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[How-To] Check Hard Drive Health on FreeBSD by OSETC TECH
User osetc shows us how to monitor your Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or Solid State Drive (SSD) health on your FreeBSD server. They start by using the Smartctl command line tool, which utilizes the SMART technology that is built inside many different drives, and also...
GhostBSD XFCE + GNOME Preview by Tyler’s Tech
User Tyler Tech tries out another BSD operating system, this time GhostBSD which is based on TrueOS and FreeBSD. Tyler looks at ZFS configuration, Window Manager Tweaks on XFCE, and also tries out GNOME. Check out the video below, as well as the reddit discussion on...
Replacing an Oracle Server with FreeBSD, OpenZFS, and PostgreSQL (@ vBSDcon 2019)
FreeBSD contributor Benedict Reuschling discusses a project at the University of Applied Sciences Computer Science department, in which he replaces a Windows-based Oracle server with the FreeBSD (12.0) operating system, running OpenZFS and PostgreSQL 10. Check out the...
FreeBSD at Work: Building Network and Storage Infrastructure with pfSense and FreeNAS (@ vBSDcon 2019)
User Conor gives a talk on a pfSense+FreeNAS network and storage infrastructure, both which has the FreeBSD operating system under the hood. Check out the video below to view the whole presentation, which was done at vBSDcon in Virginia....
BSD Now Episode 320 – Codebase: Neck Deep
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss Google Pixelbook with FreeBSD, NetBSD and AMDx86-64 port, ZFS performance degradation and quota limits, KA9Q-unix fixing up, review of HAMMER2 and fsck, startx(1) for non-root users, and some...
GhostBSD 19.09 – Based on FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE and Using MATE Desktop 1.22 by Linux Scoop
User Linux Scoop did video demo on the latest GhostBSD 19.09. GhostBSD is an open-source operating system based on TrueOS and FreeBSD, with it's default desktop environment as MATE. Scoop tries out the installer, web browsing, Station Tweak, and some applications as...
FreeBSD and custom firmware on the Google Pixelbook by unrelenting.technology
User myfreeweb writes about his experience in using FreeBSD operating system on their Google Pixelbook, after spending much of their time on the ideal Thinkpad. The user discusses compatibility starting at the BIOS, Wi-Fi (Intel 7265) and Bluetooth support, keyboard...
FreeBSD 12.1-RC2 is now available
The developers of FreeBSD have made available the second release candidate of version 12.1. Notable changes are updated loader.efi, ixgbe(4) driver, sdhci(4), and fixes to null pointer dereference and SCTP. More changes since the last release can be found at the link...
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[How-To] Reboot & Shutdown System on FreeBSD by OSETC TECH
This guide by user osetc will show you some commands for shutting and rebooting your FreeBSD operating system properly. They discuss commands that designate shutdown or reboot times, and sending a message to users warning them of system shutdowns. See the link below...
Trying FreeBSD For The First Time by Tyler’s Tech
Tyler the user installed FreeBSD and tried out the open-source operating system, for the first time ever. He plays around GIMP photo software, the terminal/console, tweaks the desktop environment, and browses around with Firefox. Check out the video below to see the...
BSD Link Roundup 10.17
Here is the mid October roundup of BSD related posts, ranging from questions about BSD, security advisories, drivers, talks, the usual hardware, related operating systems, and other miscellaneous news. What is the best derivative compatible with BSD? via FreeBSD...
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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...
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