FreeBSD is back to its incredible performance and now can take advantage of multi-core/CPUs systems very well… so well that some benchmarks on both Intel and AMD systems showed release 7.0 being faster than Linux 2.6 when running PostreSQL or MySQL.
Federico Biancuzzi interviewed two dozen developers to discuss all the cool details of FreeBSD 7.0: [...]
OpenBSD is famous for its focus on security. On November 1st, the team is proud to announce Release 4.2.
Even though security is still there, this release comes with some amazing performance improvements: basic benchmarks showed PF being twice as fast, a rewrite of the TLB shootdown code for i386 and amd64 cut the time to [...]
Before we get into the review, here are some highlights from the PC-BSD site discussing PC-BSD and its requirements. For a comprehensive look at what’s in this release, see the changelog and the release notes on the PC-BSD site.
Highlights of this release:
Moving the FreeBSD base version [...]
The bewildering choice and the ever increasing number of Linux distributions can be confusing for those who are new to Linux. This is why this page was created. It lists 10 Linux distributions (plus an honourable mention of FreeBSD, by far the most popular of all of the BSDs), which are generally considered as most [...]
This document will guide you on how to use a FreeBSD system as a wireless access point. This is intended to supplement the FreeBSD Handbook and not replace it.
Getting FreeBSD to act as a wireless access point involves the following steps:
Make sure your installation includes hostapd and named (BIND)
Recompile your kernel for pf support
pf is [...]
This article will guide you through the installation and system preparation for FreeBSD 6.2. This article is not intended to produce a working system, but is the foundation for the progression to either a desktop system or a server. Once this document has been followed to completion, you may either choose to follow the Server [...]
We’re in the 21st century. OK, you have already noticed that, haven’t you?
We’re having more than 500 distros. We call this “freedom”.
Yet we have less and less time. This also means “less time to tweak our systems”, “less time to fix them when an update breaks them”, “less time to pray the next release number [...]
PC-BSD 1.3 was released last week, which is perfect timing: I have often wanted to try BSD, but frankly, the install is pretty straight forward, but the configuration is somewhat arcane to me.
I hate to lose all my credibility in my first post, but FreeBSD makes a great console OS, since I have never gotten [...]
In an era when the next edition of Microsoft Windows is pushed back more than a year, and popular GNU/Linux distributions are almost expected to have their release dates delayed by weeks or months, it’s nice to know that at least one operating system releases on schedule without all kinds of showstopping bugs and problems. [...]
Quite possibly the most functional GNOME release ever is now available for FreeBSD. GNOME 2.16 features HAL support for FreeBSD which allows FreeBSD users to take advantage of automatic volume mounting, advanced power management, and more. In addition, many performance improvments have gone into GNOME, and the eye candy has definitely been improved.
“Due to the [...]
After having read the last DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 169, 18 September 2006, I was tempted to express my anger against the futile loss of energy in the “licensing fight” that led into cdrtools forking in Debian — but also in other distros.
Of course, I don’t expect anybody else but Joerg Schilling to agree with me, [...]
OpenBSD is quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet. Every step of the development process focuses on building a secure, open, and free platform. UNIX® and Linux® administrators take note: Without realizing it, you probably use tools ported from OpenBSD every day. Maybe it’s time to give the whole operating system a [...]
If you have been hesitant to try FreeBSD because you heard the install was difficult or were afraid you would have problems configuring the GUI or sound or networking, now is a great time to take the plunge. Both PC-BSD and DesktopBSD provide you with a fully configured, ready to use system so you can [...]
Right now USA Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the First Amendment of the Internet — a principle called "network neutrality" that preserves the free and open Internet. Congress needs to hear from you today or they will hand over control of what you do online to companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.
[...]
BSD (originally: Berkeley Software Distribution) refers to the particular version of the Unix operating system that was developed at and distributed from the University of California at Berkeley. "BSD" is customarily preceded by a number indicating the particular distribution level of the BSD system (for example, "4.3 BSD"). BSD UNIX has been popular and many [...]
One Grub menu that boots 100+ systems
The 100+ systems comprise of:
3 Dos
3 Windows
5 BSDs (in Part 2 Menu)
2 Solaris (in Part 2 Menu)
97 Linux including 2 versions of NetBSD
4 disks used
Disk 1 = hda 300Gb IDE with 60 partitions
Disk 2 = hdc 200Gb IDE with 54 partitions
Disk 3 = sda 200Gb Sata [...]
Many people responded to the call for OpenBSD and OpenSSH donations by purchasing an OpenBSD CD set. Those CDs are beginning to arrive in the mail, and when they do, how are you going to use them? If you’re a software enthusiast who has never used OpenBSD before, you might enjoy installing it by yourself [...]
Updating software–many fear this task. It risks interruption of service. It introduces a big, gray unknown. Even with a test system and usage reports, it may bring doom to your applications. With great confidence and trust in his abilities, the system administrator must tread down this uncertain path. Sometimes this requires persuading, as many people [...]
As a FreeBSD desktop user I occasionally feel left out when it comes to the availability of applications, particularly desktop applications or binary-only browser plugins produced by commercial closed source vendors. Sometimes a good alternative lurks in the vast FreeBSD ports collection, but not always. The version available may lag a couple of revisions [...]
The PC-BSD team recently released its second release candidate for 1.0. With the final release rapidly approaching, we thought now would be a good time to take a look at what’s coming in PC-BSD, a relatively new BSD distribution based on FreeBSD. It’s specifically designed for desktop users, and offers a GUI installer that makes [...]
FreeBSD's Scott Long wanted to let everyone know that the testing on RC1 has gone well enough that they have decided to skip RC2 and go straight to 6.0-RELEASE.
Grab your copy of FreeBSD.
A great article on comparing kernels from opensolaris.org website. If you got time, I’ll suggest to read it.
I spend most of my time teaching classes on Solaris internals, device drivers, and kernel crash dump analysis and debugging. When explaining to classes how various subsystems are implemented in Solaris, students often ask, “How does it work [...]
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