FreeBSD end-of-year recap by adridg
FreeBSD contributor Adriaan de Groot, known for his work on KDE/FreeBSD. discusses his end of the year run for FreeBSD related projects. He outlines the progress made with KDE Frameworks, KDE Plasma, Qt6, as well as his work on getting Calamares working with FreeBSD....
OPNsense 19.7.8 is now available
The developers of OPNsense have made available version 19.7.8. Notable changes are gateway selection fixes, elliptic curve TLS certificate, fix XSS in backup page, referential integrity check, imrpove NetFlow error handling, and many others. See the link below for the...
BSD Now Episode 330: Happy Holidays, All(an)
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss OpenBSD authentication vulnerabilities, NetBSD 9.0-RC1, FreeNAS on DigitalOcean droplet, NomadBSD 1.3, e2k19 nobody hears you scream, and some others. Press play below to tune in:...
KDE/FreeBSD initiative new website
The developers of KDE/FreeBSD have just launched a new website in support of the KDE (Desktop Environment) on FreeBSD open-source operating system. Their latest release, KDE Plasma 5 is available in x11/kde5 metaport. Check out their website below for the latest news...
2019 in Review: Software Development Projects by FreeBSD Foundation
Ed Maste of the FreeBSD Foundation updates us on some of the progress made regarding software development. The Foundation sponsored approximately 17% of FreeBSD commits this year. Notable projects are Alam Somers' FUSE filesystem update, Mateusz Guzik's scalability...
Moving away from Ubuntu: peeking at FreeBSD by Juan Prieto
This blog post by user Juan Prieto discusses his journey in trying out FreeBSD, as a long time Ubuntu user. He writes about the initial installation of FreeBSD, and setting up the SSH server. The goal is to eventually get the LAMP stack set up on FreeBSD. Check out...
BSD Now Episode 329: Lucas’ Arts
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude interview FreeBSD contributor Michael W Lucas regarding his latest book projects, particularly the upcoming SNMP Mastery book. Click play below to tune in: https://youtu.be/iR2mg8bC2dY BSDNow.TV:...
BSD Link Roundup 12.23
December's BSD Link roundup is listed with CVE's, learning resources, software on GitHub, conference artwork, BSD on various hardware, networking, and the usual advantages versus other OSes. Enjoy and have a Happy Holiday! Tricky VPN-busting bug lurks in iOS, Android,...
BSD Now Episode 328: EPYC Netflix Stack
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss LLDB Threading support, IPSec VPN tunnels in FreeBSD, AMD Epyc and Netflix FreeBSD Network Stack, unwind(8) and happy eyeballs, FreeBSD ARM 12 and AWS, OpenSSH U2F/FIDO, and some others. Press...
FreeNAS 11.3-RC1 is now available
The developers of FreeNAS have made available the first release candidate of version 11.3. This version introduces some new features, and stability and usability improvements such as a redesigned replication framework, network interface management, ACME support,...
FreeBSD 12.1 Benchmarks on AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X by Phoronix
Michael Larabel from Phoronix tests out FreeBSD 12.1 on one of AMD's latest Ryzen processors, the Threadripper 3970X. He tests out some benchmarks against Windows and Linux Machines with the Phoronix Test Suite, consisting of Golang benchmarks, DaCapo, Renaissance,...
FreeBSD Miniconf 2020 Call for Sessions (Linux.conf.au)
FreeBSD Miniconf at Linux.conf.au, held in Gold Coast Australia, is still accepting Call for Sessions until December 12, 2019 for those still on the edge. Visit the link below to submit your proposal as soon as possible. The FreeBSD Foundation in conjunction with...
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[How-To] Build Tengine on FreeBSD by Sveratum
User Sveratum shows us how to set up Tengine web server on your FreeBSD operating system. You will be utilizing wget to retrieve the necessary modules from Github, then configuring Tengine and Nginx itself. See the link below for the full set of instructions. Tengine...
BSD Now Episode 327: ZFS Rename Repo
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss FreeBSD's 3rd quarter status report, Sparc64 and OpenBSD, ZFSonLinux repo moving to OpenZFS, GEOM NOP, NetBSD up-to-date, and some others. Press play below to tune in:...
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[How-To] Install Nginx, MySQL and PHP (FEMP) Stack on FreeBSD 12.0 by Vultr
This tutorial from Vultr will show you how to set up a FEMP stack on FreeBSD 12.0. The FEMP stack consists of FreeBSD in addition to Nginx web server, MySQL database, and PHP. The guide assumes that you are familiar with the basics of FreeBSD and command-line...
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[How-To] Fingerprinting FreeBSD OS Versions using OpenSSH by SpiderLabs
This guide by user Manual Nader will show you how to fingerprint different FreeBSD versions with OpenSSH. The idea is to translate the banner's ID into its corresponding OS version. See the link below for a further explanation of FreeBSD banners and FreeBSD versions....
BSD Now Episode 326: Certified BSD
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss BSD Certification from LPI, OpenZFS trip reports, FreeBSD with ports, LLDB threading support, Linux vs Open Source UNIX, and some others. Click play below to tune in:...
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[How-To] PostgreSQL ascii logo for FreeBSD boot loader
User Luca Ferrari shows us how to do a simple modification of the FreeBSD Boot Loader, which is changing the ASCII logo to your own custom logo. In this instance it is the PostgreSQL elephant logo, and it is modified using an Lua script. Check out the Github page...
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[Video] How-To Install FreeBSD 12.1 + XFCE desktop by Riba
User Riba Linux walks us through setting up FreeBSD 12.1 with the XFCE desktop environment along with some basic applications such as as an audio mixer. See the video below for the full walkthrough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqmPPfr_DwY Riba Linux:...
BSD Now Episode 325: Cracking Rainbows
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschlin discuss FreeBSD 12.1, history of UNIX before Berkeley, FreeBSD develop setup, HardandedBSD 2019's latest status report, RainbowCrack on OpenBSD, and some more. Press play below to tune in:...
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