Archive | June, 2007
FreeSBIE 2.0.1 – Review
This is a FreeSBIE 2.0.1 review by Steve Lake on Raiden.net From great anticipation to utter misery to mixed reactions. That in general sums up my experience with FreeSBIE 2.0.1. For a live cd that’s built on one of the greatest free operating systems in the world (FreeBSD 6.2 in this case), you would expect equal [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD: It’s What Your Server Wants
29. June 2007
I’ll admit it. I’m in love with FreeBSD.FreeBSD is a Unix operating system that runs especially well on generic Intel-compatible hardware.FreeBSD doesn’t do anything special. In fact, anything I can do on my favorite OS, you can do on yours. So, what’s so great about FreeBSD? It just works. In fact, it always works. It [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD, a 24 hour test drive
26. June 2007
About a week ago, Ars Technica wrote a 2 page review of PC-BSD. PC-BSD is not a Linux distribution, but rather it could be considered among the first major FreeBSD-based distributions to live outside of the official FreeBSD. Like most distributions, it has implemented certain features in a way that attempts to distinguish it from the [...]
Continue reading...pfSense 1.2 status update
25. June 2007
I’ve been going through all the open bug tickets cleaning up things that have been fixed and reviewing everything else to help Scott and the other developers fix the remaining issues. We’re down to about a half dozen known issues in the current RELENG_1_2 snapshots, which will hopefully all be fixed in a week or [...]
Continue reading...pfSense versus m0n0wall
23. June 2007
A very short comparison Compared to m0n0wall, it (i.e. pfSense) has many many more features. That proves problematic for very basic systems, like the soekris net4501 which only has 64mb of ram. m0n0wall runs great on that platform, but pfsense requires 128MB of RAM so its a no go. m0n0wall does have simplicity going for it, as [...]
Continue reading...A look at the FreeNAS server
23. June 2007
Gary Sims, a freelance Linux consultant and writer who has a degree in Business Information Systems has published a review of FreeNAS on Linux.com. FreeNAS, an open source NAS server, can convert a PC into a network-attached storage server. The software, which is based on FreeBSD, Samba, and PHP, includes an operating system that supports various [...]
Continue reading...Google and open source OCR
21. June 2007
A few weeks ago we wrote about free and open source OCR software. Today’s there’s an article on the official Google Blog about OCRopus
Continue reading...Setting up a FreeBSD Multimedia Desktop
14. June 2007
Of all the many and free operating systems out there, few can begin to meet or surpass the quality, stability, and structured operation of FreeBSD. But out of the box, FreeBSD is and always will be a server OS. That’s the reason why some groups have created desktop versions of FreeBSD (such as PC-BSD and [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 1.4 (alpha), Xorg 7.2 & Beryl
4. June 2007
If you can’t wait for the official PC-BSD 1.4 release, go and download one of the triweekly ISOs. The last ISO (02 June) now includes Xorg 7.2, Beryl, Nvidia drivers and a lot more. Please note, this is still in alpha development, so don’t be surprised if you come across problems and bugs etc. If you [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD VPS Hosting
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29. June 2007
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