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The FreeNAS Development Team releases FreeNAS v 11.0!

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The wait is over! The FreeNAS Development Team is proud to present FreeNAS version 11.0! The new version brings a myriad of updates and features that we hope the community will enjoy.

This version brings new virtualization and object storage features to the World’s Most Popular Open Source Storage Operating System. FreeNAS 11.0 adds bhyve virtual machines to its popular SAN/NAS, jails, and plugins, letting you use host web-scale VMs on your FreeNAS box. It also gives users S3-compatible object storage services, which turns your FreeNAS box into an S3-compatible server, letting you avoid reliance on the cloud. For a quick summary of what’s new in FreeNAS 11.0, watch the video below.

 

 

Click here to view the entire blog post: http://www.freenas.org/blog/freenas-11-0/

FreeBSD 11.1-BETA1 now available

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The developers of FreeBSD have made available version 11.1-BETA-1. This is a minor update as noted by Phoronix. Download the latest ISO/IMG here.

Official announcement: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2017-June/087242.html

FreeBSD 11.1 is this summer’s minor update to FreeBSD 11, although not as significant as the development work and features going into FreeBSD 12. FreeBSD 11.1 is scheduled for release on 26 July while over the next month are still two more betas, at least threee release candidates, and then tagging the final -RELEASE build. So far things are on schedule for getting the release out on time as detailed here.

Phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-11.1-Beta-1

DistroWatch: http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=09853

FreeBSD Development Projects Update (May 2017)

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For May 2017 (Summer), the FreeBSD Foundation began hiring co-op students from the University of Waterloo. The University of Waterloo is a pioneer and leader of co-op education. They chose CS students Siva Mahadevan and Guangyuan (Charlie) Yang for the summer project due to each of them creating their own Continuous Integration systems. Siva’s Tinderbox style dashboard view for the FreeBSD Jenkins Continuous Integration (Ci) system, which can be seen here: https://ci.freebsd.org/tinderbox/. Similarly. Charlie created a project investigating FreeBSD on the ARM-based BeagleBone Green. See the link below to read the entire report.

Original post: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/may-2017-development-projects-update/

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that 64-bit inodes support is now available in FreeBSD via the ino64 project, according to a commit for FreeBSD 12.

This week FreeBSD has finally merged the fruits of the ino64 project: 64-bit inodes support.

While Linux and other operating systems (including DragonFlyBSD) have supported 64-bit inodes for data structures on file-systems, FreeBSD has been limited to 32-bit. But thanks to the work of many on the ino64 project, FreeBSD now has support for 64-bit inodes while retaining backwards compatibility.

Phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-64-bit-Inodes-ino64

Discussion: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/node/954302

National FreeBSD Day is June 19

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The FreeBSD Foundation has designated June 19 as National FreeBSD Day! On June 19, 1993, FreeBSD was chosen to be the name for this open-source operating system that is now widely used across the world. Read their post on how we can celebrate and promote FreeBSD.

We’re pleased to announce that June 19 has been declared National FreeBSD Day. Join us in honoring The FreeBSD Project’s pioneering legacy and continuing impact on technology.

What is FreeBSD

FreeBSD is an open-source operating system developed out of the University of California at Berkley in 1993. Used by billions of people around the globe, FreeBSD is used to teach operating system concepts in universities. Companies also develop products on FreeBSD, and universities use it as a research platform.

In fact, there’s a good chance you’re already using at least some code derived from FreeBSD in your everyday life. For example, if you stream movies via Netflix, chat with friends on WhatsApp, or play the latest PlayStation 4 game sensation, you’re already using FreeBSD.

As a pioneer in open-source technology, FreeBSD can be modified and redesigned to meet the needs of the user, free of charge within the guidelines of the license…

Official announcement: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/national-freebsd-day/

[How-To] Running Nextcloud in a jail on FreeBSD

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This tutorial by user John Ramsden shows us how to get Nextcloud set up in a FreeBSD jail. Nextcloud is an open-source file syncing platform designed to set up a cloud on your own network. See the link below for the full set of instructions.

 I recently setup Nextcloud 12 inside a FreeBSD jail in order to allow me access to files I might need while at University. I figured this would be a optimal solution for files that I might need access to unexpectedly, on computers where I am not in complete control. My Nextcloud instance is externally accessible, and yet if someone were to get inside my Jail, I could rest easy knowing they still didn’t have access to the rest of my host server. I chronicled the setup process including jail setup using iocage, https with Lets Encrypt, and full setup of the web stack.

Full tutorial: https://ramsdenj.com/2017/06/05/nextcloud-in-a-jail-on-freebsd.html

FreeBSD as Main PC OS OR NOT?

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Check out these discussion posts of various users’ experience in using FreeBSD as a desktop and in the home lab.

FreeBSD as Main PC OS OR NOT? from freebsd

CentOS 7 vs FreeBSD from homelab

This tiny machine has been with me for a few years now, It has mostly run OS X though I have tried OpenBSD on it. Besides the screen resolution I’m still really happy with it, hardware wise. Software wise, not so much. I use an external disk containing a zpool with my data on it. Among this data are several source trees. CVS on a ZFS filesystem on OS X is painfully slow. I dislike that builds running inside Terminal.app are slow at the expense of a responsive UI. The system seems fragile, at the slightest push the machine will either hang or become unresponsive. Buggy serial drivers which do not implement the break signal and cause instability are frustrating.

FreeBSD on 11? MacBook Air 5,1 (mid-2012)

[How-To] Sharing Files with macOS from FreeBSD with SMB and mDNS Service Discovery

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This tutorial by user cmcenroe shows us how to share your files from FreeBSD to macOS with the SMB protocol. See the link below for the full set of instructions.

This is an explanation of one way of sharing files with Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan from FreeBSD 11.0. It uses Samba, an implementation of the SMB protocol, and Apple’s mDNSResponder for service discovery. Alternatives are listed at the end.

Background

SMB is the protocol used for file sharing between Windows systems. Mac systems previously used their own Apple Filing Protocol, but deprecated it in favour of SMB with Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks.

mDNS, or multicast DNS, is a technology for resolving host names in a local network. On top of this, DNS service discovery, or DNS-SD, can be used to broadcast available services, such as SMB. This is how Finder discovers hosts to show in “Shared” or “Network.”

Samba

First, install Samba. There are two versions available in FreeBSD. This is the newer one.

pkg install samba42

Full tutorial: https://cmcenroe.me/2017/01/08/freebsd-macos-file-sharing.html