Archive | October, 2007
No more TextMaker for FreeBSD
According to SoftMaker president Martin Kotulla, the only commercial word processor available as a native FreeBSD application, TextMaker, will no longer support that platform as of the upcoming 2008 edition. There will of course be a Windows edition, and a native Linux edition (which should be able to run through the Linux binary compatibility software [...]
Continue reading...meetBSD 2007 Conference, Warshaw
30. October 2007
meetBSD is the biggest and the best technical conference in Poland devoted to open source solutions based on BSD systems The meetBSD 2007 conference will take place in Warsaw from November 17th to 18th. meetBSD is a periodic conference devoted to UNIX like operating systems with a strong emphasis towards BSD family, open source projects and people [...]
Continue reading...RoFreeSBIE video
29. October 2007
RoFreeSBIE is a Live DVD/CD installable on hard disk. Its goal is to promote FreeBSD and make it an educational tool and a mobile desktop too. More info on RoFreeSBIE can be found on the FBSD Variants Page. RoFreeSBIE video
Continue reading...FreeBSD Release Documentation Snapshot Page
29. October 2007
I came accros this interesting page that holds snapshots of the FreeBSD release documentation, for the most recent versions back to version 4.5. This page holds snapshots of the FreeBSD release documentation. The first released version of FreeBSD to use RELNOTESng was 4.4-RELEASE. For each release, this page holds HTML, TXT, and PDF renderings for all [...]
Continue reading...Creating and Managing A Jailed Virtual Host in FreeBSD
29. October 2007
It is possible to spawn a completely jailed second (or many!) operating system within a modern FreeBSD install. Doing so can be tricky, but here I will document the method that I have found works for me. The first most important resource about jails, is the man page, and many of the examples that you [...]
Continue reading...Using daemontools (supervise) on FreeBSD
29. October 2007
What is daemontools? From the daemontools website: daemontools is a collection of tools for managing UNIX services. supervise monitors a service. It starts the service and restarts the service if it dies. Setting up a new service is easy: all supervise needs is a directory with a run script that runs the service. At first when I was introduced [...]
Continue reading...Portsnap; 3 years old. Happy birthday
29. October 2007
Three years ago today, Colin Percival announced the availability of the first version of FreeBSD Portsnap. Almost a year later, in August 2005, Portsnap was added to the FreeBSD base system, and since then it has grown to four official mirrors and now supports almost 40 thousand users. Happy birthday Portsnap! CVSup is slow, insecure, and [...]
Continue reading...Small pfSense updates
29. October 2007
Chris Buechler put two posts on the pfSense blog – one about using the “console upgrade” (there’s a bug in Lighttpd) and the other on how to change the summer to winter time change manually.
Continue reading...Absolute FreeBSD – Auction
25. October 2007
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce the kicking off of the 2007 Fall Fundraising campaign by auctioning off the first copy of the book Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition. You can be the first one to own this book, while helping the FreeBSD Project and community. This book was generously donated by Michael Lucas, the [...]
Continue reading...pfSense hackathon wrap up
25. October 2007
The third annual pfSense hackathon has been a great success. There was a lot of cleaning up code and cleaning up the many new features that are already in the development branches, rather than adding more new features. This leaves pfSense in a better position to get out future releases.
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30. October 2007
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