FreeBSD Q4 2018 status report, the GhostBSD alternative, the coolest 90s laptop, OpenSSH 8.0 with quantum computing resistant keys exchange, project trident: 18.12-U8 is here, and more.
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###AsiaBSDcon 2019 recap

Both Allan and I attended AsiaBSDcon 2019 in Tokyo in mid march. After a couple of days of Tokyo sightseeing and tasting the local food, the conference started with tutorials.
Benedict gave his tutorial about “BSD-based Systems Monitoring with Icinga2 and OpenSSH”, while Allan ran the FreeBSD developer summit.
On the next day, Benedict attended the tutorial “writing (network) tests for FreeBSD” held by Kristof Provost. I learned a lot about Kyua, where tests live and how they are executed. I took some notes, which will likely become an article or chapter in the developers handbook about writing tests.
On the third day, Hiroki Sato officially opened the paper session and then people went into individual talks.
Benedict attended

Adventure in DRMland - Or how to write a FreeBSD ARM64 DRM driver by Emmanuel
Vadot




powerpc64 architecture support in FreeBSD ports by Piotr Kubaj
Managing System Images with ZFS by Allan Jude
FreeBSD - Improving block I/O compatibility in bhyve by Sergiu Weisz
Security Fantasies and Realities for the BSDs by George V.
Neville-Neil
ZRouter: Remote update of firmware by Hiroki Mori
Improving security of the FreeBSD boot process by Marcin Wojtas


Allan attended

Adventures in DRMland by Emmanuel Vadot
Intel HAXM by Kamil Rytarowski
BSD Solutions in Australian NGOs
Container Migration on FreeBSD by Yuhei Takagawa
Security Fantasies and Realities for the BSDs by George Neville-Neil




ZRouter: Remote update of firmware by Hiroki Mori
Improving security of the FreeBSD boot process by Marcin Wojtas


When not in talks, time was spent in the hallway track and conversations would often continue over dinner.
Stay tuned for announcements about where AsiaBSDcon 2020 will be, as the Tokyo Olympics will likely force some changes for next year. Overall, it was nice to see people at the conference again, listen to talks, and enjoy the hospitality of Japan.

###FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - Fourth Quarter 2018

Since we are still on this island among many in this vast ocean of the Internet, we write this message in a bottle to inform you of the work we have finished and what lies ahead of us. These deeds that we have wrought with our minds and hands, they are for all to partake of - in the hopes that anyone of their free will, will join us in making improvements. In todays message the following by no means complete or ordered set of improvements and additions will be covered:
i386 PAE Pagetables for up to 24GB memory support, Continuous Integration efforts, driver updates to ENA and graphics, ARM enhancements such as RochChip, Marvell 8K, and Broadcom support as well as more DTS files, more Capsicum possibilities, as well as pfsync improvements, and many more things that you can read about for yourselves.
Additionally, we bring news from some islands further down stream, namely the nosh project, HardenedBSD, ClonOS, and the Polish BSD User-Group.
We would, selfishly, encourage those of you who give us the good word to please send in your submissions sooner than just before the deadline, and also encourage anyone willing to share the good word to please read the section on which submissions we’re also interested in having.


###GhostBSD: A Solid Linux-Like Open Source Alternative

The subject of this week’s Linux Picks and Pans is a representative of a less well-known computing platform that coexists with Linux as an open source operating system. If you thought that the Linux kernel was the only open source engine for a free OS, think again. BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) shares many of the same features that make Linux OSes viable alternatives to proprietary computing platforms.
GhostBSD is a user-friendly Linux-like desktop operating system based on TrueOS. TrueOS is, in turn, based