Archive for the ‘FreeBSD’ Category

New committer: Jonathan Anderson (src)

Posted on October 7th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"

FreeBSD – Quick setup of SAMBA file sharing server

Posted on October 6th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Samba is a service that provides file sharing across BSD & Linux, that includes FreeBSD. Implementing Samba at the server allows maximum compatibility on file sharing across mac OSX, linux, BSD & other operating system. This post shows a quick & dirty way of installing & setting up Samba file server on FreeBSD.
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New committer: Sergey Kandaurov (src)

Posted on October 5th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"

New FreeNAS alpha

Posted on October 1st, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"

After a few unforeseen delays, we have a new FreeNAS snapshot available over at source forge. As an experiment, we are distributing these snapshots using xz as well as bzip2 compressed images. It makes a big difference.

What's new?

First and foremost, we have a completely new GUI look and feel. We've imported dojango into the GUI to take

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New FreeNAS alpha

Posted on October 1st, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"

After a few unforeseen delays, we have a new FreeNAS snapshot available over at source forge. As an experiment, we are distributing these snapshots using xz as well as bzip2 compressed images. It makes a big difference.

What's new?

First and foremost, we have a completely new GUI look and feel. We've imported dojango into the GUI to take

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FreeBSD – How to watermark image or picture using command line

Posted on October 1st, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Watermark is a technique to impose image or words using light shades. Digital watermark on image is use for the purpose of copyrights, comments or notices. Watermark image can be accomplish using tools from Image Magick suite of programs.

Firstly, install the ImageMagick port using portmanager :
portmanager graphics/ImageMagick -l
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PC-BSD install without a bootable DVD

Posted on September 29th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"

Recently, I tried to get PC-BSD onto an older system. This system didn't support booting off of USB, nor did it support swapping in a DVD player for the CD player that was shipped with the system. The computer seemed to be fast enough to support PC-BSD. Since all I really wanted was something that could play some games that

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PC-BSD install without a bootable DVD

Posted on September 29th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"

Recently, I tried to get PC-BSD onto an older system. This system didn't support booting off of USB, nor did it support swapping in a DVD player for the CD player that was shipped with the system. The computer seemed to be fast enough to support PC-BSD. Since all I really wanted was something that could play some games that

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FreeBSD – The ps command output is truncated from the terminal width

Posted on September 29th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

There are a few commands that can list current process activity, "top" & "ps" are the most common one in use. The command "top" give an interactive view of the list of process running currently. But the command "ps" gives a more friendly output for scripting or text parsing. It also gives a lot of parameters to filter the output.

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Installing BigBlueButton on FreeBSD/PC-BSD

Posted on September 25th, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"

BigBlueButton is an open source VoIP web conferencing system. Once BBB is installed on one system, anyone with a flash-capable web browser can participate in a conference. Here are the instructions for setting up BBB on a FreeBSD or PC-BSD 8.1 system. I haven't tested desk sharing yet and will post a separate entry once I have.

New committer: Ganael Laplanche (ports)

Posted on September 25th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"

FreeBSD – A great way to track changes of FreeBSD

Posted on September 25th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Before every FreeBSD port upgrade, checking the /usr/ports/UPDATING is a must. It list out known problems with solutions when upgrading ports. Cutting down less hiccups during upgrade of system. Skimming the changes using bare eyes can be quite tiring some times.

This is another fun way of monitoring the changes is, reading the changes in /usr/ports/UPDATING like a web feed,

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KDE 4.5.1 – Konqueror is a bit better

Posted on September 22nd, 2010 by "alp" from "alp's notes"

I've just updated my FreeBSD desktop. I haven't noticed big changes in KDE 4.5.1 yet, however, some small updates really matter. Now we have useful adblock-like feature in konqueror - I can block any frame/image I like and use some public adblock lists. However, konqueror can't block Flash objects. I'd like it to block them too...
And as always, Google

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KDE 4.5.1 – Konqueror is a bit better

Posted on September 22nd, 2010 by "alp" from "alp's notes"

I've just updated my FreeBSD desktop. I haven't noticed big changes in KDE 4.5.1 yet, however, some small updates really matter. Now we have useful adblock-like feature in konqueror - I can block any frame/image I like and use some public adblock lists. However, konqueror can't block Flash objects. I'd like it to block them too...
And as always, Google

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FreeBSD – Committers around the world

Posted on September 22nd, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

I've stumble (can't remember which blog or post lead me to it) on this map that shows the FreeBSD ftp servers & committers around the world using google map service. A very nice presentation indeed.

Another note on a similar subject, Murray Stokely of FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has a script that generates heat map base on FreeBSD committers

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New committer: Po-Chuan Hsieh (ports)

Posted on September 21st, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"

My BSDTalk Interview

Posted on September 19th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"

I just gave Will Backman over at BSDTalk an interview on FreeNAS 8, NanoBSD, ZFS and embedding FreeBSD. You can check it out at the BSDtalk blog. Hope you all enjoy.

Another FreeNAS Alpha snapshot is slated for early this week. Stay tuned. It will include a revamped user interface, local user support, FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE ports and a few other

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My BSDTalk Interview

Posted on September 19th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"

I just gave Will Backman over at BSDTalk an interview on FreeNAS 8, NanoBSD, ZFS and embedding FreeBSD. You can check it out at the BSDtalk blog. Hope you all enjoy.

Another FreeNAS Alpha snapshot is slated for early this week. Stay tuned. It will include a revamped user interface, local user support, FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE ports and a few other

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Looking for Desktop Environment / Window Manager Testers

Posted on September 17th, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"

From the PC-BSD blog:

FreeBSD Foundation – It doesn’t cost as much as you think

Posted on September 17th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

I haven't been updating this blog for a while. Have been busy with some stuff in perl, time management & my job. Even so, I refuse to forget about donating to FreeBSD Foundation. The FreeBSD OS is part of my daily activities, from desktop to server. Even my future job is going to deal with FreeBSD, daily &

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