BSD Now Episode 302: Contention Reduction
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss DragonFlyBSD's kernel optimizations, OpenBSD and Linux differences, NetBSD projects on 2019 Google Summer of Code, reducing contention, fnaify 1.3, vmctl(8): CLI syntax, what Linux distros...
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FreeBSD First Quarter 2019 Status Report
The FreeBSD team has released their status report for Q1 2019. This report includes a summary of projects and initiatives from the CI team, Core Team, FreeBSD Foundation, Release Engineering, and Ports Collection. Notable projects are the AXP803 PMIC driver, Broadcom...
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FreeBSD 11.3 RC1 is available
The first release candidate for FreeBSD 11.3 was made available. Notable changes are a bug fixes to mx15en(4), ipfilter, USB, RDMACM prio, zfsboot, VIMAGE system panic, and more. Note that the second release candidate / RC2 will be out tomorrow. See the link below for...
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BSD Now Episode 301: GPU Passthrough
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss a GPU passthrough on bhyve, used/free disk space on ZFS, OmniOS Community Edition, pfSense 2.4.4 RELEASE p3, NetBSD 8.1 RC1, FreeNAS for your Server, among others. Click play below to tune in:...
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[How-To] FreeBSD basics – Getting your X graphics and console resolution working quickly
This tutorial by user iBSD will show you how to get your graphics and console's resolution working correctly on FreeBSD. The author mentions that the console resolution on a fresh installation will be quite high, so they show you how to remedy that using the drm-kmod...
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BSD Link Roundup 6.13
Here's a roundup of BSD related posts in June, this one consists a lot of discussions on what to use FreeBSD for, as well as some neat desktop screenshots, along with some miscellaneous. https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/bs8glu/oc_want_to_play_a_game/eok363t/...
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[How-To] FreeBSD Live Video Server
User Aaron Prisk shows us how to set up a live video streaming server on the open source FreeBSD operating system, as well as on Linux. This setup uses Nginx and Open Broadcast Studio (OBS) as the main streaming components. Got an itch for gaming and want to show...
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BSDNow.TV Episode 300: The Big Three
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss FreeNAS 11.3-BETA 1, BSDCan 2019, OpenIndiana 2019.04, Overview of ZFS Pools in FreeNAS, the importance of Open Source firmware for security, OPNsense, OpenBSD and wireguard, and some more....
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[How-To] FreeBSD Desktop with MATE Install Script
This tutorial by user Daniel MorThis tutorial by user Daniel Morante will get you set up with the MATE desktop environment on your FreeBSD operating system. Provided in the instructions is a script which makes it the installation process quicker and easier. See the...
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BSD Now Episode 299: The NAS Fleet
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss running AIX via QEMU on Linux for Windows, taking command of your NAS fleet with TrueCommand, Unleashed version 1.3, LLDB: extension for CPU register inspection support, V7 Unix programs being...
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[How-To] Install Vanilla Forum on FreeBSD 12
This tutorial from Vultr will show you how to install Vanilla OSS, an Open Source discussion forum software in PHP, on your FreeBSD server operating system. You will also be setting up PHP, MariaDB database, and NGINX web server in order to use Vanilla. See the link...
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[How-To] Check hard drive health on FreeBSD
User Vivek Gite is back again with another FreeBSD tutorial, this time on how to check the health of your HDDs and SSDs. The tool in question is called smartmontools, available in the ports system of the FreeBSD Open Source operating system. See the link below for the...
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BSD Link Roundup 5.16
There's a whole lot going on this month so far in the BSD realm, so we've rounded up some links for you to check out. The links range from security advisories, NVIDIA drivers, daemons, to jails. FreeBSD 12.1 Release Process:...
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Runhyve – Virtual Machine Manager
Runhyve is an Open Source virtual machine manager for Bhyve, the Open Source hypervisor originally written for FreeBSD. Runhyve is currently still in the early stages of development, but you can track their progress on their Git sites and watch the demo on the...
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BSD Now Episode 298: BSD On The Road
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss a UFS bug being fixed after 36 years, BSD on the road, OpenBSD automatic upgrades, ex2fs and DTrace support for FreeBSD, dedicated SSH tunnel, OpenBSD 6.5 VMM VMs, and some others. Hit play...
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GPU Passthrough on Bhyve
Michael Yuji recently discovered a way to passthrough a GPU card to FreeBSD on the bhyve virtualization platform. The guest needs to be a *nix system to work however. See the article below on what the user did, as well as the implications for the FreeBSD and bhyve...
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[How-To] Apache with Self-signed Certificate on FreeBSD 12
This tutorial by user Amos Mibey will show you how to set up Apache with SSL certificate on your FreeBSD operating system. Apache is an Open Source HTTP Server, serving about a third of all active websites across the world wide web. For the full set of instructions,...
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VULS – Vulnerability Scanner For Linux/FreeBSD
VULS is an Open Source vulnerability scanner that uses information from NVD and OVAL and is agent-less. It currently supports FreeBSD versions 10 and 11 among various Linux distros. Notable features are the VulsRepo (its OSS web UI), Terminal Based Viewer, and...
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FreeBSD Journal March/April 2019 Debugging and Testing
The latest issue of the FreeBSD Journal is out! The main articles featured are automated testingf ramework, FreeBSD GDB debugging, and using DTrace to diagnose excess LDAP connections. Other topics are listed below. If you didn't know, the journal is now free as of...
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BSD Now Episode 297: Dragonfly In The Wild
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss FreeBSD ZFS versus ZFS on Linux peformance, DragonflyBSD 5.4.2, iocell containing web services, Solaris 11.4 SRU8, SSH Agent forwarding issue, upgrade OpenBSD 6.4 to 6.5, among other things....
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