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[How-To] Redmine 2.1.2 on FreeBSD Apache (with Passenger and RVM)

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User shows us how to get Redmine set up on FreeBSD Apache. See the link below for the full instructions.

redminelogoInstalling Redmine on FreeBSD isn’t hard, but it requires many steps (especially if the machine you are working on is bare and has just the minimum software ports installed.

This guide has the prerequisites of a working FreeBSD server with Apache and MySQL configured and ready to work on (there’s plenty of guides out there to set those up). Preferably, you should also have super user rights on the machine, otherwise this whole venture might prove more difficult than it should be.

If your server is already setup with Ruby, GIT, Passenger and ImageMagick, you can skip past most of the introductory stuff and go straight to the Redmine Installation part.

Full tutorial: http://www.alychidesigns.com/install-redmine-freebsd/

FreeBSD 11.0 Alpha 5 now available

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freebsdlogoThe developers of FreeBSD have released the 5th ALPHA for version 11. Phoronix summarizes the release below, with notable improvements being updated KMS drivers, improvements to the Linux binary compatibility layer, Bhyve virtualization, and much more.

The fifth alpha release of the huge FreeBSD 11.0 operating system update is now available for testing.

FreeBSD 11.0 is bringing updated KMS drivers, Linux binary compatibility layer improvements, UEFI improvements, Bhyve virtualization improvements, and a wide range of other enhancements outlined via the in-progress release notes.

The 11.0R schedule puts the betas to begin in July, release candidates in August, and the official release announcement to occur in early September.

The latest FreeBSD 11.0 development ISOs can be obtained via FTP.

Phoronix post: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-11.0-Alpha-5

[How-To] Installing FreeBSD with VirtualBox

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The FreeBSD Foundation provides us a tutorial on getting FreeBSD setup on VirtualBox. VirtualBox is an open source virtualization platform available on Windows, OS X, and many other operating systems. Follow the link below for the full instructions.
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1. Installing VirtualBox

  • Visit the Oracle VirtualBox website, the download page can be found here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
  • Select the Binary that applies to your operating system and machine. VirtualBox is available on Windows, OS X, Linux hosts, and Solaris. The download links can be found under the first bullet-point as pictured.
  • Opening the downloaded package will start the installation walkthrough. Once it finishes, you’ll be able to launch the application.

2. Identifying Your Processor: ….

Full tutorial: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/how-to-guides/installing-freebsd-with-virtualbox/

[How-To] LetsEncrypt on FreeBSD

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letsencrypt-logo-largeThis short tutorial by user shows us how to get LetEncrypt setup on FreeBSD. LetsEncrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA) which provides users with DV certificates for SSL, enabling secure transfer of information through HTTPS.

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Install Let’s Encrypt client from port with the following command:

cd /usr/ports/security/py-letsencrypt && make install clean

Install Let’s Encrypt client from port with the following command:

pkg install py27-letsencrypt

Original post: https://techjourney.net/how-to-install-lets-encrypt-in-centos-rhel-fedora-freebsd-openbsd-ubuntu-linux/?utm_source=Google%2B&utm_medium=Tech+Journey&utm_campaign=Social%2BSharing%2Bby%2BTech+Journey

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

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