Dru Lavigne's Blog

We're pleased to announce that after 7 months of negotiations and the work required to make the exam available in a computer based format, that the BSDA exam is now available at several hundred testing centers throughout the world.

As some of you may know, fwbuilder.org is a cross-platform, graphical firewall management utility that supports iptables, ASA, PIX, FWSM, Cisco router access lists, pf, ipfw, ipfilter, and HP ProCurve ACL firewalls. Vadim Kurland and Mike Horn, the lead fwbuilder developers, have begun work on providing complete pf.conf import functionality, the last piece that was missing to provide 100% pf support. This work is a direct result of several customers expressing interest in the addition of pf configuration import and they expect the work to be completed by this summer.

Looks like the first half of 2011 will be pretty busy. Here are the events that have been confirmed so far:

As you probably surmised from the erratic blog posts, things have been very busy around here. Lots of stuff happening, just no time to blog about it. Here's some of the stuff in the pipe:

From yesterday's announcement:

From yesterday's announcement:

Chris McPhee has just announced the December issue of the OSBR. From the announcement:

For those of you who couldn't attend, here's some stuff from the MeetBSD California conference:

Kris Moore has just announced that the first testing snapshot is available for download (both 32 and 64 bit versions). You can help us make 9.0 an awesome release by trying out the snapshots (there will be many between now and the first beta some time next spring) and providing feedback about any bugs you find. Since these are testing snapshots, it is recommended that you try them out on a spare system or using a virtual environment such as VirtualBox. If you're planning on trying out all of the new desktop environments, you should use a virtual machine of at least 2

There was a lot of interest about the changes to the pc-sysinstall backend during Kris Moore