by iXsystems | Nov 2, 2012 | (Free)BSD links wrap-up, M0n0wall, OpenBSD, pfSense
Welcome to the weekly (Free)BSD news round-up (week 44) where we have a mix of news snippets, links, howto’s and software/package updates for you all. These tid-bits are all very interesting and news worthy, yet too small to package as individual posts. FreeBSD News A...
by iXsystems | Oct 2, 2012 | FreeBSD, OpenBSD
Gleb Smirnoff writes on the FreeBSD PF Mailing List about a some improvements he has made to make Packet Filter (PF) SMP-scalable and faster: “As you already may now, last half a year I’ve been working on making pf SMP-scalable and faster in general. More...
by iXsystems | Feb 10, 2012 | BSD World, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
The first paragraph of this book’s afterword reads: “You now know more about SSH, OpenSSH and Putty than the vast majority of IT professionals! Congratulations”. That claim will be true for any reader of SSH Mastery who has read the book up to that...
by iXsystems | Apr 30, 2011 | (Free)BSD links wrap-up, BSD Certification, DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, Google, OpenBSD
Below some links to some FreeBSD resourses that you guys may be interested in, and other BSD related items I’ve come across. FreeBSD Chromium 10, Google’s blazingly fast internet browser, is now available in the FreeBSD Ports directory (www/chromium). New...
by iXsystems | Dec 15, 2010 | FreeBSD, OpenBSD
Some exciting and eyebrow raising news items: FreeBSD on Amazon EC2 FreeBSD developer Colin Percival announced on his blog that FreeBSD 9-CURRENT now runs on Amazon EC2: One of my largest complaints about Amazon EC2 ever since it launched has been my inability to run...
by iXsystems | Nov 3, 2010 | DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, Google, OpenBSD
FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Since FreeBSD 6.4 is the last remaining supported release from the FreeBSD 6.x stable...
