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FreeBSD Installer and FreeBSD Version polls (results)
Many thanks to everybody who recently took a minute voting in the “FreeBSD Installer preference” poll and the “FreeBSD version usage” poll. Below the numbers, percentages and the charts. 1. What kind of FreeBSD Installer do you like? 2. What version of … Continue reading
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FreeNAS 8.0 Released
iXsystems has announced the availability of FreeNAS 8-RELEASE. Along with the new .0 release, the FreeNAS website received a make-over. Some of FreeNAS 8′s main features are: 1. FreeNAS 8.0-RELEASE supports NFS, CIFS, AFP, FTP and TFTP as filesharing mechanisms. It … Continue reading
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(Free)BSD quick news ‘n links (week 17)
Below some links to some FreeBSD resourses that you guys may be interested in, and other BSD related items I’ve come across. FreeBSD Chromium 10, Google’s blazingly fast internet browser, is now available in the FreeBSD Ports directory (www/chromium). New FreeBSD Installer test … Continue reading
Submit your real world pf.conf
As some of you may know, fwbuilder.org is a cross-platform, graphical firewall management utility that supports iptables, ASA, PIX, FWSM, Cisco router access lists, pf, ipfw, ipfilter, and HP ProCurve ACL firewalls. Vadim Kurland and Mike Horn, the lead fwbuilder developers, … Continue reading
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Google SoC 2011 FreeBSD Accepted Projects
Google has announced today that the following FreeBSD related projects have been accepted for the annual Google Summer of Code (2011). With 17 approved projects, FreeBSD is one of the Top 10 supported projects. Path-based file system MAC policy (Alan … Continue reading
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FreeBSD Security Advisory (mountd)
The FreeBSD Security Team has identified a security bug in mountd. I. Background The mountd(8) daemon services NFS mount requests from other client machines. When mountd is started, it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel using the … Continue reading
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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Jan – Mar 2011)
FreeBSD’s quarterly status report for 2011 Q1 is now available. This report covers FreeBSD related projects between January and April 2011. During this quarter, developers focused on releasing FreeBSD 7.4 and 8.2, which were released in February 2011. Currently, the … Continue reading
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iXsystems’ recent contributions to FreeBSD and FreeNAS
iXsystems has been working hard recently to make the FreeBSD and FreeNAS operating systems even better storage solutions. Some of their recent announcements: I New GEOM-based FreeBSD RAID Driver “Recently iX completed work on graid, a revised software-assisted RAID driver for … Continue reading
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