Archive | March, 2008
FreeBSD Projects for Google SoC 2008
The FreeBSD Project was again accepted as a mentoring organisation into the Google Summer of Code. The Project is now looking for potential students, mentors and projects. If you have an idea for a potential FreeBSD related summer of code project that isn’t already listed here then please contact Murray Stokely (murray at freebsd dot [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 7.0 VMWare image available
18. March 2008
Greg Larkin has put together a FreeBSD 7.0 VMware image. The zipped image can be found on the SourceHosting.net BitTorrent tracker. Some notes about the image: The VM has been configured with 768Mb of memory. The root password is “password” ZFS is enabled by default The /usr/ports filesystem is located in a ZFS pool The Ethernet interface is bridged [...]
Continue reading...FreeNAS 0.7 progress
17. March 2008
The FreeNAS maintenance release 0.686.3 was released last week. This will be probably the last stable release based on FreeBSD 6.2.The following changes have been made: Some of the changes: Remove consolehm sensor support because it doesn’t work/recognize up-to-date hardware. WebGUI uses NiftyCubes for rounded corners with CSS and Javascript. Validate minutes/hours/days/months/week days configuration on misc WebGUI pages The more [...]
Continue reading...pfSense 1.3 – what’s coming?
17. March 2008
The pfSense Team have outlined their development plans for version 1.3 which will be base on FBSD 7.0. It’s the plan to release the next version within the next month. This release already contains some significant new features. Among them are: Traffic shaper completely rewritten – now supports any number of internal interfaces and multiple WAN interfaces. [...]
Continue reading...BSDA Certification DVD (Spring08)
17. March 2008
Dru Lavigne announce the availability of the Sprin08 version of the BSDA Certification DVD which can be ordered from the BSD Cert website or the BSDA Registration website. Details of the contents of the DVD, donations and bulk ordering can be found on her blog.
Continue reading...2 Friends: Beasty and Tux
14. March 2008
Oliver Herold sent me a link to a series of drawings featuring Tux and Beastie by the German graphics artist Johannes Kretzschmar which were drawn for the past Chemnitzer Linux Tag 2008. The images are available under a Creative Commons license.
Continue reading...PC-BSD 1.5 – review (fosswire)
14. March 2008
Fosswire has a nice write up about PC-BSD 1.5, with a 8 out of 10 mark. The installation is straight forward and installation of PBIs is easy. Experienced Linux and BSD users might moan and groan about the Windows-ness of it, but it really is slick. Although package installation resembles very much the Windows way” it works, [...]
Continue reading...ZFS best practices guide
14. March 2008
FreeBSD 7.0 has experimental support for Sun’s ZFS (Zetabyte File System). For those wanting to experiment with it, there’s an excellent guide.
Continue reading...More on FreeBSD and performance
11. March 2008
Since the conclusion of the SMPng project, the focus of SMP development in FreeBSD has shifted from deploying locking infrastructure to careful profiling and optimization of kernel SMP strategies for increased performance on common workloads. FreeBSD 7.0 was the first release to benefit from this optimization work. The status of this work includes MySQL workload benchmarks [...]
Continue reading...BSD hobbiest Deborah Norling
11. March 2008
This is a podcast from BSD Talk with Deborah Norling on her use of BSD on old hardware and accessibility on the BSDs. This interview is quite different from the normal technicals talks. Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG
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18. March 2008
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