Dive into our collection of BSD Magazine articles dedicated to FreeBSD and PC-BSD.
Secure Shell is one of the protocols that IT specialists use to ensure a secure and reliable connection between remote computer systems. This short guide explains a few things to make your SSH connection more secure. For FreeBSD and OpenBSD, SSH starts automatically...
In the tenth part of our series on programming, we will improve the login process, add more security, and keep spam robots under control. In the previous article we put in place a very crude login system that allowed anyone to login to our CMS and add content. We...
One of the problems a system administrator has when providing services like NFS on a network is that sometimes they are critical to the business and downtime needs to be kept to an absolute minimum. This problem can be solved with tools native to FreeBSD. In this...
In the ninth part of our series on programming, we will add some security to our CMS and refine our interface for adding content. In part 8 of the series, we created the PHP script amendcontentpage.php which allowed the user to add data to any table in the CMS (Figure...
In the following article, I will share with you what I learned when I have converted my servers from Debian to FreeBSD. I will explain the common problems you could have, what you should consider before changing the system and what motivated me for this “adventure”....
How New ZFS Utilities are Changing FreeBSD & PC-BSD Since the inclusion of ZFS into the FreeBSD base system, it has revolutionized how enterprise users have managed their data. However due to higher memory requirements and the difficulty of the initial setup, it...
FreeBSD users are accustomed to being able to download the entire operating system source code with the ability to compile additional functionality into the kernel and applications. This service had been previously provided by the cvsup and csup programs. Due to the...
In the eighth part of our series on programming, we will refine our Jquery menu and start building a user friendly interface to add content. In the previous article, we implemented a menu using the Jquery library. Looking at menu.inc, we see the menu is “hard coded”...
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. In this article, we will learn the caveats in deploying FreeBSD over XenServer and the advantages over the traditional schema to improve administration, provisioning and delivery times. FreeBSD is...
“The Z file system, originally developed by Sun™, is designed to use a pooled storage method in that space is only used as it is needed for data storage. It is also designed for maximum data integrity, supporting data snapshots, multiple copies, and data checksums. It...
