FreeBSD 10.0 has been released and available for download. This is a major update that adds support for the Raspberry Pi, Clang, Amazon AWS EC2 cloud compatibility, and a framework called netmap for fast and safe access to network devices for fast packet I/O. Fig.01: Screenshot of FreeBSD 10 showing basic login and hardware info […]
I have been a big fan of author, Michael W Lucus for years now. I love his Absolute OpenBSD book and have yet to read one better on OpenBSD. I am also a fan of his book Absolute FreeBSD so was looking forward to reading this. I had high expectations but at the same time […]
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OpenSSH is critical for both sysadmin and programmers. It is an implementation of the SSH protocol suite, from OpenBSD project. It provides an encrypted session to your server. OpenSSH multiple vulnerabilities OpenSSH has multiple vulnerabilities as of 11th January 2017 running on FreeBSD operating system. From the advisory: The ssh-agent(1) agent supports loading a PKCS#11 […]
A filesystem is nothing but the data structures that an operating system uses to keep track of files on a disk. The filesystem stores pictures, music, videos, accounting data and more. The different operating system comes with various filesystems. One may need to move data between FreeBSD and other Unix-like systems like OS X or […]
Once again a great FreeBSD book to read. I was anxious to read this after reading FreeBSD Mastery- Storage Essentials 2014. I read where he was writing a ZFS book, but didn’t know it was out until I was asked to review it. I loved the introduction, being into hardware and history, it was such […]