Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – Redundant Backup
User vermaden shows us his silent FreeBSD server build with a focus on redundant backups. He tests this out with two disks in ZFS mirror on an ASRock motherboard and Celeron CPU. He details his journey in making this quiet piece of machinery through the blog below. I...
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GhostBSD 19.04 is now available
The developers of GhostBSD have made available version 19.04 RELEASE. GhostBSD is an Open Source operating system based on FreeBSD (TrueOS). GhostBSD 19.04 features LightDM as the default login UI, and is based upon FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT. Other notable changes are...
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[How-To] Install Bolt CMS on FreeBSD 12
This guide from Vultr shows us how to set up Bolt on your FreeBSD 12 system. Bolt is an Open Source content management system known for its simplicity, ease of use, and elegant templates. See the link below for the full set of instructions. Bolt is an open source CMS...
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BSD Now Episode 293: Booking Jails
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude interview Michael W Lucas regarding his latest jails book. In addition they discuss writing, book sponsoring, BSDCan 2019 on the way, and other things. Click play below to tune in:...
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BSD Link Roundup 4.12
Here's a list of BSD related links that recently popped up on the web, you might find some of these interesting! FreeBSD,Zrouter and NetBSD machines at AsiaBSDCon 2019: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2019/03/24/msg000802.html Performance related:Cavium...
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BSD Now Episode 292: AsiaBSDcon 2019 Recap
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling talk about the FreeBSD Q4 2018 status report, an alternative to GhostBSD, a cool 90s laptop, OpenSSH 8.0 quantum computing, Project Trident, and some others. Press play below to tune in:...
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FreeBSD Q4 2018 Status Report
The FreeBSD Team has released their 4th quarter status report for 2018. This report details projects from the Contiguous Integration Team, Core Team, Ports Collection, Release Engineering, and the FreeBSD Foundation. Notable progress and additions are 32-bit...
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Obtaining an Active-Passive ProxySQL on FreeBSD
User Gabriel Ciciliani talks about setting up a MySQL architecture using ProxySQL, an Open Source and high-performance proxy for MySQL, on their FreeBSD system. See the link below to read more about Ciciliani's use case for a highly-available architecture that deals...
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How I Created My First FreeBSD Port
In this blog, user Hamza Sheikh talks about the process he went through for making his first FreBSD port, GoCD -- an Open Source continuous integration/delivery system. Sheikh walks us through initial set up through Digital Ocean, tweaks, port init, to makefile. See...
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FreeNAS 11.2-U3 is now available
The developers of FreeNAS have made available version 11.2-U3. FreeNAS is an Open Source storage operating system based on FreeBSD. Notable changes are updated tooltip for UPS port, support for NVMe device replacement, improved dashboard loading time, ZFS feature flag...
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BSD Router Project 1.92 is now available
The developers of BSD Router Project have made available version 1.92. BSD Router Project is an Open Source router distribution based on the FreeBSD operating system. Notable changes are FreeBSD 12 upgrade, fixed frr rc bug, dhcp6, x86info, and several upgrade...
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BSD Now Episode 291: Storage Changes Software
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss storage change software, why Unix is special, pipeline +Unix commands, bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL, making your tech talk memorable, context light-weight, and some more. Click play below to...
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Moving back to Lighttpd
F5 recently acquired NGINX and user High5! decided to roll back to lighttpd. Lighttpd is an Open Source web server application that is optimized for speed and is secure, flexible, and standards compliant. The user details what configuration changes they made to their...
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FreeBSD 11.3 Release Schedule Announcement
The developers of FreeBSD have made available the Release Schedule for FreeBSD 11.3. The BETA1 build will begin on May 24, with the official RELEASE of 11.3 on July 5. Stay tuned for updates to the various releases throughout this year. This is the release schedule...
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OPNsense 19.1.4 is now available
The developers of OPNsense have made available version 19.1.4 RELEASE. Notable changes include removable of a hostname translation error, validation regression in outbound NAT, mock labels for NAT rules, Virtual Tunnel Interface (VTI) support, fixes to nested...
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BSD Now Episode 290: Timestamped Notes
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss Cavium ThunderX and FreeBSD, an OpenBSD user's perspective on NetBSD, vim time-stamped notes, tagged OpenBSD 6.5, Google Summer of Code 2019, a UNIX-like OS for Hackers called SecBSD, and...
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[How-To] FreeBSD Desktop Configuration – Global Dashboard
User vermaden is back again with another tutorial for his FreeBSD Desktop series. In this blog, he sets up his desktop to display useful information through Conky. The command line tools utilized are ifconfig, gstat, vmstat, mount, and several others. See the link...
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FreeBSD Journal Jan/Feb 2019 Edition
The latest FreeBSD Journal is out, and now available for free as of the beginning of 2019. This magazine features a guide for getting started with FreeBSD, Java Development on FreeBSD and GhostBSD, writing man pages, a letter from the Foundation, conference reports,...
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BSD Now Episode 289: Microkernel Failure
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss microkernel failure, OpenBSD's pf and IPv6 fragmentation vulnerability, a guide to using terminal, Yubikey and SSH public key authentication, FreeBSD desktop tutorials, and some more. Click play...
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pfSense 2.5.0 Development Snapshots is now available
The developers of pfSense have made available the development snapshots for version 2.5.0. pfSense is an Open Source firewall and router project based on FreeBSD. See the link below for more details, and download them here or from the link below. We are excited to...
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