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FreeNAS Featured in BSD Magazine April 2013
This month’s issue of BSD Magazine highlights FreeNAS, the free and open source embedded NAS operating system developed by iXsystems. iX employees Dru Lavigne, John Hixson, Mark VonFange, and Annie Zhang contributed articles, and the featured interview is with Alfred...
FreeNAS Featured in April Issue of BSD Magazine
New issue is a compilation of articles, how-to’s, and case studies about the open source embedded NAS operating system developed by iXsystems With the recent FreeNAS 8.3.1 release, there are plenty of new features to talk about. Readers can find articles on plugins,...
2013 Late Spring Tradeshows
Spring is teeming full of events this year. With boundless energy, iXsystems looks ahead to the lineup of spring tradeshows. Starting with April, we will have schwag at BSD Day in Naples, Italy, then have representation from several members of the iXsystems team at...
FreeBSD Programming Primer – Part 3
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...
Reacting to Panic
iXsystems Debuts Exclusive ZFS Encryption Feature in FreeNAS 8.3.1
First Open Source ZFS Encryption Solution Protects Data from Offline Access iXsystems® continues to lead the way for free and open source software with the release of FreeNAS® Version 8.3.1. With this update, FreeNAS becomes the first open source storage platform to...
FreeBSD Unattended Installation of Servers
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. This article tries to show how to manage an important (in terms of size) computing park when talking about the unattended installation and upgrade of FreeBSD servers. What you will learn How to...
FreeBSD Programming Primer – Part 2
In the second part of our series on programming, we will look at configuring our development server, write our first lines of code and commit the changes to a version control system. What you will learn in this series: How to to configure a development environment and...
What’s Around the Corner: A Look at Upcoming PC-BSD Changes
Over the Christmas holidays, PC-BSD 9.1 was released and while it offered many new features and functionality, we haven't sat back and relaxed just yet. In this article I want to give you a preview of some of the high-level changes that will be coming to PC-BSD a bit...
iXsystems at SCALE 11x
Three days, three hundred photos, and twenty-one cups of coffee later, iXsystems is finished with yet another conference. It’s been an amazing weekend at SCALE 11x and we enjoyed every moment of it. As our employees head back home, I’d like to recap our experience at...