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PC-BSD at FOSSCON 2013
Last Saturday, Dru Lavigne and Josh Smith attended the FOSSCON Conference hosted in Philadelphia and staffed a FreeBSD booth stocked with swag. Dru Lavigne also gave a talk on FreeNAS 9.1 which covered the new Volume Manager, the new plugin system, and an overview of...
DEF CON 21 Recap
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas -- making it a great backdrop for the one of the largest and one of the oldest hacker conventions in the world. This past weekend, 15,000 hackers convened at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in the Las Vegas desert to hack,...
iXsystems Announces Revolutionary FreeNAS 9.1.0 Release
New Major version features new volume manager and easy to use plugin management system The FreeNAS development team is delighted to announce the general release of FreeNAS 9.1.0. This release offers massive improvements to the usability, extensibility, stability, and...
Using Nginx and Naxsi for Security and High Availability
Nginx is a lightweight and powerful HTTP proxy, mail proxy, and reverse proxy server for UNIX-like systems that can also be used as an excellent High Availability (HA) and cluster system. Naxsi is an Nginx Web Application Firewall (WAF) created to mitigate web...
FreeBSD Programming Primer – Part 6
In the sixth part of our series on programming, we will design a basic menu navigation system and style it with CSS. So far in this series, we have focused on adding and displaying standard HTML pages which have been pulled from our database. We are now going to shift...
iXsystems at OSCON 2013
What do daemon horns, strong coffee, and K-pop music videos have in common? No, it’s not fanatical worship. They’re all things that could be found on the floor of the 2013 OSCON Expo! The team touched down in Portland on a sunny Tuesday afternoon. We were there on...
FreeNAS Mini Plus Rated #1 Dual-Core NAS by SmallNetBuilder
SmallNetBuilder has published a comprehensive review and analysis of the FreeNAS® Mini Plus. After subjecting it to a litany of tests, they named it the number one performing NAS appliance in the Dual-Core category. The full review exercised most of the features and...
Creating PBI’s with EasyPBI
Ken Moore writes on the PC-BSD PBI creation tool EasyPBI in the June 2013 Article of BSD Magazine. The Push Button Installer (PBI) format is an easy-to-use package format for end-user applications that requires a specialized set of build instructions to create a PBI...
FreeBSD in Xen Cloud Platform (XCP)
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...
FreeBSD on Rails
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...
