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ruBSD 2014 (13 December, Moscow)

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ruBSD, a Russian technical BSD conference set up last year, will again take place this year on 13 December in Moscow.

The conference is free to attend, though registration is required as there are only a limited number of places.

The talks will be around highly loaded web servers, ZFS and iSCSI, package management, embedded-systems and IPv6 use in practice.

Among the presenters are Scott Long from Netflix, FreeBSD developer Baptiste Daroussin and Aleksandr Motin from iXsystems.

For more information visit the ruBSD 2014 event page.

8,000,000 Mogofoo-ops (BSD Now 65)

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BSDNow.tv has uploaded another, weekly, video: 8,000,000 Mogofoo-ops (BSD Now 65).

“Coming up on the show this week, we’ve got an interview with Brendan Gregg of Netflix. He’s got a lot to say about performance tuning and benchmarks & even some pretty funny stories about how people have done them incorrectly.”

To view a summary of what Kris Moore and Alan Jude chat about or for other audio/video formats visit the BSD Now 65 page on Jupiter Broadcasting or click here for the youtube link.

BSD Magazine (April 2014) – Free Pascal on BSD

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BSD_04_2014-1April’s issue of the BSD Magazine is now available: Free Pascal on BSD (free PDF download).

You’ll find the following subjects inside:

  • Free Pascal on BSD
  • Revision Control Systems and Configuration Management. Part 1.
  • Deploying NetBSD on the Cloud using AWS EC2. Part 2
  • Getting to grips with the Gimp – Part 3
  • Credit Card Fraud is a Thing of The Past
  • With the Recent Announcement of the Widespread Heartbleed SSL Vulnerability, is it Time to Reconsider who the Troublemakers Really are?

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Let’s get RAID | BSD Now 36 (video)

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BSD Now Episode 36 shows how to set up RAID arrays in FreeBSD and there’s also an interview with David Chisnall – of the FreeBSD core team – about the switch to Clang.

Other subjects being discussed are:

  • OpenBSD 5.5 released
  • FreeBSD foundation funding highlights
  • OpenSSH without OpenSSL
  • BSDMag’s April 2014 issue is out
  • Interview – David Chisnall
  • Tutorial – RAID in FreeBSD and OpenBSD
  • BSDTalk episode 240
  • m2k14 trip reports
  • Why you should use FreeBSD on your cloud VPS
  • PC-BSD weekly digest

Other formats can be watched/downloaded here.

Announcement coming soon

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A few weeks ago I mentioned that due to reduced free time I was contemplating what to do with freebsdnews.net and considering a few options.

I have decided, and will let you all know shortly.

You will like it…  Please stay tuned.

BSDNow.tv Episode 031: Edgy BSD Users (video)

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This week the hosts talk to Richard Stallman about the upcoming GPLv4 and how it will protect  software from being stolen. After that, you will be shown how to recover from those pesky ZFS on Linux corruption issues, as well as some tips on how to explain to your boss that all the production boxes were compromised.

Documentation is King | BSD Now 30

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“We chat with Warren Block to discuss BSD documentation efforts and future plans. If you’ve ever wondered about the scary world of mailing lists, today’s tutorial will show you the basics of how to get help and contribute back.”