MeetBSD California 2018 Promo Video
MeetBSD will be back this year at Intel's Santa Clara campus on October 19-20. Registration is still open for those who are interested in enriching their BSD experience. MeetBSD started 10 years ago in 2008 and continues to offer quality presentations from all areas...
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Trying out FreeBSD 12-ALPHA2
User RoboNuggie tries out FreeBSD 12-ALPHA2 in a VirtualBox VM and walks us through their experience. For those looking to test it out or wondering what the install process is like check out this video. https://youtu.be/jwWbBVmXBlo More videos from RoboNuggie:...
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RoboNuggie FreeBSD Tips & Tricks (Videos)
User RoboNuggie has a channel full of tutorials for the FreeBSD operating system, ranging from Installing Desktop FreeBSD, How to set up ScummVM on FreeBSD, Install & Manage Perl Modules, and much more. Head on over to their channel and learn different things to...
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BSD Now Episode 263: Encrypt That Pool
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss mitigating Spectre/Meltdown on HP proliant servers, omniOS installation, debugging memory corruption on OpenBSD, CfT for OpenZFS native encryption, Asigra TrueNAS Backup Appliance at VMworld,...
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FreeNAS 11.2-BETA3 is now available
The developers of FreeNAS have made available the THIRD BETA of version 11.2. This release features iocage fixes, cloud sync, GUI updates, and many more. For a detailed list of changes see the release notes below. You can download the latest version here. We are...
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OPNsense 18.7.2 is available
The developers of OPNsense have made available version 18.7.2. Notable changes are updates to IPv6 gateway, system wizard ACL, DHCPv6 fixes, plugins such as nginx, freeradius, haproxy, and many more bug fixes. For a detailed list check out the link below. Good day...
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FreeBSD Foundation Update, August 2018
The FreeBSD Foundation has released their August 2018 issue highlighting the things they're working on last month. It features development project updates such as USB mass storage support using Common Access Memory (CAM) target layer, fundraising initiatives, an...
read more[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 11.1 end-of-life
The FreeBSD Security Team has announced End-of-Life (EoL) for FreeBSD version 11.1. Those still on it may consider upgrading to a later version, as patches and updates will no longer be available on September 30, 2018. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512...
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BSD Now Episode 262: OpenBSD Surfacing
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss OpenBSD on Microsoft Surface Go, FreeBSD Foundation's August update, Project Trident, pkgsrc config file versioning, and MacOS remnants in ZFS code. Press play below to tune in:...
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[How-To] Syncthing on FreeBSD
User vermaden shows us how to set up Syncthing on FreeBSD operating system. Syncthing is an open-source peer-to-peer (P2P) file synchronization platform, allowing you to decentralize your data and keeping your files only where you want it. You may view the full set of...
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FreeBSD & DragonFlyBSD AMD Threadripper 2990WX Benchmarks
Michael Larabel of Phoronix tests various FreeBSD versions, DragonFlyBSD, and Linuxes on the latest AMD Threadripper 2990wx processor. Benchmarks such as compression, OpenSSL signing, GraphicsMagick, and Prime Number Generation were done. You may view the detailed...
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Mac-like FreeBSD Laptop
User mu shows us how he set up his FreeBSD laptop to function like a Mac visually and in terms of related apps. mu provides a list of applications and configuration settings to get your experience as close as possible, with the power of open source. This is a tour of...
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BSD Now 261: FreeBSDcon Flashback
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss TrueOS and Trident, pf-badhost, FreeBSDcon '99, OpenBSD and TLBleed, Morrowind on OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD and Threadripper, and more. Click play below to tune in: https://youtu.be/yDvDtA27Ta4...
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An Insight into the Future of TrueOS BSD and Project Trident
User John Paul interviews JT and Ken from the TrueOS team regarding the upcoming Project Trident, slated to take over the desktop/graphical side of TrueOS, while the original name will continue to be developed as its own core operating system. TrueOS is originally...
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People who run BSD
User Roman interviews a variety of BSD users coming from different backgrounds all over the world. Some of them are project managers, self-taught, sysadmins, transferred from Linux, have run BSD for over 20 years, security engineers, and others. Check out the full...
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Running FreeBSD at the school music department
User dszidi is running the open-source media player Kodi on the FreeBSD 12.0 operating system, at the Music Department in their local elementary school. Are you running FreeBSD anywhere in an educational setting? Let us know!
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OPNsense 18.7.1 is available
The developers of OPNsense have made available version 18.7.1. This is the first stable update for the 18 series and includes various security patches for the software in OPNsense. It also patches the TCP bug found on FreeBSD earlier this month. For a detailed list of...
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BSD Now Episode 260: Hacking Tour of Europe
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss a recap for BSDCam and Essen Hackaton, CfT: ZFS native encryption and UFS trim consolidation, ZFS benchmarking on FreeBSD server, how to port OS to EC2, Vint Cerf about traceability, remote...
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[How-To] Highly Available DHCP Server on FreeBSD
User vermaden demonstrates how to set up a highly available DHCP server on FreeBSD. This setup in particular utilizes ISC (Internet Systems Consortium) DHCP server available in ports. See the link below for the full set of instructions Today I would like to share a...
read moreBenno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd — BSDCan 2018
FreeBSD contributor Benno recently presented a topic about Linux's systemd at BSDCan. The talk goes into systemd from a BSD perspective. Below is also a link to the reddit discussion on r/linux with some interesting viewpoints and overall positivity....
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