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[How-To] Running Nextcloud in a jail on FreeBSD

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This tutorial by user John Ramsden shows us how to get Nextcloud set up in a FreeBSD jail. Nextcloud is an open-source file syncing platform designed to set up a cloud on your own network. See the link below for the full set of instructions.

 I recently setup Nextcloud 12 inside a FreeBSD jail in order to allow me access to files I might need while at University. I figured this would be a optimal solution for files that I might need access to unexpectedly, on computers where I am not in complete control. My Nextcloud instance is externally accessible, and yet if someone were to get inside my Jail, I could rest easy knowing they still didn’t have access to the rest of my host server. I chronicled the setup process including jail setup using iocage, https with Lets Encrypt, and full setup of the web stack.

Full tutorial: https://ramsdenj.com/2017/06/05/nextcloud-in-a-jail-on-freebsd.html

[How-To] Installing Nokogiri

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Nokogiri is a an HTML, SAX, XML, and Reader parser available on multiple open-source operating systems. Nokogiri also allows you to search document with XPath or CSS3 selectors. You can find out how to download it at the link below.

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Because Nokogiri needs to be compiled and dynamically linked against both libxml2 and libxslt, it has gained a reputation for being complicated to install.

As of Nokogiri 1.6, libxml2 and libxslt source code is bundled with Nokogiri, and compiled at gem-install-time. The instructions in this document should work for all versions 1.6.4 and later.

(If you need support for installing earlier versions of Nokogiri, you may want to take a look at the git history for this document.)

Get Nokogiri here: http://www.nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html#freebsd

FreeBSD 11.0 Release Announcement

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Turn it up! Behold, my lil devils, it’s time to dust-off mergemaster, grab a ZFS snap, and get updating!

No need for me:

root@freebsd12:~ # uname -v
FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r305028: Mon Aug 29 22:45:29 UTC 2016     root@releng3.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

Now hop to it, slackers!

FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE Announcement

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE. This is the first release of the
stable/11 branch.

Some of the highlights:

* OpenSSH DSA key generation has been disabled by default. It is
important to update OpenSSH keys prior to upgrading. Additionally,
Protocol 1 support has been removed.

* OpenSSH has been updated to 7.2p2.

* Wireless support for 802.11n has been added.

* By default, the ifconfig(8) utility will set the default regulatory
domain to FCC on wireless interfaces. As a result, newly created
wireless interfaces with default settings will have less chance to
violate country-specific regulations.

* The svnlite(1) utility has been updated to version 1.9.4.

* The libblacklist(3) library and applications have been ported from
the NetBSD Project.

* Support for the AArch64 (arm64) architecture has been added.

* Native graphics support has been added to the bhyve(8) hypervisor.

* Broader wireless network driver support has been added.

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[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

[How-To] Uchiwa port for FreeBSD

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User has ported Uchiwa to the FreeBSD operating system. Uchiwa is a lightweight dashboard for the Sensu monitoring framework and is built with Go and AngularJS. See the link below for the full instructions.

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I have created a port of Uchiwa for FreeBSD. It currently not accepted, but it’s possible to test the port now if you want to do some bleeding edge testing.

The PR is located here

Simply download the attachment and unpack the shar-file in /usr/ports/www. In the newly created uchiwa directory, run “make install”.

I also have a prebuild package available here

Any bugs should be reported in the PR on the FreeBSD bugzilla.

Note: If you compile from source you will need to add the following to UIDs & GIDs:

Full tutorial: https://nix-ish.xyz/2016/06/06/uchiwa-port-for-freebsd.html

/r/FreeBSD – Uchiwa port for FreeBSD (x-post /r/sensu) (nix-ish.xyz)

 

 

Serverauditor – SSH Shell / Console / Terminal

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Serverauditor is a mobile SSH client for many UNIX and related interfaces, including FreeBSD. Serverauditor is available for iOS and Android, and as a desktop version Chrome plugin.

serverauditorServerauditor is the most popular and innovative mobile SSH client, ever. Easily manage UNIX or Linux servers on the go with Serverauditor on your mobile device. And by now, Serverauditor has hit over a MILLION downloads.

App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id549039908

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.server.auditor.ssh.client

Official website: https://serverauditor.com/

PlayOnBSD (run Windows software)

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PlayOnBSD has recently been added to the FreshPorts repository. See the full description of the port in the links below.

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This is a port of PlayOnLinux to FreeBSD. It allows you to easily install and use numerous games and apps designed to run with Microsoft Windows. The Windows emulation is provided by Wine. WWW: http://www.playonlinux.com/

SVNWeb : Homepage : Distfiles Availability : PortsMon

To install the port: cd /usr/ports/emulators/playonbsd/ && make install clean
To add the package: pkg install playonbsd
PKGNAME: playonbsd

Wine Reviews: http://www.wine-reviews.net/2016/03/playonbsd-easily-install-and-run.html

FreshPorts PlayonBSD: http://www.freshports.org/emulators/playonbsd

PVS-Studio delved into the FreeBSD kernel

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bsdpvsUser Svyatoslav Razmyslov runs several tests on the PVS-Studio software to analyze the FreeBSD kernel. Full details of the report can be found in the link below.

PVS-Studio is a tool used to detect bugs in the source code of programs written in C, C++ and C#.

PVS-Studio performs static code analysis and generates a report that helps a programmer find and fix bugs. PVS-Studio does a wide range of code checks; but it is especially useful to search for misprints and Copy-Paste errors. Examples of such errors: V501, V517, V522, V523, V3001.

We used static code analyzer PVS-Studio, version 6.01.

For convenience, I set a PC-BSD and wrote a small utility in C++, which keeps the working environment of the compilers’ runs when building the kernel. The acquired information was used to get the preprocessed files and their analysis, done by PVS-Studio. This method allowed me to quickly check a project without having to study an unfamiliar build system to integrate the analyzer. On top of it, analysis of preprocessed files allows you to do a more in-depth analysis of the code and find more sophisticated and interesting, errors, in macros for instance. This article will provide several examples of such a kind.

Full report: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0377/

How-To: Ghost w/ Nginx on FreeBSD 10.2

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Thanks to user , we can get Ghost set up on FreeBSD along with Nginx. Follow the link below for full instructions.

 

Node.js is open source runtime environment for developing the server-side applications. Node.js application is written in javascript and can be run on the server that running Node.js runtime. It is cross-platform runtime, running on Linux, Windows, OSX, IBM AIX, including FreeBSD. Node.js was created by Ryan Dahl and other developer working at Joyent on 2009. It is designed to build scalable network applications.

Ghost is blogging platform coded in Node.js. It is open source publishing platform with beautifully designed, user-friendly, and free. It is allows you to easily publish your content on web, or create your portofolio website.

In this tutorial we will install a Ghost with Nginx as our web server on FreeBSD. We will install Node.js, Npm, nginx and sqlite3 on FreeBSD 10.2.

Full tutorial: http://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/install-ghost-nginx-freebsd-10-2/

How-To: OwnCloud 8, Nginx, SSL on FreeBSD 10.2

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Thanks to user , we can install OwnCloud 8 along with Nginx and SSL on FreeBSD 10.2.

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OwnCloud is suite of application client-server for creating hosting services, it is allow you to create your own cloud storage and allow you to share your data, contacts, calendar with other users and devices. OwnCloud is open source project that provides an easy way for you to sync and share your data that is hosted in your data center. it Has a beautiful and user-friendly front-end design, so that make a user easy for browse and access the data, then share to others users. OwnCloud an online secure enterprise file sync and file sharing.

In this tutorial, I will guide you a step by step to install owncloud 8, and we use Nginx(engine-X) as web server, php-fpm and mariaDB as the database system on FreeBSD 10.2.

Full tutorial: http://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/install-owncloud-8-nginx-ssl-freebsd-10-2/