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.

pfSense 2007 Hackathon scheduled for Oct

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Gerard

A number of pfSense developers will be flying in to Louisville from around the world to participate in the 2007 Hackthon! During this time a number of pfSense developers get together and spend most of their time hacking on pfSense, … Continue reading →

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Trying out PC-BSD

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Gerard

Feedback from a happy PC-BSD user. I’ve been getting that itch to go back to Unix again lately. So I went and grabbed PC-BSD, the pre-configured version of FreeBSD. I used to log a bit of time in BSD but … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD and a motorbike

Posted on August 9, 2007 by Gerard

There’s already a bread toaster running NetBSD, now someone has built FreeBSD into his motorbike to capture videos whilest driving around.

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Interview with PC-BSD founder Kris Moore

Posted on August 8, 2007 by Gerard

Will Backman from BSDTalk interviewed PC-BSD Founder Kris Moore about the upcoming PC-BSD 1.4 release [ogg | mp3]. .

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Most reliable hosting companies in July 2007

Posted on August 6, 2007 by Gerard

3 out of the top 4 most reliable hosting companies run, yes, FreeBSD. Check Netcraft’s report for full details.

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1.3TB FreeNAS box built & corked

Posted on August 6, 2007 by Gerard

I built a 1.3TB freeNAS box a while back. I used 4 x 250GB drives in one array, and 3 x 120GB drives in the 2nd array, with an old 80GB for the freeNAS OS. The case and IDE controller … Continue reading →

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M0n0wall 1.3 BETA3 released

Posted on August 6, 2007 by Gerard

The third beta release of m0n0wall 1.3, a FreeBSD-based firewall, is now available for download. From the changelog: added voucher support to captive portal (mwiget); wireless LAN improvements; allow dashes in alias names; added hidden option to disable auto-generation of … Continue reading →

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Internet access & time slots (pre)defined with pfSense

Posted on August 3, 2007 by Gerard

Have you ever wasted too much time online? Right, so posting this on my blog imparts some selection bias to the answers to that question. But have you really wasted time to the point of not getting work done, or … Continue reading →

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