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Founder of PC-BSD Houses Servers in Own Yard Part 2
In the second half of Kris Moore’s server room adventures, we touch base with Kris again, who has recently populated his renovated server room with hardware and equipment: Now that we've finished the construction of the actual "room," we get to the fun part: the...
Valentine’s Day at iX(TM)
There’s tons to say about iX™ when Valentine’s Day comes along. Our love for open source and FreeBSD grows with every passing day. So what better way to express that love than with an internal celebration and a BAFUG meetup in our main lounge? Jeff: "This one's mine....
2013 Winter and Early Spring Tradeshows
As the last traces of imaginary snow begins to melt in Northern California, the employees at iXsystems welcome spring with a fresh new lineup of tradeshows. In the remaining days of February, we will be attending a User Group Connect in Ottawa as well as SCALE in Los...
FreeBSD Programming Primer – Part 1
In this new series we will look at the tools, processes and methods involved in writing software, including developing a Content Management System (CMS) which will run under an AMP stack on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux etc. What you will learn How to to configure a...
Founder of PC-BSD Houses Servers in Own Yard Part 1
Kris Moore has done it again. The founder and lead developer of PC-BSD has brazenly stepped out into the vast wilderness (limited to the confines of his backyard) and come back inspired with brilliant ideas. Over the span of one and a half weeks, Kris undertook a...
Network World Evaluates FreeNAS Performance on iXsystems Server Hardware
FreeNAS determined to be flexible, easy to manage, and high performing, at a price that can’t be beat Network World recently assessed FreeNAS in terms of usability, features, and NFS I/O performance. In performance tests, the device under test was an iX-2212 server...
Executive Reflections: Michael Lauth
Let's welcome the new year with a new series of blog posts, “Executive Reflections”, where we will take an exclusive look at senior management. We're going to kick things off with our co-founder and CEO, Michael Lauth. Which one is Mike? The world may never know. Mike...
2012: BSD Year in Review
This article looks back on 2012 and provides an overview of what occurred in the BSD world. FreeBSD The FreeBSD Project had three releases in 2012: 9.0: was released on January 6. Some of the highlights of this release include: a new installer, SUJ (soft-updates...
iXsystems Announces Release of PC-BSD 9.1 Isotope Edition
New stable version based on FreeBSD 9.1 includes re-implemented Warden jail management utility and TrueOS server installation option. iXsystems® is pleased to announce the arrival of PC-BSD® 9.1 Isotope Edition, the latest release of the secure and user-friendly...
Developer’s Corner: James T. Nixon III
Moving right along with our Developer’s Corner, I had the wonderful opportunity to interview James T. Nixon III, iXsystems’ Webmaster. James was first introduced to Open Source and BSD by his friend from high school, Gary, who handed him a burned disc with the word...
