This article describes an advanced networking setup that allows you to bridge networks between two VPS instances using Wireguard and VXLAN on FreeBSD. This configuration is particularly useful when you need to distribute services across different providers or when you want to leverage the strengths of multiple hosting environments.
By default, FreeBSD 14.1 does not recognized the multimedia keys of my NuPhy Field75 USB keyboard. Worse than that, the metal knob used for volume control doesn’t work either. After a bunch of readings & trials & errors, author ended up finding the configuration bits required to have it fully working!
If you use Proton VPN with the paid plan, you have access to their port forwarding feature. It allows you to expose a TCP and/or UDP port of your machine on the public IP of your current VPN connection. This can be useful for multiple use cases, let's see how to use it on Linux and OpenBSD.
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This release, though a bit delayed, brings a significant change. They have transitioned from building our OS packages from their OS ports to building them from FreeBSD PKGBSD. This change, while involving extensive testing, promises improved performance and stability. If you have not updated to 24.04.2, a backup and reinstallation with 24.07.1 is recommended. Please note that the change to PKGBSD and the OS update to 24.07.1 could cause issues, as the update manager was only set to upgrade GhostBSD to PKGBSD from a minor version.
The second Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD 13.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites.
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Discover how to create a distributed caching system using OpenBSD base and just 2 packages.
FreeBSD is a robust and dependable open source operating system that has a long history of powering some of the world’s most critical infrastructure. Renowned for its stability, security, and exceptional performance, FreeBSD caters to a wide range of users, from seasoned system administrators seeking a reliable foundation for large-scale deployments to those new to open source software who value a well-documented and community-driven environment.
he FreeBSD Foundation, dedicated to advancing the open source FreeBSD operating system and supporting the community, announced that Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest €686,400 in the FreeBSD project to drive improvements in infrastructure, security, regulatory compliance, and developer experience. The work, organized and managed by the FreeBSD Foundation, will begin in August 2024 and continue through 2025. It will focus on five key projects:
Discover how to create a distributed caching system using FreeBSD jails and open-source tools to build your own CDN, improving content delivery while maintaining full control of your data.
All files from the original import of OpenBSD have now been modified (or deleted). We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus.
The first Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD 13.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites.
Here are 5 mistaken assumptions often made by new & potential users about FreeBSD especially when coming from Windows or Linux.
There’s a common misconception that third-party software for FreeBSD must be built from source using the ports tree. However, FreeBSD has long provided an official package collection, offering over 34,000 packages at the time of writing. The current package management tool, pkg(8), available since 2014, offers much more flexibility than the original pkg_install created by Jordan Hubbard in 1993. Thus, for most users, installing software on FreeBSD using the official packages is more efficient and straightforward.
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