KDE 4.1 Released

"6 months after the release of KDE 4.0, the KDE community today announced the released of the second feature release in the KDE 4 era. Lots of changes have gone into this release and the KDE community hopes to be able to make most early-adopting users happy with this release. Lots of feedback from people trying out KDE 4.0 has gone into KDE 4.1, filling most of the gaps people experienced with the 4.0 releases."

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OpenDNS Offers DNS Vulnerability Protection

"Tech site Webmonkey advises users not sure whether or not their DNS servers are patched against a recently discovered vulnerability to switch to the excellent, free DNS service, OpenDNS."

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FreeBSD Single Sign on with Active Directory and Access Control

This document describes how to join a FreeBSD box to a Windows domain controller and to control access to the FreeBSD box. We will be using Samba’s WinBind and Kerberos for authentication.

This document assumes that you have a functioning FreeBSD sever on a network with internet access.

Installing A FreeBSD 7.0 DNS Server With BIND

As FreeBSD is known as one of the most stable and reliable operating systems, I decided to publish some useful articles for it, mixing it with services we need on daily bases.

This tutorial shows how to set up a FreeBSD based server that offers DNS services. This tutorial is written for the 64-bit version of FreeBSD, but should apply to the 32-bit version.

Set Up Eclipse PDT 2.0 On Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede)

This is a howto about setting up a proffessional PHP IDE using Eclipse by hand. I'll be using Eclipse PDT for PHP support. The PDT project provides a PHP Development Tools framework for the Eclipse platform. This project encompasses all development components necessary to develop PHP and facilitate extensibility. It leverages the existing Web Tools Project in providing developers with PHP capabilities. We will have in the end features like subversion support, edit remote files, database development, debugging and more.

How To Build a SqueezeCenter Server with FreeNAS and a T5700

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/

Install Wordpress Multiuser (WPMU) On FreeBSD 7

Wordpress is one of my favourite blog engines because it's easy and supports many plugins. Wordpress also available in multi-user mode which means a single Wordpress installation will cover many users with their own subdomain. This howto will show the steps taken to install Wordpress wpmu on a server running FreeBSD 7 stable.

Software mirror in FreeBSD

If you want to make a low-cost server with a RAID capabilities and don’t want to invest in a hardware RAID solution, gmirror is a good choice. You can use it to add a disk and create a mirror even on your existing server running FreeBSD 6 or 7.

In my example I have at start an 8 GB hard disk where I installed FreeBSD 7.

How FreeBSD makes vulnerability auditing easy: portaudit

Find out how FreeBSD’s portaudit tool goes a long way toward helping you maintain a secure system, simply and easily.

Building a Router With pfSense (Video)

Do you have extra computers lying around the house? In this episode, Matt shows us how to convert an old computer into a home network router.

Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL

"We are happy to announce the release of a new set of Infrastructure Stacks: LAPPStack, MAPPStack and WAPPStack. These stacks provide an easy to install distribution of Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP and supporting libraries. The user-friendly installer allows users to quickly install and configure a PHP-PostgreSQL platform on Linux, Windows and OS X."

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Build your own NAS with FreeNAS (video)

"This video from Revison3 explains the theory behind NAS and shows how to set up a FreeNAS server."

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FreeBSD on the Openmoko

"For the latest information and FreeBSD installation instructions visit the Openmoko FreeBSD page."

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Quick Guide to FreeBSD hostap for FreeBSD 8

"I have a need to setup an access point. Many of the discussions on the web include all kinds of extra goodies that one normally sets up with the
access point. But I just needed an access point: no dhcp, bridging, etc. Here's how I did it."

iXsystems offers professional FreeBSD and PC-BSD support

iXsystems announced on 08/07/08 the launch of its Professional Services Division for FreeBSD and PC-BSD. The new Professional Services Division will provide Professional Enterprise Grade support, consulting, and development for FreeBSD and PC-BSD.

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Video for BSD Project

"The Video4Linux (V4L) project has produced a large number of device drivers available for multimedia cards, digital cameras, and USB devices. FreeBSD doesn’t support V4L, so much work will have to be repeated in re-writing new hardware drivers to make them run on FreeBSD. Most hardware which just ‘plugs-n-plays’ on Linux will never work on FreeBSD.

On 10 July 2008 the Video for BSD project was created on SourceForge. This project will implement a V4L compatible API and device drivers for the BSD systems, enabling FreeBSD users to run Linux video applications. The project’s goal is to provide an emulation layer that would let you recompile the Linux source code on FreeBSD, and provide a sufficiently complete emulation of the Linux kernel APIs so that device drivers can be used without significant modifications to their source code."

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