NomadBSD 1.3.1 is now available!
NomadBSD 1.3.1 has recently been made available. NomadBSD is a lightweight and portable FreeBSD distribution, designed to run on live on a USB flash drive, allowing you to plug, test, and play on different hardware. They have also started a forum as of yesterday,...
FreeBSD Journal January/February 2020
The January and February 2020 edition of the FreeBSD Journal features articles about FreeBSD/RISC-V, Jail vnet, Network Research and Standardization, Trenton Schulz interview, a letter from the Foundation, new faces in FreeBSD, Foundation report, and events calendar....
GhostBSD 20.02 is now available
Eric Turgeon, main developer of GhostBSD, has announced version 20.02 of the FreeBSD based operating system. Notable changes are ZFS partition into the custom partition editor installer, allowing you to install alongside with Windows, Linux, or macOS. Other changes...
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[How-To] Install Go Language on FreeBSD 12 by OSRadar
In this tutorial, user angeloma of OSRadar shows us how to install the Go Language on your FreeBSD operating system. Go is an open-source programming language with creating efficient and easily distributable applications in mind. It has similarities to C, and has a...
BSD Now Episode 342: Layout the DVA
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss coreboot and tianocore OpenBSD Full Disk encryption, FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life, ZFS DVA layout, OpenBSD and Go, Active Directory updates in TrueNAS and FreeNAS, FreeBSD root account full name,...
pot container framework for FreeBSD and potMachine local development environment
Here is a local development environment for which you can test local pots on your Linux or MacOS, with a FreeBSD jail. Pot, developed by pizzamig, is a container framework that is based on FreeBSD jails, allowing you to run containers inside FreeBSD. More info on that...
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[How-To] Install X-Cart 5 on FreeBSD 12 by Vultr
This tutorial from Vultr will show you how to install X-Cart on your FreeBSD operating system X-Cart is an open-source eCommerce platform allowing your server to handle large product catalogues. This guide will also walk you through configuring PHP, MariaDB, and Nginx...
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[How-To] set up vsftpd on FreeBSD 12 by OSRadar
User angeloma of OSRadar is back again with another tutorial, this time showing us how to set up vsftpd on your FreeBSD operating system. vsftpd is an open source, lightweight and secure FTP server for UNIX-like systems. See the link below for the full set of...
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[How-To] Install SQLite on FreeBSD 12?
User angeloma of OSRadar shows us how to get SQLite set up on your FreeBSD operating system. SQLite is an open source C-language library and SQL database engine. It is known to be lightweight and very reliable. The guide will walk you through setting it up through...
BSD Now Episode 341: U-NAS-ification
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss FreeBSD on Power, DragonFlyBSD 5.8, FreeNAS and TrueNAS Unification, Prometheus and Go vs OpenBSD, FreeBSD base removes gcc 4.2.1, and others. Hit play below to tune in:...
BSD Link Roundup 3.19
Here is a round up of various BSD related links since February. You will find information about ZFS, recent vulnerabilities, other BSDs, crossing paths with Linux, and various software you can use on your BSD system. Stay safe and happy BSDing. OpenZFS on Linux and...
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[How-To] Run Orchestrator on FreeBSD by Percona
User Ivan Groenwold shows us how to get Orchestrator set up on your FreeBSD operating system. Orchestrator is a replication topology manager for MySQL databases. To see the full set of instructions, head on over to the link below. In this post, I am going to show you...
BSD Now Episode 340: Check My Sums
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss ZFS filesystem checksumming, TMPFS throughput performance on DragonFlyBSD, ZFS pools reshaping, Pinebook-pro aarch 64 with Manjaro and PKGSRC, syslog-ng central log host on FreeBSD, and some...
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[How-To] Install NodeJS on FreeBSD 12 by OSRadar
User angeloma from OSRadar shows us how to install NodeJS on your FreeBSD operating system. NodeJS is a service that allows one to run Javascript on a server utilizing Google's V8 engine. Forms can be created utilizing NodeJS. To see the full tutorial, head on over to...
TechRadar Q&A with the FreeBSD Foundation
TechRadar Pro recently interviewed Deb Goodkin of the FreeBSD Foundation about the work they do to keep the FreeBSD project alive and well. You will find a snippet of the interview below, with a link to the full discussion about commercial businesses supporting...
BSD Now Episode 339: BSD Fundraising
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss FuryBSD, NetBSD 9.0, OpenBSD Foundation 2019 campaign, OmniOS retrospective, NFS fileservers based on ZFS, NetBSD's 2020 fundraising goal, OpenSSH 8.2, and some others. Click play below to tune...
FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying
iXsystems has announced that it will be unifying the FreeNAS and TrueNAS brand into one name, TrueNAS Open Storage. TrueNAS will now feature TrueNAS CORE representing the open-source and community edition (formerly FreeNAS) and TrueNAS Enterprise representing its...
FuryBSD reviewed by It’s FOSS and DistroWatch
It's FOSS reviews FuryBSD, a recent distribution of the FreeBSD open-source operating system. Developed by lead Joe Maloney, FuryBSD is designed to run on a live USB and allows you to easily install it if you want to use it on your system. The article discusses the...
FreeBSD Around the World, and Why You Should Get Involved!
Deb Goodkin of the FreeBSD Foundation has been a major advocate for FreeBSD. You can view some of her recent presentations about what's happening with FreeBSD around the globe, as well as awareness to the greater open-source community. Thank you for your contributions...
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[How-To] Deploy Kubernetes cluster on FreeBSD/bhyve by CBSD
The CBSD project shows us how to get a Kubernetes Cluster set up on a FreeBSD bhyve hypervisor. Kubernetes, originally designed by Google, is an open-source automated container-orchestration system to for application deployment, scaling, as well as management. They go...
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