FreeBSD Foundation - 2012 Year-End Fundraising Campaign

Just did a quick check on the targeted $500k donations and FreeBSD Foundation have made it!
As of this post, FreeBSD Foundation have managed to surpass it's 2012 fund raising goal by $184 905, at the total of $684 905.

This is no doubt a great news to the end 2012 and I look forward to see more of these contribution towards FreeBSD Foundation, funding my favorite operating system FreeBSD.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year !!!

FreeBSD - Running Puppet on FreeBSD

The latest issue of BSD Magazine is out and guess what? It has an article that I've wrote on running Puppet on FreeBSD!

BSD Magazine is a free to download magazine that focus on BSD, be it FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, PC-BSD and others. From BSDMag.org website :

"We decided to create a magazine for BSD users, enthusiasts and communitites. There were lots of Linux magazines and none devoted to BSD systems. Does that mean Linux is better than BSD? Not at all!"


To download a copy of the BSD Magazine, just register your email address with BSD Magazine and the download will be available. Spread the news, this magazine is full of BSD related news, tutorials, tips & tricks.

The BSD community needs more of these valuable resource!

Ciao !!!

FreeBSD Foundation - 2011 Year End Fundraising Campaign

Another year is passing and the season of giving is coming !!!

This year, the FreeBSD Foundation is targeting to raise 400k. These funds will be put into the good use of FreeBSD related activities :

• sponsor BSD conferences & events
• sponsor developers to attend these conferences
• protect the intellectual property of the FreeBSD project
• marketing of FreeBSD project
• hardware procurement for FreeBSD infrastructure
• R & D to enhance the FreeBSD OS

(via here)

If you find that using FreeBSD is fun & useful, please donate to the foundation. Donating to the FreeBSD Foundation is the most effective way to promote & sponsor this wonderful OS. Plus, having your name on the donation list does draw some "feel good" feeling. :)

By the way, all it takes for your name to appear in the donation list is just mere USD 5. Click on this link to DONATE.

Adios !!!

FreeBSD - Logos & images

Stumble upon the FreeBSD logo page while reading the mailing list.

Take a look here.

Namaste !!!

FreeBSD - Another example why dotcom servers choose FreeBSD

1 million concurrent TCP session, what kind of app need this???

Is WhatsApp :D

"...
Over the past few months we have been making a lot of improvements to our servers to increase the performance, uptime and scalability. Today we have tuned some knobs, shifted some traffic around and achieved 1 million established tcp sessions on a single machine (and with memory and cpu to spare!)

$ netstat -an | grep -c EST
1016313

We are extremly proud of this achievement and wanted to share with other tech minded people out there. For those curious how we did it, the technology on the backend is simple: FreeBSD + Erlang
..."

Taken from here.

Ciao !!!