bsdtalk029 - Interview with Lynne and William Jolitz

Interview with Lynne and William Jolitz, creators of 386BSD.

bsdtalk028 - Interview with Liam Foy

News: According to distrowatch.com Weekly, ISO images of the 1.0 Release of DesktopBSD have started to hit the mirrors.

Interview: Liam Foy, who is porting CARP to NetBSD and also the creator of www.bsdportal.org.

bsdtalk027 - Interview with OpenBSD developer Marco Peereboom

Interview with OpenBSD developer Marco Peereboom.

bsdtalk026 - Interview with Mark Kane from MKProductions

News: Sendmail security hole.

Interview with Mark Kane from MKProductions

bsdtalk025 - Thin Clients with XDMCP

Thin Clients with XDMCP:

• edit /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config and Xaccess.
• connect from thin client using "X -query server-ip".

bsdtalk024 - Interview with TiddlyWiki creator Jeremy Ruston

Command line tip: viewing one page at at time with "ps ax | more"

Interview with TiddlyWiki creator Jeremy Ruston

bsdtalk023 - Interview with OpenBSD developer Henning Brauer

Man page tips:

• Search the man pages for keywords, for example "man -k process"
• Select the right section, for example "man 5 crontab"

Interview with OpenBSD developer Henning Brauer

bsdtalk022 - Interview with Matthew Dillon from DragonFly BSD

Interview with Matthew Dillon from DragonFly BSD

bsdtalk021 - Interview with Stephen Jones of SDF

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

bsdtalk020 - Insecure Sharing with NFS

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

bsdtalk019 - Interview with Brian Tiemann

Interview with Brian Tiemann, Author of FreeBSD 6 Unleashed.

bsdtalk018 - Interview with Kirk McKusick

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

bsdtalk017 - Interview with FreeBSD Release Engineer Scott Long

Interview with FreeBSD Release Engineer Scott Long.

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

bsdtalk016 - Intro to the vi text editor

News:

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

Introduction to the vi editor.

bsdtalk015 - Interview with PostgreSQL developer Bruce Momjian

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

bsdtalk014 - Interview with Dan Langille from BSDCan

A rant on Desktop BSD.

Interview with Dan Langille from BSDCan

bsdtalk013 - Interview with Richard Bejtlich

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

bsdtalk012 - Interview with Dru Lavigne

News:

• UKUUG Spring Conference - March 21 - 23 2006

Interview with Dru Lavigne

• BSD Certification Group Inc.
• BSD Hacks

bsdtalk011 - USB Drives and Interview with FreeNAS Author Olivier Cochard

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

bsdtalk010 - BSD in School

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