Category Archives: FreeBSD based systems

Gentoo FreeBSD

Most of you will have read, or maybe even used, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, which is an operating system consisting of FreeBSD kernel with a GNU userland, but there’s also Gentoo FreeBSD. So what is Gentoo FreeBSD? According to the Gentoo FreeBSD … Continue reading

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Traffic Shaping with pfSense and HFSC (video)

This screencast demonstrates the use of a pfSense device for traffic shaping on a typical home network, with the goals of minimizing latency and maximizing throughput. In particular, we use a three-tier queue configuration where a parent speedboost queue on … Continue reading

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New PC-BSD development snapshot – 2012/06/22

Yet it seems there is no official announcment for this snapshot, but you can find on PC-BSD mirrors page a new release ! It’s the release of the 2012-06-22, there is no changelog/readme so I can’t tell what’s new exactly … Continue reading

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FreeNAS presentation at BayLisa 2012

iXsystems team members presented short talks at BayLISA meetup at LinkedIn. Joseph Atkinson started off with a breakdown of FreeNAS and its future plugins features.

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MaheshaBSD Server Edition – document sharing server

Juraj from the MaheshaBSD Project has announced the MaheshaBSD Server Edition. The objective of MaheshaBSD Server is to provide users and small businesses/institutions a way to operate the simplest and least demanding FTP/WWW server for the purpose of sharing documents (information). MaheshaBSD Server can … Continue reading

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Miscelaneous FreeBSD news updates (KDE, PC-BSD, Raspberry Pi, FBSD Foundation, OSI)

Below some miscelaneous links to FreeBSD related news and updates: KDE/FreeBSD Bulletin with recent FreeBSD KDE ports related updates. PC-BSD 20120605 Snapshot now available for testing. There’s also a BSD Talk interview (BSDTalk 2016) with Kris Moore, founder of the … Continue reading

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iXsystems renews collaboration agreement with Fusion-io

iXsystems’ TrueNAS Unified Storage Appliances will continue to leverage Fusion ioMemory technology for powerful, high-performance storage solutions. From the press release: iXsystems Renews Collaboration Agreement with Fusion-io

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PC-BSD 9-STABLE snapshot available for testing (20120524)

Kris Moore has announced the availability of the next PC-BSD testing snapshot: PC-BSD 9-STABLE-20120524. This snapshot is available for both the i386and amd64 architectures. Some changes since the previous snapshot: Based on FreeBSD 9-STABLE from 05-20-2012. Add support to Warden for using ZFS snapshots on jails. … Continue reading

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