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( First published on FreeBSD Now in 2013: http://freebsdnow.blogspot.com/2013/10/happy-20th-birthday-freebsd.html ) The links below work. Those in the article above have expired. Whimsical demo with sound by the Berlin Philharmonic Trumpets start at about 18 seconds. In honor of the 20th birthday of FreeBSD, we’ve reconstituted FreeBSD 1.0 on Qemu. We had some help from Warren Block’s post. Nonetheless, it was a significant challenge. Here’s how we got it up and running. If you’re up to the challenge, grab the ISO here, and give it a whirl. (Note - In case you just can’t get it working, I’ve included some links to a working Qemu image at the end of this blog post.) ... Read more …

jpb@jimby.name November 12, 2018 Introduction I recently had to get down and dirty with OpenSSL, the ubiquitous cryptographic SSL/TLS toolkit, developed by the folks at openssl.com. The latest released version (v1.1.1, Sept. 11, 2018) has an enhanced suite of sub-commands (req, ocsp, x509, etc.), an expanded list of message digest algorithms (blake2b512, shake256, etc.) and a much larger list of supported ciphers than previous versions. ... Read more …

Some work that’s a bit older: A Happy Birthday Project for FreeBSD’s 20th BD FreeBSD was born November 1, 1993. Celebrate by reviving FreeBSD 1.0 with music by Richard Strauss. Working with SEC - the Simple Event Correlator The Simple Event Correlator can perform complex event correlations. Check out Part 1 and Part 2. The File2syslog.pl perl script is here. An introduction to the BSD projects An overview of the four main BSD projects that I gave to a Fortune 5 company a few years ago.