Archive for the 'FreeBSD' Category

FreeBSD - A better chioce for the Open Desktop?

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Gerard
on August 29, 2008
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Thoughts about FreeBSD

Since Linsux.org is now a *BSD supporter, it only makes sense that we’d write a few Pro-BSD articles, right? Good.

Today, we’re going to talk about why FreeBSD is a better choice for the “Open Desktop”.

Linux is the current leading Open Source Operating System (LOL?). But, then again, Linux isn’t really an Operating System. Yeah, yeah; we’ve all heard that before. But, what should it be called then, you might ask. Well, the most common answer is “Linux is a kernel, which is then packaged into a something called a distribution with other software, thus making it an Operating System”. Those are the really nice terms, though, I would describe it like the following “Linux is a cluster **** of a kernel packaged into about 10 billion different distributions that are almost identical, yet cannot agree on a decent set of standards, so every software and hardware company cringes at the thought of having to support a super-dooper cluster **** like that is Linux.”

FreeBSD, on the other hand is a complete Operating System, with standards, a well organized development team, and all that jazz nobody gives a **** about.

Here’s a few basic comparisons: etc

  • Licenses
  • Main Development Team
  • Documentation
  • Advantages for the Power Users

There’s some strong language in this post (hence the **** above). A new version is in the make.

Thanks Justin for submitting this.

FreeBSD Clusters (video)

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Gerard
on August 29, 2008
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Matt Olander and Brooks Davis, two well known FreeBSD advocates, on FreeBSD clusters. This video was taken a few years back, but it’s still relevant explaining how cluster computing works on FreeBSD.


BSD and Linux are vastly superior to Windows

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Gerard
on August 29, 2008
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Linux and BSD are vastly superior to Windows in every way. Don’t believe me? Read on, my friend. Read on and realize the folly of your MS ways.

The top ten list:

#10 - Total cost of ownership ranges very low to nothing for Linux.
#9 - Linux and BSD distributions give you more complete, usable operating environments out of the box.
#8 - Viruses and Spyware are basically nonexistant for Linux and BSD.
#7 - Linux and BSD systems are more stable than Windows.
#6 - Linux and BSD supports more hardware out-of-the-box.
#5 - It’s easy and fun to develop high-quality software for Linux and BSD.
#4 - Linux and BSD distributions are more configurable and modular.
#3 - Linux and BSD perform better on any given platform.
#2 - Linux and BSD don’t limit your platform choices.
#1 - Linux and BSD give you complete freedom to do what you want with your system.

Read the whole post for the reasoning behind these statements

BSD Administrators and Jobs

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Gerard
on August 29, 2008
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Dru Lavigne posted an interesting post about oDesk, a company that provides a platform for business and qualified technology contractors to connect.

oDesk is a global staffing marketplace enabling businesses to Hire, Manage, and Pay remote contractors as if they were in the local office. Our proprietary tools and guaranteed payment policies enable a secure and trusted marketplace for both buyers and providers. We’ve mined through mountains of data about BSD (including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD) jobs, providers, certifications tests and more in order to bring you this single resource page containing statistics, information, maps, resources, links, and rankings. All information about programming and development work is based on the oDesk network that has providers from United States, Russia, India, Ukraine, China, and 100 other countries.

FreeBSD jobs trend page

Add a second hard drive to FreeBSD (howto)

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Gerard
on August 27, 2008
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There are two ways to install a new hard disk under FreeBSD system. You can use all command line utilities such as fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs to create partitions, label and format it. This method requires complete understanding of BSD partitions and other stuff.

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Linsux.org endorses FreeBSD

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Gerard
on August 26, 2008
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Linsux.org, the premiere Linux Hating site, is now officially endorsing FreeBSD. Reason:

the mild mannered community, development practices, truly open licence and quality make FreeBSD an obvious choice for the Web Server and Computer Enthusiast

The website is now moving to a FreeBSD server

Changes in FreeBSD 7.0 (tip)

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Gerard
on August 22, 2008
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Do you know what and how much has changed in FreeBSD 7.0? If you check the FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Release Notes you can see all the changes, additions and updates all on one page.

Tentative milestone dates for FreeBSD 7.1 and 6.4

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Gerard
on August 22, 2008
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The FreeBSD Project is about to start the release cycle for FreeBSD-7.1 and FreeBSD-6.4. The proposed schedule for the “major events” of the cycle is:

  • Freeze August 29
  • BETA September 1
  • Branch September 6
  • 6.4-RC1 September 8
  • 7.1-RC1 September 15
  • 6.4-RC2 September 22
  • 7.1-RC2 September 29
  • 6.4-REL October 6
  • 7.1-REL October 13

Check out the FreeBSD Calendar for other events.

Thanks to Gonzalo Nemmi for submitting this.

Setting up Squid on FreeBSD (howto)

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Gerard
on August 22, 2008
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Squid is a caching proxy and conserving badwidth application for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. With Squid, you can reduce the network/internet traffic by 30% or more from normal usage (without squid) and enhance respone time.

Step-by-step instructions on how to install Squid on FreeBSD can be found here.

FreeBSD flash player

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Gerard
on August 22, 2008
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According to Alex Bustin, an engineer of Flash development at Sony, there’s a 32-bit Flash player for FreeBSD.

I know that iXsystems, the corporate sponsor behind the PC-BSD project, is talking to/collaborating with Adobe on a FreeBSD version of Flash, but it would be great if this report is true. That would be at least be one less barrier for the adoption of FreeBSD as desktop operating system (including PC-BSD and DesktopBSD) ;-)