FreeBSD Resources

This section contain FreeBSD resources from Internet that we've considered interesting. Title: OS Benchmark Web: http://geri.cc.fer.hr/~ivoras/web2/papers/osbench.html Description: This article presents the results of benchmarking various operating systems. The benchmarks include synthetic tests (bytebench, ubench, bonnie++) and, more importantly, semi-"real world" tests (pgbench, web CMS). Operating systems benchmarked are various versions of FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, NetBSD and Linux. Read more here: http://geri.cc.fer.hr/~ivoras/web2/papers/osbench.html Title: Practical Changes to improve security Web: http://help.phys.unsw.edu.au/doc/unix_sec/node3.html Description: An interesting site with tips to improve security of your server. Title: Dual Booting, Mac OS X and OpenBSD Web: http://langworth.com/pages/dualbootmac Description: To get Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), OpenBSD 3.4 and a decent bootloader onto my Powerbook so I'll be able to have the latest Mac OS X as well as be able to play with any other arbitrary OS, portably. The bootloader also needs to look cool. Read more here: http://langworth.com/pages/dualbootmac Title: FreeBSD Tips Web: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/ Description: Interesting FreeBSD Tips Title: IPERF Network Testing Application Web: http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/ Description: While tools to measure network performance, such as ttcp, exist, most are very old and have confusing options. Iperf was developed as a modern alternative for measuring TCP and UDP bandwidth performance. Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss. Title: M0n0wall Mailing List Web: http://m0n0.ch/wall/list Description: Mail List Resources for M0n0wall project.