pfSense Digest

As some of you are aware, I’m writing a book on pfSense to be published by Reed Media. It’s been a work in progress for several months and will be completed in the next 5-6 weeks. After technical review and editing, that means it will be available for purchase from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. around late August to early September.

I posted a work in progress table of contents to the mailing list.That’s just the top level, it drills down quite a bit from there. I’m estimating the final page count at roughly 300-400 pages.

There currently is no set title. Of the ones my editor Jeremy Reed and I have thought of, my favorite is The Definitive Guide to pfSense. I’m not set on anything though and am looking for suggestions from the community.

Leave a comment here with your ideas. I will send a complimentary signed copy of the book to the person who chooses the title that will be used, including shipping to anywhere in the world. Please leave a legit email address (it’s only visible to admins) so I can contact you. If we go with The Definitive Guide to pfSense, I will pick someone at random from those who leave comments here and send them the free copy. So if you like that title, feel free to leave a comment saying so.

Development work continues on 1.2.1 and 1.3.

1.2.1

We’re having some build server difficulty, or would have made snapshots available almost a month ago. We hope to have that resolved this week and get 1.2.1 snapshots available so the community can help us test the changes.

1.3

We have 1.3 snapshots building but have not had time to put together the required information to make them widely available. We’re also hesitant to provide snapshots of branches that are seeing frequent development and have a number of areas in the midst of significant changes. But once we can write up some caveats, basic guidance, and things to look out for, we will make the snapshots publicly available.

Revision Control Conversion

Bill Marquette has been working on converting our revision control from CVS to git, and replacing cvsweb and cvstrac. These will be much improved across the board once this conversion is complete. Our current systems are less than ideal for a number of reasons. More information on this will come once we get fully converted (ETA unknown).

Wired has a howto article on pfSense on their site.

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