Archive | September, 2008
beta release: FreeNAS 0.69b3
Volker Theile has announced the third beta release of FreeNAS 0.69, a minimalist, FreeBSD-based operating system providing easy-to-setup Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: Today a new beta version of FreeNAS 0.69 has been released. As soon as FreeBSD 6.4 is released, expect the next and hopefully stable FreeNAS version. Major changes: add nullfs.ko and unionfs.ko kernel modules; display warning message [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD QA/release cycle graphs
12. September 2008
Mark Linimon wrote: Ifinally got around to updating these after having let them gather dust for a while. These include bar charts showing the time periods that various releases were being worked on (QA = Quality Assurance) and were supported by the FreeBSD security team. The dates for 6.4, 7.1, and beyond are all “best-guess”. I find [...]
Continue reading...Upgrade FreeBSD Jail (howto)
12. September 2008
The FreeBSD jail mechanism is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization that allows administrators to partition a FreeBSD-based computer system into several independent mini-systems called jails. FreeBSD jails offer security, ease of delegation and os level virtualization. To upgrade your jail using make world use the following commands. Oh, just in case you didn’t know, you [...]
Continue reading...release: AskoziaPBX 1.0
12. September 2008
After 14 months, 24 public betas, 40 developer snapshots and more than 45,000 downloads we’re very proud to announce the availability of version 1.0 A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed patches, reported bugs, troubleshot hardware, provided translations and those actively helping in the forums. So many people have helped out with this effort it is impossible [...]
Continue reading...Google Chrome on FreeBSD 7.0 (howto)
5. September 2008
Chris Arnold has been able to get Google Chrome to run on FreeBSD 7.0 under Wine. He’s written up a step-by-step procedure how to get this done. Well done, Chris, and thanks for dropping me a line.
Continue reading...Java JDK and JRE 6.0 binaries for FreeBSD
4. September 2008
Java JDK and JRE 6.0 binary installable packages for FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x on the i386 and amd64 architectures are available from the FreeBSD Foundation’s java website.
Continue reading...gmirror – recovering data from a failed hard disk
4. September 2008
Having a working RAID and data mirroring set up on your server/PC is great for when your one of your hard disks dies, but what to do when this really happens to you? How do you get that data back? This article shows what to do to retrieve your data back on a FreeBSD system that uses gmirror I [...]
Continue reading...Is FreeBSD a better choice for the desktop? (or dispelling myths)
4. September 2008
Last week we linked to an article on linsux.org why FreeBSD is better for the desktop than Linux. David from UNIX Administratosphere wrote a reply to that article and there’s also a thread on the Linsux forum.
Continue reading...FreeBSD security advisories
4. September 2008
The FreeBSD Project has issued the following security advisories: FreeBSD-SA-08:09.icmp6 FreeBSD-SA-08:08.nmount FreeBSD-SA-08:07.amd64 Site: FreeBSD Security Information
Continue reading...Running Google Chrome on FreeBSD
4. September 2008
Since Google Chrome just recently launched and it unfortunatly only supports Windows I felt a little bit dissapointed. But hey that doesn’t stop me so easy. So i decided to check out what wine (a windows api emulator for linux and FreeBSD) could do for me. So i downloaded chrome and tried to run ChromeSetup.exe with [...]
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14. September 2008
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