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.

Could Oracle embrace BSD?

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Gerard

Mikel King thinks Oracle should embrace BSD: … However, Sun has utterly failed in that respect garnering little support in the general Open Source community. The would have fared better served retooling Solaris into a commercial entity based on one … Continue reading →

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BSD Professional Job Task Analysis Survey

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Gerard

The BSD Certification group has posted a survey that is meant to help determine the tasks that should be a part of the BSD Professional Certification Exam (BSDP). The BSD Professional Certification Exam is a more in-depth exam than our … Continue reading →

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Debian pushes development of kFreeBSD port

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Gerard

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has been around for a while, but now it will be an official part of the distro, combining the strength FreeBSD kernel with the GNU C library and userland utilities. The Debian Project has announced that it sees … Continue reading →

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Wowza Media Server FreeBSD port

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Gerard

Dru mentiones thatWowza Media Server Pro, a commercial streaming server, was ported to FreeBSD. One may think that this is just another ported software to the already huge collection of FreeBSD’s ports. But this is something more, as FreeBSD has … Continue reading →

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Kernel level cryptographic filesystem (GSoC)

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Gerard

Gleb Kurtsou has been working this summer working on FreeBSD kernel level cryptographic filesystem pefs as part of the Google Summer of Code. He thinks the project is now mature enough for public review and comments. I’m using it to … Continue reading →

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Using mySQL and PostgreSQL on FreeBSD 8.0

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Gerard

Is it worth upgrading to 8.0 to run mySQL or PostgreSQL databases? Graphs say more than 1000 words …what causes this massive speedup? FreeBSD 8 have superpages support turned on by default, and there was some hacking on the ULE schedulet … Continue reading →

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Released: PBI Builder 2.4

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Gerard

A small update to the PBI Builder software, version 2.4, has been released. This version adds a few new variables to the module creation process, which allows developers to pick “target” ports they wish to have autopopulated and added to … Continue reading →

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Released: m0n0wall 1.236

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Gerard

M0nowall version 1.236 was released last week in order to address a security issue in the ISC DHCP client. If you don’t use the DHCP client on WAN or if you trust the DHCP server(s), there’s no need to upgrade. 1.236 … Continue reading →

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