Dive into our collection of BSD Magazine articles dedicated to FreeBSD and PC-BSD.
The Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) is an open source hypervisor for creating and managing Virtual Machines (VMs). While FreeBSD is a Xen-aware operating system, there currently is no native XCP support for FreeBSD. I asked for this feature on the Citrix mailing lists and...
Ruby on Rails is a powerful Web framework. It makes application prototyping a breeze, in a few days. Installing it is quite trivial if you know the pitfalls. FreeBSD on Rails Ruby on Rails is a powerful Web framework. It makes application prototyping a breeze, in a...
Backing up servers and clients is an essential task that should be carried out on a regular basis as it helps prevent the loss of data. The backup tasks can be performed in two different ways, using automated software or by running the software manually. It is...
In my article: “Intro to DTrace”, published in May 2012 in BSD Magazine, I've described the DTrace all the way from configuring your system to enable dtrace probs to the point of executing some D scripts to show you some DTrace features. This article will take a more...
Over the past few months, several exciting new features have been added to the Warden™ which greatly improve jail management on FreeBSD & PC-BSD systems. Historically the Warden™ has always organized its collections of jails via a primary IP address. This was...
In the fourth part of our series on programming, we will continue to develop our CMS. Here we will examine how a modern CMS dynamically generates and controls content and implement a similar model in our PHP code. What you will learn How to configure a development...
This article explores some of the third-party utilities which are available to help you analyze the log and state table of a PF firewall. The PF firewall is developed by the OpenBSD Project. PF has also been ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD. You can learn...
By the time you’re reading this, FreeNAS has been downloaded more than 7.5 million times. For home users, it's become an indispensable part of their daily lives, akin to the DVR. Meanwhile, all over the world , thousands of businesses, universities, and government...
In the third part of our series on programming, we will look at code structure, program flow and how to embed CSS and Javascript in out pages. We will also start using SQL to dynamically generate web pages. What you will learn in this series: How to to configure a...
