Dru Lavigne, Chair of the BSD Certification Group gives an informative talk about the differences between Linux-based and BSD Operating Systems. This talk covers the different BSD Operating Systems (PCBSD, DragonFlyBSD FreeBSD NetBSD & OpenBSD) and how they compare with the numerous Linux-based distributions.

Building a Desktop Firewall with pf and fwbuilder

This article is an excerpt from the Firewalls and VPNs chapter of the book The Best of FreeBSD Basics (ISBN 9780979034220), published by Reed Media Publishing.
– Dru Lavigne

OpenBSD Some Interesting One Floppy Systems

One floppy systems are very practical, as they usually have a specific goal, which cannot be said about all Live CD’s.
– JURAJ SIPOS

Remote Installation of the FreeBSD Operating System without a Remote Console

This article documents the remote installation of the FreeBSD operating system when the console of the remote system is unavailable. The main idea behind this article is the result of a collaboration with Martin Matuska mm@FreeBSD.org with valuable input provided by Pawel Jakub Dawidek jd@FreeBSD.org.
– DANIEL GERZO

OpenBSD as a Mail Server

In a previous document, we built redundant firewalls using the CARP and PFSYNC protocols; these were the first building blocks of a hypothetical, penBSD-based, small private networkthat we are going to build step by step across several documents.
– DANIELE MAZZOCCHIO

Performance Comparison ITTIA DB and SQLite

ITTIA DB SQL and SQLite are used by software developers to manage information stored in applications and devices. Designed to be hidden from the end-user, these embedded relational database management systems are linked into the application or firmware as self-contained software libraries.
– Sasan Montaseri

Interview with Jeff Roberson

- Jesse Smith

FreeBSD Experience and Success Story

- JOSHUA EBARVIA

http://bsdmag.org/magazine/1267-openbsd

Fwd…

EuroBSDCon 2010 — Call for Papers

9th European BSD Conference
October 8 — 10, 2010
Karlsruhe, Germany

http://2010.eurobsdcon.org/

Introduction

The European BSD Community will meet again this year for the ninth conference in the EuroBSDCon series. This is a great opportunity to present new ideas to the community, inform your fellow BSD enthusiasts about the newest developments and work for the continued success of your favorite operating system. The two day conference program (October 9 — 10) will be preceeded by a tutorial day (Oct 8). Call for Papers

We are inviting contributions on all areas relating to the BSD family of operating systems, e.g. applications, architecture, implementation, administration and security of *BSD operating systems ranging from embedded systems to mainframes. Investigations on economic aspects regarding the operation of BSD systems are also welcome.

Prospective authors of contributions to the technical program are requested to submit an abstract via http://2010.eurobsdcon.org/. Presentations should last about 40 minutes including time for questions from the audience. Authors of accepted submissions should provide a full paper for publication in the conference proceedings and give permission to the organizers to publish the results in the printed proceedings and on the conference web site at www.eurobsdcon.org.

Call for Tutorial Proposals

Selected tutorials will be offered on the day before the conference. If you are interested in presenting a tutorial, please submit your suggestion on the conference website using the same mechanism as for submitting a paper. Please indicate if this would be a half– or full-day tutorial.

Sponsorship Opportunities

We are seeking companies or institutions to sponsor various elements of the conference in order to keep delegate fees as low as possible. Sponsorship opportunities include: paying for a speaker’s travel or accommodation; providing bursaries for delegates who cannot pay the conference fee themselves; sponsoring the social event or the printing of proceedings. Please see the conference website for details.

Important Dates

Final abstract deadline: July 6th 2010
Final tutorial deadline: July 6th
Final papers due: September 1st
Tutorial day: October 8th
Conference: October 9 — 10

For more, see http://2010.eurobsdcon.org/

Em minha atualizacao do FreeBSD 7.3 para o 8.0 na workstation Darthvader (yeah! I’m on the dark side. hehe) tive alguns problemas com o mouse e teclado USB. Com a nova versao do Xorg e tudo mais pararam de funcionar. Detalhe, eu tinha meu Xorg feito na mao e todo o endereco de perifericos eram diretos.

Minha solucao foi meio que bruta, nao perdi tempo e ativei o hal e dbus no sistema e para ter certeza total, tirei o moused tambem. Eu sei que o moused nao modifica em nada o controle do mouse no X, ja’ que ele e’ apenas para o console virtual. Porem nao uso o console virtual muito. Realmente, passo quase que 100% do tempo no X. Hoje e’ dificil, em workstation, laptops e desktops, eu ficar fora do X, salvo servidores que nao tem de ter um rodando, claro.

Entao adicionei/modifiquei/coloquei no meu /etc/rc.conf as seguintes linhas:

moused_nondefault_enable="NO"
moused_enable="NO"
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"

Foi subir os servicos e o X estava perfeito com mouse e keyboard funcionando.

Workstations

• viper — nova workstation
• dei um update na darthvader e earl para a versao 8.0 — FreeBSD Press Release

Para mim, o melhor ambiente para desenvolver e’ usando BSD (FreeBSD). Ate’ hoje nao achei algo melhor.

Universe

• dogtag agora aceita listas de varios tipos de objetos para criar a tag

SF

Server

• create
• get
• makeKey — metodo para criar uma chave unica para o server
• login
• lock’s stuff — agora o sf tem metodos para dar um lockdown em um server, impedindo de ele gravar mais dados
• check methods — name/lock

App

• login
• get
• create
• makeKey — outra chave unica para cada app
• check methods — name/active

File

• change
• create
• delete
• get
• getAll
• timestamp — transforma datetime em timestamp

Gostei tanto do BitlBee que resolvi fazer um mini how-to para quem gostou da ideia de usar o seu cliente de IRC preferido para falar com o pessoal do IMs da vida (die MSN, DIE!).

Se voce nao quer instalar na sua maquina ou em um home-server por ai, voce pode usar um server publico, uma boa escolha para aqueles que tambem nao gosta de configurar nada.

Primeiro, vamos instalar ele…

cd /usr/ports/irc/bitlbee
make install clean

Configure com os servicos que voce vai utilizar, espero que voce nao tenha selecionado MSN. Nao entendeu o primeiro passo?

apt-get install bitlbee

Continua nao entendendo? Mmmm… Use o server publico.

Bacana, voce deve ter instalado, agora vamos editar o arquivo de configuracao usando o editor preferido de sua escolha (espero que seja Emacs):

emacs -nw /usr/local/etc/bitlbee/bitlbee.conf

Vou colar o meu aqui para voces terem um exemplo.

[settings]
RunMode = Daemon
User = bitlbee
DaemonInterface = 0.0.0.0
DaemonPort = 6667
OperPassword = topSecret
HostName = earl

Agora, voce como um bom user de *BSD deixe a porta escolhida aberta e rode o BitlBee. Pronto que maravilha hein, server rodando.

Para usar, basta conectar com o seu IRC client preferido (ircII e’ uma boa escolha) e configurar seu user como quiser, subindo quantas contas quiser tambem. =) Bom aproveito.

Sim, claro, la’ conectado vai ter um passo a passo para voce configurar tudo. Mas nada melhor que um RTFM para aprender tudo.