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5 awesome security features to expect in PC-BSD 10.1.2
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 5th of March 2015 08:30:04 AM Filed under
Five of those security and security-related features were announced today and are on track to be included in the next edition, which should be PC-BSD 10.1.2. They are
PersonaCrypt – a command line utility to backup a user’s home directory to an encrypted external media
Tor Mode in System Updater Tray
Stealth Mode in PersonaCrypt
Ports now use LibreSSL by default instead of OpenSSL
Support for encrypted backups in Life-Preserver utility
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Lumina Desktop 0.8.2 Released!
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 19th of February 2015 07:45:24 PM Filed under
The next version of the Lumina desktop environment has just been released! Version 0.8.2 is mainly a “spit-and-polish” release: focusing on bugfixes, overall appearances, and interface layout/design. The FreeBSD port has already been updated to the new version, and the PC-BSD “Edge” repository will be making the new version available within the next day or two (packages building now). If you are creating/distributing your own packages, you can find the source code for this release in the “qt5/0.8.2″ branch in the Lumina repository on GitHub.
The major difference that people will notice is that the themes/colors distributed with the desktop have been greatly improved, and I have included a few examples below. The full details about the changes in this release are listed at the bottom of the announcement.
Reminder: The Lumina desktop environment is still considered to be “beta-quality”, so if you find things that either don’t work or don’t work well, please report them on the PC-BSD bug tracker so that they can get fixed as soon as possible.
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“Has Linux lost its way?” comments prompt a Debian developer to revisit FreeBSD after 20 years
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 18th of February 2015 09:03:39 AM Filed under
Anyhow, some comments in my recent posts (“Has modern Linux lost its way?” and Reactions to that, and the value of simplicity), plus a latent desire to see how ZFS fares in FreeBSD, caused me to try it out. I installed it both in VirtualBox under Debian, and in an old 64-bit Thinkpad sitting in my basement that previously ran Debian.
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Hostkey rotation, redux
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 17th of February 2015 11:42:41 PM Filed underA couple of weeks ago I described the host key rotation support forthcoming in OpenSSH 6.8. Almost immediately after smugly declaring "mission accomplished", the bug reports started rolling in. First Mike Larkin noticed an interaction with ssh's CheckHostIP option that would cause host key warnings, then Theo de Raadt complained about the new code unnecessarily rewriting known_hosts when no changes needed to be made, finally Philipp Kern and Jann Horn pointed out a way for a hostile server to abuse the extension.
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A Prediction: 2020 the year of (PC-)BSD on the desktop
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 16th of February 2015 11:21:49 AM Filed under
I am going to make a prediction right now that FreeBSD is going to take off in a big way on or before 2020, perhaps even to the point where it threatens Linux Desktop share.
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End of the m0n0wall project
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 15th of February 2015 07:03:54 PM Filed under
on this day 12 years ago, I have released the first version of m0n0wall to the public. In theory, one could still run that version - pb1 it was called - on a suitably old PC and use it to control the Internet access of a small LAN (not that it would be recommended security-wise). However, the world keeps turning, and while m0n0wall has made an effort to keep up, there are now better solutions available and under active development.
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PC-BSD 11.0-CURRENT Images Now Available!
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 14th of February 2015 01:37:47 AM Filed under
We hope to continue rolling these –CURRENT images as a way for testers
and developers to tryout both FreeBSD and PC-BSD bleeding edge features,
often months before a planned release. These images include a full PKG
repository compiled for that months image. Users of this system will
also be able to “upgrade” when the next monthly image is published.
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EdgeBSD Still Progressing As A Forked NetBSD Powered By Git
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 12th of February 2015 07:22:24 PM Filed under
EdgeBSD remains one of the newer BSD distributions that is a fork of NetBSD but switches from CVS to Git for source code management.
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First impressions of ArchBSD 2014.09.04
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 10th of February 2015 09:58:45 AM Filed under
From a practical point of view, I'm sure most people will stick with running either Arch Linux or vanilla FreeBSD. However, as an experiment into what is possible, ArchBSD does provide us with something interesting, something a little different. With some work to flesh out the documentation and more volunteers to keep the base operating system up to date, I think ArchBSD could be a viable server operating system.
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Fed up with systemd and Linux? Why not try PC-BSD?
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 9th of February 2015 09:02:30 AM Filed under
With the growing adoption of systemd, dissatisfaction with Linux has reached proportions not seen in recent years, to the extent that people have started talking of switching to FreeBSD.
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