Blogging All About BSDs

Interview with Matthew Dillon from DragonFly BSD

Interview with Stephen Jones of SDF. Super Dimension Fortress provides free shell accounts at http://www.freeshell.org

News:

• FreeBSD 6.1 and 5.5 Beta2
• BSDCan program released

Insecure Sharing with NFS:

• Very insecure, home net behind firewall only!
  
• NFS server should start portmap, mountd, lockd
• NFS server should add a folder to /etc/exports
• NFS client should mount server:/folder /mnt
• OSX required mount_nfs -P
• Tools: rpcinfo -p server, showmount -e server
  
• User ID Sync is a problem

Interview with Brian Tiemann, Author of FreeBSD 6 Unleashed.

Interview with Marshall Kirk McKusick, Computer Scientist and early BSD developer at UC Berkeley.

Interview with FreeBSD Release Engineer Scott Long.

(Did I call it FreeBSDTalk in the intro? Oops!)

News:

• FreeBSD 6.1-BETA1 and FreeBSD 5.5-BETA1 released.
  

Introduction to the vi editor.

Before connecting a new install to the Internet

• Make sure you have a strong root password
• Create a regular user account for your use
• Make sure you have applied all patches and updates
• Understand the purpose for any listening process

Interview with PostgreSQL core developer Bruce Momjian

A rant on Desktop BSD.

Interview with Dan Langille from BSDCan

Getting BSD:

• Order CD's online - choose one close to you - buy to support project
• Book Store - Many books come with CDs
  
• Local Users Group - Free CDs and Installfest
  
• Download ISO - http, ftp, mirrors, bittorrent
• Net Install CD
  

Interview with Richard Bejtlich from www.taosecurity.com

News:

• UKUUG Spring Conference - March 21 - 23 2006

Interview with Dru Lavigne

• BSD Certification Group Inc.
• BSD Hacks

Mounting USB Thumb Drives (examples)

• FreeBSD 6.0 mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
• NetBSD 3.0 mount_msdos /dev/sd0e /mnt
• OpenBSD 3.8 mount_msdos /dev/sd0i /mnt
• Dmesg to find the device, Disklabel to find the partition
  

Interview with FreeNAS Author Olivier Cochard

News:

• BSDCan 2006 will be held on May 12-13 2006 at University of Ottawa, Canada.
  
• October - December 2005 FreeBSD Status Report
• July - December 2005 NetBSD Status Report

BSD in School:

• Interview with Sam Ricchio

Who is the BSD Daemon?

• Daemons are process that run in the background attending to various tasks without human intervention.
• some call it "Beastie" or "Chuck", in fact the proper name is just "BSD Daemon"
• There is no satanic connection.
• Earliest images were created by John Lasseter.
• Currently, the copyright of the BSD Daemon is held by Marshall Kirk McKusick

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News:
PC-BSD 1.0RC2 Released with KDE 3.5.

• Desktop-oriented OS with easy package manager.
• Similar in concept to Darwin's application bundles.

No Cost BSD Shell Accounts:

• gnook.org - openbsd (Inactive)
  
• metawire.org - openbsd (Inactive)
  
• arbornet.org - freebsd
• freeshell.org - netbsd
• HP Testdrive - FreeBSD, NetBSD, Tru64, OpenVMS, Linux
  

News:
DragonFlyBSD 1.4 released on Jan 7, 2006. I'll try their live CD/installer.
Will GPLv3 push more companies to BSD licensed software?

Live BSD CDs:

• Freesbie
• Anonym.os (OpenBSD)
• DragonFly
• NetBSD
• Newbie (NetBSD)
  

Test them on a few systems - old laptop, modern desktop, home desktop, modern laptop.

Closing - Comments, Email, Website

News:
OpenBSD used for anonymous surfing live CD - released at shmoocon 2006.

Three Headed Daemon:
Creating a triple-boot system - FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.

News:

FreeBSD-SA-06:04.ipfw - An attacker can cause the firewall to crash by sending ICMP IP fragments.

Unique Utilities:

• sushi - Part of the NetBSD 1.6 release. Has the same goals as sam on HP-UX, smit on AIX and other menu-driven configuration tools. How well does it work?
• sysinstall - Part of FreeBSD 2.0. Menu driven installer that can later be

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Intro to Network Configuration.

13 minutes, 9.1MB

Intro to disks and filesystems.