Archive | October, 2008
Benchmarking Wine 1.1.2 on FreeBSD 7.0
I installed some benchmarks into Wine 1.1.2 on FreeBSD and gave them another run today to see what gains I would see over the last benchmarks that I ran. The last time the benchmarks were run on FreeBSD 7.0 Beta 2 and Nvidia driver Version: 100.14.19 that was edited so it would install and run [...]
Continue reading...FreeNAS supports Bittorrent
8. October 2008
The last FreeNAS beta (0.69) has built-in support for Bittorrent. This guide shows step-by-step how to set it up and use it.
Continue reading...Tuning FreeNAS and ZFS
8. October 2008
FreeNAS 0.7 is still at alpha stage. However, HarryD is already using it as a production server and confirms it’s pretty stable after some minor tweaks. It’s all very promising and I can’t wait for 0.7 final to come out. My advice, before that version is released, don’t blindly trust in ZFS, but make additional backups [...]
Continue reading...Apple Time Machine + FreeBSD in 14 steps
8. October 2008
Here’s a quick howto on how to setup Time Machine on Mac OS X so that it backups to a networked machine running FreeBSD.
Continue reading...FreeNAS 0.69 beta 4 (Sareer) released
6. October 2008
The FreeNAS machine is steaming ahead. Another week, another beta. The fourt beta has the usual update of the base system (FreeBSD 6.4, rsync 3.0.4, PHPMailer 2.2.1 and Transmission to 1.34), bug fixes and minor changes. Links: Changelog | Download | website
Continue reading...EuroBSDCon – registration open
6. October 2008
In less htan two weeks the 7th edition (18-19 October) of the European BSD Conference will take place in Strasbourg, France. Don’t miss it! The program is rich with over 20 speakers giving talks on a wide range of subjects. Tutorials will also be help in a very nice place in the center of the [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 7 review (osnews.com)
6. October 2008
OSNews.com has a positive review of PC-BSD 7 Fibonacci. It concludes with: “I am thoroughly convinced that PC-BSD is the perfect choice for a newcomer to the unix world. It is very straight forward and it requires very little unix knowledge. Even though I mentioned a couple of caveats (eg. Bootloader, Primary partition), I doubt a [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-08:10.nd6)
3. October 2008
Topic: IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol routing vulnerability Category: core Module: sys_netinet6 Announced: 2008-10-01 Credits: David Miles Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD. Corrected: 2008-10-01 00:32:59 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.1-PRERELEASE) 2008-10-01 00:32:59 UTC (RELENG_7_0, 7.0-RELEASE-p5) 2008-10-01 00:32:59 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.4-PRERELEASE) 2008-10-01 00:32:59 UTC (RELENG_6_3, 6.3-RELEASE-p5) CVE Name: CVE-2008-2476 More information and a solution to fix this vulnerability, check to to the FreeBSD-SA-08:10.nd6.asc page
Continue reading...BSDTalk interview with Kris Moore (PC-BSD 7)
3. October 2008
BSDTalk has a 12 minute interview with Kris Moore about the release of PC-BSD 7. BSDTalk 159 – Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG
Continue reading...Win4BSD now free for non-commercial use
2. October 2008
Virtual Bridges is has announced that Win4BSD for Desktops will be offered at no charge for non-commercial use. Win4BSD is a PC emulator that runs Windows as a guest at nearly native speed under FreeBSD/PC-BSD. It is based on QEMU. However, Win4BSD offers many advantages, including improved speed, ease of use, more seamless integration [...]
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8. October 2008
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