Archive for the 'FreeBSD' Category

FreeBSD 6.4-RC1 available

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on October 13, 2008
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 6.4, the project’s production legacy branch

As the next step in the release of FreeBSD 6.4, the FreeBSD 6.4-RC1 builds are now available for testing. This is the first of an expected two release candidates. We encourage you to test out the release candidates, reporting any problems by submitting PRs or via email to the freebsd-stable list. If you would like to do a source-based update to 6.4-RC1 from an already installed machine you can update your tree to RELENG_6_4 using normal cvsup/csup methods. Note that as a somewhat inconvenient side-effect of the primary FreeBSD source repository now being in SVN the creation of the RELENG_6_4 branch in the CVS repository wound up checking in a ‘new’ version of every file, in some cases only changing the FBSDID

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/045869.html

Setting up a LAMP Server on FreeBSD

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on October 8, 2008
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There are already many useful guides around showing how to set up and tune a FAMP server. Unlike some this guide gives also a bit more background details and explanation.

Setting up a LAMP server is a common task for systems administrators, and FreeBSD is one of the most reliable and stable operating systems available. You can swap out the L in LAMP with F for FreeBSD to build a fast and reliable Web server.

In this article I assume FreeBSD is already installed. If not, make sure you download the latest stable production version of FreeBSD and run the installer. I recommend choosing the MINIMUM option at the installer screen to quickly install only the most basic and necessary things.

Continued on cbhacker.com

Benchmarking Wine 1.1.2 on FreeBSD 7.0

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on October 8, 2008
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I installed some benchmarks into Wine 1.1.2 on FreeBSD and gave them another run today to see what gains I would see over the last benchmarks that I ran. The last time the benchmarks were run on FreeBSD 7.0 Beta 2 and Nvidia driver Version: 100.14.19 that was edited so it would install and run on FreeBSD 7 bets 2.

Continued on Wine-Reviews.net

Apple Time Machine + FreeBSD in 14 steps

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on October 8, 2008
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Here’s a quick howto on how to setup Time Machine on Mac OS X so that it backups to a networked machine running FreeBSD.

FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-08:10.nd6)

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on October 3, 2008
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Topic: IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol routing vulnerability

Category: core
Module: sys_netinet6
Announced: 2008-10-01
Credits: David Miles
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2008-10-01 00:32:59 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.1-PRERELEASE)
2008-10-01 00:32:59 UTC (RELENG_7_0, 7.0-RELEASE-p5)
2008-10-01 00:32:59 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.4-PRERELEASE)
2008-10-01 00:32:59 UTC (RELENG_6_3, 6.3-RELEASE-p5)
CVE Name: CVE-2008-2476

More information and a solution to fix this vulnerability, check to to the FreeBSD-SA-08:10.nd6.asc page

Win4BSD now free for non-commercial use

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Gerard
on October 2, 2008
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Virtual Bridges is has announced that Win4BSD for Desktops will be offered at no charge for non-commercial use.

Win4BSD is a PC emulator that runs Windows as a guest at nearly native speed under FreeBSD/PC-BSD. It is based on QEMU. However, Win4BSD offers many advantages, including improved speed, ease of use, more seamless integration with the host OS, and “grabless” mouse transition between the host and Windows
guest.

Win4BSD.com, where the Win4BSD package can be downloaded, will become a portal for FreeBSD and PC-BSD information.

Win4BSD was built by Virtual Bridges to detirmine the level of acceptance by the FreeBSD and PC-BSD community for high-grade commercial software. After two years, we have concluded desktop BSD-oriented applications are best accepted by the non-commercial community when offered at no charge and made freely available.

Source: Virtual Bridges Blog

Make Home, End and Delete keys work on FreeBSD

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Gerard
on October 1, 2008
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This tutorial will explain you how you can enable Home, End and Delete keys in ssh terminal of FreeBSD.

The default environment for FreeBSD is CSH. You will need to open .cshrc file located in your home directory.

FreeBSD news in French

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Gerard
on September 26, 2008
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Rodrigo, a long time French FreeBSD enthusiastic contacted me to say he’s started a FreeBSD News website for French readers.

If anybody else wants to use my theme and CSS, please feel free to contact me. In the BSD world it’s all about sharing ;-)

http://www.freebsdfr.net/

7 Reasons why BSD is better than Linux

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Gerard
on September 23, 2008
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Matt Hartley, who is using Linux full time himself gives 7 reasons why BSD operating systems are preferred over Linux (but he also admits that BSD has its shortcomings):

  1. BSD is dead simple
  2. Create your own OS
  3. Speed
  4. Stability
  5. Software packaging
  6. Security
  7. Suitability for intellectual property (IP)
Follow this link for the full reasoning.

And a related sort of article I thought I’d link to:

Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project

This document makes a case for using a BSD style license for software and data; specifically it recommends using a BSD style license in place of the GPL. It can also be read as a BSD versus GPL Open Source License introduction and summary.

Please don’t start a flame war on BSD and GPL; I know all the pros and cons; I’m only providing links to articles, so if you don’t agree with the views held, please leave comments on the website I’ve linked to

Setting up MLDonkey on FreeBSD (howto)

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Gerard
on September 23, 2008
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Linux/BSD: sharing experiences is a blog with useful howtos for FreeBSD and Linux. The latest howto is on setting up MLDonkey on an old, headless, PC.

MLDonkey is an open source, free software multi-network peer-to-peer application. Currently the following protocols are supported: eDonkey, Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Fasttrack, FileTP and Kademlia.

I wanted to put my 266 Mhz Celeron to good use so I’ve decided to install MLDonkey without X11 support leaving only the core with both telnet and web interfaces.

Bellow are the steps need to install MLDonkey on FreeBSD 7.0:

Thanks for letting me know about this post, Ricardo!