Cohabiting FreeBSD and Gentoo Linux on a Common ZFS Volume by Eric
This blog by user Eric McCorckle documents his experience in running FreeBSD and Gentoo side by side. He has set up a ZFS volume on his Librem 15 notebook to run both of the open source operating systems. Follow the link below for his full story. My Librem 15 arrived...
read moreBSDNow.TV Episode 174: 2016 highlights
In this BSD Now episode, Chris takes over and guest hosts for back at 2016's greatest hits in BSD. He discusses TrueOS, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD releases through the year, including an interview with Petra regarding NetBSD. Press play below to tune in:...
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FreeBSD Foundation receives another Uranium Level Donation
Just earlier this month it was announced that Jan Koum of WhatsApp donated $500,000 to the FreeBSD Foundation. This week an anonymous donor gave the same amount, allowing the Foundation to surpass their 2016 goal by a large sum. Donations to the FreeBSD Foundation...
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2016 FreeBSD Foundation Project Development Summary
The FreeBSD Foundation presents an update of the projects they have been sponsoring in 2016. It ranges from FreeBSD/arm64 port, VIMAGE integration, blacklistd, to reproducible builds. Follow the link provided below for a summary of the year in review. Over the past...
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[How-To] Install Mate Desktop Environment in FreeBSD 11
In this tutorial, user Arun Pyasi will show us how to get MATE desktop environment set up on FreeBSD 11. Follow the link below for the full set of instructions. Mate is a free and open source desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like operating system which is a fork...
read moreBSDNow.TV Episode 173: Carry on my Wayland son
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Kris Moore interview Ritchi regarding the infamous side of UNIX history, in addition to news of Wayland/Weston, syspatch, and more. Press play below to tune in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRzbPLdM46g BSD Now weekly...
read moreOPNsense 17.1-BETA now available
The developers of OPNsense have released their BETA of version 17.1. OPNsense is an open source firewall based on FreeBSD and is also forked from pfSense. Follow the link below to try out their latest BETA release. Dear friends and followers, With the best wishes for...
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FreeBSD Making Progress On Wayland Support
Developers of FreeBSD are making strides in Wayland support for FreeBSD. Wayland is a display server protocol that specifies communication between display servers and clients. Check out the discussion at Phoronix in the link provided. FreeBSD is making some progress...
read moreFossbytes – Difference Between Linux And BSD
This article by user Aditya Tiwari (Fossbytes.com) talks about some pros and cons of both Linux and BSD operating systems. Follow the link below to read the entire comparison. Short Bytes: Linux and BSD are two open source operating system families inspired by the...
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2016 MeetBSD & EuroBSD Trip Report
JT Pennington writes about his experience at MeetBSD 2016, which was recently held at UC Berkeley Clark Kerr campus. Pennington's trip was made possible with a grant from the FreeBSD Foundation. Oladipupo Cornelius Oyediji was also able to attend EuroBSDcon 2016...
read moreBSDNow.TV Episode 172: A tale of BSD from yore
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Kris Moore and Allan Jude interview a special guest regarding the early days in BSD history. In addition, they discuss OpenSSH, shell scripting utilities, and more. Click play below to tune in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paGVrcHM-9s...
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[How-To] Set/unset loader variables in boot loader prompt
This short tutorial by user shibaa987 shows you how to set and unset loader variables during boot loader prompt for FreeBSD. Follow the link below for the full set of instructions. Important question is why you need to set and unset variables at boot time??? The...
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NASA & FreeBSD: Building Cost-Effective 100-Gbps Firewalls for HPC
In this article, NASA discusses using FreeBSD servers for their Climate Simulation project. FreeBSD was chosen as a cost effective solution which also provided ample security and network reliability. Read the full story by heading to the link below. Overview The...
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[How-To] Install FreeBSD on a libreboot system
This tutorial from libreboot.org will show you how to get FreeBSD set up on a libreboot system. Libreboot is an alternative BIOS/UEFI for bootloading your operating system. Follow the link below for the full set of instructions. How to install FreeBSD on a libreboot...
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Back and forth: Linux and *BSD
User eerielinux discusses their experience in using both Linux and *BSD operating systems. PC-BSD and TrueOS are also mentioned. The author describes what its like using ZFSonLinux and ZFS on a FreeBSD system. Follow the link below for the full story. This is kind of...
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FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro
This is a lengthy discussion from Hacker News, derived from a tutorial by user mpasternacki on how to get FreeBSD set up on a MacBook Pro. Top comment: wwweston 15 days ago [-] > Six years later, it less and less "Just Works", started turning into spyware and nagware,...
read moreBSDNow.TV Episode 171: The APU – BSD Style!
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Kris Moore and Allan Jude discuss running OpenBSD on APU, BSD stuff on Android devices, managing your own FreeBSD cloud service via ansible, and more. Press play below to tune in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28FoHW9oqSE BSD Now...
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BSD Magazine Vol. 10 No. 11 Issue 10/2016
The latest BSD Magazine is out, this one featuring Mikhail Zakharov's article First Look at the Renewed CTL High Availability Implementation in FreeBSD, in addition to a user article on creating your first FreeBSD kernel module, bhyve, and Michael Dexter's MeetBSD...
read moreBSDNow.TV Episode 170: Sandboxing Cohabitation
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Kris Moore discuss EuroBSDcon, sharing a single ZFS pool between Linux and BSD, Sandboxing, and more. Click play below to tune in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kcxXxPyIgA BSD Now weekly content:...
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[How-To] Install Git on FreeBSD 11.0
User shows us how to set up Git on FreeBSD 11. Git is a version control system, or VCS, is used for software development and various version control tasks. Follow the link below for the full set of instructions. Introduction Version control systems are an...
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