NUMA Optimizations in the FreeBSD Network Stack by Drew Gallatin
FreeBSD contributor Drew Gallatin gives a talk about the FreeBSD Network Stack and optimizing NUMA, and its real world application for Netflix's servers. This presentation occurred at EuroBSDCon 2019 in Lillehammer, Norway....
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[How-To] Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt on FreeBSD 12.0 by DigitalOcean
This guide by user Albert Valbuena will show you how to set up a secure Apache open-source web server with Let's Encrypt certificate authority on FreeBSD 12.0. Initial set up requires a FAMP (FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack. See the link below for the full set...
FreeNAS 11.3-BETA1 is now available
The developers of FreeNAS have made available the first BETA of version 11.3. This update introduces a dashboard overhaul with more relevant data and faster response, SMB improvements, better ZFS replication, new iSCSI and Networking wizards, and configuration...
FreeBSD on an NVIDIA NVS 3100M ThinkPad T410
User Toby B walks us through his journey of setting up and using FreeBSD operating system on a Lenovo Thinkpad T410 notebook. He walks us through the installation process and getting the NVIDIA driver configured. See the link below for the full details. A few years...
Bhyve guests with hardware accelerated graphics by Michael Chiu
FreeBSD contributor Michael Chiu recently gave an exciting talk about bhyve and FreeBSD at EuroBSDcon 2019, which was held in Lillehammer Norway. In this talk he focuses on how to utilize hardware accelerated graphics in a bhyve virtual machine guest, through a GPU...
BSD Link Roundup 11.18
Here's the mid November roundup of all things BSD related, from what FreeBSD actually is, a number of security advisories, drivers, production use cases, and notebook action shots What is FreeBSD? Definition, Features, its Distributions and More via Computer Tech...
BSD Now Episode 323: OSI Burrito Guy
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss the first Unix code, replacing fail2ban with blacklistd, OpenBSD crossing 400k commits, installing Bolt CMS on FreeBSD, hammer2 optimized OSI-7 layer burrito guys, and some more. Press play...
FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE is now available
The developers of FreeBSD have made available the long awaited 12.1-RELEASE. Notable features in this version in BearSSL, updates to clang, llvm, libC++, OpenSSL, among many security fixes all around. You may download the latest ISO/image here. The FreeBSD Release...
FuryBSD is the rage!
Joe Maloney has recently announced FuryBSD, a custom desktop based FreeBSD system that acts as a liveCD as well as installer. This will allow users to easily test out FreeBSD, and also utilize a familiar desktop environment with it before committing to install. Check...
FreeBSD 7 Day Challenge | #1 Moving In by Tyler’s Tech
User Tyler's Tech is challenging himself to use FreeBSD open-source operating system for 7 days, for any and all of his computing needs.This task should be quite easy for readers of FreeBSD News, but let's see how he fares at the end of his journey! So far, here is a...
BSD Now Episode 322: Happy Birthday, Unix
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss Unix's 50th, Ken's PDP-7, OpenBSD and OPNsense, GhostBSD, sshuttle VPN over SSH, and some other things. Click play below to tune in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efc-ldt1ewA BSDNow.TV show...
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[How-To] Install Shopware with NGINX and Let’s Encrypt on FreeBSD 12
User Blago Eres shows us how to get Shopware set up on your FreeBSD operating system, along with NGINX and Let's Encrypt. Shopware is an open-source e-commerce platform, NGINX is a web server, and Let's Encrypt is a certificate authority. See the link below for the...
Linux & BSD Bookshelf by No Starch Press @ Humble Bundle
No Starch Press, known for publishing BSD and Linux guide books has teamed up with Humble Bundle for the latest Book Bundle. You can pay minimum 1 dollar to unlock seven great eBooks, with more the more you pay. The proceeds will be going to the No Starch Press...
BSD Link Roundup 11.1
Here's a long list of BSD related posts, from UNIX history to discussions of hardware for BSD, to various software and security notices. Enjoy and happy 1st of the month! Unix 50 via Nokia Bell Labs...
BSD Now Episode 321: The Robot OS
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling interivew Trenton Schulz regarding his early days with FreeBSD, and discuss Robot OS, Qt, and other things. Press play below to tune in: https://youtu.be/U-hLr_yBRkA BSDNow.TV show notes:...
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[How-To] Check Hard Drive Health on FreeBSD by OSETC TECH
User osetc shows us how to monitor your Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or Solid State Drive (SSD) health on your FreeBSD server. They start by using the Smartctl command line tool, which utilizes the SMART technology that is built inside many different drives, and also...
GhostBSD XFCE + GNOME Preview by Tyler’s Tech
User Tyler Tech tries out another BSD operating system, this time GhostBSD which is based on TrueOS and FreeBSD. Tyler looks at ZFS configuration, Window Manager Tweaks on XFCE, and also tries out GNOME. Check out the video below, as well as the reddit discussion on...
Replacing an Oracle Server with FreeBSD, OpenZFS, and PostgreSQL (@ vBSDcon 2019)
FreeBSD contributor Benedict Reuschling discusses a project at the University of Applied Sciences Computer Science department, in which he replaces a Windows-based Oracle server with the FreeBSD (12.0) operating system, running OpenZFS and PostgreSQL 10. Check out the...
FreeBSD at Work: Building Network and Storage Infrastructure with pfSense and FreeNAS (@ vBSDcon 2019)
User Conor gives a talk on a pfSense+FreeNAS network and storage infrastructure, both which has the FreeBSD operating system under the hood. Check out the video below to view the whole presentation, which was done at vBSDcon in Virginia....
BSD Now Episode 320 – Codebase: Neck Deep
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss Google Pixelbook with FreeBSD, NetBSD and AMDx86-64 port, ZFS performance degradation and quota limits, KA9Q-unix fixing up, review of HAMMER2 and fsck, startx(1) for non-root users, and some...
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