The presentations from the recent MeetBSD 2010 (Cracow, Poland) conference are now available on the BSD Conferences Youtube Chanel. The following videos are all in HD quality and most are in English, though a few are in Polish. Dru Lavigne – Update on BSD Certification Hans Peter Selasky – The new USB stack in FreeBSD Jakub Klama – [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 4, 2010
This presentation was done by Kris Moore, founder of the PC-BSD Project at AsiaBSDCon 2010. Abstract: The sysinstall tool has been the default system installer for FreeBSD for more than a decade now. While is it has proven itself to be reliable and resilient over the years, it doesn’t support many of the new features that [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 12, 2010
FreeBSD developer Luigi Rizzo from the University of Pisa gave a talk at Google last week about some of his work on link emulation and packet scheduling (via) Here’s the video of the presentation: New Developments in Link Emulation and Packet Scheduling in FreeBSD, Linux and Windows
Continue reading...Monday, March 29, 2010
Some AsiaBSDCon 2010 videos are available on ustream.com Hardware Performance Monitoring Counters on non-X86 Architectures (George V.Nevile-Neil) BSD in the routing industry (Massimiliano Stucchi) Keynote: Cosing the DNS Security Loopwith DNSSEC (Peter Losher) Epitome2 dedup for the masses Wireless Mesh Networks under FreeBSD (Rui Paulo) and Porting HPC tools to FreeBSD (Brooks Davis) Quiet Computing with BSD (Constantine A. Murenin) What’s wrong [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 16, 2009
The presentation at AsiaBSDCon 2009 is focused on explaining theoretical approaches and pratical aspect of the locking support in the FreeBSD kernel. The locking KPI as well as underlying mechanisms and interactions with the scheduler will be analized and discussed deeply. Typical locking strategies and some edge cases will also be shown along with a [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 16, 2009
At The Aerospace Corporation, we run a large FreeBSD based computing cluster to support engineering applications. These applications come in all shapes, sizes, and qualities of implementation. To support them and our diverse userbase we have been searching for ways to isolate jobs from one another in ways that are more effective than Unix time [...]
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In this paper we describe usage of FreeBSD operating system for IPv6 Multicast routing platform in SOI-Asia Project. SOI-Asia project is platform to deliver realtime lecture via UniDirectional Link of satellite to several countries in Asia. Because of limited bandwidth in satellite, we use IPv6 multicast to deliver material of lecture and realtime video and [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 16, 2009
FreeBSD has a reputation for its rock-solid reliability, and top-notch performance in the server world, but is noticeably absent when it comes to the vast market of desktop computing. Why is this? FreeBSD offers many, if not almost all of the same open-source packages and software that can be found in the more popular Linux desktop [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 6, 2009
ZFS is a relatively new and exciting file storage system developed by Sun. The features of ZFS include support for high storage capacities, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, RAID-Z and native NFSv4 ACLs. – Wikipedia This page has some specific FreeBSD info relating [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 6, 2009
These are some recent links with regards FreeBSD security: 1. Using DenyHosts to help thwart SSH attacks on FreeBSD DenyHosts is a script intended to be run by UNIX-like system administrators to help thwart SSH server attacks (also known as dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks). % su # cd /usr/ports/security/denyhosts # make install clean # echo ‘denyhosts_enable=”YES”‘ >> /etc/rc.conf # [...]
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