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[How-To] Get Started with FreeBSD
Users Mark Drake and Justin Ellingwood show us how to get started with a fresh FreeBSD server by logging in via SSH. It also goes through Bash and setting up the root password. Note that this guide mentions DigitalOcean as the host but the process should work on other...
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FreeBSD Foundation Update, October 2018
The FreeBSD Foundation has released their October newsletter consisting up development project updates such as building packages at scale (Proudiere), fundraising initiatives -- Handshake has donated $100,000, release engineering updates highlighting FreeNAS 12.0, and...
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BSD Now Episode 270: Ghostly Releases
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss OpenBSD 6.4, GhostBSD 18.04 (RC2), MeetBSD, DragonflyBSD on Thinkpad, NetBSD and porting keybase, OpenSSH 7.9, and FreeBSD draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag. Click play below to tune in:...
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Initial Benchmarks Of OpenBSD 6.4, DragonFlyBSD 5.3, FreeBSD vs. Linux
Michael Larabel of Phoronix does some benchmarking on the latest versions of various BSD and Linux distributions with his Phoronix Test Suite. The tests range from Fhourstones, LZMA compression, to combile bench. For a full report, head on over to their page at the...
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BSD Now Episode 269: Tiny Daemon Lib
In this BSD Episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling give an update on the FreeBSD Foundation, tiny C lib for Unix daemons programming, report on EuroBSDcon, test GhostBSD on real hardware, and show us a BSD auth module for duress. Press play below to tune...
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BSD Now Episode 268: Netcat Demystified
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss 6 metrics for zpool performance, OpenBSD and 2FA with ssh, ZFS maintaining file type info in dirs, old is new, and netcat demystified. Click play below to tune in:...
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GhostBSD 18.10-RC3 is now available
The developers of GhostBSD have made available the 3rd Release Candidate of version 18.10. This version features updates to VirtualBox xorg config, removed issue regarding gop setting, and many package upgrades. GhostBSD is also built on top of TrueOS as it's base...
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FreeBSD 12.0-BETA2 is now available
The developers of FreeBSD have made available the second BETA of version 12.0. Changes in this version are binary compilation debug fix, gif_interfaces rc.conf(5) variable restored, Linux compatibility layer update, driver removals, and various bug fixes. As usual,...
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Learning Notes on FreeBSD Jails
User genneko shares us their notes on what they learned about FreeBSD after using it in a production environment. They walk us through templates, configuring the jail NAT, to building the VIMAGE-enabled kernel. See the link below for the author's notes to learn...
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[How-To] The proper way to update FreeBSD jails between point releases
This blog by user Orville Bennett shows us how to update your FreeBSD jails in between point releases, for example from FreeBSD 11.1 to 11.2. This will help avoid minor command mishaps due to the version difference. See the link below for the full set of instructions....
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Michael W. Lucas talks FreeBSD (and whatever else he wants)
Michael Lucas, author of Absolute FreeBSD series, shows up at Michigan!/usr/group to discuss the state of FreeBSD today, from storage encrypting, networking, jails to Poudriere. Watch the talk below and learn something new about BSD! Over a quarter of the Internet's...
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What I learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD
User shlomif ported several applications over to FreeBSD and reflects on his experience. He lists said projects, mentions some comparisons with Linux, GNU make, grep, and other things. I set up a local FreeBSD VirtualBox VM to test something, and it seems to work very...
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[How-To] FreeBSD Automount Removable Media
User vermaden is back again with another tutorial from his FreeBSD Desktop series. This time, we'll learn how to configure automatic mounting of removable media such as USB thumbdrives through the automount command or dsbmd tool. See the link below for the full set of...
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Configuring FreeBSD for Infrastructure
User Chris Kennedy walks us through configuring his own FreeBSD with network, jails, and setting up Jenkins. Check out the link below to see the details of his journey diving into FreeBSD after spending time with Linux. FreeBSD is a robust operating system that has...
read moreBSD Now Episode 267: Absolute FreeBSD
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling interview Michael W Lucas, author of several Absolute FreeBSD books, as wells some fiction works. In addition, they answer some questions from the BSD Now audience. Click play below to tune in:...
read moreBSD Now Episode 266: File Type History
In this episode of BSD Now, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss OpenBSD and NetBSD on FreeBSD using grub2-bhyve, user vermaden's FreeBSD story, OpenBSD on the desktop, history of filetype info in Unix dirs, multiboot Pinebook KDE neon image, and some...
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pfSense 2.4.4 is available
In case you missed it, the developers of pfSense have made available version 2.4.4-RELEASE. Notable changes are the base OS update to FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p3, PHP 7.2, Routed IPsec (VTI), IPsec Speed Improvements, Default Gateway Group, and much more. For a detailed...
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Haiku R1/beta1 is now available
Haiku, an open-source operating system based on BeOS, has made available version R1/beta1. Haiku is unique in that it supports a FreeBSD compatibility layer for network drivers that work on FreeBSD. Head on over to their page to learn more about Haiku, and possibly to...
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BSD Now Episode 265: Software Disenchantment
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss EuroBSDcon, disenchanting software, LLVM 7.0.0, Thinkpad BIOS update, HardenedBSD Foundation, and ZFS send vs rsync. Press play below to tune in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAfZrl8ldVg BSD...
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September 2018 FreeBSD Foundation Update
The FreeBSD Foundation has issued their update for all the progress made in the month of September. This newsletter consists of development projects such as FreeBSD 12.0, fundraising initiatives (please donate if you haven't already!), release engineering work such as...
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