Archive | April, 2009
FreeNAS links, howtos and video
The following are some links I’ve saved up with regards to FreeNAS, the FreeBSD/m0n0wall based, open source Network Attached Storage operating system. 1. More Uses For Old PCs and Laptops The Telegraph.co.uk has an article on how to re-use that old PC in your attic. One of the recommended uses is as file-server: Turning your old PC into [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 7.1 Galileo – reviews
30. April 2009
PC-BSD 7.1 was released two weeks ago. Distrowatch had a first look, but now there are also (short) reviews on the IT Massive and ExtremeTech. Both reviews, though not scientific but more a like personal opinion, do like PC-BSD but also point at some weak points. The IT Massive’s summary is: I love FreeBSD and I tried really hard [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD link roundup – 28/04/09
29. April 2009
FreeBSD 1) Martin Wilke is looking for people to test QT 4.5.1. He also reports he managed to get Firefox 3.1 Beta4 working on FreeBSD. Please test. 2) Ivan Voras has done some virtualised benchmarking of Ubuntu 8.10, FreeBSD 7.1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 beta on the three currently most prominent virtualisation platforms: VMWare ESX 3.5 U3, Citrix XenServer 5.0 U2, Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 Released
25. April 2009
Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 7.2: The second of the two planed release candidates for the 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. We believe, with the exception of the new bce(4) driver not working with lagg(4), all the major issues that have come up from the testing have been addressed. We will [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 7.1 vs. Kubuntu 9.04 Benchmarks
24. April 2009
The well-know bench marking website Phoronix has carried out a benchmark run between Kubuntu 9.04 and PC-BSD 7.1 (20/04/2009) Earlier this month PC-BSD 7.1 was released, which is based upon the FreeBSD 7.1 stable release, but of course with the extra packages and changes that make PC-BSD an easier to use BSD-based desktop operating system. PC-BSD 7.1 [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Security Advisories (openssl, libc)
23. April 2009
The FreeBSD Security Team has issued the following security warnings: FreeBSD-SA-09:08.openssl - Remotely exploitable crash in OpenSSL FreeBSD-SA-09:07.libc - Information leak in db(3) For background info, problem description, impact, workaround and solution, have a look at the individual advisory pages: openssl | libc
Continue reading...FreeBSD Foundation Project: IEEE 802.11s wireless mesh
23. April 2009
A couple of days ago, Google announced it’s sponsoring some FreeBSD related projects in its annual Summer of Code. Now the FreeBSD Foundation has also announced it has accepted a project (not GSoC) for funding. Rui Paulo will be implementing the forthcoming IEEE 802.11s wireless mesh standard for FreeBSD. Wireless mesh networks are expected to become widespread as routers and [...]
Continue reading...Google SoC 2009 FreeBSD projects announced
21. April 2009
Google announced yesterday the students selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2009. Among the 1,000 students, 20 will be working on FreeBSD related projects. The list with students, mentors and projects can be found here We wish all the students the best and hopefully a lot/all of their coding will find their way into future [...]
Continue reading...50th BSD video posted on BSDConferences (youtube)
21. April 2009
50 BSD related videos have now been uploaded to the BSDConferences channel on Youtube. The newest 4 videos are : Richard Bejtlich, Network Security Monitoring using FreeBSD Henning Brauer, Faster Packets: Performance Tuning in the OpenBSD Network Stack and pf. Jason Dixon, BSD is Still Dying (closing remarks) Chris Buechler, Network Perimeter Redundancy with pfsense Murray Stockely has some interesting statistics.
Continue reading...Videos from DCBSDCon 2009 posted (youtube)
21. April 2009
Murray Stokely has uploaded 8 videos from the first DCBSDCon to the BSDConferencesYouTube channel. With help from Jason Dixon and Will Backman and open source software such as avidemux, mplayer/mencoder and audacity. Ken Caruso, Using BSD in SchmooCon Labs Robert Luciani, M:N Threading in DragonFly BSD Kurt Miller, Implementing pie on OpenBSD Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability, Brooks Davis Epitome, Marco Peereboom Process Isolation for NetBSD and OpenBSD, Kristaps [...]
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30. April 2009
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