NomadBSD 1.1 is available
The developers of NomadBSD have made available version 1.1. NomadBSD is an live 64bit system dedicated to run on USB drives, and is based on the open-source operating system FreeBSD. You may download the image file from here. Changes since 1.0.1 Base system has been...
read moreBSD Now Episode 259: Long Live Unix
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss the strange birth and long life of Unix, FreeBSD jail with a single public IP, talks from EuroBSDcon 2018, OpenBSD on a G4 iBook, PAM template user, ZFS fileserver, and a reflection on one year...
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MeetBSD 2018 @ Intel Santa Clara, CA
MeetBSD is being held at Intel's Santa Clara campus on October 19-20, 2018. Call For Papers is available until August 13, so submit your papers now if you haven't already! We hope to see BSD enthusiasts from around the world there for a eventful weekend full of talks...
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FreeBSDCon’99: Fans of Linux’s lesser-known sibling gather for the first time
Check out this throwback article highlighting one of the first FreeBSD conferences back in 1999. It was held in Berkeley, where the story of FreeBSD began. See the full article at the link below, you may notice some familiar names. (IDG) -- FreeBSD, a port of BSD Unix...
read moreFreeBSD Security Advisory regarding TCP
The FreeBSD Team has issued a security advisory affecting the TCP protocol on current versions of FreeBSD. Please see the message and take measures to keep your FreeBSD system safe and secure by updating with the patches. A detailed report can be found at the link...
read moreBSD Now Episode 258: OS Foundations
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss the FreeBSD Foundation July newsletter, reports on BSDCan, status of HardenedBSD Foindation, FreeBSD and OSPFd, an overview of ZFS disk structure, and OpenBSD Spectre mitigations. Press play...
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FreeBSD Foundation Development Projects Update July 2018
Mark Johnston provides up an update on development projects sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation. One he is working on in particular is in-kernel microcode loading. Currently, the patch is in its early stage and feedback is requested. Johnston notes that new...
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FreeNAS 11.2-BETA2 is now available!
The developers of FreeNAS have made available the SECOND BETA of version 11.2. This version features the default new user interface based on Angular, updated guide, continued rewrite from old API to new middleware, boot loader no longer GRUB but native FreeBSD, plugin...
read moreTrueOS test on ThinkPad T410 notebook
User Pan_opticom tries out TrueOS version 18.3 on his Lenovo ThinkPad T410 notebook. Watch the video to see some demos on AppCafe, LibreOffice, VLC Player, Doom, and driver related stuff. https://youtu.be/WLgdJwd5zcQ...
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OPNsense 18.7 is now available
The developers of OPNsense have made available version 18.7 RELEASE. This version features improvements to WAN DHCPv6 & SLAAC, support for IPv6 Rapid Deployment (6RD), better default route handling and gateway switching, OpenVPN improvements, and much much more. For a...
read moreBSD Now Episode 257: Great NetBSD 8
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude & Benedict Reuschling discuss NetBSD 8.0, FreeBSD and scaleway ARM64 VPS, encrypted backups on OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD server/storage upgrades, zpool checkpoints, g2k18 hackathon reports, & more. Click play below to tune in:...
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[How-To] FEMP stack on Amazon EC2
User stak shows us how to get a FEMP stack (FreeBSD, nginx, MySQL, PHP) set up on your Amazon EC2 cloud. Note that you will need an existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) account to set up your FreeBSD web stack. See the link below for the full set of instructions. I...
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The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS (USENIX)
This paper by researchers at USENIX tackles the differences between FreeBSD ULE and Linux CFS. ULE is the default scheduler for FreeBSD, and CFS is the default scheduler for Linux. See the link provided by USENIX.org to view the full document. We compare ULE and CFS...
read moreBSD Now Episode 2^8: Because Computers
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling & Allan Jude talk about FreeBSD ULE vs Linux CFS, OpenBSD on Tuxedo InfinityBook, how zfs diff reports filenames efficiently, why choose FreeBSD over Linux, PS4 double free exploit, OpenBSD's wifi autojoin, and...
read moreAsk Noah Show 77: Should You Ditch Linux for FreeBSD
On this episode of Ask Noah, Ken Moore and JT Pennington join in to answer the infamous question of what BSD offers to attract users over. They discuss the Lumina desktop as well as what's coming for Project Trident. They also answer the incoming chat questions shown...
read moreBSD Now Episode 255: What Are You Pointing At
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude & Benedict Reuschling talk about ZFS pointblockers, zero-day rewards, KDE on FreeBSD, the new FreeBSD Core Team, NetBSD WiFI refresh, poor man's CI, and the power of Ctrl+T. Hit play below to tune in:...
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BSD Magazine Issue 08/2018: bhyvearm64: Virtualization on ARMv8-A
This BSD Magazine issue features an article about Illumos containers and OmniOSce, bhyve virtualization on ARMv8-A, iSCSI on FreeBSD, HTTP/2 & PSP with Apache on FreeBSD, Redundant Firewalls with OpenBSD, an interview with Joel Knight about OpenBSD, as well as another...
read moreBSD Now Episode 254: Bare the OS
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling & Allan Jude discuss control flow integrity with HardenedBSD, fixing bufferbloat with OpenBSD's pf, Bareos Backup Server on FreeBSD, MeetBSD Call for Papers, crypto simplified interface, twitter gems, interesting BSD...
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[How-To] Port your OS to EC2
Known FreeBSD contributor Colin Percival shows us how to port your operating system, particularly FreeBSD, to the Amazon EC2 cloud. An existing Amazon Web Services account will be needed. You may view the full set of instructions at his web page below. I've been the...
read more[How-To] Configure a FreeBSD Jail with vnet and ZFS
nixCraft is at it again with another useful guide, this time showing us how to configure a FreeBSD jail with vnet, a network subsystem virtualization infrastructure, and ZFS filesystem. You may view the full set of instructions at the link below. How do I install and...
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