Archive | April, 2008
FreeBSD News – quick links (week 17)
I News & Articles FreeBSD for Web and E-Mail Servers I’m not touting FreeBSD over Linux. Within the Unix-like community, and even within the Linux world, it’s easy to find heated arguments over the various versions of operating systems. It seems that no matter what software or computer system some people use, they will fight to [...]
Continue reading...Blog layout update
24. April 2008
Over the last few days I’ve made a few layout changes to the blog. I’ve added darkgrey sides, made the subject lines stand out more (bold and a line underneath), added a lightgrey background colour to the side panel and a (dark grey) background to side panel headers. There’s still one thing I’d like to change: [...]
Continue reading...RAID, FreeBSD and FreeNAS
24. April 2008
Recently I set up FreeNAS on a spare computer which is now serving as a RAID file server. Before setting it up I did some research into what RAID is and how it works. Thought I’d share with you some interesting links that I found: RAID explained graphically: RAIDify the water cooler. Understanding RAID RAID Tutorial FreeBSD Raid Monitoring [...]
Continue reading...Embedded Monowall: Installation (video tutorial)
24. April 2008
This tutorial will guide you through copying the m0n0wall image to a compact flash card and the initial configuration of the m0n0wall on the ALIX embedded board. I will be using a VPN accelerator card since I will have about 10 IPsec tunnels actively running at one time. I would only recommend using the VPN [...]
Continue reading...iXsystems partners with NetCraft (Versiera)
23. April 2008
iXsystems, Inc. announced on 23/04/2008 a partnership with NetCraft Communications. The agreement will make NetCraft’s Versiera Remote System Management and Monitoring Software available on PC-BSD. PC-BSD is a fully functional open source desktop operating system based on FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE. Versiera is a web-based system that simplifies the common routine tasks required for system administrators, thus [...]
Continue reading...BSD Magazine – update
23. April 2008
Just a quick update with regards the BSD Magazine post that I put on yesterday. Dru Lavigne has received the BSD magazine today and posted the contents of this issue on her blog: Dru Lavigne, FreeBSD 7.0 Installation and Configuration Michael Lucas, FreeBSD’s bsnmp Jan Stedehouder, Pushing BSD an an Open Source Desktop Svetoslav Chukov, PC-BSD Overview Richard Bejtlich, Sguil 0.7.0 [...]
Continue reading...The FreeBSD Foundation April update
23. April 2008
The following is taken from the FreeBSD Foundation update for April 2008: Java Update We are pleased to announce we have hired Kurt Miller to provide Java 1.6 binaries for FreeBSD 7. He has begun working full-time on this project. Kurt did the Java 1.5 binaries for FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1. We are happy to have him [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD usergroups
23. April 2008
Murray Stockely has updated the usergroup listing on the FreeBSD website to better organize the groups by country/continent. The page now also includes a world map showing the group locations: FreeBSD Usergroup listing BSD groups are also listed on meetup.com: http://bsd.meetup.com/ Check out where your nearest group is and its meeting calender, go along and meet up with [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 1.5.1 available
23. April 2008
PC-BSD version 1.5.1 is now available for download as both ISO and updates from version 1.5. This version provides updates to the default port set, as well as numerous bug fixes to the system tools & utilities. Also, additional translations have been added to provide a more complete localized experience. Users currently running 1.5 may download [...]
Continue reading...BSD Magazine #1 published
22. April 2008
BSD Magazine issue #1 is out. Really good to see that the first BSD Magazine has come out and is being distributed. Congratulations to the team! There are several types of subscriptions for this magazine, i.e. print subscription, electronic subscription and the corporate subscription for companies. More than 60 pages full of news, great articles, tutorials, [...]
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25. April 2008
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