I have noticed that FreeBSD mini iso no longer distributed but I found interesting link : FreeBSD snapshots From FreeBSD site : As part of an ongoing effort to improve the overall release process before a release actually slips out the door with problems, we are now periodically producing interim test releases called snapshots. These […]
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Installing dragonflyBSD 1.8.1
From wikipedia DragonflyBSD is : DragonFly BSD is a free, Unix-like operating system which was forked from FreeBSD 4.8. Matt Dillon, a long-time FreeBSD and Amiga developer, started work on DragonFly BSD in June 2003 and announced it on the FreeBSD mailing lists on July 16, 2003 [1]. Dillon started DragonFly in the belief that […]
Install PfSense 1.2Beta1, Quick Overview
Pfsense is web based firewall designed special for PC, based on FreeBSD 6.x Version 1.2Beta1 using 6.2 release as base, PfSense features from author site : pfSense changes implemented (subject to change daily): FreeBSD 6.1 – CURRENT with ALTQ Wireless a/b/g wpa_supplicant, turbo, WEP, WPA-E/PSK and WPA2 (TKIP) Incoming load balancing pools PPPoE Server Themes […]
Installing FreeBSD 4,5,6 and 7
Basic FreeBSD questions for beginner like me 🙂 1. What is FreeBSD? Wikipedia has the answer 2. Is it good as server? Don’t know :-), see yourself in netcraft 3. Which version is the best? For old hardware, consider using 4.xxx, for modern hardware use 6.xxx 4. Is there any video for installing FreeBSD?, I […]
cvs, cvsup, portsnap and csup
Progress in *BSD world is very fast, everyday patch released, program update etc to get that update via internet FreeBSD provide a few tools : cvs, not so familiar for beginner cvsup, very famous in FreeBSD, can update ports, source even for backup purpose portsnap, only for port update, in FreeBSD tree since 6.0 csup, […]