Archive | June, 2008
BSDTalk Interview with Michael W. Lucas
BSDTalk has a 12 minute interview with Michael W. Lucas. Mr Lucas is writer of the Big Scary Daemons column at OnLAMP and has written a number of BSD books, of which “Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD” is maybe one of the best known. In this interview he talks about some of his books [...]
Continue reading...Redirection problem
19. June 2008
The automatic redirection of all posts on freebsdos.com/news to the new domain freebsdnews.net is not working perfectly yet. I’ve installed the “redirection” Wordpress plugin and added some rules, but it’s not working as it should. Anybody worked before with Wordpress and 301 permanent redirections? If you have any ideas/suggestions or if you think you can help me, [...]
Continue reading...Verio: “Long live FreeBSD”
17. June 2008
“Announcing the end of I.T.Servertude. Liberate yourself.” This is what we read on Verio ’s (a subsidiary of NTT Communications) FreeBSD hosting page (VPS and MPS). It’s good to see yet another hoster providing FreeBSD as an alternative to Linux. Verio offers 3 hosting packages: Starter, Basic and Pro.
Continue reading...Converting FreeBSD into PC-BSD
17. June 2008
This post describes an example of how one can manually convert a FreeBSD installation into a PC-BSD one using the install disk. There are more elegant ways of doing it, such as pulling things from PC-BSDs SVN and compiling only PC-BSD specific components. More
Continue reading...Move to new domain: www.freebsdnews.net
17. June 2008
Since BSDnews.com was hacked a lot of traffic has come to my site. Looking at the logs many people googling for “FreeBSD news” or “BSD news” ended up on my site. After all these months BSDnews.com is still not back up. I’ve therefore created a new domain: www.freebsdnews.net , which is easier to remember than freebsdos.com/news. [...]
Continue reading...FreeNAS 0.7 for AMD64
17. June 2008
The FreeNAS team has made a AMD64 build of FreeNAS 0.7 available, which can be downloaded from the nightly build section.
Continue reading...BSD conferences – presentations, videos and photos
6. June 2008
I’ve collected for you some links to presentations, recordings and pictures of recent BSD conferences. MeetBSD 2007 – MeetBSD 2007 Matt Olander – PC-BSD: FreeBSD on the Desktop – AVI Christian Brüffer – Protecting your Privacy with FreeBSD and Tor – AVI Pawel Solyga – Meet BSD projects from Google Summer of Code 2007 – AVI | MOV | [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD review and howtos from a Linux user
6. June 2008
I recently decided to give the new 7.0 release of FreeBSD ago and was fairly impressed. I did use BSD along time ago on a home server for a few months but pretty much forgot everything about it from back then. Firstly FreeBSD refers to both a kernel and userspace tools making it a whole operating [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD begins switch to Subversion
6. June 2008
The FreeBSD Project has begun the switch of its source code management system from CVS to Subversion . At this point in time, FreeBSD’s developers are making changes to the base system in the Subversion repository. More
Continue reading...BSDTalk interview with some FreeBSD Core members
6. June 2008
There’s a new interview on BSDTalk . This one is with a few of the FreeBSD Core Team members: Warner Losh, George V. Neville-Neil, Murray Stokely, Hiroki Sato, Robert Watson, Brooks Davis, and Philip Paeps. The interview was recorded at BSDCan2008 in Ottawa, Cananda. As a sidenote: it’s again time (after 2 years) for the FreeBSD [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD VPS Hosting
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