Category: Me

I (Hungry Penguin) have written another article for Linux.com, this time about PC-BSD.

Until recently FreeBSD lacked an easy-to-use desktop version. In 2005 the PC-BSD project was started to provide just that. This month PC-BSD version 7 was released. I downloaded and installed it to see how it squares up to user-friendly Linux distributions like Ubuntu.

I had high expectations of PC-BSD, as much is said of FreeBSD's stability and security, and having used FreeNAS, which is based on FreeBSD, I knew that FreeBSD has lots to offer... Follow the link below to see what I found out.

Read more here.

Category: Me

Hi,

To coincide with the release of my "Learning FreeNAS" book I have started a new website LearnFreeNAS.com.

It is a one stop site for tips, articles, tutorials and videos about FreeNAS the Open Source Network Attached Storage OS.

Thanks,

THP

Category: Me

The Hungry Penguin's latest article “Comparing Linux USB flash disk distros” has been published on Linux.com.

In the article I review the mini-distros DSL and PuppyLinux and also the full desktop distributions PendriveLinux, Ubuntu and Mandriva Flash.

I also posted a comment/update with a quick look at Fedora 9 USB Live.

You can read the review here.

Category: Linux

Linuxjournal.com have an interesting HOWTO on File Synchronization with Unison

The folks over at LinuxJournal.com are publishing a list of the all-time favorite articles ever featured on their web site. They will feature the top 25 in this series, presenting us with five each day this week. These 25 articles alone represent tens of millions of page views on LinuxJournal.com.

You can read more here.

Category: News

The SCO Group, best known for suing IBM about Linux, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This was widely predicted even during the failed IBM law suit, but the timing as left some surprised as many expected SCO to run out of cash at the beginning of this year.

You can read more over at Hi-Tech Squad.