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.

Configure advanced features with pfSense 2.0 (Packt Pub’s new book)

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Gerard

Packt Publishing, the publishers of Learning FreeNAS, are now in the process of publishing pfSense 2 Cookbook. This book helps users discover the power of pfSense‘s core functionality. It is written by Matt Williamson and is filled with examples of interfaces, … Continue reading →

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Released: Portable C Compiler (pcc 1.0)

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Gerard

Thanks to funding by BSD Fund,  Anders Magnusson has released the first stable release of PCC 1.0.0 (Portable C Compiler) for i386 adn amd64. PCC was developed in order to create an alternative C compiler to GCC, but licensed under BSD. … Continue reading →

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BSD Magazine 2011-04: FreeBSD: portability with VMware

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Gerard

A new issue of the free BSD Magazine is available: FreeBSD: Portability with VMware (pdf) From the table of contents Interview with Dru Lavigne Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over … Continue reading →

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Available: FreeNAS 8.0-RC4

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Gerard

iXsystems has announced the availability of FreeNAS 8.0-RC4. Barring major bugs this is likely the last release candidate before 8.0-RELEASE. Beside mostly bug fixes there is one last bit of new functionality, which is GUI replacement of drives in volumes, and a … Continue reading →

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Upcoming FreeBSD Events: BSDCan, GSoC 2011

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Gerard

As most of you will be aware, BSDCan is one of the major annual BSD conferences, and Google sponsors development of the 5 big BSD’s each year in the Summer of Code. More info with regards to these events below. … Continue reading →

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Finds of the day: Daemon oggcast and howtobsd.com

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Gerard

Whilst serving and checking out a few links today, I came across the following sites that you may be interested in too: I Daemon & Penguin oggcast. The latest podcast is about GhostBSD 2.0 which was released last week (Released: GhostBSD … Continue reading →

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Available: m0n0wall 1.33

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Gerard

After eleven months of development, version 1.33 of the FreeBSD-based m0n0wall embedded firewall distribution has been released. Manuel Kasper mentions that m0n0wall 1.33 includes several improvements over previous versions and will probably be the last version based on FreeBSD 6.4. Some of the … Continue reading →

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Released: GhostBSD 2.0

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Gerard

Last week GhostBSD 2.0 was released GhostBSD is a free operating system based on FreeBSD that can either be installed or run as Live-CD. Its default graphical environment is GNOME and GhostBSD 2.0 is based on FreeBSD 8.2. The installer … Continue reading →

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