Since the FreeBSD torrent tracker has been taken offline, and it appears that it won’t be coming back, you may be able to use a magnet link, so here they are. Each magnet link announces to three public trackers, to try and increase the size of the swarm. Current FreeBSD versions FreeBSD-7.4-RELEASE-amd64-all FreeBSD-7.4-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly FreeBSD-7.4-RELEASE-amd64-disc1 FreeBSD-7.4-RELEASE-amd64-disc2 […]
Category archives: FreeBSD
Installing sqlite3 ruby gem on FreeBSD
If you try to install (or update) the sqlite3 ruby gem on FreeBSD, you might get the following error: sudo gem update sqlite3 Updating installed gems Updating sqlite3 Fetching: sqlite3-1.3.5.gem (100%) Building native extensions. This could take a while… ERROR: Error installing sqlite3: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/local/bin/ruby18 extconf.rb checking for sqlite3.h… […]
My Ideal Operating System
What would my ideal Operating System look like? Really small minimal installation. You know, like OpenBSD. Thorough and comprehensive help pages. You know, like OpenBSD. The ability to simply administer the OS remotely. You now, like SSH on OpenBSD. Excellent, easy to configure firewall. You know, like pf on OpenBSD. Easy to configure network redundancy. […]
Installing OpenNMS on FreeBSD
OpenNMS a network monitoring system,and is in some ways a competitor to Nagios. Having been a Nagios user for a while now, I was intrigued to see the alternatives were like. I last tried installing OpenNMS many years ago, and struggled installing it on FreeBSD. Now that it’s had a few more years to develop, […]
Talk about responsive…
I’ve been using Nagios for a while to monitor several servers. When I set it up, one of the things I left until later was monitoring PostgreSQL databases, as it requires a plugin, and I wasn’t sure which plugins to try. Then I noticed an announcement on the PostgreSQL website that a new version (version […]
FreeBSD 7.2 dmesg on the Dell PowerEdge R300
While looking at the stats for this site, I noticed that plenty of people seems to be searching for information on running FreeBSD on the Dell PowerEdge R300. All I can tell you is that since FreeBSD 7.1 it works just fine, without modification, using the GENERIC kernel. Below is the dmesg from FreeBSD 7.2 […]
Installing FreeBSD 7.0 on the Dell PowerEdge R300
The Dell PowerEdge R300has a Broadcom 5722 network card, which isn’t supported by the latest release of FreeBSD (7.0). Patches for the Broadcom 5722 are in the development versions of FreeBSD, but in order to get the development versions, it’s easiest if you have net access, which is hard without a working network card. The […]
A replicated filesystem proposal for FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a favourite operating system of mine. I’ve been using it for several years, starting with 5.0. One of the things that was new with 5.0 was GEOM – a disk infrastructure which is more flexible than the previous system. The number of geom providers has expanded over the years, to about 20 today, […]