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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Dual booting Linux and FreeBSD
Jesse Smith of DistroWatch discusses dual-booting FreeBSD and Ubuntu in this brief walkthrough. There are many reasons why one would want to use both operating systems on the same computer as they serve different tasks. See the guide below for the full set of...
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[How-To] FreeBSD Install Nginx Webserver
User Vivek Gite is back again with another FreeBSD tutorial outlining the installation of Nginx. Nginx is an open-source webserver that can be used as a load balancer, mail proxy, reverse proxy, and HTTP cache. How do I install an Nginx webserver under a FreeBSD Unix...
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FreeBSD lockless algorithm – seq
User oshogbo//vx discusses seq, a FreeBSD lockless algorithm in this blog post. They go into detail about what the seq_write, seq_consistent, and other seq functions do for the algorithm. You may view the full post at the link below. Those days locking algorithms are...
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What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it?
User John Paul goes into detail about the benefits of ZFS, or Zettabyte File System, the chosen filesystem for FreeBSD and other operating systems like FreeNAS. He also gives a little bit of history behind ZFS, going back to the Sun times. Today, we will take a look...
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Is there an advantage of using bsd over linux? – r/BSD
User Kiwi_birds asks the BSD community on Reddit if there are any plus sides of using BSD over Linux. Many users chime in on their experience with FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, and other distributions. We've highlighted some of the topic comments. You may view the...
read moreBSD Now Episode 264: Optimized-out
In this BSD Now episode hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss FreeBSD and dragonflyBSD benchmarks with AMD Threadripper, NetBSD 7.2, optimized out DTrace kernel symbols, stuck UEFI bootloaders, why ed is not a good editor today, your BSD story, and more....
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GhostBSD tested on ThinkPad T410
User Panorama as a circle tries out GhostBSD, an open-source operating system based on FreeBSD, on a Lenovo ThinkPad T410 notebook. They try out different applications such as OctoPkg, GNOME MPlayer, LibreOffice, as well as some games like Doom. Check out the video...
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MeetBSD California 2018 Promo Video
MeetBSD will be back this year at Intel's Santa Clara campus on October 19-20. Registration is still open for those who are interested in enriching their BSD experience. MeetBSD started 10 years ago in 2008 and continues to offer quality presentations from all areas...
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Trying out FreeBSD 12-ALPHA2
User RoboNuggie tries out FreeBSD 12-ALPHA2 in a VirtualBox VM and walks us through their experience. For those looking to test it out or wondering what the install process is like check out this video. https://youtu.be/jwWbBVmXBlo More videos from RoboNuggie:...
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RoboNuggie FreeBSD Tips & Tricks (Videos)
User RoboNuggie has a channel full of tutorials for the FreeBSD operating system, ranging from Installing Desktop FreeBSD, How to set up ScummVM on FreeBSD, Install & Manage Perl Modules, and much more. Head on over to their channel and learn different things to get...
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