BSD Now Episode 291: Storage Changes Software
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss storage change software, why Unix is special, pipeline +Unix commands, bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL, making your tech talk memorable, context light-weight, and some more. Click play below to...
Moving back to Lighttpd
F5 recently acquired NGINX and user High5! decided to roll back to lighttpd. Lighttpd is an Open Source web server application that is optimized for speed and is secure, flexible, and standards compliant. The user details what configuration changes they made to their...
FreeBSD 11.3 Release Schedule Announcement
The developers of FreeBSD have made available the Release Schedule for FreeBSD 11.3. The BETA1 build will begin on May 24, with the official RELEASE of 11.3 on July 5. Stay tuned for updates to the various releases throughout this year. This is the release schedule...
OPNsense 19.1.4 is now available
The developers of OPNsense have made available version 19.1.4 RELEASE. Notable changes include removable of a hostname translation error, validation regression in outbound NAT, mock labels for NAT rules, Virtual Tunnel Interface (VTI) support, fixes to nested...
BSD Now Episode 290: Timestamped Notes
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss Cavium ThunderX and FreeBSD, an OpenBSD user's perspective on NetBSD, vim time-stamped notes, tagged OpenBSD 6.5, Google Summer of Code 2019, a UNIX-like OS for Hackers called SecBSD, and...
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[How-To] FreeBSD Desktop Configuration – Global Dashboard
User vermaden is back again with another tutorial for his FreeBSD Desktop series. In this blog, he sets up his desktop to display useful information through Conky. The command line tools utilized are ifconfig, gstat, vmstat, mount, and several others. See the link...
FreeBSD Journal Jan/Feb 2019 Edition
The latest FreeBSD Journal is out, and now available for free as of the beginning of 2019. This magazine features a guide for getting started with FreeBSD, Java Development on FreeBSD and GhostBSD, writing man pages, a letter from the Foundation, conference reports,...
BSD Now Episode 289: Microkernel Failure
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss microkernel failure, OpenBSD's pf and IPv6 fragmentation vulnerability, a guide to using terminal, Yubikey and SSH public key authentication, FreeBSD desktop tutorials, and some more. Click play...
pfSense 2.5.0 Development Snapshots is now available
The developers of pfSense have made available the development snapshots for version 2.5.0. pfSense is an Open Source firewall and router project based on FreeBSD. See the link below for more details, and download them here or from the link below. We are excited to...
BSD Link Roundup 3.21
Here is a round up of things more or less related to BSD, from history, software, to running it on old hardware. Enjoy! The Web turns 30: Dream or nightmare?:https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-web-turns-30/ Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland desktop for Linux and...
Project Trident 18.12-U7 is now available
The developers of Project Trident have released version 18.12-U7. Project Trident is a continuation of the Open Source FreeBSD based operating system TrueOS combined with the Lumina desktop environment. Notable changes are default post-install ZFS block size change,...
BSD Now Episode 288: Turing Complete Sed
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss Spectre-type bugs and software, proof of sed Turing complete, using Bastille with managed jails, netdata new version, grep and /dev/null, mutt and GMail,...
ZFS Powered Magic Upgrades
FreeBSD contributor Allan Jude gives a presentation on ZFS Boot Environments and upgrading remote machines at the latest FOSDEM 19. Click the play button below to tune in: Using boot environments for atomic in-place upgrades Describe a system of using ZFS Boot...
How do you use FreeBSD and why did you select it over a Linux distribution?
Users from the /r/FreeBSD community discuss what they do with the Open Source operating system FreeBSD and why they choose to use it over Linux. We have highlighted some of the top comments for you. See the reddit link below for the full discussion thread. Started...
BSD Link Roundup 3/4
Here is a collection of interesting BSD related links, discussions, and articles we found across the web:...
BSD Now 287: rc.d in NetBSD
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss NetBSD's design and implementation of rc.d system, Project Trident 18.12 first impressions, FreeBSD disk image being PXE booted, middle mouse button paste, NetBSD and hardware accelerated...
FreeBSD ZFS AMIs Now Available
FreeBSD contributor Colin Percival announces that ZFS AMIs are now available for FreeBSD 12.0 operating system. AMI, or Amazon Machine Images, makes it easier to deploy FreeBSD onto Amazon's cloud computing services. See his blog below for more details on how to get...
25 Years of FreeBSD @ FOSDEM 19
Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, gives a presentation about the History of FreeBSD and its 25 year history so far. Press play below to tune in: FreeBSD is 25 years old! Learn the history of FreeBSD, why its use is increasing, and why you...
GhostBSD: A Solid Linux-Like Open Source Alternative
Jack M Germain reviews GhostBSD Open Source operating system from a Linux user's perspective. GhostBSD is based on TrueOS, and originally on FreeBSD. Germain discusses a bit of BSD history, packages, look and feel, apps, and other things. See the link below for the...
BSD Now Episode 286: Old Machine Revival
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss ading glue in the desktop environment, PC engine and flashing the BIOS, reviving Cisco IDS in OpenBSD, WindowMaker and OpenBSD, RealTime data compression, love for pipes, and some more. Click...
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