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Rod Grimes, original FreeBSD Release Engineer is back

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Glen Barber has announced that Rod Grimes, an original member of the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team, is back in action and ready to provide his decades of expertise to the operating system. You can see his talk at BSDCan 2016 to get familiar with his work.

Dear FreeBSD Community:

It gives me great pleasure to announce to you all that we have found, and somehow managed to trick, our first Release Engineer into rejoining the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team.

For those that have not attended BSDCan 2016, Rod Grimes reappeared after about 24 years.  There is an excellent talk from him available online that gives a brief background of the Project, available here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgeUniPBQjM

I was personally fortunate enough to attend this talk, and during the Q/A part asked Rod when he was going to return to Release Engineering.

I encourage you to listen to the talk, but his response was basically "when you drag me back."

Well, I succeeded in this endeavor, and I am pleased to announce to you all that Rod Grimes, the first FreeBSD Release Engineer, is back on the team.

Rod's insight from historical points of view will be of great value to the Project today as it has evolved.

This is something I never thought would ever happen.  But that is the great thing about this community - always expect the unexpected.

Welcome back, Rod.

With sincerity beyond words,

Glen

Original announcement: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2016-June/001730.html

[How-To] Building the FreeBSD OS from scratch

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VirtualBox_FreeBSD_Desktop_28_04_2016_14_44_37User Siseneg shows us how to get the FreeBSD operating system set up from the bottom up and details each step along the way. See the link below for the full instructions.

We’ll be building FreeBSD from scratch, which starts you off with the base system and a terminal. No flashy graphics, no desktop, no file manager, no web browser, no image manipulator, etc. You start with the base system, a terminal, and build 3rd party apps as you see fit. If you’re not familiar with the CLI, Command Line Interface, it’s where you will be doing a good part of your work from, and all of it till you build a Window Manager, like Fluxbox, or Desktop Environment, like Gnome, as a GUI, or Graphic User Interface, which is what you’re familiar with as a Windows or Linux user. If you’ve got an old PC or laptop laying around that just can’t run the bloat that is Windows, FreeBSD can breathe new life in it and is the perfect solution to it collecting dust.

Full tutorial: http://www.all-nettools.com/forum/showthread.php?34422-Building-the-FreeBSD-OS-from-scratch

[How-To] Install OpenNTPd on FreeBSD 10.2

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User Vinícius Zavam of DigitalOcean shows us how to get OpenNTPd setup on FreeBSD 10.2. OpenNTPd is an open source alternative implementation of the Nework Time Protocol. See the link below for the full instructions.

Introduction

NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is a standardized protocol providing ways to synchronize time on various operating systems. OpenNTPd is a free and easy-to-use implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), originally developed as part of the OpenBSD project. It provides the ability to sync the local clock from remote NTP servers and can also act as server itself.

This tutorial will show you how to install OpenNTPd on FreeBSD.

Full tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-openntpd-on-freebsd-10-2

BSDNow.TV Episode 146: Music to Beastie’s ears

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In this BSD Now episode, hosts Kris Moore and Allan Jude recap BSDCan, discuss the newly announced Microsoft support & service-level agreements for FreeBSD, the cons of select(), in addition to an interview with Hans Petter Selasky regarding USB drivers for FreeBSD. Press play below to tune in:

For this week’s round up of BSD related content from BSD Now – http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2016_06_16-music_to_beasties_ears

FreeBSD is available in Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace

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Microsoft has announced that FreeBSD 10.3 is now available as a virtual machine image in the Azure Marketplace. Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform and infrastructure for deploying various applications.

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Today, I’m excited to announce the availability of FreeBSD 10.3 as a ready-made VM image available directly from the Azure Marketplace. This means that not only can you quickly bring-up a FreeBSD VM in Azure, but also that in the event you need technical support, Microsoft support engineers can assist.

Here’s how easy it is to get up and going through the Azure portal. Simply click on the +New on the left pane (or the marketplace tile on your dashboard), type “FreeBSD 10.3” in the search text box, and you’re there.

Original announcement: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/freebsd-now-available-in-azure-marketplace/

Create and Upload a FreeBSD VHD to Azure

This article shows you how to create and upload a virtual hard disk (VHD) that contains the FreeBSD operating system so you can use it as your own image to create a virtual machine (VM) in Azure.

Important:

Azure has two different deployment models for creating and working with resources: Resource Manager and classic. This article covers using the classic deployment model. Microsoft recommends that most new deployments use the Resource Manager model.

Full tutorial: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-linux-classic-freebsd-create-upload-vhd/

Related links:

News Hub – Microsoft unveils FreeBSD build for virtual appliances among Azure updates
The Register – Microsoft has created its own FreeBSD image. Repeat. Microsoft has created its own FreeBSD image
The VAR Guy – FreeBSD vs. Linux: Which Open Source OS Does Microsoft Now Love More?
Redmond Magazine – Microsoft Releases FreeBSD 10.3 Image in Azure Marketplace
Softpedia – FreeBSD Now Available on Microsoft’s Azure
fossBytes – Microsoft Creates Its Own Distribution Of FreeBSD Operating System
Build Azure – Azure Marketplace: FreeBSD 10.3
Slashdot – Microsoft Has Created Its Own FreeBSD
iTWire – Microsoft announces its own FreeBSD to ensure Azure support
WinBeta – Microsoft creates its own FreeBSD distribution to run on Azure
The Cloud Mouth – Hacking your way to root on FreeBSD in Azure
More from the FreeBSD Foundation on the Project’s Partnership with Microsoft

[How-To] Automated Apache PHP and MySQL for FreeBSD and CentOS7 servers

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This tutorial by user jamal shahverdiev shows us how to get Apache PHP and MySQL automated on FreeBSD and CentOS7 servers. See the link below for full instructions

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This script will automatically check OS type and version. If OS version is CentOS7 script will continue works for CentOS7 or if OS version FreeBSD10 script will continue works for FreeBSD.

We have admin laptop with installed Python2.7 and Python3.4 with needed libraries. And we have two servers for tests. One of servers is CentOS7 and other is FreeBSD10.

First of all we must clone scripts to the local folder and change folder to downloaded. But if git client is not exists you cannot to do this.

For that we ill install git to our machine: …

Full tutorial: http://www.unixmen.com/automated-apache-php-mysql-freebsd-centos7-servers/

[Blog] FreeBSD Committer Allan Jude Discusses the Advantages of FreeBSD and His Role in Keeping Millions of Servers Running

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In this blog by Alexandra Leslie, she writes of Allan Jude’s many contributions to the FreeBSD operating system. They discuss his work as a sysdmin, how it has helped to shape the documentation, the maintenance of the large amount of ports & packages, boot environment contributions, and how ZFS helped his video streaming service (ScaleEngine), and more. See the full article at the link below.

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TL; DR: Powering platforms like Netflix or your favorite gaming system, FreeBSD is a robust, open-source operating system relied on by millions of sites to serve web pages. Even Mac OSX is based, in part, on FreeBSD. With over 400 volunteer devs at its helm, the FreeBSD Project is a dynamic force that puts the control in administrators’ hands. Project Committer Allan Jude has been a fan of the project since 2002. He discusses the system’s internal structure and the feature functionality that drew him in — contributing to its documentation and then to its development — and what he’s working on now, more than a decade later.

Original post: http://www.hostingadvice.com/blog/freebsd-project-under-the-hood/

[How-To] TensorFlow on FreeBSD

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TensorFlowUser Lee shows us how to get TensorFlow set up on FreeBSD. TensorFlow is an open source software library for machine intelligence, or numerical computation using data flow graphs. See the link below for the full instructions.

First, I apologize for not supplying a port archive myself. After reading the FreeBSD handbook for creating a port, it’s too complex of a task for me right now. I’ve only been using FreeBSD for two weeks. I would also not like to waste anyone’s time giving them a terrible port archive and mess up their system.

Instead I’ll explain how you can do it yourself! It’s surprisingly easy once you’ve put the time in investigating why certain problems happen…

I began by reading the standard TensorFlow Download and Setup instructions. Since I knew FreeBSD had some Linux compatibility layer, I tried loading the Python 64-bit pip package. Obviously that didn’t work. I learned shortly after FreeBSD only supports 32-bit binary. Then I remember hearing from people that Mac is somewhat based off of FreeBSD…Following the Mac instructions, I’m met with an “incompatible binary” error, as expected.

Full tutorial: https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2016/06/tensorflow-on-freebsd.html