Author Archives: Gerard

About Gerard

Gerard is a keen user of open source operating systems and software. On this blog he shares FreeBSD news and links that he comes across.

FreeBSD news and links round-up – week 44

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Gerard

Welcome to the weekly (Free)BSD news round-up (week 44) where we have a mix of news snippets, links, howto’s and software/package updates for you all. These tid-bits are all very interesting and news worthy, yet too small to package as individual … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Events Update (MeetBSD, KyivBSD)

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Gerard

We have a quick FreeBSD related events update: one that’s upcoming(MeetBSD) and one that has taken place already (KyivBSD). MeetBSD California 2012 MeetBSD California will be held this upcoming weekend, November 3-4 at Yahoo! in Santa Clara, CA. Josh Paetzel will be presenting “FreeNAS: Storage … Continue reading →

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Minimal FreeBSD desktop, with OpenBox (howto)

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Gerard

FreeBSD Forums user Taz has put together a very detailed howto showing you exactly how to setup a minimal FreeBSD installation with the OpenBox window manager. If this is something you’ve been wanting to do for awhile but didn’t know … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS 8.3-RELEASE available

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Gerard

Josh Paetzel from iXsystems has announced the release of FreeNAS 8.3.0: “The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE. FreeNAS 8.3.0 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 with version 28 of the ZFS file system. This is … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD or CentOS

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Gerard

FreeBSD or CentOS? FreeBSD or Linux, that is the question. Well, the answer is: “It depends on what you need the operating system for and what your hardware requirements are”. What I like about members of the FreeBSD community, they … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD 9.1 Isotope Edition Installer (video)

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Gerard

Historically Installing FreeBSD was hard, text-based and not always intuitive for the new *BSD user. PC-BSD has changed this once and for all. Did you know installing PC-BSD is almost as easy as 123? Have a look at this video, uploaded … Continue reading →

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Virtualisation with FreeBSD and VirtualBox

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Gerard

Virtualisation can de done in FreeBSD with Jails. FreeBSD Jails are great to assign certain services to little ‘virtual servers’ that are fast and light weight to use. There are also Xen Dom0 and BHye buty they are at different … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi drivers now fully open sourced

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Gerard

This is good news for FreeBSD developers: drivers for the Raspberry Pie boards have been open sourced. Gonzo from kernelnomicon.org and others have been working to get FreeBSD run on the Raspberry Pie, but having all driver details will make their work … Continue reading →

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