by iXsystems | Feb 25, 2008 | pfSense
Chris Buechler announced that the final required item for the 1.2 release is now finished: the new website (based on one of the best, if not THE best, open source content management systems, Joomla) is now available. I really like the new look-n-feel. Check it out...
by iXsystems | Jan 28, 2008 | M0n0wall, pfSense, X vs Y
Wayne Richardson reviewed in total 7 different Linux and BSD firewalls back in Nov 2007 (ClarckConnect, Endian, Gibraltar, IPCop, m0n0wall, pfSense, SmoothWall) and compared them on basis of the following categories: setup, web-gui, extensibility and speed. Since this...
by iXsystems | Jan 17, 2008 | M0n0wall, pfSense, X vs Y
A common misconception about pfSense is that it is intended as a rival to m0n0wall as a BSD-based firewall system, since they are similar in structure and goals. This is not the case; some developers even contribute to both projects. m0n0wall is targeted at a specific...
by iXsystems | Jan 17, 2008 | pfSense
The pfSense development team is happy to bring you the final release candidate in the 1.2 series (RC4)! The FreeBSD based pfSense firewall is designed to be a secure and easy to setup firewall server appliance. pfSense 1.2 promises a number of great features to make...
by iXsystems | Jan 16, 2008 | M0n0wall, pfSense
The m0n0wall project now offers a couple of screencasts that walk you through different configuration steps of a m0n0wall. Since pfSense is based on m0n0wall, some of them apply to pfSense as well. Carla Schroder from Serverwatch.com recommended m0n0wall in the Tip of...
by iXsystems | Jan 12, 2008 | AskoziaPBX, DesktopBSD, Evoke, FreeBSD, FreeBSD Conferences, FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD vs Linux, FreeNAS, FreeSBIE, Frenzy, Google, iXsystems, M0n0wall, PC-BSD, pfSense, RoFreeSBIE, TrueBSD
2007 is over. It was a very successful year for open source software and another 12 interesting months have passed for FreeBSD. In this post I want to look back at 2007 and see how FreeBSD faired, what happened in “FreeBSD land” and how FreeBSD based...
