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FreeNAS Mini Earns “Excellent” Rating in PC-Mag Review
iXsystems’ FreeNAS Mini was recently reviewed by PC-Mag and received 4 out of 5 stars for SMB NASes. In a nutshell, the Mini was described as providing administrators “the ultimate in control over their NAS, thanks to the extensibility of open source software”. Other...
SeaGL 2013 Recap
This past weekend, the marketing team flew out to Seattle to attend SeaGL, Seattle’s first Linux conference. It was a completely new show and we had no idea what to expect. We arrived at Seattle Central Community College on Friday morning to set up. As the day wore...
EuroBSDCon 2013 Recap
Last week, Kris and Jordan travelled to Malta to attend one of the most highly-anticipated conferences for BSD developers, EuroBSDCon. After our intrepid travelers recovered from jet-lag and numerous airborne hours, Jordan was kind enough to share an account of his...
FreeBSD Programming Primer – Part 8
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”...
FreeBSD on XenServer
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information.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...
Intro to ZFS. What is ZFS?
“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...
A Closer Look at the Changes in PC-BSD/TrueOS 9.2. Part 2
Directory encryption using PEFS Last month we took a look at how PC-BSD is implementing ZFS boot-environments, which can be a life-saver for both servers and desktops. This month we will be looking at how PC-BSD uses the PEFS kernel level file system module to...
Monit – Monitoring solution for enterprise and SOHO servers with FreeBSD
The state of the network services offered by a company is the business card with which it presents itself to the world. Thanks to constant monitoring, it is possible to understand how and where to improve the infrastructure of the network in real time and detect any...
BSD Server Maintenance
Many sites and handbooks explain how to install servers, but once a server is running, can an administrator keep it that way? This article will cover the basics of maintaining a BSD server. Many server administrators may understand how to set up a FreeBSD server, but...
KyivBSD 2013 Recap
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. This past Saturday, our very own Alexander Motin attended and gave a talk at KyivBSD in Kyiv, Ukraine. Alexander was kind enough to give us a recap of the event and share photos of his experience....
