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.

Using daemontools (supervise) on FreeBSD

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Gerard

What is daemontools? From the daemontools website: daemontools is a collection of tools for managing UNIX services. supervise monitors a service. It starts the service and restarts the service if it dies. Setting up a new service is easy: all … Continue reading →

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Portsnap; 3 years old. Happy birthday

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Gerard

Three years ago today, Colin Percival announced the availability of the first version of FreeBSD Portsnap. Almost a year later, in August 2005, Portsnap was added to the FreeBSD base system, and since then it has grown to four official … Continue reading →

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Small pfSense updates

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Gerard

Chris Buechler put two posts on the pfSense blog – one about using the “console upgrade” (there’s a bug in Lighttpd) and the other on how to change the summer to winter time change manually.

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Absolute FreeBSD – Auction

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce the kicking off of the 2007 Fall Fundraising campaign by auctioning off the first copy of the book Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition. You can be the first one to own this book, while … Continue reading →

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pfSense hackathon wrap up

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Gerard

The third annual pfSense hackathon has been a great success. There was a lot of cleaning up code and cleaning up the many new features that are already in the development branches, rather than adding more new features. This leaves … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 7 – a taste of things to come

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Gerard

Kris Kennaway from the FreeBSD project has created an interesting 37-page PDF showing some of the good things to come with FreeBSD 7.0. (including some much promising graphs!). Especially the speed of MySQL on a FreeBSD server is impressive. It … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 Available

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Gerard

Now that FreeBSD 7.0-beta1 has been released, the final stage of the FreeBSD-7.0 Release cycle has begun. The FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available for download on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. The more people … Continue reading →

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