Setting Up Your First VPS FAMP Stack

by: Diego Montalvo   RootBSD VPS instances are installed with a current version of FreeBSD and with SSH access but nothing else. In this tutorial, you will learn how to update the ports tree and install PHP, Apache, and MySQL (FAMP Stack) on your VPS.  ...

MaheshaBSD by Juraj Sipos – A RootBSD hosted project

Juraj Sipos https://www.freebsd.nfo.sk/maheshaeng.htm   Introduction of MaheshaBSD-2.0 – What’s New On The Lake Manasarovar?   MaheshaBSD-2.0, a FreeBSD Live CD (modular/education/presentation/rescue toolkit) based on FreeBSD 9.0, is introduced...

Administering FreeBSD Using Webmin

by: Diego Montalvo Since I began using FreeBSD 4.x, I quickly learned of Webmin, a web-based server administration tool, which allows administrators to manage everything from: Mysql, Apache, Sendmail, system processes, networking and much more. One of the coolest...

How to mirror FreeBSD with CVSup

The following was done with FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. CVSup is a highly efficient way of distributing files. It works similar to rsync, but was specially designed for use with CVS repositories. Requirements: 5.4 GB disk space ( an additional 10-20% more free space is...

FreeBSD 8.2 has been released!

FreeBSD 8.2 was officially released today. This release includes Xen HVM support in FreeBSD/amd64 and Xen PV support in FreeBSD/i386 improved ZFS on-disk format updated to version 15 aesni(4) driver for Intel AESNI crypto instruction set BIND and OpenSSL updates Gnome...