GhostBSD 20.01 Review by RoboNuggie
Head developer Eric Turgeon released GhostBSD 20.01 last month, and user RoboNuggie recently did a review of the install process, new features, testing and maintenance of the operating system, and even playing some games. GhostBSD is based on FreeBSD open source...
BSD Now Episode 337: Kubernetes on bhyve
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss the happiness and stress of full-time Free & Open Source (FOSS) work, building a fileserver on FreeBSD, FreeBSD bhyve and Kubernetes, NetBSD 9-RC1, OPNsense 20.1, an ideal future of...
FreeNAS 11.3-RELEASE (U1) is now available
The developers of FreeNAS have recently made available version 11.3 RELEASE, with 11.3-U1 being the latest update. FreeNAS 11.3 introduces wizards for configuring iSCSI, SMB shares, pools, replication improvements, as well as more dashboard and plugins redesign. You...
FreeBSD Music Station & Six FreeBSD Terminal Games by RoboNuggie
User RoboNuggie created a video tutorial on how to set up your own online music station using the tool icecast, to stream music or podcasts. This guide will enable you to access and play music from a central music server in your home as well. The second video...
BSD Now Episode 336: Archived Knowledge
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss Linux and OpenBSD, 4th Quarter FreeBSD status report, OPNsense 19.7.9, retaining and passing on knowledge archives, HardenedBSD and Tor Onion Service v3 nodes, and some more. Click play below to...
BSD Link Roundup 2.20
Here is February's long link list of security warnings, drivers, software, blogs, insights, and discussions on getting BSD to work on various hardware. Enjoy and happy BSDing! KDE FreeBSD updates (february 2020) via bobulate RCE in OpenSMTPD library impacts BSD and...
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[How-To] Running syslog-ng in BastilleBSD
This guide by user Peter Czanik will show you how to run syslog-ng in BastilleBSD for FreeBSD. Bastille is a container management tool for FreeBSD. syslog-ng is a log management tool for security information and event management solutions. See the link below for the...
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[How-To] Setup FEMP Stack (FreeBSD, Nginx, MySQL 8 and PHP 7.4) on FreeBSD 12
This tutorial by user Blago Eres will show us how to set up a FEMP stack on FreeBSD version 12.1. FEMP stack represents FreeBSD, NGINX web server, MySQL database, and PHP. The guide utilizes pkg tool/command to install the components. See the link below for the full...
BSD Now Episode 335: FreeBSD Down Under
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss HyperbolaBSD Developer interview, why one should migrate from Linux to BSD, FreeBSD the amazing OS, ptrace(2) API in LLVM 10, 1st ever FreeBSD conference in Australia, and using containers on...
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[How-To] Install Sylius eCommerce Platform on FreeBSD 12
This article by Vultr will show us how to get Sylius set up on your FreeBSD system. Sylius is an open-source eCommerce platform based on Symfony, a PHP framework. The guide will also show you how to install the required components Composer, Node.js, and Yarn. See the...
Netdata Cloud on FreeBSD: First Impressions by Supratim
User Supratim demos Netdata Cloud on his FreeBSD system. Netdata is a system monitoring tool, and Netdata Cloud allows you to access information for your systems under one window. Instructions for installing Netdata Cloud on FreeBSD can be found here. The user...
BSD Link Roundup 1.29
Before the month end's here's another roundup of BSD related links, consisting of virtual machine images, security advisories, FreeBSD on Thinkpads, the definition of "Freeware", UNIX, and misc news & discussions. FreeBSD Docker Images via GitHub KDE FreeBSD...
BSD Now Episode 334: Distrowatch Running FreeBSD
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss upgrading FreeBSD 11.3 to 12.1, the DistroWatch switch to FreeBSD, Linus and his stance on ZFS, automatic IPv6 blocking removal, LLDB on i386, memory-hard Argon2 and NetBSD, and some others. Hit...
DistroWatch now runs FreeBSD
DistroWatch, the defacto news site for all UNIX like distributions and releases such as the BSDs and Linux, is now being run on FreeBSD after almost two decades of existence running on Debian. You can check out an AMA on r/FreeBSD regarding the transfer process and...
The History of BSD and IP Stacks with Rodney Grimes
This is a podcast with Rodney Grimes, one of the original co-founders of the FreeBSD project, discussing the history of Berkeley Software Distribution and IP Stacks, an early implementation of the worldwide used TCP/IP protocol. Rodney takes us back into the early...
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[How-To] Add User(s) to FreeBSD and Why by tdrss
User tdrss gives us some practical advice on creating users for FreeBSD and avoiding potential mishaps related to using sudo root. Check out their short guide below which includes using command adduser and setting up sudo. One might utilize this to have separate users...
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[How-To] Run broot on FreeBSD by vermaden
User vermaden shows us how to run broot file manager on your FreeBSD operating system. broot is a tool that allows you to search through your files in the command line interface, with options such as filtering for specific keywords and file sizes. See the link below...
BSD Now Episode 333: Unix Keyboard Joy
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss your impact on year 2019 of FreeBSD, WireGuard on an OpenBSD router, Amazon now supporting FreeBSD/ARM 12, pkgsrc-2019Q4, UNIX keyboards, OpenBSD and DigitalOcean, and some more. Press play...
FreeBSD is an amazing operating system by unixsheikh
Long time FreeBSD user unixsheikh talks about his FreeBSD journey, from discovering it back in 1999 or 2000 from the book The Complete FreeBSD, how he came to learn about UNIX and his familiarity with GNU/Linux already. Check out their story below, as well as a reddit...
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[How-To] FreeBSD UFS Encryption by RoboNuggie
User RoboNuggie shows us how to set up encryption on your FreeBSD UFS file system. This guide walks us through installing FreeBSD, partitioning the disk, mounting, and configuring geom eli. Check out the video below for the step-by-step process of configuring UFS...
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