Author Archives: Paul

Qt 4.8.1 and KDE SC 4.8.3 in ports

The long awaited KDE SC 4.8.3 was just committed to ports, along with Qt 4.8.1, Phonon 4.6.0, PyQt 4.9.1, and many more updates you shouldn’t care about. What you should be aware of is that KDE-Pim was finally updated and … Continue reading

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PC-BSD 9-STABLE-20120505 Snapshot Available for Testing

Kris has announced the availability of the next testing snapshot. If you are using Intel video or would like to upgrade from a previous snapshot, read the Errata section below. The next snapshot in the PC-BSD 9-STABLE branch has just … Continue reading

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FreeNAS 8.0.4-RELEASE-p2 Vulnerability Update

The FreeNAS full release notes for 8.0.4-RELEASE-p2: Changes since 8.0.4-RELEASE-p1: Bugfixes OS/Third party Samba has been upgraded to 3.6.5 to address CVE-2012-2011 which is a critical vulnerability. All FreeNAS users who are using CIFS are urged to upgrade. All installation … Continue reading

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Protect Your BSD – BSD Magazine (May 2012)

April’s issue of the BSD Magazine is now available: BSD Security – Protect Your BSD (free PDF download). Covering the following topics: – A Fresh Look at the Warden for PC-BSD 9.1 – Intro to DTrace – A Web Application … Continue reading

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FreeBSD 8.3-RC1 Available

Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 8.3, the project’s legacy stable branch: “The first release candidate build of the 8.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, … Continue reading

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PC-BSD 9.0 Review

If you’d like to use FreeBSD as a desktop system, you’ll have to invest a lot of time in setting up the operating system and installing all the right packages. Obviously, this is a serious barrier for a lot of … Continue reading

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FreeNAS 8.0.4-BETA1 Release

Some brief highlights from the Release Notes: The image size increased in 8.0.1-BETA3. The new size requires a 2 GB storage device. The GUI upgrade can be used to upgrade a system from BETA3, BETA4, or RC1 but upgrades from … Continue reading

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SSH Mastery: An Addition to Any Unix User’s Bookshelf

The first paragraph of this book’s afterword reads: “You now know more about SSH, OpenSSH and Putty than the vast majority of IT professionals! Congratulations”. That claim will be true for any reader of SSH Mastery who has read the … Continue reading

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