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Feb

Categories: News

Klein2 posted some very interesting videos over on his blog regarding ZFS. For anyone interested in learning more about ZFS and to see some hardware getting bashed around, check out these YouTube videos. Related posts:FreeBSD YouTube, forums now liveNew YouTube Video Explains FreeBSD Kernel Internals Read More »

Feb

Real FreeBSD Tips is now iPhone Friendly

Categories: News

Thanks to a great plugin WPTouch, now you can browse this blog, iPhone friendly, from the same URL you have always accessed this blog. It feels really nice too, I think I'll be checking the blog alot more on the road with this nifty interface. :) No related posts. Read More »

Feb

Stopping HTTP brute force attacks with BruteBlock & IPFW

Categories: Security

One common issue that all systems administrators face is brute force attacks, whether it be SSH, FTP, WWW, SMB and almost anything else on a system. One frustration for admins of web servers are bots trying to gain access to password protected areas, automated scripts looking for vulnerable software, or ... Read More »

Feb

Differences Between Linux and FreeBSD

Categories: News

The guys over at FreeBSD News have published quite a nice guide for people wondering the differences between Linux and FreeBSD. Some views are more personal than others, regardless it is a good point by point post. 1. BSD license allows users/companies to modify a program’s source code and not to ... Read More »

Jan

FreeBSD Network Bugathon Begins Today

Categories: Networking, News

Today begins a 3 day "bugathon" for network related problem reports. These are all user submitted issues, so if you have submitted a prooblem report to do with the network, perhaps it may get solved in the next few days! According to the forum: The FreeBSD bugbusting team is coordinating a network ... Read More »

Jan

pfSense Commits Now Available Via Twitter

Categories: News, Security

For those of you who haven't heard, pfSense is a FreeBSD based firewall and router. Quoting from the about page: pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes ... Read More »

Jan

New YouTube Video Explains FreeBSD Kernel Internals

Categories: News

The BSDConferences YouTube channel has just released a new video which gives a basic insight into how kernel internals work on FreeBSD, and most other unix and linux variants. The video is about an hour in length and features the author of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating ... Read More »

Dec

Zonelimits State: The Silent Killer

Categories: Networking

You've got your FreeBSD web server up, server is running smoothly, and you're getting a lot of hits. Great! Until your webserver stops responding, you log in, see no load, but all your httpd processes are running in zoneli state. You can't kill them, the only way you can fix ... Read More »

Dec

Comprehensive Guide to Apache/MySQL/PHP on FreeBSD

Categories: Software

Browsing through Digg today I came across a very comprehensive guide to configuring a LAMP server on FreeBSD. For those who do not know, LAMP stands for Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP, and is one of the most common configurations for web hosting today. Technically, on FreeBSD it should be FAMP, but who are we ... Read More »

Dec

FreeBSD YouTube, forums now live

Categories: News

We have another quick bite of information from over at the FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD now has both an official forum and a YouTube channel. BSDConferences aims to provide full video lectures about FreeBSD and other BSD flavours. From the press release: This channel allows us to post full hour long lectures from ... Read More »

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