by Cao | Jun 27, 2019 | Blog, FreeBSD, Tutorial
User Jacques Foucry walks us through his journey of installing FreeBSD 12.0 on a Lenovo Thinkpad X280 notebook. He starts from configuring UEFI, rc.conf, hardware config, all the way to Xorg. See the link below for the full set of instructions. He wrote the entire...
by Cao | Jun 27, 2019 | Links
Here’s a roundup of BSD user stories about how they solved a problem, performance benchmarks from Phoronix per usual, and quite a few reddit discussions about personal BSD experiences. Check them out! Keep Crashing Daemons Running on FreeBSD by M. Babaei My...
by Cao | Jun 20, 2019 | bsdnow.tv
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...
by Cao | Jun 20, 2019 | FreeBSD status reports
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...
by Cao | Jun 20, 2019 | FreeBSD
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...