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.

Best of open source in storage

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Gerard

FreeNAS takes our Bossie for best open source NAS server. FreeNAS is far and away the most mature open source NAS platform, built on a FreeBSD base and backed by an active community. Providing CIFS, NFS, FTP, iSCSI, RSYNC, and … Continue reading →

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New Project: AskoziaPBX

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Gerard

Michael Iedema has posted details of a new FreeBSD based Asterisk OS(AskoziaPBX) forked from m0n0wall: Greetings everyone, I’ve been working on a (yet another) “all-in-one” Asterisk based project. It is aimed at embedded / low power systems (but scales fine … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD: the first 30 days

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Gerard

Jan Stedehouder is on his journey using PC-BSD for 30 days. These are his experiences PC-BSD Day 5: BSD Certification Previous blog entries BSD Revisited: PC-BSD 1.4 RC PC-BSD Day 1: extending the system PC-BSD Day 2: music & ports … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS 0.685RC1 Released

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Gerard

After a long time and hard work the FreeNAS team have released a new beta version (v0.685b) of FreeNAS. It includes many new features and a lot of bugs fixes. Download | Change log | Report problems

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OS users mugshots

Posted on September 6, 2007 by Gerard

Who are you? A Windows, MAC, Linux or BSD user?

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Difference FreeBSD and Linux

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Gerard

This quote, that has been around for a while, is quite funny: BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC. Linux is what you get … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD 1.4RC released

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Gerard

PC-BSD 1.4RC has been released! Changelog: Fixed many reported bugs from 1.4BETA in the following tools: – Network Manager – Xorg Configuration GUI – Custom partition via Installer – Xorg configuration now auto-detects DPI Included i18n support with latest translations … Continue reading →