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[How-To] Set or Export Environment Variable in FreeBSD by OSETC TECH
User osetc shows us how to set up or export your environment variable on your FreeBSD operating system. The csh shell is used along with command line tools setenv (Set Environment). See the link below for the full set of instructions. List Current Environment Variable...
End-of-Life: FreeBSD 11.2
The FreeBSD Security Team has announced that version 11.2 will be no longer be supported and deprecated at the end of October. For those who are still on 11.2, you may want to consider upgrading to version 12.0, or 12.1 once the official release is out in a few weeks....
BSD Now Episode 319: Lack Rack, Jack
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss causing ZFS to corrupt for kicks, a tutorial on NetBSD Assembly Programming, the one and only IKEA Server Lack Rack, new OmniOS Community Edition LTS, FreeBSD List Block Devices lsblk(8) style,...
FreeBSD 12.1-BETA3 is now available
The developers of FreeBSD, open-source operating system, have made available the third BETA of version 12.1 (RC1 should be releasing shortly). Notable changes a fix to imx6-based arm board, 64-bit long double types, overflow logic error in fsck_msdoosfs(8),...
BSD Now Episode 318: The TrueNAS Library
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss DragonFlyBSD vs FreeBSD & Linux benchmarks on Ryzen 7, JFK Library uses TrueNAS for digital archives, FreeBSD 12-1 BETA, obscure yet cool X11 tools, vBSDcon, Project Trident 12-U7, new UNIX...
Project Trident 12-U8 is now available
The developers of Project Trident have made available the 8th general package update to version 12, based TrueOS 12-STABLE. Notable new packages are ardour5, audacity, rust-nightly, wallutils, zetacoin, and many others. In addition, hundreds of packages have been...
FreeBSD FUSE Driver from Alan Somers
FreeBSD contributor Alan Somers was tasked with a rewrite of the FUSE driver for the FreeBSD operating system. FUSE, known as Filesystem in USErspace, is a protocol and driver that allows file system implementation from userspace processes. See the blog from the...
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[How-To] Install Vanilla Forum with Nginx & Let’s Encrypt on FreeBSD 12
This guide from user Blago Eres of HowToForge will show you how to set up Vanilla Forum along with Nginx and Let's Encrypt on your FreeBSD server. Vanilla is an open-source community supported messaging board software run on PHP. Nginx is an open-source web server,...
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[How-To] Build & Deploy Packages for FreeBSD Servers with Buildbot + Poudriere
This tutorial by user Andreas Sommer of DigitalOcean will show you how to start deploying packages on your FreeBSD server, via Buildbot and Proudiere. Buildbot is a continuous integration framework for testing software releases, and Proudiere is a BSD-licensed package...
FreeBSD 12.1-BETA2 is now available
The developers of FreeBSD have made available the second BETA of version 12.1. Notable changes in this version include fixes to fusefs(5), msdosfs(5), mpr(4), mps(4), capsicum(4), bhyve(4), and a number of other patches. You can download the 12.1 ISO/images from here....
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[How-To] Set Up Buildbot on FreeBSD
This guide by Andreas Sommer of DigitalOcean will show you how to install and configure Buildbot on your FreeBSD server. Buildbot is an open-source continuous integration framework designed to automate, build, and test releases in your software development cycle....
BSD Now Episode 317: Bots Building Jails
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss Buildbot in FreeBSD, mail sever with OpenSMTPD, Rspamd and Dovecot, HamBSD and OpenBSD amateur packet radio, HAMMER2 gets fsck on DragonFlyBSD, and startx for users. Tune in below:...
GhostBSD 19.09 overview by Riba Linux – A simple, elegant desktop BSD OS
User Riba Linux tests out GhostBSD 19.09 and gives an overview, showing off the MATE desktop and some of the pre-installed applications. GhostBSD is an open-source operating system with TrueOS as its core, which is based on FreeBSD. Check out the video below for a...
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[How-To] Install NodeBB Forum with Nginx and Let’s Encrypt on FreeBSD 12
User Blago Eres shows us how to get NodeBB Forum set up with Nginx and Let's Encrypt on your FreeBSD 12 operating system. NodeBB is an open-source discussion forum software based on Node.js. Nginx is an open-source web server, and Let's Encrypt is an open-source...
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[How-To] FreeBSD Install sudo Command To Execute Commands
User Vivek Gite shows us how to install the sudo command for designating root permissions to users on the FreeBSD operating system. He shows you how to set the root user, as well as show user's privileges. See the link below for the full set of instructions. I have...
FreeBSD 12.1-BETA1 is now available
The developers of FreeBSD have made available the first BETA of version 12.1. Notable changes in this version are userland configuration changes such as gcc-werror flag turned off, application changes to lockf(1), ktrdump(8), gzip(1) and several others, BearSSL...
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[How-To] Add users on FreeBSD using adduser or pw
This tutorial by user Vivek Gite shows us how to get users set up properly on your FreeBSD operating system. He goes through the adduser and pw command, confirming their existence, setting up or changing password, and allowing sudo privileges. See the link below for...
BSD Link Roundup 9.24
Here's a roundup of BSD related posts in September, ranging from security fixes, BSDs on Ryzen hardware, the usual ThinkPads, and other discussions. Check them out! FreeBSD : expat2 -- Fix extraction of namespace prefixes from XML names...
BSD Now 316: git commit FreeBSD
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss LLVM sanitizers and GDB regression test suite on NetBSD, Ada programming language, Homura Windows Games Launcher for FreeBSD, FreeBSD Core Team WG appointment, OpenBSD 6.6 Beta, Project Trident...
FreeNAS 11.2-U6 is now available
The developers of FreeNAS have made available version 11.2-U6. FreeNAS is a network-attached storage operating system with FreeBSD under the hood and uses the ZFS file system. Notable changes are patches to recent security vulnerabilities, new iconik cloud media...
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