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Book Review: FreeBSD Device Drivers by Joseph Kong |
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| The Introduction says the goal of the book is “to help you improve your understanding of device drivers under FreeBSD”. OK, that is exactly what I wanted to do as I am currently working on several projects that use FreeBSD at deeper levels of understanding. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9918 | -aweber, May 1, 2012 |
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PC-BSD 9.1 installer preview |
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One of the most important aspects of a distribution (there goes that word, again) or an operating system, is the installer or installation program. PC-BSD’s installer, aside from Anaconda, the Fedora system installer, is one of the most frequently updated installers on any distribution that I have used or reviewed on this website.
And it is a pretty good, point-and-click installation program, though, not without its faults. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9917 | -finid, May 9, 2012 |
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GhostBSD 1.0 |
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An email interview of Eric Turgeon, the founder of the GhostBSD project...
The PC-BSD project brings a user-friendly pre-configured KDE desktop to the FreeBSD community. Which is all well and good, but what if you're more of a GNOME person? Well, it turns out there is a project in the works for you too. The GhostBSD project is in its early stages, but it's paving the way for users who enjoy running GNOME on a FreeBSD base without any configuring or installing extra software read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9731 | -Ray, July 8, 2010 |
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Benchmarks: FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Solaris vs. Linux |
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FreeBSD 8.0 takes on Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 as well as OpenSolaris 2010.02 b127 in a performance free-for-all..
The hardware we are using for benchmarking this time was a Lenovo ThinkPad T61 notebook with an Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 processor, 2GB of system memory, a 100GB Hitachi HTS72201 7200RPM SATA HDD, and a NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M graphics processor powering a 1680 x 1050 LVDS panel. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9689 | -Ray, December 1, 2009 |
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Review: DesktopBSD 1.6 Live CD |
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BSD for the desktop will now run from a CD...
One of the first and most noticeable changes in version 1.6 is that it now contains a LiveCD option. While I wouldn't consider this to be a typical livecd, it certainly stacks up well against the large collection of other livecd's out there. Initially you're greeted with the standard Freebsd boot screen and bootup sequence. The first part of the livecd session starts out with a semi-graphical welcome screen that is keyboard driven. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9621 | -Ray, January 25, 2008 |
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FreeBSD 8.0: First Look |
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A look at the newest FreeBSD distribution...
The ZFS file system is included in FreeBSD 8.0 and from previous experience I've found it to work very well. However, my little server didn't really have the resources to properly experiment with it. For systems with enough RAM and disk to justify its use, I highly recommend taking a look at FreeBSD's ZFS implementation - for the snapshots feature, if nothing else. Being able to restore files without reaching for separate backup media can be a wonderful time saver. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9620 | -Ray, December 8, 2009 |
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Dual-boot PC-BSD 8.2 ZFS and Windows 7 |
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ZFS has been described as a file system on steroids. It is supported on PC-BSD, and the installer on PC-BSD 8.2 has made setting up a ZFS-based system a whole lot easier. This article presents a 3-stage process for dual-booting Windows 7 and PC-BSD 8.2, the latest stable release of PC-BSD.
In stage one, unused space is reclaimed from an existing installation of Windows 7. Stage two involves the installation of PC-BSD on the reclaimed space. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9619 | -finid, March 1, 2011 |
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Build a Firebird 2.5.1 and FreeBSD 9 database server |
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| Here is the guide on < installing Firebird 2.5.1 from FreeBSD 9 Ports and creating your first test database; also we show you how to install Flamerobin GUI (administration tool) and the PHP driver for it. This was tested on fresh FreeBSD 9 on a kvm-linux virtual machine. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9612 | -falko, February 1, 2012 |
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Tutorial: FreeBSD Setup IPFW Firewall |
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Ipfirewall (ipfw) is a FreeBSD IP packet filter and traffic accounting facility.IPFW is included in the basic FreeBSD install as a separate run time loadable module.
This small howto covers building and installing a custom kernel with IPFW. It also provide a small example on how to setting up the rules for a typical FreeBSD based Apache Web server. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9454 | -nixcraft, July 4, 2007 |
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GhostBSD 2.5 review |
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GhostBSD is a desktop distribution based on FreeBSD. It comes as an installable Live DVD image and is developed by Eric Turgeon and Nahuel Sanchez. The latest edition, GhostBSD 2.5, based on FreeBSD 9, is the project’s fourth release, and was made available for public download on January 24.
This article provides the first review of this distribution on this website, and it is based on test installations of the 32-bit version. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9436 | -finid, February 3, 2012 |
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Install PC-BSD on encrypted ZFS |
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| As a desktop distribution built atop FreeBSD, PC-BSD makes available to the desktop user all the cool technologies inside FreeBSD. One of those cool technologies is ZFS, the Zettabyte File System, a file system developed by Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation) for the Solaris operating system. ZFS has no parallel in the Linux/BSD world. It packs features that no other file system in the Linux kernel has (btrfs is a potential answer for ZFS in the Linux kernel, but it is still a work in progress). read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9427 | -finid, September 1, 2010 |
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OpenIndiana 151a Desktop review |
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OpenIndiana is a distribution of illumos, which is a community fork of OpenSolaris. And OpenSolaris itself was the open source version of Solaris, before it was discontinued by Oracle, after Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, Inc., in January 2010.
OpenIndiana Build 151a is the latest development release, and the third so far. A stable edition is slated for release before the end of this year.
There is a desktop edition and a server edition. This review is based on test installations of the desktop edition. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9409 | -finid, October 17, 2011 |
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Installing NRPE on FreeBSD 9.0 |
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| The NRPE daemon provides a way for Nagios to monitor the internal aspects of a FreeBSD box. This article will take you through the steps for installing NRPE on FreeBSD. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9408 | -aweber, March 17, 2012 |
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PC-BSD 9 installer preview |
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| The current stable release of PC=BSD available for download is version 8.1. Version 8.2 is due sometime very early next year (mid to late January is the likely release time frame), and version 9 much later. A snapshot release of version 9 has just been made available for download and testing. SysInstaller, PC-BSD’s installation program, will pack more features than the current version. This article will showcase those features. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9383 | -finid, December 16, 2010 |
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PC-BSD 8.1 review |
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| PC-BSD is a FreeBSD-based desktop distribution using the K Desktop Environment by default. An installation of PC-BSD is basically FreeBSD with KDE as the desktop environment. That is not the whole story, but it's close. Being based on FreeBSD, PC-BSD has several features that you will not find on any Linux distribution. This article presents a detailed review of PC-BSD 8.1, the latest edition, which was released a few weeks ago. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9366 | -finid, August 19, 2010 |
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Tutorial: FreeBSD 8 Upgrade |
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| Source-based upgrades from previous versions are well supported and recommend to gain full control of your FreeBSD 8 kernel and base systems. csup is a general-purpose network file updating package. It is extremely fast program. This tutorial describes how to upgrade from FreeBSD v7.2 to latest FreeBSD 8.0. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9336 | -nixcraft, November 27, 2009 |
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PC-BSD 8.2 review |
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PC-BSD 8.2 is the latest stable release of PC-BSD, the FreeBSD-based desktop distribution. The installer sports features not available on the prior stable release. One-click disk encryption, one-click ZFS-based installation, and support for a GPT disk partitioning scheme are features just coded into SysInstaller.
ZFS implementation on PC-BSD (and FreeBSD) is not at the same level as what is available on Oracle Solaris. ZFS Pool Version is at 31 and the ZFS File System Version is at 5. PC-BSD 8.2 ships with ZFS Pool Version 15 and ZFS File System Version 4. That just means that there are some cool features of ZFS that are not yet available on PC-BSD. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9304 | -finid, March 3, 2011 |
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Top BSD distributions |
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Here are the top five BSD's...
As some of you may know, Linux is not the only Unix-like operating system available. There are other UNIX derivatives, and one of the most popular among them is called BSD. If you have been to Distrowatch, you will see different BSD distributions listed in there. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9278 | -Ray, April 5, 2009 |
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Tutorial: FreeBSD Networking IP Aliasing |
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IP aliasing is the process of adding more than one IP address to a network interface. This is useful for virtual hosting of Web or ftp servers.
This tuorial explains how to assign two more IP address to a single network interface under FreeBSD operating system. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9270 | -nixcraft, November 3, 2008 |
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Detailed Review of PC-BSD 7 |
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A detailed review of PC-BSD 7 with some screen-shots in OSNews. Some installation issues and solutions are covered in this article.
PC-BSD introduces a new type of installtion file with .pbi extension (Push Button Installer or PC BSD Installer). These are self-contained installers that has all the dependent packages included in them. This mimics the behavior of the setup.exe or the DMG files in Win XP and Mac OS X respectively. Double clicking on this file in KDE will launch a graphical installation wizard (root password is required) and guide you through the installation of the software. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9239 | -jinx_kid, October 5, 2008 |
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