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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:9912 | -falko, February 1, 2012

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...

permapage | score:9898 | -finid, February 3, 2012

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...

mail this link | permapage | score:9775 | -finid, October 17, 2011

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...

permapage | score:9752 | -nixcraft, November 27, 2009

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...

permapage | score:9747 | -finid, March 1, 2011

Comparison Review: FreeBSD vs. NetBSD

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A BSD user turns a critical eye to FreeBSD and NetBSD...

NetBSD with gcc 3.3.x doesn't compile as fast as FreeBSD, but NetBSD can compile itself easily for any platform NetBSD supports via build.sh. No such luck with FreeBSD; I had to boot FreeBSD to build FreeBSD. But with NetBSD, you can use the same framework to build under other OS's, even under Cygwin!

permapage | score:9607 | -Ray, February 25, 2005

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.

mail this link | permapage | score:9604 | -Ray, January 25, 2008

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...

permapage | score:9596 | -finid, December 16, 2010

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...

mail this link | permapage | score:9594 | -finid, September 1, 2010

Tutorial: FreeBSD 7.2 Upgrade

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FreeBSD is just plain old good UNIX with rock solid networking stack. A new version of the FreeBSD 7.2 has been released. Systems running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE, 7.1-RELEASE, 7.2-BETA1, 7.2-RC1, 7.2RC2 can upgrade using this tutorial. read more...

permapage | score:9583 | -nixcraft, May 4, 2009

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.

mail this link | permapage | score:9559 | -Ray, December 8, 2009

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.

permapage | score:9547 | -Ray, December 1, 2009

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...

permapage | score:9539 | -finid, August 19, 2010

Tip: Create a ip in Freebsd

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You can add an ip to an interface after boot using ifconfig.
example: ifconfig rl0 192.168.1.1

But this ip wont last for the next boot. read more...

permapage | score:9520 | -Dipin Krishna, December 19, 2009

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...

permapage | score:9517 | -nixcraft, November 3, 2008

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...

mail this link | permapage | score:9477 | -finid, March 3, 2011

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

mail this link | permapage | score:9427 | -Ray, July 8, 2010

Tutorial: Set up Apache, PHP, MySQL on OpenBSD 3.8

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This document aims to be a tutorial for easily getting and OpenBSD 3.8 installation up and running with Apache+PHP+MySQL. It is a collection of various information I've found on the internet (see References) and my own personal experiences. I will be covering installation and initial setup of the MySQL and PHP packages along with several PHP extensions. I also briefly touch on a few security topics and then how to get OpenBSD to start Apache and MySQL at boot. read more...

permapage | score:9402 | -freesol, November 5, 2005

FreeBSD 7 Review

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Now with support for up to 8 processors...

FreeBSD 7 sports several new improvements in its file-systems and storage subsystems, including experimental support for ZFS and gvirstor, which can be used to create a large virtual disk image by simply adding physical disks as data on disk requires. This gives system administrators the ability to create volumes that far exceed the physical disk capacity and only add hardware as usage increases.

permapage | score:9320 | -Ray, March 7, 2008

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.

mail this link | permapage | score:9018 | -jinx_kid, October 5, 2008

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