by Cao | Jan 10, 2019 | FreeBSD, ZFS
The developers of ZFS on FreeBSD, or ZoF, are pleased to announced its availability for testing. ZoF is based on ZFS on Linux (ZoL) and is aiming to be the main OpenZFS file system to be adopted by FreeBSD users. GitHub page: https://zfsonfreebsd.github.io/ZoF/ ZoL /...
by Cao | Sep 24, 2018 | ZFS
User John Paul goes into detail about the benefits of ZFS, or Zettabyte File System, the chosen filesystem for FreeBSD and other operating systems like FreeNAS. He also gives a little bit of history behind ZFS, going back to the Sun times. Today, we will take a look...
by Cao | Jul 6, 2018 | Discussion, FreeBSD, Notebook
User u/vznio asks on the r/FreeBSD subreddit on what the best choices for using FreeBSD on a laptop are. Several users chime in on their recommendations. If you are looking to use FreeBSD on your notebook, check out this thread. Best possible FreeBSD laptop? ThinkPads...
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by Cao | May 2, 2018 | Tutorial, ZFS
This tutorial by user Laci shows us how to set up ZFS snapshots on your FreeBSD system. The guide is in two parts and starts with setting up the zpool for snapshots then incremental snapshots. You may view the full set of instructions at the links below. A very nice...
by Cao | Apr 13, 2018 | Drivers, Hardware, NVIDIA
NVIDIA has announced that it will be no longer supporting 32 bit drivers for their graphics cards, this includes Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. For those still on 32 bit hardware, it may be time to upgrade. The move isn’t restricted to those running...
by Cao | Dec 22, 2017 | NVIDIA
It’s time to move on to the 64-bit era. NVIDIA has announced end of driver support for 32-bit versions Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. Check out the articles from Softpedia and Phoronix for more details. NVIDIA has recently announced that it’s ending support for...
