Author Archives: Gerard

There’s been an active discustion on the FreeBSD Xen mailinglist about finishing the Xen port. Xen is a virtual machine monitor for IA-32 (x86, x86-64), IA-64 and PowerPC 970 architectures. It allows several guest operating systems to be executed on … Continue reading →

Often, after a fresh new installation of FreeBSD, we have a set of programs we want to install. The conventional method would be installing it one by one in /usr/ports. Today, we will use meta ports to install the set … Continue reading →

twIP (pronounced “twip” and short for tweet IP) runs as a process under a *nix-like system, but could also be run on a standalone (OS-less) device, as long as there is a device driver for some networking hardware. The underlying … Continue reading →

Ivan Voras has an interesting post explaining UFS file system space allocation: Users coming from other systems don’t usually know it (and probably don’t care, in today’s environment of multi-TB drives), but UFS has a rather interesting approach to space … Continue reading →

Ben Laurie has started porting Chromium (the open source project behind the Google Chrome browser) to FreeBSD. In my copious spare time, I’ve started work on a FreeBSD port of Chromium. So far it doesn’t even build, but I’ve identified … Continue reading →

KDE 4.3.1 is a bugfix, translation and maintenance update. KDE users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. Release notes can be found on the KDE 4.3.1 announcement page. Installing and upgrading instructions can be found here.

netboot.me is a service that allows you to boot nearly any operating system or utility on any computer with a wired internet connection – without having to know ahead of time what you’ll want to boot. Once you can netboot.me, … Continue reading →