Archive | October, 2007
DenyHosts on FreeBSD 6.2
If you run a nix server for a little while, you’ll notice that bots will try to gain illegitimate access to your server through ssh. While this unsettles a lot of people, there’s really nothing to worry about as long as you don’t permit root logins and have a strong password policy. Nonetheless, taking just an [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD: the best server OS
16. October 2007
I’ve configured and maintained over 100 UNIX-based servers over the years starting with Slackware Linux 2.0 back in 1995. Over all course of all the deployments I’ve become very biased about my operating systems. Linux clearly has a solid lead with desktop applications, but for server deployments and maintainability, I believe firmly in FreeBSD…. I’m not [...]
Continue reading...Time for a new FreeSBIE ISO image
16. October 2007
It looks like people want it , so I think it is a really good idea. I must admit I’ve not a lot of time to work on it, so I’ll probably end up using the same configuration of FreeSBIE-2.0.1 The great news is unionfs will be enabled by default, like in FreeSBIE-1.x. The only caveat is: [...]
Continue reading...Create FreeBSD magazine?
16. October 2007
What do you think about creating a FreeBSD magazine? Waste of time? Perfect niche? Kasia is thinking of starting a magazine devoted to FreeBSD. What do you think? Leave your feedback here We have just decided to open and enter the American market a new – totally devoted to FreeBSD magazine. To meet your expectation, I would like [...]
Continue reading...DesktopBSD Developer Blog
15. October 2007
DesktopBSD has now a (developer) blog at http://desktopbsd.net/blog/
Continue reading...BSD Community vs Linux Community
13. October 2007
Another interesting post from Penguin Pete: “The BSD Community Compared to the Linux Community”: “I’ll tell you the number one thing right off that I like better about BSD than Linux: the peace and quiet. An amazing experience occurred when I began to run BSD. It was a Jedi event. I was jolted by something that [...]
Continue reading...AsiaBSD Conference 2008
13. October 2007
AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held in Tokyo, in March of 2008. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the best [...]
Continue reading...Richard Stallman on GNU & Free Software
13. October 2007
Will Backman (BSDtalk) has uploaded an interview with Richard Stallman on GNU and Free Software in general. To listen click here. Mr Stallman has requested that this podcast only be distributed in the free/open source OGG format.
Continue reading...FreeBSD Network Stack Virtualization Project
13. October 2007
The FreeBSD network stack virtualization project aims at extending the FreeBSD kernel to maintain multiple independent instances of networking state. This will allow for complete networking independence between jails on a system, including giving each jail its own firewall, virtual network interfaces, rate limiting, routing tables, and IPSEC configuration. This project is focused at virtualizing [...]
Continue reading...Google ups Gmail storage space
13. October 2007
Google is increasing the amount of storage it provides as part of its Gmail service. Rob Siemborski, an engineer on Google’s webmail service, made the announcement on the company’s official Gmail blog. Google originally started increasing Gmail’s storage in April 2005 as part of the company’s Infinity+1 storage plan. Siemborski: At that time, we realised we’d never reach [...]
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16. October 2007
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