BSDNow.TV Episode 073: Pipe Dreams
In this week's BSD Now episode, Allan Jude and Kris Moore chat with David Maxwell, former NetBSD security officer. They talk about a project he's working on called Pipecut, which approaches the command line in a whole new way. Hit play to tune in: Official page:...
MediaFire Launches Linux/Open Source-Friendly Cloud Storage
MediaFire has released an open source toolkit which supports Linux and FreeBSD. Another cloud storage vendor is eyeing the open source community. This week, MediaFire announced a new open source toolkit compatible with Linux and FreeBSD, giving Linux desktop fans...
How To Install and Manage Ports on FreeBSD 10.1
This tutorial by user Casey of iTech Tips shows us how to get started with installing and managing ports on FreeBSD 10.1. FreeBSD is a powerful operating system capable of functioning in a variety of roles. Part of what makes this operating system an ideal choice in...
BSDNow.TV Episode 072: Common *Sense Approach
This week's BSD Now episode welcomes Jos Schellevis about his new OPNsense project, forked from the open source firewall pfSense. We learn of how this project came about as well as discuss the future plans. Click play below to tune in: Official page:...
Linux vs. BSD: Which Should You Use?
Here's another Linux vs BSD comparison, by user Danny Stieben of MakeUseOf. At MakeUseOf, we cover Linux quite a bit as the “alternative” to Windows and Mac OS X. However, those aren’t the only three operating systems out there — there’s also the BSD family of...
DigitalOcean – Presenting FreeBSD! How We Made It Happen.
DigitalOcean, a cloud hosting provider that is headquartered in New York City, has recently announced availability for FreeBSD on their platforms. We’re happy to announce that FreeBSD is now available for use on DigitalOcean! FreeBSD will be the first non-Linux...
FreeBSD Support Re-Affirmed by Ground Labs Across Entire Security Product Range
Ground Labs, a "security software company dedicated to making sensitive data discovery products that help organisations prevent sensitive data loss," has announced their continued support for FreeBSD with the next major release of Enterprise Recon. "FreeBSD is a solid...
KDE Frameworks 5.6.0 Released: More Libraries Now Work On FreeBSD
Ahead of KDE Plasma 5.2 due out later this month is the release of KDE Frameworks 5.6.0. Version 5.6.0 of KDE Frameworks, the KDE libraries added on top of Qt5, is another monthly update. KDE Frameworks 5.6.0 has some fixes for building on FreeBSD of the various...
FreeBSD Finishes Switching Over To GNOME 3.x
FreeBSD GNOME developers have had various GNOME 3.x components in the FreeBSD Ports repository for months, and with GNOME 2.x now being decommissioned by this BSD operating system, the GNOME3 X11 desktop has replaced GNOME2 on the DVD install media script. With this...
Configuring X forwarding between BSD and Windows
This tutorial by grundlig shows us how to configure X forwarding between BSD and Windows. On Unix systems, windowing systems are an optional component. There are numerous window systems but the most prevalent, as I understand it, is X. It’s a networked client/server...
FreeBSD 10 Mariadb Server Install Command
This short tutorial by nixCraft shows us how to install Mariadb on FreeBSD 10. Type the following command to install MariaDB v5.5 on a FreeBSD 10 server or VPS/cloud server: cd /usr/ports/databases/mariadb-server/ && make install clean ## or ## pkg install...
Nginx Reverse Proxy and Golang Setup on FreeBSD
Requirements Basic knowledge of UNIX. FreeBSD x64 with Nginx installed. Install Tools You will need several programs that are not shipped with FreeBSD. Run the following command to install them: pkg install nano wget git mercurial bzr Download and Install Golang...
BSDNow.TV Episode 71 – System Disaster
In this BSDNow episode, the hosts Allan Jude and Kris Moore interview Ian Sutton regarding his new BSD compatibility wrappers for various systemd dependencies. They would also like to note that systemd is not being ported to BSD ;). Click play to tune in: Official...
2015 special FreeBSD pillow offer
The folks at Linux Pillow would like to extend this special offer on their custom made FreeBSD Daemon pillow. A 10% discount will be applied if you order by the end of January. We wish you a happy new year, with a special offer. The unique handmade FreeBSD pillow can...
How To Install Apache, MySQL, PHP stack on FreeBSD Unix Server
I'm a new FreeBSD Unix system users. How can I setup and install Apache, MySQL, PHP stack on a FreeBSD 10 based Unix server? FAMP stack is nothing but group of source software to run php based apps. Our sample setup includes: Tutorial details Difficulty Easy (rss)...
Samba, NFS and Firewall. New BSD Issue 2014
BSD Magazine is out with this December issue featuring DTrace, Samba, Python flow, HardenedBSD, and finally GIMP. Check out the link below to download. EPUB & PDF: http://bsdmag.org/download/samba-nfs-and-firewall-new-bsd-issue/
Comparison: Gentoo Vs FreeBSD, Tweak Tweak Little Star
User Liron of iWillFolo wrote this comparison between Gentoo and FreeBSD. The author discusses both advantages and disadvantages of each software's installation process, tools, optimization & customization features, available packages, as well as community &...
Baseline Mac OS X Support #1113
User landonf wrote this patchset to allow baseline Mac OS X support. Howdy, The patches here add support for building on Mac OS X; with these changes, all included tests (executed via `make check') pass on both Mac OS X and FreeBSD. I don't anticipate an immediate...
The Most Popular BSD Stories Of 2014
Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com has published an article rounding up the most popular BSD stories in 2014. Grab a cup of coffee and reflect on one of BSD's biggest years: Over the past week or so I've shared many top ten / year-end lists of our most popular...
Upcoming FreeBSD Kernel Internals Evening Course
Marshall Kirk McKusick is hosting several BSD courses within the next couple months. Read below and visit the page if you are interesting in attending and learning more about FreeBSD Kernel Internals. The "FreeBSD Kernel Internals: Data Structures and Algorithms''...
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