Archive | July, 2009
10 great things about FreeNAS
Learn FreeNAS has a post with the top10 reasons why FreeNAS should be considered when setting up Network Attached Storage: It works It is free Low system requirements Supports Windows, Mac, Linux and FreeBSD RSYNC iSCSI Media Streaming RAID ZFS Easy to use Find out about the details on LearnFreeNAS
Continue reading...FreeBSD foundation newsletter – June 2009
31. July 2009
The FreeBSD Foundation have released their quarterly update. It gives a nice overview of the projects and conferences that are funded by the Foundation. Table of contents: Letter From the President 2009 Fundraising Drive Dru Lavigne Helping Foundation Safe Removal of Active Disk Devices Wireless Mesh Support Improvements to the FreeBSD TCP Stack AVR32 Support Problem Reporting Prototype FreeBSD Powers Long Distance Wireless Link DCBSDCon 2009 AsiaBSDCon [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Security Advisory (bind)
30. July 2009
The FreeBSD Security Team has issued the following security warning: FreeBSD-SA-09:12.bind – BIND named(8) dynamic update message remote DoS For background info, problem description, impact, workaround and solution, have a look at the advisory page: bind
Continue reading...BSDStats – June 2009
23. July 2009
These are the final BSD usage numbers for June 2009 from BSDstats.org showing the use of *BSD operating systems: PC-BSD 17,156 (71.39%) FreeBSD 5,483 (22.82%) DesktopBSD 1206 (5.02%) NetBSD 70 (0.29%) OpenBSD 55 (0.23%) DragonFlyBSD 12 (0.12%) MidnightBSD 14 (0.06%) MirBSD 11 (0.05%) Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 8 (0.03%) Note, these numbers aren’t in any way a true representation of the use of BSD systems. PC-BSD and DesktopBSD have [...]
Continue reading...RANCID on FreeBSD (howto)
23. July 2009
Bruno put together a useful tutorial for setting up RANCID on FreeBSD: RANCID is an application that allows you to track changes to network devices using a CVS tree. It will email you any changes made at scheduled intervals. You can read more about it here. I’m going to implement RANCID on a FreeBSD box [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Release Engineering Explained
21. July 2009
Murray Stokely has released the FreeBSD Release Engineering paper detailing the different phases of the release engineering process leading up to the actual system build as well as the actual build process and very important discussion on the future directions of development: This paper describes the approach used by the FreeBSD release engineering team to make production [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD as a Host OS (VirtualBox)
21. July 2009
Sun VirtualBox has been in the FreeBSD ports for a few weeks now. The FreeBSD Handbook has been updated to include VirtualBox on FreeBSD as host OS. Chapter 22.3 FreeBSD as Host OS
Continue reading...How many FreeBSD hackers does it take to change a lightbulb?
21. July 2009
I’m sure this is written tongue-in-cheek, though there may be some truth in it here and there: How many FreeBSD hackers does it take to change a lightbulb? One thousand, one hundred and seventy-two: Twenty-three to complain to -current about the lights being out; Four to claim that it is a configuration problem, and that such matters really belong [...]
Continue reading...BSD Magazine to stay
21. July 2009
The BSD Magazine is to stay, well, that is, for the forseable future. Karolina, editor of BSD Magazine, has confirmed that the BSD Magazine will continue to be published. Please spread the word, buy an issue or subscribe to support the magazine.
Continue reading...FreeBSD Handbook translated into Brazilian Portuguese
21. July 2009
Emmanuel Silvério Francisco has translated the FreeBSD Handbook into Brazilian Portugese. The PDF can be downloaded here
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31. July 2009
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