Archive for January, 2009

FreeBSD Network Bugathon Begins Today

Friday, January 30, 2009 12:45 No Comments

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 bugathon, which will be held [...]

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pfSense Commits Now Available Via Twitter

Friday, January 30, 2009 3:18 No Comments

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 a long list of related [...]

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New YouTube Video Explains FreeBSD Kernel Internals

Thursday, January 29, 2009 14:37 No Comments

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 System, Marshall Kirk McKusick.
Although not [...]

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