To SLOG or not to SLOG: How to best configure your ZFS Intent Log
by Mark VonFange In the world of storage, caching can play a big role in improving performance. OpenZFS offers some very powerful tools to improve read & write performance. To improve read performance, ZFS utilizes system memory as an Adaptive Replacement Cache...
read moreBest Practices in UNIX Access Control with SUDO
by Leonardo Neves Bernardo This article will discuss about security related issues at sudo environments. Will be evaluated advantages and disadvantages of to centralize sudo with LDAP back-end. Another issue summarized in this article is about taking care with content...
read moreFile Sharing Over the Web with ownCloud
by Ivan Voras This article is to walk the participant through the installation and the basic configuration of ownCloud, an excellent open source collaboration and file sharing application written in PHP. OwnCloud is a well-featured collaboration application whose...
read moreNodeJS and FreeBSD – Part 1
by David Carlier Nodejs is well known to allow building server applications in full javascript. In this article, we’ll see how to build nodejs from source code on FreeBSD. You will need autoconf tools, GNU make, Python, linprocfs enabled and libexecinfo installed....
read moreC Developer in a FreeBSD World (Part 2)
In the “The Journey of a C developer in a FreeBSD World”, I described the changes that occur when you land in a BSD system coming from Linux. Now you, dear readers, get ready to get your C/C++ code working in both platforms; this time we will look into the debugging...
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