Tag Archives: FreeBSD

FreeBSD 8.1 RC1

So ganz still und leise hat just der erste RC von FreeBSD 8.1 das Licht der Welt erblickt und die Builds für die einzelnen Architekturen finden sich auch schon auf den Mirrors. Mehr dazu erfährt man in Ken Smiths Ankündigung. … Continue reading

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ZFS in the Trenches

An in-depth insight into ZFS by Ben Rockwood (LISA09). source: Sun

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FreeBSD 8.0 RC1 auf dem EEE

Just erschienen und schon auf dem Kleinsten installiert, funktioniert bisher tadellos mal abgesehen von einem Reset im Zusammenhang mit if_ath. Bis dato konnte ich diesen Fehler (reset HAL) nicht reproduzieren und auch unter Last brach der EEE nicht zusammen. Wenn … Continue reading

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take your FreeBSD with you

Are you fed up of cd media? Are you using thumb drives because they’re smaller, rewritable and more durable? Yes? Fear no more, there is some solution for your tormented soul: FreeBSD 8.0 install with a USB-Stick. It’s a translation by miwi … Continue reading

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a new FreeBSD Portmgr is born

Martin Wilke has been one of our active committers since receiving his commit bit today 3 years ago. He has been working in a number of subgroups including python, ports-security and the KDE team. FreeBSD ML Congrats to Miwi aka Martin Wilke. The … Continue reading

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ZFS v13 in FreeBSD 7 stable

In case you missed the mfc: ZFS v13 in 7-STABLE. This means a major advance for FreeBSD 7 users in terms of quality and reliabilty. And if I’m correct you don’t even need tunables anymore, at least while using AMD64. Well, this … Continue reading

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scrypt — a new key derivation function

In the context of hardware brute-force attacks, scrypt is thousands of times more secure than existing «best practice» solutions such as bcrypt and PBKDF2; in fact, under reasonable assumptions it is provably as strong as possible. In addition to the … Continue reading

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Kylin: FreeBSD under the hood

FreeBSD, das OS der bösen Kommunisten — mehr bei Axel. Die Volksrepublik China verwendet FreeBSD als Betriebssystem, genannt Kylin. Übrigens ist das nichts neues, schon Kuba bastelt seit einiger Zeit an einer eigenen Linux Version. Update: anscheinend ist das schon … Continue reading

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custom FreeBSD builds

I believe this list (and probably the forums) would be the best place to announce one of my little projects, namely the building of custom FreeBSD install discs (DVD sized for desktops, CD sized for servers) with the latest release … Continue reading

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VirtualBox für FreeBSD

After the announcement from Alexander Eichner about Virtualbox on FreeBSD, we started the work on a port for FreeBSD. Now we think that we solved the most problems and are ready for the first Call for Testing. /usr/home/miwi Den Port für … Continue reading

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