FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is available
FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE has just been announced. More...MacBook Pro 5,1 and FreeBSD 9.0 Hardware Support
In a previous post, I gave a brief overview of how to dual boot FreeBSD and OS X on a MacBook Pro.This post covers my findings regarding hardware support. More...
Dual Booting OS X and FreeBSD 9
Many (outdated) blogs outline different ways in which one can dual-bootMac OS X and FreeBSD using many different hackish methods. All of the blogs I've seen
that illustrate how to accomplish this are for very old Apple hardware, or very old
versions of FreeBSD. With the upcoming release of FreeBSD 9.0, here is my attempt to
document the necessary steps to dual-boot OS X and FreeBSD 9.0. More...
Adobe Flash Security Hole Allows Webcam Spying
According to a post on CNet.com, Adobe is at it again. In a real bad way. More...Controlling Tinderbox from within a FreeBSD jail
How to control a Ports Tinderbox from within a FreeBSD jailThe problem:
By default, FreeBSD jails do not allow nullfs or NFS mounts from within the jail.
As Tinderbox requires either an NFS or nullfs mount to operate, this makes Tinderbox
operation from within a jail impossible.
The solution:
The goal here was simple: implement a way where a jail can control both the Tinderbox
web interface and the build queue without requiring chroot(8) access from the host.
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