Finstall is a modern installer for a modern FreeBSD system, with support for advanced features not present in sysinstall: => More information about project. advanced features, freebsd installation, freebsd systemYou may also be interested in ...Say hello to new Debian Etch GUI installerHowto install Linux on a Windows XP or NT systemFreeBSD Download Sun Java JDK and [...]

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Linux too vanilla? Try PC-BSD desktop system. Liam Proven has published a review for PC-BSD desktop os: I’VE BEEN TRYING to reinstall my old laptop recently. It’s a battered old Thinkpad i1200 series from about 2001. It was a basic, economy-model machine: no Ethernet, no floppy, no serial, no infra-red, single Type 3 Cardbus slot; don’t [...]

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For security reason you may want to clear the history file and the screen when you hit CTRL+D or type logout command as you don?t want to left content on screen (i..e avoid an information leak). Some Linux distro may clear the screen but others do not clear the screen when you logout. When a login [...]

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I?ve already written about howto log in, on your local system, and make passwordless ssh connections using ssh-keygen command. However, you cannot just follow these instructions over and over again, as you will overwrite the previous keys. It is also possible to upload multiple public keys to your remote server, allowing one or more users to [...]

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PF is OpenBSD’s stateful packet filter firewall. PF is developed on OpenBSD, but has been ported to many other operating systems. It is the only firewall that supports both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic filtering: A recent linux.com story highlighted the wonderfulness of OpenBSD’s spamd with an empasis on greylisting. This tutorial, field tested at user groups [...]

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There is a program called trickle. It is a portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper. It can run in collaborative mode (together with trickled) or in stand alone mode. trickle works by taking advantage of the unix loader preloading. Essentially it provides, to the application, a new version of the functionality that is required to send and [...]

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Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks. Say hello to Pidgin Now Gaim changes name to Pidgin and releases version 2.0. According to the Gaim [...]

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The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) includes C, C++, Fortran and other programming languages. GCC was originally written by Richard Stallman in 1985. GCC is the only compiler you can find under wild verity of operating systems / hardware architectures (CPU). gcc gives us many useful options to make our code into whatever we like. By understanding [...]

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While writing a shell script you may need to display an error message. For example if you failed to open /etc/passwd file you want to display error message. Old way You can write something as follows: cat /etc/shadow 2>/dev/null if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo “Failed to open file”; exit1 ; fi New way - OR || [...]

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Have you ever wondered how those three little numbers that appear in the UNIX w or uptime/top command load average (LA) report are calculated? This is an excellent read if you would like learn more about how and how the load average (LA) can be reorganized to do better capacity planning. The article concludes that: These inherited [...]

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Here is a quick question by one of our regular reader : How to write a perl script that can monitor my disk space under UNIX or Linux and send me an email alert? There is a nice perl system routine called Perl df or Filesys::DiskSpace. This routine displays information on a file system such as its [...]

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If you have old hardware try Xfce desktop system. Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for various *NIX systems. Designed for productivity, it loads and executes applications fast, while conserving system resources. Xfce 4.4 embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity and re-usability. It consists of a number of components that together provide the full functionality [...]

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Bruce Montague has published an in depth article titled as ?Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project?. This is an excellent reading This article makes a case for using a BSD style license for software and data; specifically it recommends using a BSD style license in place of [...]

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GNOME is a complete desktop environment (no matter what Linus says ). In GNOME, everything is easy to use, and works the way you want. So how do you install Gnome Desktop system under FreeBSD? These days it is quite easy to install Gnome Desktop system under FreeBSD. You have following choices (use [...]

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There is a nice and open source program called Website Payments Pro 4 Paypal. From the project page: It is an object-oriented PHP5 framework engineered to integrate easily with the Website Payments Pro API from Paypal. Complete the DoDirectPayment, SetExpressCheckout, GetExpressCheckoutDetails and DoExpressCheckoutPayment operations in just 3 lines or less. Version 0.2.0 has been released. => Software name: Website [...]

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