Published on
August 17, 2007 in
FreeBSD.
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server which has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. Its advanced feature-set make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software for every server that is suffering load problems. Installing lighttpd is quite simple under FreeBSD operating system using ports.
Popular sites using lighttpd as their primary server include the SourceForge developer community, the social media hub Reddit and the instant messaging service Meebo, while YouTube and Wikipedia use it to serve parts of their sites.
Read here how to set it up.
Published on
August 17, 2007 in
pfSense.
A number of pfSense developers will be flying in to Louisville from around the world to participate in the 2007 Hackthon! During this time a number of pfSense developers get together and spend most of their time hacking on pfSense, testing and many other related items.
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Published on
August 10, 2007 in
PC-BSD.
Feedback from a happy PC-BSD user.
I’ve been getting that itch to go back to Unix again lately. So I went and grabbed PC-BSD, the pre-configured version of FreeBSD. I used to log a bit of time in BSD but always hated tweaking X to get it the way I liked it. This takes a lot of the work out of that and gets you going ala Linux, but without having to deal with actually having Linux when you’re done.
Anyhow, I slapped it on a laptop today (dual booting with XP of course) and I’ve been able to get all the hardware working, even the wireless card. I haven’t been digging through .conf files like this since I made a PPP dial-on-demand server out of a Pentium 75 back in high school. It feels good to be back.
Now to get started slapping apache and python and all that other good stuff on it. Programming for the web in windows just seemed wrong.
Source: richhosler.com
Published on
August 9, 2007 in
FreeBSD.
There’s already a bread toaster running NetBSD, now someone has built FreeBSD into his motorbike to capture videos whilest driving around.
Will Backman from BSDTalk interviewed PC-BSD Founder Kris Moore about the upcoming PC-BSD 1.4 release [ogg | mp3].
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Published on
August 6, 2007 in
FreeBSD.
3 out of the top 4 most reliable hosting companies run, yes, FreeBSD.
Check Netcraft’s report for full details.
Published on
August 6, 2007 in
FreeNAS.
I built a 1.3TB freeNAS box a while back. I used 4 x 250GB drives in one array, and 3 x 120GB drives in the 2nd array, with an old 80GB for the freeNAS OS.
The case and IDE controller card was purchased for the project, but the PSU, mobo etc, and all the drives were stuff I had laying around.
It’s an old Gigabyte board with an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ running at 1919 MHz, plus 1.5GB of RAM (which is stupid over-powered for a freeNAS box, but hey, it was left over stuff). On the upside, the system is *never* sweating for CPU power. It’s got a built in 10/100 NIC. There’s a video card in there, but only because the thing won’t boot w/out a video card in the slot.
The OS is freeNAS 0.684b, which I’m pretty happy with. This thread isn’t about setting it up, but that’s not really hard to do. If this board would have booted off USB (which I just could NOT get it to do) the freeNAS OS would have been running of a 64MB USB flash drive I had lying about. Since the thing wouldn’t boot of USB, I threw in an 80GB drive and ran the OS off that.
Roughly 34MB of the drive is in use, lol….
Anyway. I stuffed 1.3TB of drives in there, and then created 2 separate RAID 5 arrays. The reason for that is that freeNAS can use different size drives in one array, but it’ll pick the smallest to set the stripe size with, and you end up with 7 x 120GB drives instead of 3 120’s and 4 250’s (because it pretends the 250’s are 120’s, which is a huge waste).
Read further (incl lots of pictures)
Published on
August 6, 2007 in
M0n0wall.
The third beta release of m0n0wall 1.3, a FreeBSD-based firewall, is now available for download.
From the changelog:
added voucher support to captive portal (mwiget); wireless LAN improvements; allow dashes in alias names; added hidden option to disable auto-generation of PPTP rules on WAN; fixed ATA hard disk spin down feature; ipfilter TCP window scaling bug fix; synced with changes from 1.23 branch; increased mfsroot size to 14 MB (from 13 MB); updated base system to FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p6; updated PHP to 4.4.7, ipsec-tools to 0.6.7, isc-dhcpd to 3.0.5, Dnsmasq to 2.39; added kernel patch for fragment bug in ipfilter; modified kernel patch to handle ipnat+dummynet in ip_input….
Check the changelog for full details
Published on
August 3, 2007 in
pfSense.
Have you ever wasted too much time online? Right, so posting this on my blog imparts some selection bias to the answers to that question. But have you really wasted time to the point of not getting work done, or letting other things fall by the wayside?
We’re going to block some sites that sing their siren song to us, calling like the blue light inside the bug zapper. I’ll use four that friends have suggested.
Now, it’s simply no good to just cut off your access to these sites. The goal here is to get you back to work, not to make it so that you have to go find a way around an all-encompassing block to get your fix. So, we’re going to block access to problem sites during parts of the day when you think you ought not be accessing them.
This can now be easily done with pfSense
To implement this we need to break down the problem into two parts:
1. What do we want to block?
2. When do we want to block it?
Read the complete howto here.
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