Real FreeBSD Tips

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.

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. :)

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 release changes to the public
2. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 FreeBSD conferences. The first four [...]

Just a quick heads up for everyone that 6.4 RELEASE is now available for download. Some of the features of the new release are:

New and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client
Support for the Camellia cipher
Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices with GPT-enabled BIOSes
DVD install ISO [...]