Category Archives: BSD World

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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BSD Certification Study DVD and interview

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Gerard

The Winter/Spring 2012 Edition of the BSDA Study DVD is now available from the BSD Certification website, as announced here. The DVD contains: FreeBSD 8.2 and its ports collection NetBSD 5.1 and the latest version of pkgsrc OpenBSD 5.0 and … Continue reading →

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BSD Magazine – January 2012 issue is out

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Gerard

January’s issue of the BSD Magazine is now available: FreeBSD: Get Up-To-Date (free PDF download). You’ll find the following subjects: What’s New in FreeBSD 9.0 by Dru Lavigne Puppet on FreeBSD FreeBSD IPS With Snort Inline malloc(9): The Kernel’s General Purpose Memory … Continue reading →

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Rolling Your Own Kernel (BSD Magazine 2011-12)

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Gerard

December’s issue of the BSD Magazine is available: Rolling Your Own Kernel. Free Issue to Download! BSD 12/2011 Google Code-In and FreeBSD’s Participation Installing PC-BSD on a Mac Keeping Your Configuration Files Shiny as New Using sysmerge(8) Rolling Your Own FreeBSD … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Events (CE BSDday, EuroBSDCon, BSDday Arg)

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Gerard

These are some links to past and upcoming FreeBSD related events: Central European BSD day 2011 (Slovakia) Central Europen BSDDay 2011 is taking place in Bratislava, Slovakia, on 5 November. The purpose of this one-day event is to gather Central … Continue reading →

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The Inevitability of IPv6 (BSD Magazine 2011-10)

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Gerard

A new issue (October 2011) of the free BSD Magazine is now available: The Inevitability of IPv6 (pdf). From the table of contents: Configuring a FreeBSD Stealth Logging Server The collection of log files provides security administrators with the ability to have an audit trail … Continue reading →

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Protecting dynamic websites in FreeBSD (BSD Magazine 2011-09)

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Gerard

A new, free to download, issue of the BSD Magazine (September 201) is now available: Protecting dynamic websites in FreeBSD (pdf). From the table of contents: DNSSEC resolution and IPv6 Unbound on FreeBSD 8.2 Keeping up to date in PC-BSD 9 Using … Continue reading →

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Sharing info and news on Google Plus

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Gerard

I have started to share news and information on the Google+ social network. I find the Google+ interface nicer and easier to update and follow than Facebook’s and Twitter’s. And, the privacy settings are more transparant and better than Facebook’s. … Continue reading →

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