TechRadar Q&A with the FreeBSD Foundation
TechRadar Pro recently interviewed Deb Goodkin of the FreeBSD Foundation about the work they do to keep the FreeBSD project alive and well. You will find a snippet of the interview below, with a link to the full discussion about commercial businesses supporting...
BSD Now Episode 339: BSD Fundraising
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss FuryBSD, NetBSD 9.0, OpenBSD Foundation 2019 campaign, OmniOS retrospective, NFS fileservers based on ZFS, NetBSD's 2020 fundraising goal, OpenSSH 8.2, and some others. Click play below to tune...
FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying
iXsystems has announced that it will be unifying the FreeNAS and TrueNAS brand into one name, TrueNAS Open Storage. TrueNAS will now feature TrueNAS CORE representing the open-source and community edition (formerly FreeNAS) and TrueNAS Enterprise representing its...
FuryBSD reviewed by It’s FOSS and DistroWatch
It's FOSS reviews FuryBSD, a recent distribution of the FreeBSD open-source operating system. Developed by lead Joe Maloney, FuryBSD is designed to run on a live USB and allows you to easily install it if you want to use it on your system. The article discusses the...
FreeBSD Around the World, and Why You Should Get Involved!
Deb Goodkin of the FreeBSD Foundation has been a major advocate for FreeBSD. You can view some of her recent presentations about what's happening with FreeBSD around the globe, as well as awareness to the greater open-source community. Thank you for your contributions...
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[How-To] Deploy Kubernetes cluster on FreeBSD/bhyve by CBSD
The CBSD project shows us how to get a Kubernetes Cluster set up on a FreeBSD bhyve hypervisor. Kubernetes, originally designed by Google, is an open-source automated container-orchestration system to for application deployment, scaling, as well as management. They go...
FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life
Rodney Grimes of the FreeBSD Security Team has announced that FreeBSD version 12.0 is reaching its end-of-life, effective February 29, 2020. Users are highly encouraged to move to the next stable release that is still receiving updates, which is 12.1. > -----BEGIN...
FreeBSD Foundation Travel Grants for BSDCan and EuroBSDcon
The FreeBSD Foundation is providing travel grants for BSDCan 2020 and EuroBSDcon 2020 coming up later this year. Applications for grants close on April 9 and July 30 respectively. Those who need travel assistance and are looking to show case their latest project or...
BSD Now Episode 338: iocage in Jail
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss DistroWatch review of FuryBSD, LLDB on i386 with NetBSD, wpa_supplicant lower-class citizen, KDE on FreeBSD, BSDCan travel grant, ZFS dataset testing iocage, and some more. Click play below to...
OPNsense 20.1.1 “Keen Kingfisher” is now available
The developers of OPNsense have made available version 20.1.1 of the new Keen Kingfisher release. Notable changes in this version are increase size of user SSH key input box, fixed PHP warning on general settings page, update max MTU for 10GB NICs, as well as updates...
FreeBSD Q4 2019 Status Report
The FreeBSD Core Team, Foundation, Release Engineering, Cluster Administration, and Continuous Integration teams have released their last quarter report for 2019. Notable projects here are IPSec Extended Sequence Number support, RockChip support, SoC audio framework,...
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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