OPNsense 18.7.1 is available
The developers of OPNsense have made available version 18.7.1. This is the first stable update for the 18 series and includes various security patches for the software in OPNsense. It also patches the TCP bug found on FreeBSD earlier this month. For a detailed list of...
BSD Now Episode 260: Hacking Tour of Europe
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss a recap for BSDCam and Essen Hackaton, CfT: ZFS native encryption and UFS trim consolidation, ZFS benchmarking on FreeBSD server, how to port OS to EC2, Vint Cerf about traceability, remote...
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[How-To] Highly Available DHCP Server on FreeBSD
User vermaden demonstrates how to set up a highly available DHCP server on FreeBSD. This setup in particular utilizes ISC (Internet Systems Consortium) DHCP server available in ports. See the link below for the full set of instructions Today I would like to share a...
Benno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd — BSDCan 2018
FreeBSD contributor Benno recently presented a topic about Linux's systemd at BSDCan. The talk goes into systemd from a BSD perspective. Below is also a link to the reddit discussion on r/linux with some interesting viewpoints and overall positivity....
BSD for Linux Users (Early 00s)
Original FreeBSD user Matt explains to Linux users the BSD perspective as a user himself. This page is dated to the late 90s--early 00s and offers an interesting insight on the gap between Linux and BSD back then. The whole article is split between 11 pages from the...
NomadBSD 1.1 is available
The developers of NomadBSD have made available version 1.1. NomadBSD is an live 64bit system dedicated to run on USB drives, and is based on the open-source operating system FreeBSD. You may download the image file from here. Changes since 1.0.1 Base system has been...
BSD Now Episode 259: Long Live Unix
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss the strange birth and long life of Unix, FreeBSD jail with a single public IP, talks from EuroBSDcon 2018, OpenBSD on a G4 iBook, PAM template user, ZFS fileserver, and a reflection on one year...
MeetBSD 2018 @ Intel Santa Clara, CA
MeetBSD is being held at Intel's Santa Clara campus on October 19-20, 2018. Call For Papers is available until August 13, so submit your papers now if you haven't already! We hope to see BSD enthusiasts from around the world there for a eventful weekend full of talks...
FreeBSDCon’99: Fans of Linux’s lesser-known sibling gather for the first time
Check out this throwback article highlighting one of the first FreeBSD conferences back in 1999. It was held in Berkeley, where the story of FreeBSD began. See the full article at the link below, you may notice some familiar names. (IDG) -- FreeBSD, a port of BSD Unix...
FreeBSD Security Advisory regarding TCP
The FreeBSD Team has issued a security advisory affecting the TCP protocol on current versions of FreeBSD. Please see the message and take measures to keep your FreeBSD system safe and secure by updating with the patches. A detailed report can be found at the link...
BSD Now Episode 258: OS Foundations
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss the FreeBSD Foundation July newsletter, reports on BSDCan, status of HardenedBSD Foindation, FreeBSD and OSPFd, an overview of ZFS disk structure, and OpenBSD Spectre mitigations. Press play...
FreeBSD Foundation Development Projects Update July 2018
Mark Johnston provides up an update on development projects sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation. One he is working on in particular is in-kernel microcode loading. Currently, the patch is in its early stage and feedback is requested. Johnston notes that new...
FreeNAS 11.2-BETA2 is now available!
The developers of FreeNAS have made available the SECOND BETA of version 11.2. This version features the default new user interface based on Angular, updated guide, continued rewrite from old API to new middleware, boot loader no longer GRUB but native FreeBSD, plugin...
TrueOS test on ThinkPad T410 notebook
User Pan_opticom tries out TrueOS version 18.3 on his Lenovo ThinkPad T410 notebook. Watch the video to see some demos on AppCafe, LibreOffice, VLC Player, Doom, and driver related stuff. https://youtu.be/WLgdJwd5zcQ...
OPNsense 18.7 is now available
The developers of OPNsense have made available version 18.7 RELEASE. This version features improvements to WAN DHCPv6 & SLAAC, support for IPv6 Rapid Deployment (6RD), better default route handling and gateway switching, OpenVPN improvements, and much much more....
BSD Now Episode 257: Great NetBSD 8
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude & Benedict Reuschling discuss NetBSD 8.0, FreeBSD and scaleway ARM64 VPS, encrypted backups on OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD server/storage upgrades, zpool checkpoints, g2k18 hackathon reports, & more. Click play below to tune...
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[How-To] FEMP stack on Amazon EC2
User stak shows us how to get a FEMP stack (FreeBSD, nginx, MySQL, PHP) set up on your Amazon EC2 cloud. Note that you will need an existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) account to set up your FreeBSD web stack. See the link below for the full set of instructions. I...
The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS (USENIX)
This paper by researchers at USENIX tackles the differences between FreeBSD ULE and Linux CFS. ULE is the default scheduler for FreeBSD, and CFS is the default scheduler for Linux. See the link provided by USENIX.org to view the full document. We compare ULE and CFS...
BSD Now Episode 2^8: Because Computers
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling & Allan Jude talk about FreeBSD ULE vs Linux CFS, OpenBSD on Tuxedo InfinityBook, how zfs diff reports filenames efficiently, why choose FreeBSD over Linux, PS4 double free exploit, OpenBSD's wifi autojoin, and...
Ask Noah Show 77: Should You Ditch Linux for FreeBSD
On this episode of Ask Noah, Ken Moore and JT Pennington join in to answer the infamous question of what BSD offers to attract users over. They discuss the Lumina desktop as well as what's coming for Project Trident. They also answer the incoming chat questions shown...
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