Category Archives: FreeBSD based systems

1.3TB FreeNAS box built & corked

Posted on August 6, 2007 by Gerard

I built a 1.3TB freeNAS box a while back. I used 4 x 250GB drives in one array, and 3 x 120GB drives in the 2nd array, with an old 80GB for the freeNAS OS. The case and IDE controller … Continue reading →

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M0n0wall 1.3 BETA3 released

Posted on August 6, 2007 by Gerard

The third beta release of m0n0wall 1.3, a FreeBSD-based firewall, is now available for download. From the changelog: added voucher support to captive portal (mwiget); wireless LAN improvements; allow dashes in alias names; added hidden option to disable auto-generation of … Continue reading →

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Internet access & time slots (pre)defined with pfSense

Posted on August 3, 2007 by Gerard

Have you ever wasted too much time online? Right, so posting this on my blog imparts some selection bias to the answers to that question. But have you really wasted time to the point of not getting work done, or … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS week; 6 FreeNAS Tutorials

Posted on July 31, 2007 by Gerard

Back in 2006 Daily Cup of Tech had a FreeNAS week. If you’re not altogether comfortable getting FreeNAS up and running, why not have a look at FreeNAS Week series of howtos? Have you seen the “FreeNAS, how it works” … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS: Review and Suggestions for Educational Use

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Gerard

FreeNAS is an open source operating system exclusively built to serve the purposes of implementing a small Network Attached Storage (NAS for short) device. NAS devices allow for centralization of data, data backup, and collaboration. The beautiful part, besides it’s … Continue reading →

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FreeSBIE wiki

Posted on July 28, 2007 by Gerard

The FreeSBIE Team has started a the FreeSBIE wiki which aims to be an open platform mainly used for the documentation and FAQs for the FreeSBIE project.

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DesktopBSD 1.6-RC3 Released

Posted on July 25, 2007 by Gerard

DesktopBSD 1.6 RC 3 is now available for download from our mirrors or via BitTorrent. This release candidate is considered a large step towards a final release 1.6 with major changes such as: X.Org release 7.2, improving support for modern … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD 1.4 BETA Released

Posted on July 21, 2007 by Gerard

After months of hard work, the PC-BSD team is pleased to make available he 1.4 BETA release. This version includes many exciting new features and software, such as: 3D desktop support via Beryl Adobe Flash (Youtube & Google Video) Many … Continue reading →

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