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FreeBSD 9.1 released

Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 23:20 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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FreeBSD 9.1 has been released. This is the second release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 9.0 and introduces some new features.

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Quick tip: streaming with VLC 2.x.x

Wednesday, December 19 2012 @ 02:30 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 162

You probably know that VLC can do streaming. I recently tried to use it as a streaming server for VLC Direct Pro Free, and noticed a few gothcas:

to get the "http" interface in VLC , you have to build it with lua=on (why? Because somewhere in the 2.x.x line, the http interface was rewritten in lua)
to enable access to the http interface from other machines than localhost, you will have to edit the file
```
/usr/local/share/vlc/lua/http/.hosts
```
and enable access for your ip ranges in there (look at the lines that are commented out)

After that, the setup documented on the VLC Direc Pro Free web site should work.

Quick tip: using a built-in USB card reader

Saturday, November 17 2012 @ 19:17 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 143

So you have a built in card reader (for SD cards, CF cards and others) in your FreeBSD machine. But the card reader can't be used, because it doesn't detect (or signal to the operating system) when a card is inserted?
Here is a way: insert a card, thenturn off and on again power to the card reader, the check /var/log/messages to see if the card shows up. Find the correct device:

root@kg-v2# usbconfig -u 1 -a 2
ugen1.2: <USB 2.0 Reader Generic> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON

power off, the on


root@kg-v2# usbconfig -u 1 -a 2 power_off
root@kg-v2# usbconfig -u 1 -a 2 power_on

That''s it.

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Quick tip: creating a FAT32 partition with gpart

Saturday, November 17 2012 @ 18:49 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 197

To create a FAT32 partition / slice with gpart, use option -t with the fat32 argument. Like this:

# gpart add -t fat32 da1
da1s1 added

Then you just need to newfs the slice, and you are good to go.

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auditdistd

Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 14:12 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 162

For people interested in FreeBSD: the auditdistd project is now complete.
The auditdistd daemon nicely complements the audit framework. It allows one to distribute audit records collected locally with minimal latency to another system. This helps in postmortem analysis, as we know that at least to some point in time audit logs stored on a separate machine can be trusted. This is very important, because once the system is compromised, we cannot trust any of its local files.

First seen on the FreeBSD Forums.

FreeBSD 8.3 released

Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 22:31 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 164

FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE is now available. People wanting to use it should read the release notes, the errata and get it.

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NAS4Free

Monday, April 16 2012 @ 01:16 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 340

NAS4Free is an embedded Open Source Storage NAS (Network-Attached Storage) distribution based on FreeBSD, it's supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems. It includes ZFS v28, Software RAID (0,1,5), disk encryption, S.M.A.R.T / email reports etc. with the following protocols: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, TFTP, AFP, RSYNC, Unison, iSCSI (initiator and target), UPnP, and Bittorent which is all highly configurable by it's WEB interface (from m0n0wall). NAS4Free can be installed on Compact Flash/USB/SSD key, Hard disk or booted of from a LiveCD.

FreeBSD 9.0 released

Thursday, January 12 2012 @ 22:48 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 189

FreeBSD 9.0 has been released. New stuff:

A new installer, bsdinstall(8) has been added and is the installer used by the ISO images provided as part of this release
The Fast Filesystem now supports softupdates journaling
Highly Available Storage (HAST) framework
High Performance SSH (HPN-SSH)
The LLVM compiler infrastructure and clang have been imported

and lots of more stuff.

FreeNAS 8.0.3

Thursday, January 05 2012 @ 00:51 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 229

The latest FreeNAS release, FreeNAS 8.0.3, was released on January 3rd, 2012. The build is named "FreeNAS-8.0.3-RELEASE-x64 (9395)", and it is based on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p5. Both x86 and x64 (amd64) releases exists.

ZRouter.org

Tuesday, November 08 2011 @ 17:29 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 400

ZRouter.org is a young project that aims to produce FreeBSD-based firmware for small boxes such as SOHO router, APs, etc.

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