by iXsystems | May 23, 2007 | pfSense
About 2 weeks ago the pfSense Project have released 1.2-Beta-1. This version contains a quite a number of improvements and new features, including FreeBSD updated to 6.2 Reworked load balancing pools which allow for round robin or failover miniupnpd has proven to work...
by iXsystems | May 22, 2007 | PC-BSD
LinuxHelp has just (22/05/2007) posted an interesting and balanced review of the latest version of PC-BSD. Some of the suggestions for improvement (3-5) will be included in the upcoming version 1.4 (June/July 2007). Though PC-BSD is not a Linux distriution, it’s...
by iXsystems | May 21, 2007 | DesktopBSD, FreeBSD, FreeNAS, FreeSBIE, Frenzy, M0n0wall, PC-BSD, pfSense, RoFreeSBIE
FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon 64, and EM64T), UltraSPARC, IA-64, PC-98 and ARM architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the...
by iXsystems | May 21, 2007 | FreeBSD, FreeBSD vs Linux, PC-BSD, X vs Y
Browsing some forum I came accross the following quote which I want to share with you. I don’t want to start a Linux-BSD flame war, but to me, being a BSD fan, I think there’s some truth it (slightly edited): BSD rules because it’s time-tested and...
by iXsystems | May 18, 2007 | FreeBSD, PC-BSD
First things first: PC-BSD is NOT Linux. Both are UNIX-like systems, but PC-BSD is NOT Linux. The main difference between PC-BSD and FBSD is: PC-BSD is geared towards desktop use; FBSD has been created with server use in mind PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD (6.1 currently)...
