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[How-To] WordPress on FreeBSD 11 with Apache, PHP and MySQL

October 14, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

This tutorial by user Arun Pyasi will show us how to get WordPress set up on FreeBSD 11.0 along with Apache, PHP, and MySQL. Follow the link below for the entire set of instructions.

WordPress is a free and open source content management system written on PHP and MySQL which powers most of the websites running in the web now a days. WordPress powers more than 26.4% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2016, supporting more than 60 million websites on the web. It is developed and maintained by the WordPress Foundation and is released under GNU GPLv2 or later. Running websites and blogs on WordPress is very easy task which doesn’t require expertise in programming. FreeBSD is a free and open source Unix-like operating system derived from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It is similar to Linux but with two major differences in scope and licensing ie FreeBSD develops and maintains a complete operating system ie from kernel, device drivers to the userland utilities and is released under a permissive BSD license which opposes the copyleft GPL used by Linux. It is widely used across desktop, workstation, server and embedded systems. The latest stable release of FreeBSD 11 was released yesterday. Here, we’ll install WordPress on the latest FreeBSD 11 with a complete FAMP Stack ie FreeBSD with Apache as web server, MySQL for database system and PHP modules.

1) Installing Apache Web Server

To install Apache web server on FreeBSD, we can use its default package manager ie pkg which allows us to install the Apache web server from the official FreeBSD package repository. To install apache using pkg, we’ll need to run the following command.

% sudo pkg install apache24

…

Full tutorial: http://linoxide.com/webserver/install-wordpress-freebsd-11-apache-php-mysql/

[How-To] Installing a Desktop Environment on FreeBSD

October 14, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

The FreeBSD Foundation has once again made it easy for us to setup FreeBSD. This tutorial shows you how to configure the various desktop environments, starting from X Window System, to the environment of your choice. Follow the link below for the entire instructions.

Full tutorial: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/how-to-guides/installing-a-desktop-environment-on-freebsd/

BSDNow.TV Episode 163: Return of the Cantrill

October 14, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

In this BSD Now episode, hosts Kris Moore and Allan Jude discuss the recently released FreeBSD 11.0. In addition, they take a look back into UNIX history, and also feature a special guest. Press play below to tune in:

For this week’s roundup of BSD related content from BSD Now: http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2016_10_12-return_of_the_cantrill

FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE link roundup

October 14, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE was recently released this week after several delays due to bug fixes. Here’s a list of links from where 11.0-RELEASE is being discussed across the internet.

news [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE Now Available

DistroWatch – BSD release: FreeBSD 11.0

Softpedia – FreeBSD 11.0 Operating System Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Phoronix – FreeBSD 11.0 Officially Released | Discussion

OSNews – FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE released

The Register – FreeBSD 11.0 lands, with security fixes to FreeBSD 11.0

FreeBSD.org – FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE Announcement

2daygeek – FreeBSD 11.0 Released after initial delay, Why ? Due to bspatch vulnerability, a special procedure must be followed for safe upgrade

4-traders – Cavium : FreeBSD Takes Open Source to 11 with Latest Release

FreeNAS 9.10 – LAGG & VLAN Overview / Running VMs using iohyve

October 14, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

Check out these two tutorial videos for FreeNAS 9.10. The first video, from the FreeNASTeam, will show you how to get link aggregation and virtual LAN set up on FreeNAS. The second video, from user m0nkey_, will show you how to get a virtual machine setup via iohyve — a FreeBSD bhyve manager using ZFS.

MeetBSD 2016 to be held at UC Berkeley Clark Kerr Campus on 11/11

October 12, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

Have you signed up for MeetBSD 2016? Check out this promotional video for a look into past MeetBSDs, and see what you can expect for the upcoming “unconference” to be held on November 11 to 12. Returning to its roots at UC Berkeley, BSD enthusiasts from around the world will gather to enjoy a panel of guest speakers, birds of a feather sessions, and a party hosted at the Hillside Club.

Visit http://MeetBSD.com now and sign up for a spot!

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwired – September 06, 2016) – iXsystems announced today that the fifth MeetBSD California conference will take place at UC Berkeley’s Clark Kerr campus on November 11-12. As in past years, this year’s MeetBSD California will once again follow a mixed “unConference” format and will feature breakout sessions, discussion groups, and talks from prominent figures in the BSD community.

MeetBSD California is the premier BSD Conference in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its inception in 2008, MeetBSD California has been held every two years in Silicon Valley, bringing together BSD community members from all over the region and around the world.

Previous settings for MeetBSD California have included the Google and Yahoo! Campuses, Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, and the Western Digital campus in San Jose. The BSD operating system was developed in the early ’90s at this year’s venue, UC Berkeley.

Kirk McKusick, one of the instigators of BSD at Berkeley in the 1980s, says, “I am thrilled to have a BSD Conference return to the campus at which it started. I look forward to catching up on all the latest work going into the BSD systems and especially look forward to the party at the historic Hillside Club on Friday evening.”

“For this fifth installment of the MeetBSD California conference, we’re proud to bring it home to where it all began,” says Matt Olander, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of iXsystems. “UC Berkeley provides the perfect backdrop for the accomplishment of BSDrelated development milestones. We’re looking forward to the insightful discussions that will take place at this year’s MeetBSD.”

FreeBSD 11.0 Release Announcement

October 10, 2016 By matto Leave a Comment

Turn it up! Behold, my lil devils, it’s time to dust-off mergemaster, grab a ZFS snap, and get updating!

No need for me:

root@freebsd12:~ # uname -v
FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r305028: Mon Aug 29 22:45:29 UTC 2016 root@releng3.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

Now hop to it, slackers!

FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE Announcement

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE. This is the first release of the
stable/11 branch.

Some of the highlights:

* OpenSSH DSA key generation has been disabled by default. It is
important to update OpenSSH keys prior to upgrading. Additionally,
Protocol 1 support has been removed.

* OpenSSH has been updated to 7.2p2.

* Wireless support for 802.11n has been added.

* By default, the ifconfig(8) utility will set the default regulatory
domain to FCC on wireless interfaces. As a result, newly created
wireless interfaces with default settings will have less chance to
violate country-specific regulations.

* The svnlite(1) utility has been updated to version 1.9.4.

* The libblacklist(3) library and applications have been ported from
the NetBSD Project.

* Support for the AArch64 (arm64) architecture has been added.

* Native graphics support has been added to the bhyve(8) hypervisor.

* Broader wireless network driver support has been added.

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[How-To] Running FreeBSD in Travis-CI

October 7, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

User Even Rouault shows us how to get FreeBSD running in Travis-CI. Travis-CI is a continuous integration service that allows you to run and test projects from GitHub itself. Please note that his findings are experimental, should one try it in a production environment. See the link below for the full instructions.

Travis-CI has a free offer for software having public repository at GitHub. Travis-CI provides cloud instances running Linux or Mac OS X. To increase portability tests of GDAL, I wondered if it was somehow possible to run another operating system with Travis-CI, for example FreeBSD. A search lead me to this question in their bug tracker but the outcome seems to be that it is not possible, nor in their medium or long term plans.

One idea that came quickly to mind was to use the QEMU machine emulator that can simulate full machines (CPU, peripherals, memory, etc), of several hardware architectures (Intel x86, ARM, MIPS, SPARC, PowerPC, etc..). To run QEMU, you mostly need to have a virtual hard drive, i.e. a file that replicates the content of the hard disk of the virtual machine you want to run. I found here a small ready-to-use x86_64 image of FreeBSD 9.2, with one nice property: the ssh server and DHCP are automatically started, making it possible to remote connect to it.

So starting with a Travis-CI Ubuntu Trusty (14.04) image, here are the step to launch our FreeBSD guest:
sudo apt-get install qemu
wget ftp://ftp.stacklet.com/archive/x86-64/FreeBSD/9.2/\
    freebsd.9-2.x86-64.20140103.raw.img.txz
tar xJvf freebsd.9-2.x86-64.20140103.raw.img.txz
qemu-system-x86_64 -daemonize -display none \
   freebsd.9-2.x86-64.20140103.raw.img \
   -m 1536 -smp 4 -net user,hostfwd=tcp::10022-:22 -net nic

Read the full tutorial here: http://erouault.blogspot.com/2016/09/running-freebsd-in-travis-ci.html

pfSense 2.3.2-p1 RELEASE Now Available

October 7, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

The developers of pfSense made available version 2.3.2-p1 RELEASE. Notable changes are updates to PHP, libidn, curl, libxml2, OpenSSL vulnerability fixes, HyperV, and many more. See the full release notes in the link below, and download the ISO/image files here.

We are happy to announce the release of pfSense® software version 2.3.2-p1!

This is a maintenance release in the 2.3.x series, bringing a number of bug fixes. The full list of changes is on the 2.3.2-p1 New Features and Changes page.

This release includes fixes for 34 bugs and 2 feature items completed.

If you haven’t yet caught up on the changes in 2.3.x, check out the Features and Highlights video. Past blog posts have covered some of the changes, such as the performance improvements from tryforward, and the webGUI update.

Read the full release notes: https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=2122

FreeBSD 11.0 vs Ubuntu 16.04 vs. macOS Sierra Benchmarks by Michael Larabel

October 7, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

Michael Larabel of Phoronix performed several benchmark tests between the latest FreeBSD (note that it is not the official 11.0-RELEASE), Ubuntu, and macOS Sierra operating systems on the MacBook Air. The tests performed range from SQLite, OpenMP, to the LLVM Clang compiler. See the link below for the detailed results.

Yesterday I published some macOS 10.2 vs. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS benchmarks from a Mac Mini and MacBook Air systems. For those curious if BSDs can outperform macOS Sierra on Apple hardware, I tested the MacBook Air with FreeBSD 11.0 compared to the Linux and macOS results on that Core i5 system. Here are those results.

FreeBSD 11.0 AMD64 was tested on the Haswell-based MacBook Air and it actually worked well. Even the HD Graphics 5000 were playing nicely with the FreeBSD DRM Intel driver. The MacBook Air is equipped with a Core i5 4250U CPU with HD Graphics 5000, 4GB of DDR3 memory, and a 120GB Apple SSD. The install was smooth and was off to the races with testing.

Read about the benchmark results: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?item=freebsd-ubuntu-sierra&num=1&page=article