the nineties, and still struggles in the market in the new millenium. Poul-Henning will take a critical look at the mistakes of the past and the mistakes of the present and try to make it really clear what needs to happen for UNIX to become a real success.

Robert Watson - Robert Watson's Slides from EuroBSDCon 2006 and FreeBSD Developer Summit - TrustedBSD presentation on Audit and priv(9) (Developer Summit)

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Robert Watson's Slides from EuroBSDCon 2006 and FreeBSD Developer Summit - TrustedBSD presentation on Audit and priv(9) (Developer Summit)
From: Robert Watson
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2006, robert watson, pdf, slides, trustedbsd, freebsd
EuroBSDCon 2006 took place in Milan, Italy, and not only offered excellent food on a flexible schedule, but also an interesting array of talks on work spanning the BSD's. On this page, you can find my slides from the FreeBSD developer summit and full conference.
Status report on the TrustedBSD Project: introduction and status regarding Audit, plus a TODO list; introduction to the priv(9) work recently merged to 7.x.
The FreeBSD Project is one of the oldest and most successful open source operating system projects, seeing wide deployment across the IT industry. From the root name servers, to top tier ISPs, to core router operating systems, to firewalls, to embedded appliances, you can't use a networked computer for ten minutes without using FreeBSD dozens of times. Part of FreeBSD's reputation for quality and reliability comes from the nature of its development organization--driven by a hundreds of highly skilled volunteers, from high school students to university professors. And unlike most open source projects, the FreeBSD Project has developers who have been working on the same source base for over twenty years. But how does this organization work? Who pays the bandwidth bills, runs the web servers, writes the documentation, writes the code, and calls the shots? And how can developers in a dozen time zones reach agreement on the time of day, let alone a kernel architecture? This presentation will attempt to provide, in 45 minutes, a brief if entertaining snapshot into what makes FreeBSD run.

Robert Watson - Robert Watson's Slides from EuroBSDCon 2006 and FreeBSD Developer Summit - How the FreeBSD Project Works (EuroBSDCon 2006 Full Conference)

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Robert Watson's Slides from EuroBSDCon 2006 and FreeBSD Developer Summit - How the FreeBSD Project Works (EuroBSDCon 2006 Full Conference)
From: Robert Watson
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2006, robert watson, pdf, slides, freebsd, freebsd project
EuroBSDCon 2006 took place in Milan, Italy, and not only offered excellent food on a flexible schedule, but also an interesting array of talks on work spanning the BSD's. On this page, you can find my slides from the FreeBSD developer summit and full conference.
Status report on the TrustedBSD Project: introduction and status regarding Audit, plus a TODO list; introduction to the priv(9) work recently merged to 7.x.
The FreeBSD Project is one of the oldest and most successful open source operating system projects, seeing wide deployment across the IT industry. From the root name servers, to top tier ISPs, to core router operating systems, to firewalls, to embedded appliances, you can't use a networked computer for ten minutes without using FreeBSD dozens of times. Part of FreeBSD's reputation for quality and reliability comes from the nature of its development organization--driven by a hundreds of highly skilled volunteers, from high school students to university professors. And unlike most open source projects, the FreeBSD Project has developers who have been working on the same source base for over twenty years. But how does this organization work? Who pays the bandwidth bills, runs the web servers, writes the documentation, writes the code, and calls the shots? And how can developers in a dozen time zones reach agreement on the time of day, let alone a kernel architecture? This presentation will attempt to provide, in 45 minutes, a brief if entertaining snapshot into what makes FreeBSD run.

Andre Opperman - The presentation I gave at SUCON 04

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

The presentation I gave at SUCON 04
From: Andre Opperman
Tags: sucon, presentation, freebsd, networking, andre opperman, pdf
The presentation I gave at SUCON 04 on 2nd September 2004 about enhancements/changes in FreeBSD 5.3 Networking Stack.

Swiss Unix Users Group Conference 2004 - Hendrik Scholz - Performance bottleneck detection and removal - Slides

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Hendrik Scholz - Performance bottleneck detection and removal - Slides
From: Swiss Unix Users Group Conference 2004
Tags: suug, presentation, performance, hendrik scholz, pdf
Once a system is exposed to heavy load bottlenecks need to be addressed to prevent single components from slowing down a complex installation. Highlighting various hotspots their detection and removal gets discussed using real life examples.

bsdtalk - Run Your Own Server Podcast Host Adam Glen - MP3 version

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Run Your Own Server Podcast Host Adam Glen - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, run your own server, adam glen, mp3
Interview with Adam Glen, one of the hosts of the Run Your Own Server Podcast.

bsdtalk - Run Your Own Server Podcast Host Adam Glen - Ogg version

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Run Your Own Server Podcast Host Adam Glen - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, run your own server, adam glen, ogg
Interview with Adam Glen, one of the hosts of the Run Your Own Server Podcast.

New York City *BSD User Group - Okan Demirmen on PF - MP3 version

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Okan Demirmen on PF - MP3 version
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, openbsd, pf, okan demirmen, mp3
We have had lots of meetings that have peripherally discussed OpenBSD`s wildly popular PF firewall... but finally we will have a meeting focused on it.

bsdtalk - Phil Pereira from bsdnexus.com - MP3 version

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Phil Pereira from bsdnexus.com - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdnexus, phil pereira, mp3
Interview with Phil Pereira from bsdnexus.com.

bsdtalk - Phil Pereira from bsdnexus.com - Ogg version

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Phil Pereira from bsdnexus.com - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdnexus, phil pereira, ogg
Interview with Phil Pereira from bsdnexus.com.

bsdtalk - Sys Admin Mike Erdely - MP3 version

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Sys Admin Mike Erdely - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, binpatch, mike erdely, mp3
Interview with Sys Admin Mike Erdely. You can find more information on his use of binpatch at http://erdelynet.com/binpatch.

bsdtalk - Sys Admin Mike Erdely - Ogg version

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Sys Admin Mike Erdely - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, binpatch, mike erdely, ogg
Interview with Sys Admin Mike Erdely. You can find more information on his use of binpatch at http://erdelynet.com/binpatch.

bsdtalk - NetBSD Release Engineer Jeff Rizzo - MP3 version

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

NetBSD Release Engineer Jeff Rizzo - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, netbsd, jeff rizzo, mp3
Interview with NetBSD Release Engineer Jeff Rizzo. We talk about the upcoming 4.0 release.

bsdtalk - NetBSD Release Engineer Jeff Rizzo - Ogg version

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

NetBSD Release Engineer Jeff Rizzo - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, netbsd, jeff rizzo, ogg
Interview with NetBSD Release Engineer Jeff Rizzo. We talk about the upcoming 4.0 release.

bsdtalk - A Year of BSDTalk - MP3 version

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

A Year of BSDTalk - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, anniversary, mp3
A short ramble about the first year of bsdtalk.

bsdtalk - A Year of BSDTalk - Ogg version

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

A Year of BSDTalk - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, anniversary, ogg
A short ramble about the first year of bsdtalk.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Developer Joseph Koshy - MP3 version

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Developer Joseph Koshy - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, libelf, joseph koshy, mp3
Interview with FreeBSD developer Joseph Koshy about libELF. You can find more information about libELF at http://wiki.freebsd.org/LibElf.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Developer Joseph Koshy - Ogg version

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Developer Joseph Koshy - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, libelf, joseph koshy, ogg
Interview with FreeBSD developer Joseph Koshy about libELF. You can find more information about libELF at http://wiki.freebsd.org/LibElf.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Developer Kip Macy - MP3 version

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Developer Kip Macy - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, ultrasparc t1, kip macy, mp3
Interview with FreeBSD developer Kip Macy. We talk about the Ultrasparc T1 port.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Developer Kip Macy - Ogg version

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Developer Kip Macy - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, ultrasparc t1, kip macy, ogg
Interview with FreeBSD developer Kip Macy. We talk about the Ultrasparc T1 port.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Port Committer Thomas McLaughlin - MP3 version

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Port Committer Thomas McLaughlin - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, bsd#, thomas mclaughlin, mp3
Interview with FreeBSD Port Committer Thomas McLaughlin about the BSD# project.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Port Committer Thomas McLaughlin - Ogg version

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Port Committer Thomas McLaughlin - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, bsd#, thomas mclaughlin, ogg
Interview with FreeBSD Port Committer Thomas McLaughlin about the BSD# project.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Release Engineer Bruce Mah - MP3 version

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Release Engineer Bruce Mah - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, release engineer, bruce mah, mp3
Interview with FreeBSD Release Engineer Bruce Mah.

bsdtalk - FreeBSD Release Engineer Bruce Mah - Ogg version

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

FreeBSD Release Engineer Bruce Mah - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, release engineer, bruce mah, ogg
Interview with FreeBSD Release Engineer Bruce Mah.

FreeBSD for All - Episode 08 of "FreeBSD for all" uploaded - 128 kbps MP3 version

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

Episode 08 of "FreeBSD for all" uploaded - 128 kbps MP3 version
From: FreeBSD for All
Tags: freebsd for all, talk, mp3
This week we talk about some tips, latest news, Press Coverage and yes, some jazz.

bsdtalk - Pkgsrc Developer Johnny Lam - MP3 version

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

Pkgsrc Developer Johnny Lam - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pkgsrc, johnny lam, mp3
Interview with pkgsrc developer Johnny Lam.

bsdtalk - Pkgsrc Developer Johnny Lam - Ogg version

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

Pkgsrc Developer Johnny Lam - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pkgsrc, johnny lam, ogg
Interview with pkgsrc developer Johnny Lam.

bsdtalk - OpenBSD Developer Jason Wright - MP3 version

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Developer Jason Wright - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, sparc, radio, jason wright, mp3
Interview with OpenBSD developer Jason Wright. We talk about his work on sparc and also amateur radio.

bsdtalk - OpenBSD Developer Jason Wright - Ogg version

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Developer Jason Wright - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, sparc, radio, jason wright, ogg
Interview with OpenBSD developer Jason Wright. We talk about his work on sparc and also amateur radio.

bsdtalk - Thorsten Glaser from MirOS - MP3 version

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

Thorsten Glaser from MirOS - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, miros, thomas glaser, mp3
Interview with Thorsten Glaser from MirOS, which can be found at www.mirbsd.org.

bsdtalk - Thorsten Glaser from MirOS - Ogg version

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

Thorsten Glaser from MirOS - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, miros, thomas glaser, ogg
Interview with Thorsten Glaser from MirOS, which can be found at www.mirbsd.org.

bsdtalk - EuroBSDCon Organizer Massimiliano Stucchi - MP3 version

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon Organizer Massimiliano Stucchi - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2006, massimiliano stucchi, mp3
Interview with EuroBSDCon organizer Massimiliano Stucchi.

bsdtalk - EuroBSDCon Organizer Massimiliano Stucchi - Ogg version

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

EuroBSDCon Organizer Massimiliano Stucchi - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2006, massimiliano stucchi, ogg
Interview with EuroBSDCon organizer Massimiliano Stucchi.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2006: BSD is Dying - A Cautionary Tale of Sex and Greed - QuickTime

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2006: BSD is Dying - A Cautionary Tale of Sex and Greed - QuickTime
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, humor, bsd is dying, jason dixon, mov

BSD is Dying
A Cautionary Tale of Sex and Greed
Jason Dixon
October 28, 2006

First and foremost, I would like to thank the unique presentation styles of Dick Hardt and Lawrence Lessig for inspiring me to create this presentation.

The following videos were created by exporting the original Keynote presentation slides into QuickTime video, then manually synchronizing them using iMovie HD with the audio recordings captured by Nikolai Fetissov. They were then exported into QuickTime, mpeg4 (H.264/AAC), and iPod movie formats. If you are having difficulties with the MP4 copy, and are unable to view QuickTime movies, please contact me and I'll try to assist.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2006: BSD is Dying - A Cautionary Tale of Sex and Greed - MP4

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2006: BSD is Dying - A Cautionary Tale of Sex and Greed - MP4
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, humor, bsd is dying, jason dixon, mp4

BSD is Dying
A Cautionary Tale of Sex and Greed
Jason Dixon
October 28, 2006

First and foremost, I would like to thank the unique presentation styles of Dick Hardt and Lawrence Lessig for inspiring me to create this presentation.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2006: BSD is Dying - A Cautionary Tale of Sex and Greed - iPod

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2006: BSD is Dying - A Cautionary Tale of Sex and Greed - iPod
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, humor, bsd is dying, jason dixon, m4v

BSD is Dying
A Cautionary Tale of Sex and Greed
Jason Dixon
October 28, 2006

First and foremost, I would like to thank the unique presentation styles of Dick Hardt and Lawrence Lessig for inspiring me to create this presentation.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2006 - Corey Benninger: Security with Ruby on Rails in BSD

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2006 - Corey Benninger: Security with Ruby on Rails in BSD
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2006, presentation, mp3, ruby, ruby on rails, security, corey benninger
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2006. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2006 - Brian A. Seklecki: A Framework for NetBSD Network Appliances.

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2006 - Brian A. Seklecki: A Framework for NetBSD Network Appliances.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2006, presentation, mp3, netbsd, brian a seklecki
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2006. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2006 - Bob Beck: PF, it is not just for firewalls anymore.

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2006 - Bob Beck: PF, it is not just for firewalls anymore.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2006, presentation, mp3, pf, bob beck
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2006. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2006 - Bjorn Nelson: A Build System for FreeBSD

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2006 - Bjorn Nelson: A Build System for FreeBSD
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2006, presentation, mp3, freebsd, bjorn nelson
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2006. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2006 - Johnny C. Lam: The "hidden dependency" problem.

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2006 - Johnny C. Lam: The "hidden dependency" problem.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2006, presentation, mp3, johnny c lam
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2006. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2006 - Marco Peereboom: Bio & Sensors in OpenBSD.

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2006 - Marco Peereboom: Bio & Sensors in OpenBSD.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2006, presentation, mp3, openbsd, sensors, marco peerenboom
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2006. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2006 - Russell Sutherland: BSD on the Edge of the Enterprise.

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2006 - Russell Sutherland: BSD on the Edge of the Enterprise.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2006, presentation, mp3, russel sutherland
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2006. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2006 - Jason Dixon: BSD Is Dying.

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2006 - Jason Dixon: BSD Is Dying.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2006, presentation, mp3, humor, bsd is dying, jason dixon
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2006. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2006 - Jason Wright: OpenBSD on sparc64.

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2006 - Jason Wright: OpenBSD on sparc64.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2006, presentation, mp3, openbsd, sparc64, jason wright
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2006. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2006 - Kristaps Johnson: BSD Virtualisation with sysjail.

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2006 - Kristaps Johnson: BSD Virtualisation with sysjail.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2006, presentation, mp3, sysjail, kristaps johnson
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2006. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2006 - Wietse Venema: Postfix as a Secure Programming Example.

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2006 - Wietse Venema: Postfix as a Secure Programming Example.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2006, presentation, mp3, postfix, wietse venema
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2006. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

New York City *BSD User Group - New York City BSD Con 2006 - Bob Beck: spamd - spam deferral daemon.

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

New York City BSD Con 2006 - Bob Beck: spamd - spam deferral daemon.
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, nycbsdcon, nycbsdcon2006, presentation, mp3, spamd, bob beck
Audio recordings of presentations given at New York City BSD Conference 2006. Courtesy of nikolai at fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the slides.

bsdtalk - OpenBSD Developer David Gwynne - MP3 version

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Developer David Gwynne - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, david gwynne, mp3
Interview with OpenBSD developer David Gwynne. We talk about the upcoming 4.0 release of OpenBSD and current projects that he is working on.

bsdtalk - OpenBSD Developer David Gwynne - Ogg version

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Developer David Gwynne - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, david gwynne, ogg
Interview with OpenBSD developer David Gwynne. We talk about the upcoming 4.0 release of OpenBSD and current projects that he is working on.

bsdtalk - Kris Moore from PC-BSD - MP3 version

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

Kris Moore from PC-BSD - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pc-bsd, kris moore, mp3
Interview with Kris Moore from PC-BSD.

bsdtalk - Kris Moore from PC-BSD - Ogg version

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

Kris Moore from PC-BSD - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, pc-bsd, kris moore, ogg
Interview with Kris Moore from PC-BSD.

bsdtalk - Matt Olander from iXsystems - MP3 version

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

Matt Olander from iXsystems - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ixsystems, matt olander, mp3
Interview with Matt Olander from www.iXsystems.com.

bsdtalk - Matt Olander from iXsystems - Ogg version

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

Matt Olander from iXsystems - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ixsystems, matt olander, ogg
Interview with Matt Olander from www.iXsystems.com.

bsdtalk - OpenBSD Developer Marc Balmer - MP3 version

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Developer Marc Balmer - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, opencon, openbsd, marc balmer, mp3
Interview with OpenBSD Developer Marc Balmer. We talk about www.opencon.org and his work with OpenBSD.

bsdtalk - OpenBSD Developer Marc Balmer - Ogg version

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD Developer Marc Balmer - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, opencon, openbsd, marc balmer, ogg
Interview with OpenBSD Developer Marc Balmer. We talk about www.opencon.org and his work with OpenBSD.

OpenBSD - OpenBSD 4.0 Release Song - Humppa negala - MP3 version

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD 4.0 Release Song - Humppa negala - MP3 version
From: OpenBSD
Tags: openbsd, artwork, mp3

The last 10 years, every 6 month period has (without fail) resulted in an official OpenBSD release making it to the FTP servers. But CDs are also manufactured, which the project sells to continue our development goals.

While tests of the release binaries are done by developers around the world, Theo and some developers from Calgary or Edmonton (such as Peter Valchev or Bob Beck) test that the discs are full of (only) correct code. Ty Semaka works for approximately two months to design and draw artwork that will fit the designated theme, and coordinates with his music buddies to write and record a song that also matches the theme.

Then the discs and all the artwork gets delivered to the plant, so that they can be pressed in time for an official release date.

This release, instead of bemoaning vendors or organizations that try to make our task of writing free software more difficult, we instead celebrate the 10 years that we have been given (so far) to write free software, express our themes in art, and the 5 years that we have made music with a group of talented musicians.

OpenBSD developers have been torturing each other for years now with Humppa-style music, so this release our users get a taste of this too. Sometimes at hackathons you will hear the same songs being played on multiple laptops, out of sync. It is under such duress that much of our code gets written.

We feel like Pufferix and Bobilix delivering The Three Discs of Freedom to those who want them whenever the need arises, then returning to celebrate the (unlocked) source tree with all the other developers.

For RSS readers: Please note that the download URL is an FTP site.

OpenBSD - OpenBSD 4.0 Release Song - Humppa negala - Ogg version

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD 4.0 Release Song - Humppa negala - Ogg version
From: OpenBSD
Tags: openbsd, artwork, ogg

Then the discs and all the artwork gets delivered to the plant, so that they can be pressed in time for an official release date.

For RSS readers: Please note that the download URL is an FTP site.

OpenBSD - OpenBSD 4.0 Release Songs - OpenVOX - MP3 version

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD 4.0 Release Songs - OpenVOX - MP3 version
From: OpenBSD
Tags: openbsd, artwork, openbsd, artwork

This is an extra track by the artist Ty Semaka (who really has "had Puffy on his mind") which we included on the audio CD.

This song details the process that Ty has to go through to make the art and music for each OpenBSD release. Ty and Theo really do go to a (very specific) bar and discuss what is going on in the project, and then try to find a theme that will work...

For RSS readers: Please note that the download URL is an FTP site.

OpenBSD - OpenBSD 4.0 Release Songs - OpenVOX - Ogg version

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

OpenBSD 4.0 Release Songs - OpenVOX - Ogg version
From: OpenBSD
Tags: openbsd, artwork, openbsd, artwork

This is an extra track by the artist Ty Semaka (who really has "had Puffy on his mind") which we included on the audio CD.

For RSS readers: Please note that the download URL is an FTP site.

bsdtalk - Interview with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil from AsiaBSDCon - MP3 version

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil from AsiaBSDCon - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2006, hiroki sao, george neville-neil, mp3
Interview with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil from AsiaBSDCon. More info at http://www.asiabsdcon.org/.

bsdtalk - Interview with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil from AsiaBSDCon - Ogg version

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil from AsiaBSDCon - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2006, hiroki sao, george neville-neil, ogg
Interview with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil from AsiaBSDCon. More info at http://www.asiabsdcon.org/.

bsdtalk - Interview with Sevan Janiyan - MP3 version

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Sevan Janiyan - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, brighton chilli wifi, sevan janiyan, mp3
Interview with Sevan Janiyan. We talk about the Brighton Chilli WiFi hotspot project, which can be found at http://brightonchilli.geeklan.co.uk/

bsdtalk - Interview with Sevan Janiyan - Ogg version

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Sevan Janiyan - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, brighton chilli wifi, sevan janiyan, ogg
Interview with Sevan Janiyan. We talk about the Brighton Chilli WiFi hotspot project, which can be found at http://brightonchilli.geeklan.co.uk/

bsdtalk - Interview with Poul-Henning Kamp about Varnish - MP3 version

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Poul-Henning Kamp about Varnish - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, varnish, poul-henning kamp, mp3
Interview with Poul-Henning Kamp about Varnish. More information at http://www.varnish-cache.org/.

bsdtalk - Interview with Poul-Henning Kamp about Varnish - Ogg version

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Poul-Henning Kamp about Varnish - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, varnish, poul-henning kamp, ogg
Interview with Poul-Henning Kamp about Varnish. More information at http://www.varnish-cache.org/.

Norwegian Unix Users Group - Releaseparty, the Varnish HTTP accelerator - Video version

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

Releaseparty, the Varnish HTTP accelerator - Video version
From: Norwegian Unix Users Group
Tags: nuug, presentation, varnish, poul-henning kamp, mpeg

VG sponsored the creation of a web-accellerator called "Varnish" because Squid was too slow for them. Varnish is being developed by Poul-Henning Kamp and the Norwegian Linux consultancy Linpro. This is the releaseparty for version 1.0.

The first half of the talk will introduce Varnish and present some of the novel features it brings to the business of web-serving.

The second half of the talk, using Varnish as the example, will show ways to get the most performance out of modern hardware and operating systems.

(The English text starts at about 5 minutes in the stream)

Norwegian Unix Users Group - Releaseparty, the Varnish HTTP accelerator - MP3 version

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

Releaseparty, the Varnish HTTP accelerator - MP3 version
From: Norwegian Unix Users Group
Tags: nuug, presentation, varnish, poul-henning kamp, mp3

The first half of the talk will introduce Varnish and present some of the novel features it brings to the business of web-serving.

The second half of the talk, using Varnish as the example, will show ways to get the most performance out of modern hardware and operating systems.

(The English text starts at about 5 minutes in the stream)

bsdtalk - Interview with Einar Th. Einarsson from f-prot.com - MP3 version

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Einar Th. Einarsson from f-prot.com - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, f-prot, einar th einarsson, mp3
Interview with Einar Th. Einarsson from f-prot.com.

bsdtalk - Interview with Einar Th. Einarsson from f-prot.com - Ogg version

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Einar Th. Einarsson from f-prot.com - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, f-prot, einar th einarsson, ogg
Interview with Einar Th. Einarsson from f-prot.com.

bsdtalk - Interview with NetBSD Developer Tim Rightnour - MP3 version

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with NetBSD Developer Tim Rightnour - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, netbsd, tim rightnour, mp3
Interview with NetBSD Developer Tim Rightnour. We talk about NetBSD/prep.

bsdtalk - Interview with NetBSD Developer Tim Rightnour - Ogg version

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with NetBSD Developer Tim Rightnour - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, netbsd, tim rightnour, ogg
Interview with NetBSD Developer Tim Rightnour. We talk about NetBSD/prep.

bsdtalk - Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD - MP3 version

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, xen, christoph egger, mp3
Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD.

bsdtalk - Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD - Ogg version

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, xen, christoph egger, ogg
Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD.

bsdtalk - Interview with OpenBSD Developer Bob Beck - MP3 version

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with OpenBSD Developer Bob Beck - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, bob beck, mp3
Interview with OpenBSD Developer Bob Beck.

bsdtalk - Interview with OpenBSD Developer Bob Beck - Ogg version

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with OpenBSD Developer Bob Beck - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, openbsd, bob beck, ogg
Interview with OpenBSD Developer Bob Beck.

bsdtalk - Interview with Dan Langille about backups - MP3 version

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Dan Langille about backups - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bacula, dan langille, mp3
Interview with Dan Langille about backups. Check out http://www.bacula.org/

bsdtalk - Interview with Dan Langille about backups - Ogg version

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Dan Langille about backups - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bacula, dan langille, ogg
Interview with Dan Langille about backups. Check out http://www.bacula.org/

bsdtalk - Interview with Michael Dexter about sysjail - MP3 version

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Michael Dexter about sysjail - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, sysjail, michael dexter, mp3
Interview with Michael Dexter about sysjail. http://sysjail.bsd.lv/

bsdtalk - Interview with Michael Dexter about sysjail - Ogg version

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Michael Dexter about sysjail - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, sysjail, michael dexter, ogg
Interview with Michael Dexter about sysjail. http://sysjail.bsd.lv/

bsdtalk - Interview with Eirik Øverby. - MP3 version

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Eirik Øverby. - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, jails, eirik Overby, mp3
Interview with Eirik Øverby. We talk about his use of BSD and Jails.

bsdtalk - Interview with Eirik Øverby. - Ogg version

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Eirik Øverby. - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, jails, eirik Overby, ogg
Interview with Eirik Øverby. We talk about his use of BSD and Jails.

bsdtalk - Interview with NetBSD Developer Jason Thorpe - MP3 version

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with NetBSD Developer Jason Thorpe - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, netbsd, jason thorpe, mp3
Interview with NetBSD Developer Jason Thorpe

bsdtalk - Interview with NetBSD Developer Jason Thorpe - Ogg version

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with NetBSD Developer Jason Thorpe - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, netbsd, jason thorpe, ogg
Interview with NetBSD Developer Jason Thorpe

New York City *BSD User Group - Isaac `Ike` Levy on m0n0wall and PFSense

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Isaac `Ike` Levy on m0n0wall and PFSense
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, monowall, pfsense, isaac levy, mp3
UNIX professionals are busy these days. Setting up routers and firewalls are fundamental to any network, but in environments where the focus is on various applications, (servers, workstations, and the software that runs on them), it`s difficult for a business not to choose off-the-shelf SOHO routers and networking gear. The web management gui`s are understandable by everyone, (even techs without UNIX knowledge), and the gear is cheap - this saves time and money.
In the meantime, the features of your average Linksys or Netgear router often leave MUCH to be desired, (https auth management, for one simple example).
Enter m0n0wall and PFSense, 2 BSD based packaged router/firewall solutions that are as solid and full featured as you`d expect from any BSD system- PLUS THEY HAVE HTML WEB INTERFACES FOR MANAGEMENT!
m0n0wall and PFSense become an easy sell in any small professional enviornment, any competent tech can manage the network within minutes... At home, in every hackers home network, they free the hacker to have trusted tools available, but are as time-saving as using any Linksys router.
m0n0wall and PFSense are both light and clean, designed to run on embedded systems- (Soekris, WRAP), but are monsters when unleashed on even legacy PC`s around the office. If you manage UNIX networks and systems all day, do you really want to manage the router for your DSL when you get home? But then doesn`t it bug you to use a chincey Linksys box?
Ike has been a member of NYC*BUG since we first launched in January 2004. He is a long-time member of the Lower East Side Mac Unix User Group. He has spoken frequently on a number of topics at various venues, particularly on the issue of FreeBSD`s jail (8).

Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group - Nate Lawson on ACPI

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Nate Lawson on ACPI
From: Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group
Tags: bafug, presentation, freebsd, acpi, nate lawson, mov
Our Topic: FreeBSD's ACPI implementation: The details.
Our Speaker: Nate Lawson, FreeBSD Committer.
Our Topic: FreeBSD's ACPI implementation is based on code for ACPI released by Intel. Nate and others wrote the glue code to make this code work on FreeBSD. He explains how this was done, and why.

bsdtalk - Interview with Mitchell Smith about BSD and Accessibility - MP3 version

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Mitchell Smith about BSD and Accessibility - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, accessibility, mitchell smith, mp3
Interview with Mitchell Smith about BSD and Accessibility.

bsdtalk - Interview with Mitchell Smith about BSD and Accessibility - Ogg version

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Mitchell Smith about BSD and Accessibility - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, accessibility, mitchell smith, ogg
Interview with Mitchell Smith about BSD and Accessibility.

22nd Chaos Communication Congress - COMPLETE Hard Disk Encryption with FreeBSD - Slides

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST

COMPLETE Hard Disk Encryption with FreeBSD - Slides
From: 22nd Chaos Communication Congress
Tags: ccc, ccc2005, ccc22, presentation, freebsd, harddisk encryption, marc schiesser, slides

COMPLETE Hard Disk Encryption with FreeBSD, by Marc Schiesser

Learn how to effectively protect not only your data but also your applications.

Most technologies and techniques intended for securing digital data focus on protection while the machine is turned on mostly by defending against remote attacks. An attacker with physical access to the machine, however, can easily circumvent these defenses by reading out the contents of the storage medium on a different, fully accessible system or even compromise program code on it in order to leak encrypted information. Especially for mobile users, that threat is real. And for those carrying around sensitive data, the risk is most likely high. This talk will introduce a method of mitigating that particular risk by protecting not only the data through encryption, but also the applications and the operating system from being compromised while the machine is turned off.

22nd Chaos Communication Congress - COMPLETE Hard Disk Encryption with FreeBSD - Google Video

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST

COMPLETE Hard Disk Encryption with FreeBSD - Google Video
From: 22nd Chaos Communication Congress
Tags: ccc, ccc2005, ccc22, presentation, freebsd, harddisk encryption, marc schiesser, mp4

COMPLETE Hard Disk Encryption with FreeBSD, by Marc Schiesser

Learn how to effectively protect not only your data but also your applications.

22nd Chaos Communication Congress - COMPLETE Hard Disk Encryption with FreeBSD - Bittorrent link

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST

COMPLETE Hard Disk Encryption with FreeBSD - Bittorrent link
From: 22nd Chaos Communication Congress
Tags: ccc, ccc2005, ccc22, presentation, freebsd, harddisk encryption, marc schiesser, mp4

COMPLETE Hard Disk Encryption with FreeBSD, by Marc Schiesser

Learn how to effectively protect not only your data but also your applications.

bsdtalk - Interview with YAWS developer Claes Klacke Wikstrom - MP3 version

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with YAWS developer Claes Klacke Wikstrom - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, yaws, claes wikstrom, mp3
Interview with YAWS developer Claes "Klacke" Wikstrom.

bsdtalk - Interview with YAWS developer Claes Klacke Wikstrom - Ogg version

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with YAWS developer Claes Klacke Wikstrom - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, yaws, claes wikstrom, ogg
Interview with YAWS developer Claes "Klacke" Wikstrom.

bsdtalk - Interview with lighttpd developer Jan Kneschke - MP3 version

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with lighttpd developer Jan Kneschke - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, lighttpd, jan kneschke, bsdtalk, interview, lighttpd, jan kneschke
Interview with lighttpd developer Jan Kneschke.

bsdtalk - Interview with lighttpd developer Jan Kneschke - Ogg version

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with lighttpd developer Jan Kneschke - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, lighttpd, jan kneschke, bsdtalk, interview, lighttpd, jan kneschke
Interview with lighttpd developer Jan Kneschke.

bsdtalk - My BSD History - MP3 version

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST

My BSD History - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, accessibility, mp3
My BSD History, by Will Backman of BSDTalk, and a bit on accessibility.

bsdtalk - My BSD History - Ogg version

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST

My BSD History - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, accessibility, ogg
My BSD History, by Will Backman of BSDTalk, and a bit on accessibility.

Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group - Network Protocol Development Tools and Techniques for FreeBSD

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST

Network Protocol Development Tools and Techniques for FreeBSD
From: Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group
Tags: bafug, presentation, freebsd, packet construction set, george neville-neil, mov
Our Topic: Network Protocol Development Tools and Techniques for FreeBSD
Our Speaker: George Neville-Neil, co-author of the "Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" "daemon" book.
Our Topic: While computers have gotten faster and more powerful the tools we use to develop network protocols, such as TCP, UDP, IPv4 and IPv6 have not. Most network protocols are developed, in C, in the kernel, and require a lot of work to test. Over the past year or so I have been working with virtual machines, a couple of pieces of open source software, and begun developing a library for use in protocol testing. This talk will cover three topics:

Developing and testing kernel code with Virtual Machines
Finding good tests for networking code
Packet Construction Set (PCS) a new library for writing protocol tests

bsdtalk - Interview with Matt Morley - MP3 version

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Matt Morley - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, matt morley, mp3
Interview with Matt Morley, BSD user.

bsdtalk - Interview with Matt Morley - Ogg version

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Matt Morley - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, matt morley, ogg
Interview with Matt Morley, BSD user.

New York City *BSD User Group - Alfred Perlstein on Sendmail Hacks

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST

Alfred Perlstein on Sendmail Hacks
From: New York City *BSD User Group
Tags: nycbug, presentation, sendmail, alfred perlstein, mp3
Alfred will discuss the hacks used to turn Sendmail into a high performance solution for delivering millions of messages to OKCupid`s subscribers. Topics covered will be system tuning and sendmail hacks used in house to achieve massive throughput.
Alfred Perlstein is the CTO of OKcupid.com, the largest free online dating site. He has been a FreeBSD hacker for five years, he`s worked on NFS, VFS, pthreads, networking and general system maintenance during his tenure on both FreeBSD and OS X kernels.

bsdtalk - Interview with Jason Thaxter from gomoos.org - MP3 version

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Jason Thaxter from gomoos.org - MP3 version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, gomoos, jason thaxter, mp3
Interview with Jason Thaxter from gomoos.org.

bsdtalk - Interview with Jason Thaxter from gomoos.org - Ogg version

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST

Interview with Jason Thaxter from gomoos.org - Ogg version
From: bsdtalk
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, gomoos, jason thaxter, ogg
Interview with Jason Thaxter from gomoos.org.

FreeBSD for All - Episode 07 of "FreeBSD for all" uploaded - 128 kbps MP3 version

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EST

Episode 07 of "FreeBSD for all" uploaded - 128 kbps MP3 version
From: FreeBSD for All
Tags: freebsd for all, talk, podcast clients, ipfw, mp3
This week we talk about podcast clients, ipfw firewall etc.

FreeBSD for All - Episode 07 of "FreeBSD for all" uploaded - 64 kbps MP3 version

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EST

Episode 07 of "FreeBSD for all" uploaded - 64 kbps MP3 version
From: FreeBSD for All
Tags: freebsd for all, talk, podcast clients, ipfw, mp3
This week we talk about podcast clients, ipfw firewall etc.

FreeBSD for All - Episode 07 of "FreeBSD for all" uploaded - Ogg version

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EST

Episode 07 of "FreeBSD for all" uploaded - Ogg version
From: FreeBSD for All
Tags: freebsd for all, talk, podcast clients, ipfw, ogg
This week we talk about podcast clients, ipfw firewall etc.

Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group - Tim Kientzler on developing libarchive and tar - Part 1

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EST

Tim Kientzler on developing libarchive and tar - Part 1
From: Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group
Tags: bafug, presentation, libarchive, tim kientzler, bafug, presentation, libarchive, tim kientzler
libarchive..........Tim Kientzler on developing libarchive and tar.

Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group - Tim Kientzler on developing libarchive and tar - Part 2

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EST

Tim Kientzler on developing libarchive and tar - Part 2
From: Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group
Tags: bafug, presentation, libarchive, tim kientzler, bafug, presentation, libarchive, tim kientzler
libarchive..........Tim Kientzler on developing libarchive and tar.

Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group - Tim Kientzler on developing libarchive and tar - Part 3

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EST

Tim Kientzler on developing libarchive and tar - Part 3
From: Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group
Tags: bafug, presentation, libarchive, tim kientzler, bafug, presentation, libarchive, tim kientzler
libarchive..........Tim Kientzler on developing libarchive and tar.

FreeBSD for All - Episode 06 of "FreeBSD for all" uploaded - MP3 version

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EST

Episode 06 of "FreeBSD for all" uploaded - MP3 version
From: FreeBSD for All
Tags: freebsd for all, talk, john baldwin, freebsd vs linux, mp3

This week we talk about

Macromedia plugin
FreeBSD-Linux differences part 2
John Baldwin Introduction
Podcast anouncement - call for co-hosts!

FreeBSD for All - Episode 06 of "FreeBSD for all" uploaded - Ogg version

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EST

Episode 06 of "FreeBSD for all" uploaded - Ogg version
From: FreeBSD for All
Tags: freebsd for all, talk, john baldwin, freebsd vs linux, ogg

This week we talk about

Macromedia plugin
FreeBSD-Linux differences part 2
John Baldwin Introduction
Podcast anouncement - call for co-hosts!

FreeBSD for All - Episode 06 of "FreeBSD for all" uploaded - 64 kbps MP3 version

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EST

Episode 06 of "FreeBSD for all" uploaded - 64 kbps MP3 version
From: FreeBSD for All
Tags: freebsd for all, talk, john baldwin, freebsd vs linux, mp3

This week we talk about

Macromedia plugin
FreeBSD-Linux differences part 2
John Baldwin Introduction
Podcast anouncement - call for co-hosts!

Source21.nl - Fosdem 2006: BSD

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EST

Fosdem 2006: BSD
From: Source21.nl
Tags: source21, interview, daniel seuffert, mp4
We talk with Daniel Seuffert about BSD. Several flavours of bsd were represented in a joint BSD booth: openbsd, freebsd, netbsd and miros. Daniel is representative of the FreeBSD project and among other things talks about the different operating systems that are build on top of freebsd. For instance, there are two distributions called pcbsd and desktopbsd that are targetted towards desktop users. There also is a version that specializes on security entitled trustedbsd.

Daemon News - BSDCan 2006 Photos

Wed, 24 May 2006 00:00:00 EST

BSDCan 2006 Photos
From: Daemon News
Tags: daily deamon news, photos, bsdcan, bsdcan2006, diane bruce, jpg
BSDCan 2006 Photos by Diane Bruce