What users have said during FreeBSD’s 25th year
Users on Hacker News chime in on their experience with FreeBSD for the past few decades. Below are some of the top comments. Congrats on 25 years again to all FreeBSD users around the world! This was about 15 or 16 years ago, I think. That was back when hardware...
What is your primary use of FreeBSD?
A user on the FreeBSD forums asked the community what they primarily use FreeBSD for. There is a mix of professional, hobby, educational, and research. What do you use it for? Note that this poll only represents a small minority of users on the forum. I have a FreeBSD...
BSD Now Episode 251: Crypto HAMMER
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude & Benedict Reuschling discuss DragonflyBSD's hammer1 encrypted master & slave setup, recap on BSDCan part 2, announce NomadBSD 1.1-RC1, talk about OpenBSD adding LDAP client to base, FreeBSD getting pNFS support, Intel...
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[How-To] Add encrypted ZFS pool on FreeBSD
User Vivek Gite of nixCraft shows us how to add an encrypted ZFS pool on your FreeBSD server. He'll show you how to do it with gpart and geli encryption system. You may view the full set of instructions at the link below. I recently added hard disk to my FreeBSD based...
FreeBSD 11.2-RC3 now available
The developers of FreeBSD have made available the THIRD release candidate of version 11.2. This version includes a minor update to ocs_fc(4) driver, missing libc++ entires added, eager FPU context switch enabled, and more. You may see the full list of changes at the...
FreeBSD Day – June 19
Did you know that the FreeBSD name was coined 25 years ago on June 19, 1993? Because of that, the FreeBSD Foundation has officially designated June 19 as FreeBSD Day! Let's celebrate FreeBSD by introducing FreeBSD to someone who hasn't heard of it before, or hosting...
BSD Now Episode 250: BSDCan 2018 Recap
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling & Allan Jude announce TrueOS becoming a downstream fork with Project Trident, recap on BSDCan, summarize HardenedBSD Foundation founding efforts, set up VPN with OpenIKED on OpenBSD, showcase FreeBSD on a System76...
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[How-To] FreeBSD install VIM text editor using pkg and ports
User Vivek Gite is at it again with another tutorial, this time showing us how to install VIM text editor on FreeBSD. VIM is a powerful command line text editor available on many open source platforms. You may view the full set of instructions at the link below. How...
FreeBSD gets pNFS support
FreeBSD contributor rmacklem has announced pNFS support for the FreeBSD operating system. pNFS, also known as Parallel Network File System, is a protocol introduced in NFS v4.1 and allows for parallel connectivity access for storage devices. You may see the full...
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[How-To] pfSense in VMware Workstation Introduction
User Colin Westwater walks us through how he set up his pfSense firewall in a VMware virtual environment. pfSense is an open-source firewall based on FreeBSD operating system. You may view the full set of instructions at the link below. My lab is completely nested in...
FreeBSD 11.2-RC2 is now available
The developers of FreeBSD have made available the SECOND release candidate of version 11.2. Notable changes are cxgbe(4) driver updates, various SCTP fixes, amd64 hybrid ISO creation reverted, dhclient(8) utility updated, and more. You may download the ISO/image here....
TrueOS to become a fork of FreeBSD
TrueOS, also originally known as PC-BSD, has been announced by the developers as reinventing itself as a core operating system, based on FreeBSD operating system. TrueOS is the default operating system for Lumina Desktop Environment. You may read the full statement...
BSD Now Episode 249: Router On A Stick
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling & Allan Jude announce OpenZFS and DTrace updates in NetBSD, audit the NetBSD network security stack, discuss performance of MySQL on ZFS, show us the OpenSMTP results from p2k18, backup legacy Windows to FreeNAS,...
FreeBSD 11.2-RC1 is now available
The developers of FreeBSD have made available the FIRST release candidate of version 11.2. Notable changes since the last BETA3 are Wake On LAN features for Ice Cake / Cannon Lake, amd64 memstick installers updated to use MBR, flush cache fix on Intel CPUs, disc1.iso...
FreeNAS 11.1-U5 is now available
The developers of FreeNAS have made available version 11.-1-U5. This update features a bug fix to support Self-Encrypted Drives, in addition to many others. You may read the guide below to learn more about SED Devices, and a full list of changes are at the link below....
BSD Magazine Issue 06/2018
This June 2018 issue of BSD Magazine features an article discussing the advantages of ZFS on FreeBSD, LLVM and clang compilers on FreeBSD, C Programming and UNIX, Monitoring OpenBSD, Unconscious Bias to Unbiased Conscious, as well as another column by Rob Somerville....
BSD Now Episode 248: Show Me the Mooney
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude & Benedict Reuschling announce DragonflyBSD version 5.2.1, show us a writeup on BPF kernel exploit, Remote Debug the running OpenBSD kernel, interview Patrick Mooney, show us how to setup FreeBSD buildbot in a jail, dump a...
FreeBSD 11.2-BETA3 is available
The developers of FreeBSD have recently made available the third BETA of FreeBSD version 11.2. Notable changes are support RDMA service type setting for krping, updates to llvm, sparc64 boot issue fixed, and various bug fixes. You may download the ISO/image file here...
BSD Now Episode 247: Interning for FreeBSD
In this episode of BSD Now, hosts Benedict Reuschling & Allan Jude talk about what it's like to intern for FreeBSD, share some exciting developments coming to FreeBSD, run FreeNAS on DigitalOcean, show us the Network Manager control for OpenBSD, spread the word...
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[How-To] FreeBSD Desktop – Part 3 – X11 Window System
User vermaden returns with another FreeBSD how-to, this one focusing on setting up the X11 Window System. You may check out his previous blog entries on how to get FreeBSD setup initially, then continue with his latest entry at the link below. In this article I would...
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