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FreeBSD Network Troubleshooting Learning more about network performance and the power tools available in FreeBSD for maximum network debugging FreeBSD has a full set of debugging features, and the network stack is able to report a ton of information. So much that it can be hard to figure out...

In the February 2021 survey we received responses from 1,204,252,411 sites across 263,042,054 unique domains and 10,766,606 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 6,270,052 sites, 92,829 domains, and 116,789 computers. nginx is top of the charts when it comes to total count of sites as...

Tracing the History of ARM and FreeBSD ARM – Past, Present and Future This is part of our article series published as “History of FreeBSD“. Subscribe to our article series When we think of computers, we generally think of laptops and desktops. Each one of these systems is powered by an...

dRAID, Finally! A sneak-peak into the latest, and long-awaited feature of OpenZFS This is part of our article series published as “OpenZFS in Depth”. Subscribe to our article series to find out more about the secrets of OpenZFS Isaac Huang’s talk at the OpenZFS 2017 developers summit witnessed...

FreeBSD Jails – Deep Dive into the Beginning of FreeBSD Containers In recent years, containers and virtualization have become a buzzword in the Linux community, especially with the rise of Docker and Kubernetes. What many people probably don’t realize is that these ideas have been around for...

History of FreeBSD Part 4: BSD and TCP/IP – How a Game Winning Team Was Formed This is part of our article series published as “History of FreeBSD“. Subscribe to our article series to find out more about the beginnings of FreeBSD Today, FreeBSD is used by many companies and individuals to...

Rank Performance Graph OS Outage hh:mm:ss Failed Req% DNS Connect First byte Total 1 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.454 0.014 0.029 0.029 2 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.000 0.545 0.060 0.118 0.118 3 EveryCity SmartOS 0:00:00 0.000 0.232 0.077...

In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan discuss tips for surviving Cabin Fever and Coding from Home, Self-host a password manager on OpenBSD, Preliminary OpenBSD Support added to OBS, Dan’s CURL tip of the Day, List of some Shell goodies for OpenBSD, and more! Episode show notes...

FreeBSD’s original platform, i386, is being demoted to Tier 2 status beginning with the upcoming 13.0 release as priorities shift to elevating ARM64 and RISC-V to Tier 1 status. This change does not mark the end of i386 release images, binary updates, or pre-built packages, but rather the end of...

In the January 2021 survey we received responses from 1,197,982,359 sites across 262,949,225 unique domains and 10,649,817 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 95,900 computers, but a loss of 30.13 million sites and 465,000 domains. Apache, nginx and Microsoft all lost sites this...

Simple and Secure VPN in FreeBSD – Introducing WireGuard Wireguard is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology that aims to enable the easy deployment and configuration of servers and clients. Wireguard is intended to replace the use of IPSec or OpenVPN for many VPN applications. Wireguard...

The FreeBSD Project has published it quarterly list of accomplishments in the Q4 2020 Status Report from a wide range of contributions including volunteers, vendors, and work sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation. Highlights include the publication of the FreeBSD 13.0 Release Schedule, several...

In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan discuss Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD, FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with ZFS howto, pkgsrc-2020Q4 released, FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 With 4GB of RAM, HardenedBSD December 2020 Status Report, and more! Episode show notes...

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The October to December 2020 Status Report is now available with 42 entries. Continue reading...

Vivek Gite of nixCraft asks and answers the question, “How do I install, set up and configure a FreeBSD 12 jail with VNET on ZFS? How can I create FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with /etc/jail.conf to run OpenVPN, Apache, WireGuard and other Internet-facing services securely on my BSD box?” The post How...

Mark Johnston answers all of your questions about swap on FreeBSD in this blog post hosted by Klara Systems, including an explanation of the laundry queue. “The laundry queue is managed by a dedicated thread, the laundry thread, which is responsible for deciding when and how much to page out.”...

In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan discuss the History of FreeBSD: Early Days of FreeBSD, mesh VPN using OpenBSD and WireGuard, FreeBSD Foundation Sponsors LLDB Improvements, Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD, and more. Episode show notes: https://www.bsdnow.tv/385...

Exploring Swap on FreeBSD Free Memory is Wasted Memory or How to Make The Best Use of Swap On modern Unix-like systems such as FreeBSD, “swapping” refers to the activity of paging out the contents of memory to a disk and then paging it back in on demand. The page-out activity occurs in...

In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan discuss the Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship, automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions, Trying OpenZFS 2.0 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE, OpenBSD on TECLAST F7 Plus, Multi-volume support in HAMMER2, and more. Episode show notes...