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.

PC-BSD 1.4 LiveCD

Posted on July 2, 2007 by Gerard

If you are interested in BSD live CDs, here is another interesting option: PC-BSD LiveCD. This CD is probably one of the best live desktop BSD products built to-date. Based on FreeBSD 6.2, it includes KDE 3.5.6, X.Org 7.2, Kaffeine … Continue reading →

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FreeSBIE 2.0.1 – Review

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Gerard

This is a FreeSBIE 2.0.1 review by Steve Lake on Raiden.net From great anticipation to utter misery to mixed reactions. That in general sums up my experience with FreeSBIE 2.0.1. For a live cd that’s built on one of the … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD: It’s What Your Server Wants

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Gerard

I’ll admit it. I’m in love with FreeBSD.FreeBSD is a Unix operating system that runs especially well on generic Intel-compatible hardware.FreeBSD doesn’t do anything special. In fact, anything I can do on my favorite OS, you can do on yours. … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD, a 24 hour test drive

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Gerard

About a week ago, Ars Technica wrote a 2 page review of PC-BSD. PC-BSD is not a Linux distribution, but rather it could be considered among the first major FreeBSD-based distributions to live outside of the official FreeBSD. Like most … Continue reading →

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pfSense 1.2 status update

Posted on June 25, 2007 by Gerard

I’ve been going through all the open bug tickets cleaning up things that have been fixed and reviewing everything else to help Scott and the other developers fix the remaining issues. We’re down to about a half dozen known issues … Continue reading →

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pfSense versus m0n0wall

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Gerard

A very short comparison Compared to m0n0wall, it (i.e. pfSense) has many many more features. That proves problematic for very basic systems, like the soekris net4501 which only has 64mb of ram. m0n0wall runs great on that platform, but pfsense … Continue reading →

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A look at the FreeNAS server

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Gerard

Gary Sims, a freelance Linux consultant and writer who has a degree in Business Information Systems has published a review of FreeNAS on Linux.com. FreeNAS, an open source NAS server, can convert a PC into a network-attached storage server. The … Continue reading →

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