The True Value of Randomness & Deeper Exploration in (Free|Hardened)BSD Entropy
This blog series by user W. Dean Freeman discusses some security aspects of HardenedBSD, along with an Entropy Assessment of FreeBSD. The author runs various tests using DTrace and documents his findings across 2 different blogs, and more to come in the future. Check...
read moreJordan Hubbard – FreeNAS 10 @ BayLISA
Jordan Hubbard recently spoke at BayLISA, a system administrator group that meets monthly in the Silicon Valley. His talk was about the latest happenings in FreeNAS 10 and was held at Groupon, Palo Alto. Click play below to watch:...
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Benno Rice – The Trouble with FreeBSD
Benno Rice, FreeBSD committer and Core Team member, discusses issues in keeping the community alive through contributors, as well as addresses several solutions to the problem. This presentation was recorded at linux.conf.au in Hobart, Australia. Follow the link to...
read moreFreeBSD 11 Images for VirtualBox & VMware
OSboxes has created VirtualBox & VMware images with FreeBSD 11 as the virtual environment. This will allow users to test the open source operating system in a virtual machine before installing it on bare metal. Head on over to the page below to download the VDI or...
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[How-To] Beaglebone Black, FreeBSD, Android, Arduino and more
This tutorial/blog from Victoria Raspberry PiMakers will show you how to get FreeBSD set up on a Beaglebone Black board for a DIY home security solution. In this project, they aim to eliminate the third party, leaving control and privacy in the hands of the user....
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[How-To] FreeBSD UEFI Root on ZFS and Windows Dual Boot
User Kevin Bowling shows us how to get FreeBSD and Windows to dual boot on a single machine. This method uses UEFI as the main bootloader. Follow the link provided for the full set of instructions. Somehow I’ve managed to mostly not care about UEFI until now. On my...
read moreBSDNow.TV Episode 177: Getting Pi on my Wifi
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Kris Moore discuss WiFI, a new iocage, and news/guides regarding Raspberry Pi 3. Click play below to tune in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhFnzYi8djk BSD Now weekly content:...
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[How-To] Installing Dream Daemon in FreeBSD
This tutorial by user Audeuro will show you how to get Dream Daemon running on FreeBSD. Dream Daemon is a tool for using your machine as a server for BYOND games. Follow the link below for the full set of instructions. Installing Dream Daemon("DD") on a FreeBSD system...
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[How-To] Reading DHT11 Temp. Sensor on Raspberry Pi FreeBSD
This tutorial by user Alex Samorukov shows us how to get the DHT-11 temperature sensor readings configured on a Raspberry Pi running FreeBSD. Follow the link provided below for the full set of instructions. Connecting sensor to the RPi DHT-11 is a very cheap...
read moreBSDNow.TV Episode 176: Linking your world
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Kris Moore and Allan Jude discuss LLVM linking, NetBSD's scheduler, routers, desktops, build-systems, and more. Press play below to tune in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKNecMv9BdY BSD Now weekly content:...
read moreFreeBSD Security Advisory: OpenSSH vulnerabilities 1/11/2017
A FreeBSD Security Advisory concerning an OpenSSH vulnerability has recently been issued. You can view the full description of the vulnerability and solution on the mailing list page. User Vivek Gite also provides a solution for the problem below. I. Background...
read more[How-To] VMware ESXi 6.5 & FreeNAS 9 Installation
This tutorial by user Guy, Robot will show you how to configure a FreeNAS 9 installation to run on your VMware ESXi hypervisor. Check out the two videos below on how to get a FreeNAS virtual environment set up. In addition, Guy, Robot also shows us his custom FreeNAS...
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Haiku OS & UEFI, FreeBSD Compatibility Layer
Haiku OS, a powerful and lightweight open source operating system, has recently introduced improved support on UEFI and the FreeBSD compatibility layer. See the full story over at Phoronix, including a user discussion at the link below. For those interested in the...
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BSD Magazine Vol 10 No 12
This issue of BSD Magazine features several interviews: Deb Goodkin of the FreeBSD Foundation, Shawn Web of HardenedBSD, Henning Brauer of BS Web Services, and Mathilda FFrench of ECHiNOPSII. In addition, you will find content on VMware Storage, OpenBSD, and SSHLock....
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FreeBSD 64 base system & LLD linker
LLVM is now able to link entirely to the FreeBSD/amd64 base system. LLVM is a compiler, and LLD is a linker based on the "atom" model. See the full story below, as well as a lengthy discussion from Phoronix. LLVM's LLD linker has been making a lot of progress over the...
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[How-To] GNOME 3 on FreeBSD
User Bit Cannon shows us how to get GNOME 3 desktop environment set up on FreeBSD. Follow the link below for the full set of instructions, including their thoughts on GNOME. As part of my evaluation of macOS alternatives I set up GNOME 3 on FreeBSD. I received some...
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[How-To] Installing Nokogiri
Nokogiri is a an HTML, SAX, XML, and Reader parser available on multiple open-source operating systems. Nokogiri also allows you to search document with XPath or CSS3 selectors. You can find out how to download it at the link below. Because Nokogiri needs to be...
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Lumina 1.2 Desktop Environment now available
Ken Moore, developer of Lumina, has released version 1.2 for the lightweight desktop environment packaged with TrueOS. This release features new plugin, custom themes such as Windows / OSX / MATE type desktops, a removal of libLuminaUtils, and more. See below for the...
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[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1 and 10.2 EoL
The developers of FreeBSD have announced the end-of-life for versions 9.3, 10.1, 10.2. They encourage all users to upgrade to the latest versions, 10.3 and up. Official announcement:...
read moreBSDNow.TV Episode 175: How the Dtrace saved Christmas
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Kris Moore and Allan Jude discuss new OpenSSL APIs, Dtrace, OpenBSD desktops, and security beginning in 2017. Press play below to tune in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P79ZgyMf0yk BSD Now weekly content:...
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