Archive | July, 2007
How the FreeBSD Project works
While at Google a couple of weeks ago, Robert N M Watson from the FreeBSD Core Team, did a presentation “How the FreeBSD Project works” The FreeBSD Project is one of the oldest and most successful open source operating system projects, seeing wide deployment across the IT industry. From the root name servers, to top tier [...]
Continue reading...FreeNAS, how it works (video)
11. July 2007
What is FreeNAS, how does it work and how do I set it up? Check out this video
Continue reading...FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Q2/2007)
10. July 2007
If you’re interested in what’s happening with FreeBSD at the moment and especially the technical side of the project, you should have a quick read through the FreeBSD Quaterly Status Report (compiled by Max Laier). This report covers FreeBSD related projects between April and June 2007. Again an exciting quarter for FreeBSD. In May we saw [...]
Continue reading...pfSense 1.2-BETA-2 released
7. July 2007
After a long bug hunting and regression testing period, Scott Ullrich has announced the second beta release of pfSense 1.2, a FreeBSD-based firewall on 04 July. 1.2-BETA-2 has many new features and stability improvements making it the leading Open Source firewall solution. Enterprise features, rock solid stability adds up to one great release! Here are just a [...]
Continue reading...DesktopBSD vs PC-BSD review
7. July 2007
Fareast has written a quick comparison of DesktopBSD and PC-BSD on Dailykos.com: After reading a very not-nice review of DesktopBSD a couple of weeks ago, and in light of the fact that I just adore PC-BSD, it’s a bit strange that I would be reviewing it here. Still the hunger to try out some new and untried [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD or Redhat Linux; what is the difference?
4. July 2007
First, Linux is a kernel — not an OS — that Red Hat combines with other software they choose to form the production Red Hat distribution of Linux, currently Red Hat 7.3. As you no doubt are aware, there are hundreds of distributions of Linux. With FreeBSD, there is only one “official” production version of [...]
Continue reading...FreeNAS and 11633 iTunes
2. July 2007
From another happy FreeNAS user: So we have our FreeNAS RAID array setup now. We have two 500GB hard drives mirrored in a RAID 1 array and it seems to be working well. The setup was very simple, just downloaded/burned the iso, installed FreeNAS to a spare usb key then followed the documentation to setup the [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 1.4 LiveCD
2. July 2007
If you are interested in BSD live CDs, here is another interesting option: PC-BSD LiveCD. This CD is probably one of the best live desktop BSD products built to-date. Based on FreeBSD 6.2, it includes KDE 3.5.6, X.Org 7.2, Kaffeine media player with support for MP3, OGG, DIVX and MPEG formats, Konversation IRC cleint, Smb4k [...]
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11. July 2007
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