I came across the BSD Tutorial channel on youtube that has some useful videos. They’re short and clear.

The following are related to managing and maintaining FreeBSD:

• FreeBSD – invite users to root – www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJrRhV5c2XY
• FreeBSD – reset root password - www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCviG6F_JbU
• FreeBSD 9 – phpmyadmin – www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4CydVbmQk
• FreeBSD 9 – MySQL – www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-w0g-rMlew
• FreeBSD 9 – Apache22 http-server – www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1c1wPnW3Xo
• FreeBSD – Network setup (ipv4) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzmXCrd1P5s
• FreeBSD – Hdd management Basic – www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQ7TJcvXd0
• FreeBSD 9.0 – Installation tutorial – www.youtube.com/watch?v=r74YTP7x-vU

The website related to this channel is http://bsdtutorial.org

pkgng v1.0 has been released and announced by Baptiste Daroussin.

pkg (pkgng) can be found in the ports tree under ‘/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg’ or if you are running HEAD it will be part of the base system.

Ivan Voras has shared his real life experience here.

We’re doing a Network Attached Storage (NAS) usage poll on the FreeBSD Central Google+ page.

If you want to take part, head over and let us know.

Tarsnap is an online service where you can securely backup your data. It is maintained by Colin Percifal, an ex FreeBSD Security Officer.

Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for BSD, Linux, OS X, Minix, Solaris, Cygwin, and probably many other UNIX-like operating systems. The Tarsnap client code provides a flexible and powerful command-line interface which can be used directly or via shell scripts.

Linux Journal has a 10 page article on Tarsnap in its latest issue.

Collin recently announced you can now pay by credit card for the Tarsnap service, in addition to Paypal.

Microsoft and collaborators today announced a beta release of drivers that enable the open source FreeBSD 8.2 server operating system to run in a virtual machine (VM) using Microsoft’s Hyper-V Server.

The beta, which isn’t intended for use in production environments, can be downloaded from the GitHub portal here. Installation instructions can be accessed on this page. The code was released under a FreeBSD license.

In the near future, GitHub will supply ISO images of FreeBSD that will include the new drivers. The collaboration, which involved Microsoft, Insight Global, Citrix and NetApp, was highlighted at the BSDCan 2012 event in May.

via redmondmag

Version 1.2 of RIAK, an open source clustered NoSQL database adds official support for FreeBSD and features new approaches to cluster management.

In version 1.2 of the highly scalable distributed database, developers can stage and review multiple cluster changes to see how they affect the system before committing them.

Continues: Riak clustered NoSQL database adds official FreeBSD support