Project Trident 12-U6 is now available
The developers of Project Trident have made available version 12-U6. Project Trident is the graphical desktop version with TrueOS under the hood and Lumina Desktop Environment as the frontend. Notable changes are hundreds of new packages ranging from R-cran, anese,...
OPNsense 19.7.4 is now available
The developers of OPNsense have made available version 19.7.4. OPNsense is an open-source firewall which is forked from pfSense and m0n0wall. This new release features a fix for legacy remote logging, regenerate CA bundle, CARP maintenance mode bootup, daily refresh...
GhostBSD 19.09 is now available
The developers of GhostBSD have made available version 19.09. GhostBSD is an open-source operating system with TrueOS at its core, which is based on FreeBSD. Notable changes are TrueOS/FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE, OpenRC updated, TrueOS packages base now used, as well as bug...
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[How-To] FreeBSD Applying Security Updates Using pkg/freebsd-update
This step by step guide by user nixCraft will show you how to download and install security updates on your FreeBSD system. HE also shows you how to backup the local package database and see reports on vulnerable software packages. See the link below for the full set...
Revive an Old PC #4 – With FreeBSD 12
RoboNuggie brings back to life another old PC, this time with the FreeBSD operating system. He walks us through installing packages, running LibreOffice. GIMP, and old school open-source games. Check out the video below. This is not a review of FreeBSD, just a...
Conky, light-weight system monitor for X
The maintainer madpilot has updated the Conky port to the latest available version on FreeBSD. Conky allows you to customize an information box and display computer stats, email notifications, music players, and many other things. Check out the FreshPorts page below,...
BSD Now Episode 315: Recapping vBSDcon 2019
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss vBSDcon 2019, Unix at 50 years, a fan-less Tuxedo InfinityBook running OpenBSD, an hg server humungus, configuring a network dump in FreeBSD, among other things. Press play below to tune in:...
BSD Link Roundup 9.6
Here's a roundup of BSD related posts for the month of September, ranging from partnerships, BSD on various hardware, security, questions and discussions as usual from users around the world. FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE on the Lenovo Thinkpad T480 via David Schlachter Linux,...
Meet FreeBSD Project – A Journey of 26 Years and Beyond
User William Chapman of research site pFind, discusses with Deb Goodkin of the FreeBSD Foundation and goes through the lengthy history of FreeBSD, the difference between FreeBSD and Linux, notable use and applications, and its community of developers. See the page...
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[How-To] Create FreeBSD Current OpenStack image on OVH Public Cloud
User Fralix walks us through the his process of deploying FreeBSD to an OpenStack OVH public cloud. OpenStack is an open-source platform for virtual cloud computing. OVH is a service that provides dedicated servers for cloud computing. See the link below for the...
BSD Now Episode 314: Swap that Space
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss Unix virtual memory with no swap space, Dragonfly and Dsynth, FreeBSD instant workstation, new tech new servers, streaming setups on NetBSD, Steam and NetBSD thanks to Google Summer of Code, and...
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[How-To] Configure a Network Dump in FreeBSD
FreeBSD committer oshogbo shows us how to configure a network dump on your FreeBSD server. This process requires two machines, a client and a server, one to collect the dump and the other to dump from. The command dumpon and netdumpd are used to facilitate the dumping...
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[How-To] Enable SSH On FreeBSD
User SK shows us how to get SSH set up on your FreeBSD server. SSH is used for those who want to remotely access their server on their network via command line or other SSH utilities. See the link below for the full set of instructions. OpenSSH Server is installed by...
Homura – Windows Games Launcher for FreeBSD
User Alexander88207 brings us Homura, a new Windows game launcher for the FreeBSD operating system. Similar to Wine, Homura allows you to play games from a variety of applications such as Steam, Blizzard, Origin, Uplay, and some more. Some platforms are still work in...
Revive an Old PC #2- With GhostBSD
BSD Now Episode 313: In-Kernel TLS
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss OpenBSD on a 7th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon notebook, install FreeBSD on MacBook, kernel portion of KTLS, DragonFlyBSD Boot Environments, updates on Project Trident, vBSDcon, and some more. Press...
The Other Unix-Like Operating System And Why We Should Work Together!
Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, recently gave a talk about working together with the open source operating system Linux. The Unix-like OS traces its history back to Unix days similar to the FreeBSD operating system. View her talk with Let's...
FreeBSD 2nd Quarter 2019 Status Report
The FreeBSD Team has written their quarterly status report for Q2 2019. This is a summary of all the initiatives and projects in action, including reports from the Continuous Integration Team, FreeBSD Core Team, FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD Graphics, IRC, Ports...
BSD Link Roundup 8.23
Here's a roundup of BSD related posts ranging from security advisories, BSD desktops and laptops, to FreeNAS (which has BSD under the hood). Gcc 4.2.1 to be removed before FreeBSD 13, a firm timeline via lists.freebsd.org Is FreeBSD one of the absolute best operating...
BSD Now Episode 312: Why Package Managers
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss the UNIX Philosophy in 2019, use package managers because, interrupted touchpad, porting Wine to AMD64 on NetBSD, NetBSD Syzkalller Support enhancing, Pinebook Pro, killing a process and...
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