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

bsdtalk009 - Interview with Webmin Author Jamie Cameron

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

Interview with Webmin Author Jamie Cameron.

• Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix.
• Written in Perl, and is BSD licensed.
• Get a copy of the book "Managing Linux Systems with Webmin" by Jamie Cameron, published by Prentice Hall.
• I can't seem get the word "Linux" right today.

bsdtalk008 - No Cost BSD Shell Accounts

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

bsdtalk007 - Live BSD CDs

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

bsdtalk006 - Three Headed Daemon

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

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

bsdtalk005 - Unique Utilities

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 used to configure the system. From the man page: "This utility is a prototype which lasted several years past its expiration date and is greatly in need of death."
• OpenBSD doesn't try to use any home grown graphical configuration tools.

bsdtalk004 - Intro to Network Configuration

Intro to Network Configuration.

13 minutes, 9.1MB