BSD Now Episode 312: Why Package Managers
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss the UNIX Philosophy in 2019, use package managers because, interrupted touchpad, porting Wine to AMD64 on NetBSD, NetBSD Syzkalller Support enhancing, Pinebook Pro, killing a process and...
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[How-To] Change Hostname On FreeBSD
Codesposts shows us how to change the hostname on your FreeBSD operating system. The command used is hostname, and you will also learn how to verify that it's changed. See the link below for the full set of instructions. A computer hostname represents a unique name...
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[How-To] Using FreeBSD with Ports (1/2): Classic way with tools
User eerielinux is back with a blog regarding using FreeBSD with Ports. In this one he shows us how to install packages in the original BSD way using various tools such as portsnap and portmaster. See the link below for the full documentation. Installing software on...
BSD Now Episode 311: Conference Gear Breakdown
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss NetBSD 9.0 release process, xargs, a two spellcheckers tale, NetBSD and adapting TriforceAFL, no-name freebsd kernel vulnerability exploit, and some more. Click play below to tune in:...
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[How-To] FreeBSD Display Information About The System Hardware
User Vivek Gite of nixCraft shows us how to display system hardware information on your FreeBSD operating system. He will show you how to use various commands for outputting information, such as uname, getconf, freebsd-version, dmesg, and others. Check out the link...
FreeBSD Around the World
The FreeBSD Foundation talks about some conferences and shows they attended the past few months, such as FOSDEM 2019, Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit, SCaLE 17x, FreeBSD Hackaton, among others. If you have a pitch for a conference they should attend, let them...
BSD Now Episode 310: My New Free NAS
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss OPNsense 19.7.1, ARC size issues on ZFS on Linux, Hammer2 now default, NetBSD audio application perspective, the New FreeNAS Mini XL+ and Mini E, and some others. Hit play below to tune in:...
Instant Workstation by Adriaan de Groot
FreeBSD and KDE contributor Adriaan de Groot wrote a script on getting a desktop set up on your FreeBSD system. The script essentially creates an instant workstation by installing the desktop environment, display manager, and graphic drivers. See the link below for...
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[How-To] Install Matomo Web Analytics with Nginx on FreeBSD 12.0
This tutorial by user Blago Eres will show you how to set up Matomo Web Analytics on your FreeBSD server with Nginx. Matomo, formerly known as Piwik, is an open-source web analytics application that runs on PHP and MySQL web servers. Matomo is an alternative to the...
BSD Now Episode 309: Get Your Telnet Fix
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss an update for colo upgrade in the DragonFlyBSD project, future trends, ZFS send, graph visualization of realtime bandwidth terminal graph, telnet fixes, FBI's history with OpenBSD and OpenSSH...
FreeBSD 12.0: Wine Gaming
User Alexander does some gaming on his desktop powered by FreeBSD operating system. He is using Wine to run these games, such as Counter-Strike, Grand Theft Auto, Borderlands, FarCry, etc. A full list can be seen here along with his specs, for those looking to get...
BSD Now Episode 308: Mumbling with OpenBSD
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss replacing a silently failing disk in ZFS pool, OPNsense 19.7-RC1, DRM iotcl support implementing in NetBSD, VOIP server using umurur/Mumble on OpenBSD, PDP-7 UNIX beginnings, LLDP watchpoints,...
BSD Link Roundup 7.29
Here's a link roundup of articles mentioning FreeBSD, other BSDs on various hardware such as Raspberry Pi and iBook, and discussions using BSD and comparing with other distros. Forget Windows, Linux or MacOS: Try these alternative operating systems via TechFishNews...
BSD Now Episode 307: Twitching with OpenBSD
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss FreeBSD 11.3 release, OpenBSD workstation, write a fuzzer for NetBSD kernel, FreeBSD-SA-19:02.fd, OpenBSD and twitch streaming, dumping hex contents of a file, and some others. Click play below...
OPNsense 19.7.1 “Jazzy Jaguar” is now available
The developers of OPNsense have officially made available version 19.7, dubbed "Jazzy Jaguar", with 19.7.1 since released to address security and reliability fixes. Notable changes are list automatic firewall rules, alias JSON import/export, optional statistics for...
BSD Now Episode 306: Comparing Hammers
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss a retro UNIX build log based on Am5x86, setting up services in FreeNAS jail, DragonflyBSD first taste, streaming Netflix with NetBSD, NetBSD on G4 Mac Mini, Hammer versus Hammer 2, and some...
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[How-To] Install an Apache, MySQL, and PHP (FAMP) Stack on FreeBSD 12.0
This guide by users Mitchell Anicas and Albert Valbuena will show you how to get a FAMP stack set up on FreeBSD 12.0. FAMP is an acronym for FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, and PHP -- all open source applications, and crucial for hosting a web server on your FreeBSD system....
BSD Link Roundup 7.16
Here's a collection of FreeBSD announcements, articles, discussions, and all around BSD happenings. Statement regarding employment change and roles in the Project via FreeBSD list Resource exhaustion in non-default RACK TCP stack via FreeBotherSD [FreeBSD-Announce]...
Project Trident 19.06 is now available
The developers of Project Trident have made available version 19.06. Project Trident is the continuation of the graphical version of TrueOS with Lumina Desktop Environment and is based on FreeBSD operating system. Notable changes are updates to chromium, firefox,...
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[How-To] Recommended Steps For New FreeBSD 12.0 Servers
This tutorial by user Justin Ellingwood and Kathryn Hancox of DigitalOcean will show you how to perform the additional steps to get right into production after installing FreeBSD on your server. You will learn how to configure ipfw firewall, UDP connections, set the...
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