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:...
20 Years of FreeBSD Jails by Michael W Lucas
FreeBSD contributor Michael W Lucas gives us a history lesson and overview of the past 20 years of FreeBSD Jails to its present. Jails is a lightweight virtualization system built into FreeBSD, and acts as a separate FreeBSD instance, allowing you to deploy...
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[How-To] Install ExpressionEngine CMS with Nginx on FreeBSD 12 by Blago Eres
User Blago Eres of HowToForge shows us how to get ExpressionEngine set up on your FreeBSD 12 operating system. ExpressionEngine is an open-source Content Management System (CMS) and will be setup alongside NGINX, a web server, MariaDB and PHP. ExpressionEngine will...
The Future of OpenZFS and FreeBSD by Allan Jude
FreeBSD contributor Allan Jude gives a talk about the OpenZFS file system, and its future alongside FreeBSD operating system at EuroBSDCon in Norway. He discusses the history of OpenZFS, the changes, the introduction of ZFS on Linux and ZFS on FreeBSD and its eventual...
BSD Now Episode 324: Emergency Space Mode
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss migrating zpool and drives between hosts, OpenBSD, new zlib and dhcpcd in DragonFlyBSD, awk for batch renamin images and resolution, X11 ICCCM selection system rant, emergency space mode in...
NUMA Optimizations in the FreeBSD Network Stack by Drew Gallatin
FreeBSD contributor Drew Gallatin gives a talk about the FreeBSD Network Stack and optimizing NUMA, and its real world application for Netflix's servers. This presentation occurred at EuroBSDCon 2019 in Lillehammer, Norway....
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[How-To] Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt on FreeBSD 12.0 by DigitalOcean
This guide by user Albert Valbuena will show you how to set up a secure Apache open-source web server with Let's Encrypt certificate authority on FreeBSD 12.0. Initial set up requires a FAMP (FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack. See the link below for the full set...
FreeNAS 11.3-BETA1 is now available
The developers of FreeNAS have made available the first BETA of version 11.3. This update introduces a dashboard overhaul with more relevant data and faster response, SMB improvements, better ZFS replication, new iSCSI and Networking wizards, and configuration...
FreeBSD on an NVIDIA NVS 3100M ThinkPad T410
User Toby B walks us through his journey of setting up and using FreeBSD operating system on a Lenovo Thinkpad T410 notebook. He walks us through the installation process and getting the NVIDIA driver configured. See the link below for the full details. A few years...
Bhyve guests with hardware accelerated graphics by Michael Chiu
FreeBSD contributor Michael Chiu recently gave an exciting talk about bhyve and FreeBSD at EuroBSDcon 2019, which was held in Lillehammer Norway. In this talk he focuses on how to utilize hardware accelerated graphics in a bhyve virtual machine guest, through a GPU...
BSD Link Roundup 11.18
Here's the mid November roundup of all things BSD related, from what FreeBSD actually is, a number of security advisories, drivers, production use cases, and notebook action shots What is FreeBSD? Definition, Features, its Distributions and More via Computer Tech...
BSD Now Episode 323: OSI Burrito Guy
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss the first Unix code, replacing fail2ban with blacklistd, OpenBSD crossing 400k commits, installing Bolt CMS on FreeBSD, hammer2 optimized OSI-7 layer burrito guys, and some more. Press play...
FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE is now available
The developers of FreeBSD have made available the long awaited 12.1-RELEASE. Notable features in this version in BearSSL, updates to clang, llvm, libC++, OpenSSL, among many security fixes all around. You may download the latest ISO/image here. The FreeBSD Release...
FuryBSD is the rage!
Joe Maloney has recently announced FuryBSD, a custom desktop based FreeBSD system that acts as a liveCD as well as installer. This will allow users to easily test out FreeBSD, and also utilize a familiar desktop environment with it before committing to install. Check...
FreeBSD 7 Day Challenge | #1 Moving In by Tyler’s Tech
User Tyler's Tech is challenging himself to use FreeBSD open-source operating system for 7 days, for any and all of his computing needs.This task should be quite easy for readers of FreeBSD News, but let's see how he fares at the end of his journey! So far, here is a...
BSD Now Episode 322: Happy Birthday, Unix
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss Unix's 50th, Ken's PDP-7, OpenBSD and OPNsense, GhostBSD, sshuttle VPN over SSH, and some other things. Click play below to tune in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efc-ldt1ewA BSDNow.TV show...
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[How-To] Install Shopware with NGINX and Let’s Encrypt on FreeBSD 12
User Blago Eres shows us how to get Shopware set up on your FreeBSD operating system, along with NGINX and Let's Encrypt. Shopware is an open-source e-commerce platform, NGINX is a web server, and Let's Encrypt is a certificate authority. See the link below for the...
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