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FreeBSD Events Update (ILF, BSDCan, EuroBSDCon)

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FreeBSD events come and go month after month. Time for an update on some past and upcoming FreeBSD events.

Indiana LinuxFest (ILF)

FreeNAS and PC-BSD will be represented at Indiana LinuxFest on Saturday, April 14 in Indianapolis, Indiana. CDs and other swag will be handed out at the BSD booth in the expo area.

If you are interested in learning more about FreeBSD administration (the operating system FreeNAS and FreeBSD are based upon), there is an all day course on FreeBSD for Linux System Administrators on Friday, April 13. There is no cost to attend either the course or the conference. Pre-registration is encouraged so that you don’t have to wait in line to register when you arrive.

BSDCan 2012

BSDCan 2012 will be held in Ottawa, Canada from 9 – 13 May. The schedule has been updated with some interesting FreeBSD releated tutorials and presentations,

  • Maintaining your own PBI package repository
  • IPv6 Tutorial
  • SSH
  • An Overview of Locking in the FreeBSD Kernel
  • BSD Multiplicity
  • auditdistd – Secure and reliable distribution of audit trail files
  • FreeBSD on Microsoft Hyper-v
  • Crowdsourcing security
  • Bullet Cache
  • pfSense 2.1: IPv6 and more
  • Fast reboots with kload
  • Intro to DNSSEC
  • Virtually-Networked FreeBSD Jails
  • FreeBSD Unified Deployment and Configuration Management
  • Building a FreeBSD based Virtual Appliance
  • High speed packet I/O: challenges and solutions.
  • Optimizing ZFS for Block Storage
  • FreeBSD on Freescale QorIQ Data Path Acceleration Architecture Devices
  • Overview of Amazon Web Services
  • pkgng
  • Solaris Boot Environments for FreeBSD

Hopefully all these representations will be video recorded and made available who cannot attend.

NLUUG’s Spring conference

Michael Dexter will be giving a presentation entitled The FreeNAS Storage Platform: A minute to learn, a lifetime to master at NLUUG’s Spring conference. This event will be held in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands on April 11th.

EuroBSDCon 2012

EuroBSDcon 2012 is the European technical conference for users and developers on BSD-based systems, and will be held from 18 – 21 October 2012 in Warsaw, Poland. There will be tutorials on Thursday and Friday and talks on Saturday and Sunday.

The EuroBSDcon conference organisers have put out a Call For Proposals and are inviting developers and users of BSD-based systems to submit innovative and original papers not submitted to other European conferences on BSD-related topics.  Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to applications, architecture, implementation, performance and security of BSD-based operating systems, as well as topics concerning the economic or organizational aspects of BSD use.

Open Source Days 2012

There are some pictures of the BSD booth at Open Source Days (Copenhagen, 10-11 March)

Report from AsiaBSDCon

The FreeBSD Foundation was a Platinum Sponsor of AsiaBSDCon which was held in Tokyo, Japan from March 22-25. Hiroki Sato, the General Chair of the conference, provided the following status report.

BSD networking (MP3)

There’s an mp3 available of a recent presentations at NYCBUG BSD networking.

 

Upcoming Events

iXsystems, and its developers

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We all know that iXsystems does a great job promoting FreeBSD, building FreeBSD based products and supporting FreeBSD based projects (incl. PC-BSD, FreeNAS).

But, who are the developers that are part of this company? Who are the guys doing the coding and the programming?

The iXsystems blog has started a “Developers Corner” where you can find out more about iX developers:

The PC-BSD Ports Jail (video)

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PC-BSD features the “Ports Jail”. In this video you will learn how to use it to install apps isolated from your system.


More information on Ports Jail and how to use it, can be found on the PC-BSD Wiki.

The FreeBSD Wiki has a helpful section on Jails too: FreeBSD Jails. The FreeBSD jail is mechanism implementing an operating system-level virtualisation that allows administrators to partition a FreeBSD-based computer system into several independent mini-systems called jails.

BSD Magazine (Mar 2012): Nessus, Exploitation Tools and Payloads

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March’s issue of the BSD Magazine is now available: Nessus, Exploitation Tools and Payloads (free PDF download).

You’ll find the following subjects inside:

  • MaheshaBSD-2.0: What’s New On The Lake Manasarovar?
  • GhostBSD: A Brief Overview
  • How Do I Study for the BSDA Certification?
  • GDB and Truss for Debugging
  • PostgreSQL: MVCC and Vacuum
  • Beowulf Clusters with DragonflyBSD
  • Npppd: EasyPPTP VPN with OpenBSD
  • Anatomy of FreeBSD Compromise Part 4

Read and download Nessus, Exploitation Tools and Payloads (BSD Mag 12/03)

FreeNAS 8.0.3: FTP Configuration (video) and FreeNAS 8.0.4 BETA2

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The following video, created by the FreeNAS team, shows you how to configure FreeNAS for FTP.


FreeNAS 8.0.4-BETA2 is out for testing. Changes since 8.0.4-BETA1:

Enhancements

  • Update transmission to 2.42 (SF r10093).
  • Add MegaCLI tool (SF r10072, r10073).
  • Disable periodic tasks in the base system that would negatively impact system performance on NAS boxes with large directory structures (SF r10113).
  • Fix handling for ‘every day’ SMART tasks created in the GUI (SF r10088).

Bugfixes

  • Add in several robustness fixes to reduce potential for filesystem corruption on root /  root device. In some scenarios this would also improve performance when fetching data from the root device as well (SF r10095, r10109, r10129).
  • Fix vfs objects modules ordering so shadow copy (aka previous versions) support functions again (FN 935, FN 1186, FN 1275).
  • Update samba to 3.6.3 to resolve several bugs (both security and non-security related) (SF r10127).
  • Network field from iSCSI initiator could contain multiple IP addresses, CIDR addresses, or ANY keyword (SF r10082).
  • Generate istgt.conf properly if and when multiple initiators were specified (SF r10081).

MaheshaBSD-2.0 Released

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Juraj has announced version 2.0 of his MaheshaBSD project. MaheshaBSD is  a desktop OS based on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE (i386) with IceWM.

MaheshaBSD has four goals:

1) It will boot off a CD or a USB stick and users may immediately start browsing the Internet with a possibility to watch youtube videos, use Skype, write documents, watch films (DivX, etc.), be anonymous (TOR), or listen to music.

2) To easily (without need for an installation) demonstrate the power of FreeBSD both on a CD and USB medium.

3) To bring some useful system/recovery utilities to people, but on the BSD platform – like TestDisk (which will recover lost partitions), PhotoRec (which will undelete files; it can also undelete files on USB sticks), Clamav (Antivirus), immediate NTFS R/W access (with ntfs-3g), chntpw (for resetting the Windows XP/W2K password, a very useful utility), and many other things – for example, MaheshaBSD can be used for presentations (you can bring it anywhere with you and show thousands of pictures to people, or present videos while giving a lecture, or watch videos with friends). 

4) To be modular and easy.

Changes from version 1.0 can be found here: http://www.freebsd.nfo.sk/maheshaeng.htm#whatisnew

The most important changes are:

1) support for Devanagari (an Indian script used to write in many Indian languages including Sanskrit) and IAST transliteration (support for transliteration of Sanskrit); it is based on an Xmodmap map I wrote

2) A possibility to run Skype (and give the same possibility to FreeBSD users as Linux/Windows users have) immediately after downloading it from the Internet.

3) Youtube runs immediately (however, a possibility to download native Adobe Flash Plugin is preserved).

To find out more about MaheshaBSD, visit http://www.freebsd.nfo.sk/maheshaeng.htm.

Thanks for contacting me regarding the release Juraj. If you have a FreeBSD related product, service or program, let us know.

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