Category Archives: OpenBSD

FreeBSD news and links round-up – week 44

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Gerard

Welcome to the weekly (Free)BSD news round-up (week 44) where we have a mix of news snippets, links, howto’s and software/package updates for you all. These tid-bits are all very interesting and news worthy, yet too small to package as individual … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD SMP scalable PF coming to FreeBSD HEAD

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Gerard

Gleb Smirnoff writes on the FreeBSD PF Mailing List about a some improvements he has made to make Packet Filter (PF) SMP-scalable and faster: “As you already may now, last half a year I’ve been working on making pf SMP-scalable and faster … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Paul

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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(Free)BSD quick news ‘n links (week 17)

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Gerard

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 →

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FreeBSD quick news: Amazon EC2, OpenBSD and FBI

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Gerard

Some exciting and eyebrow raising news items: FreeBSD on Amazon EC2 FreeBSD developer Colin Percival announced on his blog that FreeBSD 9-CURRENT now runs on Amazon EC2: One of my largest complaints about Amazon EC2 ever since it launched has … Continue reading →

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Of EoL, GSoC, paid development and why I love UNIX

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Gerard

FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Since FreeBSD 6.4 is the last remaining … Continue reading →

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Linux vs BSD with a little focus on OpenBSD

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Gerard

Juraj Sipos, the founder of MaheshaBSD, has published an article listing the difference between Linux and BSD: “This article is not about the history of Unix; however, Unix is such a complex issue that it deserves few words in this … Continue reading →

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(Free)BSD quick news and links

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Gerard

FreeBSD Returning committer: Niels Heinen (ports) (07/03/2010) New committer: Neel Natu (src) (03/03/2010) PC-BSD 1. Quick Poll – which pages would you like to see  printed from Dru’s latest book in the upcoming BSD Magazine issue? 2. How does PC-BSD 8.0 … Continue reading →

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