BSDNow.TV Episode 141: BSD Likes Ike!
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Kris Moore and Allan Jude interview Ike, the man behind OPNsense -- an open source firewall based on pfSense. Hit play below to tune in: https://youtu.be/Z94oc9kRKUY For this week's roundup of BSD related content:...
RootBSD Announces Dallas Instant Dedicated Servers
RootBSD, known for its *BSD hosting services, has announced dedicated servers located in Dallas, TX datacenters. Not too long ago, the hosting provider announced that its servers were populating in datacenters in San Jose, the heart of the Silicon Valley. Their most...
BSDCan 2016 Travel Grant Deadline: Monday, May 16
The FreeBSD Foundation is offering travel grants for those interested in attending BSDCan 2016. The annual conference will be held on June 7-11, 2016 in Ottawa, Ontario. Visit the Foundation's page to submit your application. Travel grants are available to FreeBSD...
PC-BSD’s Lumina Desktop 0.9.0 Environment now available
Ken Moore, creator of the Lumina Desktop Environment, has made available version 0.9.0. This version adds a new compositing effect, and more improvements are lined up for version 1.0. Lumina is also part of the PC-BSD project. See the link below for the full notes,...
[Video] FreeNAS 9.10 – Certificate Authority & SSL Certificates
The FreeNAS Team has released a tutorial for users who want to get Certificates set up on their FreeNAS system. A more in-depth look can be found at the FreeNAS doc: http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/freenas_system.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT1Le5VQIc0 For more...
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report Q1 2016
The FreeBSD Project Team members have made available the first quarterly status report for 2016, covering the period between January to the end of March 2016. Notable changes are a new code of conduct, improved support for Cavium ThunderX 64-bit ARM, a new GPLv3...
BSDNow.TV Episode 140: Tracing it back to BSD
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Kris Moore interview Backtrace.io about their debugging services for the enterprise. In addition, Allan speaks about his recent trip Europe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o4uKIAzJKY For this week's round up of BSD...
GhostBSD 10.3 Enoch ALPHA1 now available
The developers of GhostBSD have made available the first 10.3 ALPHA. This GhostBSD distribution is code-named "Enoch". Notable changes are added support for ZFS and UDF, as well as the base system being FreeBSD 10.3. See the full list of changes below, and download...
Presentations by Michael Dexter, Dru Lavigne – LFNW 2016
At this year's LinuxFest Northwest, FreeBSD advocates Michael Dexter and Dru Lavigne gave presentations regarding BSD and various open source topics. LinuxFest Northwest is an annual, community-run, open source tradeshow held at the Bellingham Technical College in...
BSDNow.TV Episode 139: Cheri-picking BSD
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Kris Moore interview Brooks Davis regarding CheriBSD, a fork of FreeBSD supporting the CHERI research CPU. Hit play below to tune in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1qsSDW8pSQ For this week's round up of BSD related...
Blog: FreeBSD based dual-controller storage system concept
User mezzantrop is testing a FreeBSD based dual-controller storage system. Check out his page to see his research and findings. The user also welcomes discussion/feedback and ideas to get it published. Hi Community, I’m testing #FreeBSD as the OS for a reliable...
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Blog: Larry the BSD Guy’s last column [FossForce]
Larry the BSD Guy, also known as the Free Software Guy, is hanging up the jersey to pursue another of his own writing interests. Read his final column from Fossforce, this one featuring LinuxFest NorthWest, an annual open-source trade show held in Bellingham,...
BSD Magazine – Introduction to Kernel and Syscalls
The latest issue of the BSD Magazine features an introduction kernel and syscalls on FreeBSD by David Carlier. As someone who is not a main user of unikernels, Hamza Shiekh discusses what the pros and cons may be. In addition, Russell Pavlicek dives deeper into the...
BSDNow.TV Episode 138: Rushing into BSD
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Kris Moore interview Benedict Reushling (of the FreeBSD Foundation) about his humble beginnings and the story behind joining organization. Hit play below to tune in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpporYQe79A For this...
How-To: Build a FreeBSD 10.3-release OpenStack Image with bsd-cloudinit
User Remy van Elst shows us how to get OpenStack setup with bsd-cloudinit on FreeBSD 10.3. OpenStack is a an open-source cloud managing software used to control large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources via the OpenStack API. See the link below for the...
FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS by Michael W Lucas & Allan Jude
Michael W Lucas, critically acclaimed author of many BSD books, introduces the long awaited FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS co-written by Allan Jude. This book is the follow-up to FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS, which released last year. ZFS improves everything about systems...
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[Phoronix] FreeBSD/PC-BSD 10.3 vs. Linux Benchmarks
Michael Larabel of Phoronix recently ran some benchmark tests, comparing FreeBSD & PC-BSD 10.3 with Linux. He tests everything from database benchmarks to the compiler. See the detailed results in the link below. With FreeBSD 10.3 having been released followed by...
BSDNow.TV Episode 137: FreeNAS Mini XL
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Kris Moore and Allan Jude unbox the all-new FreeNAS Mini XL, as well as share the latest BSD news. Hit play below to tune in: https://youtu.be/BfTyuvvT4Yg For this week's round up of BSD related content:...
pfSense 2.3-RELEASE now available
The developers of pfSense have made available version 2.3-RELEASE! Download the latest version in the link below. We are happy to announce the release of pfSense® software version 2.3! The most significant changes in this release are a rewrite of the webGUI...
EuroBSDcon 2016 call for papers
The organizers of this year's EuroBSDcon are requesting a call for papers for all presenters. The conference will be held on 22-25 September 2016, in Belgrade, Serbia. Head on over to their website to submit your proposal! EuroBSDcon 2016: Belgrade, Serbian Republic...
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