Archive | June, 2008
Configure a professional firewall using pfSense
The Free Software Magazine has a good howto on installing and setting up pfSense. This guide was written for Linksys, Netgear, and D-link users with no firewall or router experience. No experience is needed with FreeBSD or GNU/Linux to install and run pfSense. When you are finished, management of pfSense will be from a web interface [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD events and conferences calendar
26. June 2008
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/linux_unix/FreeBSD_events_and_conferences_calendar';There are several conferences and expo’s where FreeBSD is promoted (and this seems to be increasing by the year). To keep track of when and where these are, I have set up a public calendar listing all FreeBSD related events, such as conferences, meetings, hackatons etc. This calendar is on Google Calendar (GCal) [...]
Continue reading...Book: Network Administration with FreeBSD
26. June 2008
A new book has been added to the “FreeBSD library”: “Network Administration with FreeBSD” by Babak Farrokhi. This 280 page book is about the building, securing, and maintaining of networks with the FreeBSD operating system, and deals with the following topics Set up and manage networking on FreeBSD Virtualization with FreeBSD Jails, IPFW and PF Configure interfaces, protocols, and [...]
Continue reading...Two FreeBSD howtos (kernel module & gmirror)
24. June 2008
Writing a kernel module for FreeBSD FreeBSD 7.0 has already been released. If you are a real hacker, the best way to jump in and learn it is hacking together an introductory kernel module. In this article I’ll implement a very basic module that prints a message when it is loaded, and another when it [...]
Continue reading...Designed for FreeBSD – Vista incapable
23. June 2008
Justin Franklin added some more “Vista Incapable” stickers to gnomelook.org. There’s now a “Designed for FreeBSD. Vista incapable” sticker there. Print it, stick it on your PC and promote FreeBSD. Alternatively, you can also help promote FreeBSD on SpreadFreeBSD.org
Continue reading...pfSense book naming contest
23. June 2008
Chris Buechler, one of the pfSense Core Team members, has been working for several months on a pfSense Handbook which will be completed in the next 5-6 weeks and for sale from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. around late August to early September. The book will contain about 300-400 pages and a work in progress table [...]
Continue reading...FreeNAS 0.69 beta1 available
21. June 2008
Folker Theile has announced the release of FreeNAS 0.69 beta 1, a tiny FreeBSD-based operating system for NAS services. From the changelog Upgrade to FreeBSD 6.3; add ‘lagg’ link aggregation and link failover interface support (kernel); switch back to SCHED_4BSD scheduler; add generic web server service; complete review and typo fixes in source code; upgrade rsync to 3.0.2, smartmontools [...]
Continue reading...Firefox 3 with FreeBSD technologies
21. June 2008
Firefox 3 is released and got off to a fantastic start: more than 8 million downloads within 24 hours, peaking at 17.000 downloads a minute. Everybody browsing the internet uses (unconsciously) FreeBSD technology, such as TCP/IP, and a few only know that Firefox 3 comes integrated with some exciting FreeBSD technologies. Murray Stokely has summarised: The most widely [...]
Continue reading...BSDFund – supporting BSD related projects
21. June 2008
The FreeBSD Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD Project. This reasonably well-known foundation in the BSD world supports projects which further the development of the FreeBSD operating system (conferences, grants, hardware etc). Also NetBSD and OpenBSD have their own foundation. These foundations tend to support bigger projects (although they do give travel [...]
Continue reading...Some Linux vs FreeBSD commands
20. June 2008
Linux and FreeBSD have both similarities. FreeBSD comes from Berkeley and Linux comes from Finland so it’s pretty sure some differences need to be – and here are some. Did I say FreeBSD is easier? ;-)
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