We are pleased to interview Oliver Pinter and Shawn Webb, the core developers of the HardenedBSD project.

Founded in 2014, the project aims to be a security enhanced FreeBSD, with modern technologies like exploit mitigation known as PAX and ASLR but also introduces a bunch of new sysctls to the …

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You want to upgrade your FreeBSD system before 9.0 through freebsd-update and it fails, showing the following error message:

The update metadata is correctly signed, but
failed an integrity check.
Cowardly refusing to proceed any further.

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Let's learn how to execute commands in a jail by referring to the jail name instead of the jail number.

Suppose you have set up two jails, namely "mail" and "www". The first is to run your mailserver, the second to run your webserver in a secure jail environment. Each …

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FreeBSD boots painfully slow on new servers with Intels Nehalem chipsets. You don't want to wait 180 seconds and more? Here's the solution, just add these two lines to your /boot/loader.conf and the boot time will significantly decrease: hint.atkbdc.0.disabled="1" hint.atkbd.0.disabled="1 …

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The 2.10 release supports, thanks to updates of ACPI and APIC interrupt routing support, a much larger variety of hardware and multiprocessor systems than previous releases.

The Hammer Filesystem can now deduplicate volumes overnight in a batch process and during live operation. For estimation of space savings for existing …

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