Archive | October, 2008
Codeweaver’s software free for download
This is not directly FreeBSD related (though Codeweavers have started working on a FreeBSD product), but since most readers here also use Linux, I’d like to make you’ll aware of the following: Codeweavers are offering their products for free tomorrow, 28/10/08. CodeWeavers is the leading corporate backer of the Wine Project. Wine is an open source [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 7.0.1
21. October 2008
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/linux_unix/Now_available_PC_BSD_7_0_1_Upgrade'; After much hard work and testing the PC-BSD Team is happy to announce the availability of PC-BSD 7.0.1, (i.e. the first upgrade in the 7 series, with FreeBSD 7.0 under the hood) Version 7.0.1 contains a number of bugfixes and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some [...]
Continue reading...No cost FreeBSD shell accounts online
14. October 2008
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/linux_unix/No_cost_FreeBSD_shell_accounts_online'; Having an online *BSD shell account is great for experimenting with BSD, network debugging or testing environments. There is a number of shell providers available for different flavours of BSD. If you want to sign up with any do some research with regards to available RAM, speed of the machine, type of processor [...]
Continue reading...Anonymous FTP server on FreeBSD (howto)
14. October 2008
To test the speed differences between SFTP and FTP I decided to setup an anonymous FTP server on my trusted old 266 Mhz Celeron running FreeBSD 7.0. Here’s how to do it. Step-by-step.
Continue reading...FreeBSD Summer of Code finished – update
13. October 2008
Murray Stockely reports about the success rate for Summer of Code students working on FreeBSD. 19 out of 21 students successfully completed the program this summer. He has created a summary of all 19 individual projects. On the Google Open Source Blog he wrote a post to showcase some student projects from our fourth successful [...]
Continue reading...Why FreeBSD is my favorite *nix OS (Scott Spear)
13. October 2008
Scott Spear has created a nice summary with the reasons why he loves FreeBSD Installation FreeBSD provides a very easy installation process; it uses Sysinstall as an automated installation package to do it for you. All you have to do is answer some questions to create users and tell it which software to install and you are [...]
Continue reading...New York City *BSD User Group lectures and interviews
13. October 2008
The NYCBSDCon is behind us. Those who were unable to attend can download and listen to the lectures (MP3) or listen to Will Beckman’s floor interviews (bsdtalk 160 – Sat and bsdtalk 161 Sun)
Continue reading...FreeBSD package developments
13. October 2008
Last week Dru Lavigne mentioned pkg_add_it, had been added to the ports directory, today we read on Ivan Voras’ blog he’s been working on pkg_add_trans. More information about the “basic” software package method, pkg_add, can be found in the FreeBSD Handbook.
Continue reading...FreeBSD 6.4-RC1 available
13. October 2008
Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 6.4, the project’s production legacy branch As the next step in the release of FreeBSD 6.4, the FreeBSD 6.4-RC1 builds are now available for testing. This is the first of an expected two release candidates. We encourage you to test out the release [...]
Continue reading...Setting up a LAMP Server on FreeBSD
8. October 2008
There are already many useful guides around showing how to set up and tune a FAMP server. Unlike some this guide gives also a bit more background details and explanation. Setting up a LAMP server is a common task for systems administrators, and FreeBSD is one of the most reliable and stable operating systems available. You [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD VPS Hosting
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27. October 2008
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