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.

FreeNAS 8 – Audio interview and Magazine Article

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Gerard

There’s an audio interview (bsdtalk 206- FreeNAS 8 with Josh Paetzel) on BSD Talk with Josh Paetzel, IT Director at iXsystems. Will Backman and Josh discuss FreeNAS 8 in a 17 minute interview. (MP3 | OGG) The June 2011 issue of BSD Magazine … Continue reading →

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Google discontinues BSD Search (google.com/bsd)

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Gerard

Long before even Google Image Search, Google News or Blog Search existed, there was the handy Google BSD Search @ www.google.com/bsd Today Google announced it is discontinuing some specialised search services: We are no longer offering specialized search services at google.com/linux, … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS 8: interview and review

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Gerard

Techworld Australia caught up with Josh Paetzel, director of IT at iXsystems and project manager for FreeNAS 8, to talk about the current state of the OS, what lies ahead for it, and the relationship to FreeNAS 0.7. Check out … Continue reading →

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Miscelaneous news updates (arab-bsd, pf, cyphertite, PC-BSD)

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Gerard

Below a number of links to interesting FreeBSD (related) projects and resources. ArabBSD ArabBSD is a new FreeBSD related project, working to create an Arabian FreeBSD operating system: ArabBSD is a project which aims to provide infrastructure for the most … Continue reading →

Posted in (Free)BSD links wrap-up, iXsystems, PC-BSD, UNIX | 3 Comments

NanoBSD and ALIX (BSD Magazine 2011-06)

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Gerard

A new month, a new BSD Magazine issue. The latest issue is titled NanoBSD and ALIX (pdf). From the table of contents: Introduction to OpenSSL: Command-line Tool The article describes the command-line utility of openssl. It is a tool that … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD VPS Hosting with RootBSD – Exclusive Offer

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Gerard

If you are looking for an affordable and robust virtual server solution you can’t go wrong with RootBSD. RootBSD offers virtual private servers based on one of the most solid systems available. VPS hosting is an interesting option to those … Continue reading →

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Simple description of popular open source licences

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Gerard

Paul Bagwell has a simple but very clear graph on his site showing the main differences between the most popular open source licences. I don’t think it can’t be done any simpler. Thanks, Paul.

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pfSense FAQs

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Gerard

pfSense is an open source distribution of FreeBSD-based firewall which provides a platform for flexible and powerful routing and firewalling. The versatility of pfSense presents us with a wide array of configuration options. Matt Williamson takes a look at some … Continue reading →

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