FreeBSD ZFS benchmarks vs DragonFlyBSD & Linux
Michael Larabel of Phoronix has reported some benchmarks from FreeBSD ZFS and TrueOS ZFS along with various open-source distros DragonFlyBSD, Ubuntu, and Clear Linux. In addition, he also provided some charts on the Meltdown Kernel page-table isolation (PTI)...
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[How-To] Distributed Object Storage with Minio on FreeBSD
User vermaden brings us another in-depth guide, this time on how to setup distributed object storage via Minio on FreeBSD. Minio is an open-source distributed object storage server that is compatible with Amazon S3. You may view the full set of instructions at the...
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[How-To] Patch Meltdown & Spectre vulnerabilities on FreeBSD
User Vivek Gite of nixCraft shows us how to patch up your FreeBSD systems from the recent Meltdown & Spectre vulnerabilities. Head on over to the link below to see the full set of instructions. All supported versions of FreeBSD affected by Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754),...
read moreBSDNow.TV Episode 242: Linux Takes The Fastpath
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling & Allan Jude discuss TrueOS stable 18.03 release, take a look at F-stack, dive into the secret to an open source business model, show us an intro to jails and jail networking, provide a FreeBSD Foundation update for...
read moreBSDNow.TV 241: Bowling in the LimeLight
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude & Benedict Reuschling show us the second round of ZFS improvements in BSD, talk about a finding from Postgres regarding non-FreeBSD/non-Illumos systems corrupting data, interview Kevin Bowling, talk about BSDCan, and discuss...
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FreeBSD 11.1, 12.0-CURRENT & TrueOS 18.03 Benchmarks [Phoronix]
Michael Larabel of Phoronix runs some benchmark tests for FreeBSD versions 11.1, 12.0-CURRENT, and TrueOS 18.03. The tests were run via the Phoronix Test Suite 8.0 ranging from blogbench to system decompress. You may view the full report at the link below. While...
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NVIDIA ends support for 32 bit drivers (including FreeBSD)
NVIDIA has announced that it will be no longer supporting 32 bit drivers for their graphics cards, this includes Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. For those still on 32 bit hardware, it may be time to upgrade. The move isn't restricted to those running Microsoft's Windows...
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[How-To] Nextcloud 13 on FreeBSD
User vermaden shows us how to set up Nextcloud 13 on FreeBSD with a detailed guide, from setup to post installation. You may view the full set of instructions at the link below. Today I would like to share a setup of Nextcloud 13 running on a FreeBSD system. To make...
read moreBSDNow.TV Episode 240 – TCP: Blackbox Recording
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling & Allan Jude discuss the new ZFS features in FreeBSD, MAP_STACK for OpenBSD, show us how to write safer C code with Clang's address sanitizer, shoutout Michael W. Lucas' gift sponsoring initative, chit chat about TCP...
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Leadership Is The Secret To An Open Source Business Model
iXsystems CEO recently published an article on Forbes discussing the open source path they took, and how leadership helped shape and ensure success for their business model. The article also talks about their adoption of FreeBSD as the operating system of choice for...
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Profiling the FreeBSD kernel boot paper
This paper written by Colin Percival, known FreeBSD contributor, describes his work along with several others profiling the FreeBSD kernel boot. Colin goes in depth on timestamp logging, function tracing, boot holds, and provides a visual flame chart of all the...
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BSD Magazine Issue 03/2018
BSD Magazine volume 12 #3 features an article on managing multiple Perl 6 installations, a quickstart guide on Kubernetes & GKE, an overview of Open vSwitch, a how-to on adding new system tunables to FreeBSD, the state of gaming on OpenBSD, and more. You may download...
read moreBSDNow.TV Episode 329: The return to ptrace
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling & Allan Jude discuss OpenBSD firewalling with Windows 10, NetBSD's return to ptrace, Alternative Backoff, the BSD Poetic License, and recap on AsiaBSDcon 2018. Press play below to tune in:...
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TrueOS STABLE 18.03 is now available
The developers of TrueOS has made available version 18.03 STABLE. This release patches the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities discovered earlier this year. Other security updates include LibreSSL, Firefox, Chromium, and Qt5 Webengine. You may run the update with...
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pfSense 2.4.3-RELEASE available
The developers of pfSense have made available version 2.4.3-RELEASE. This version includes security updates for Meltdown, Spectre, dashboard widgets, fixes for CVEs and SA, and bug fixes. You may download the latest version from their website, or use the auto-update...
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NomadBSD 1.0.1 is released!
Based on FreeBSD 11.1, NomadBSD is a 64-bit Open Source live system for flash drives. With the new update, the developers fixed problems with the graphics driver detection, a boot problem with Lenovo X220, diabling the terminal bell, and more. Check out all the new...
read moreBSDNow.TV Episode 238: VLAN-Zezes-ki in Hardware
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude look at the Lumina Desktop 2.0, the OpenBSD email service, conduct an interview with Ryan Zezeski, talk about NomadBSD, and discuss John Carmack's programming retreat with OpenBSD. Jupiter...
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[How-To] FreeBSD Network Management with network.sh Script
User vermaden shares a tutorial on how to configure a FreeBSD network with the network.sh Script. One can also use the graphical NetworkMgr from GhostBSD. Note that if you are using more than one connection and switch between them frequently, then using FreeBSD's...
read moreIntroducing FreeBSD VPC — Sean Chittenden (@ AsiaBSDcon)
Sean Chittenden gives a presentation at AsiaBSDcon on FreeBSD VPC (Virtual Private cloud). The conference was held in Tokyo earlier this month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mOFFovdAw0 FreeBSD's use in virtualization workloads has been hampered by its lack of...
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[How-To] Read HFS filesystem on FreeBSD
User vermaden shows us how to set up your FreeBSD to read HFS, macOS's main filesystem (recently replaced with APFS). See the link below for the full set of instructions. For those ones that still use Mac OS X on their desktops/laptops instead of FreeBSD there is now...
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