Today I want to try to install Varnish on FreeBSD. A few scenarios  on my mind. Install varnish with nginx, lighttpd or cherokee with different port under Apache as front end. Due to lack of experience with Varnish I’ll start with Varnish using Apache first. Others will follow 🙂 Lets get started Check Apache installation […]

From FreeBSD lists : The second Release Candidate for FreeBSD 6.4 is now available.  FreeBSD 6.4-RC2 should be the last of the public test builds for the FreeBSD 6.4 release cycle.  Unless a big show-stopper is found from this round of testing we should begin the 6.4-RELEASE builds in about a week and a half.  […]

From PCBSD : After much hard work and testing the PC-BSD Team is happy to announce the availability of PC-BSD 7.0.1, i.e. the first upgrade in the 7 series, with FreeBSD 7.0 under the hood. Version 7.0.1 contains a number of bugfixes and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. […]

FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 has been released, a few option to upgrade : 1. Using csup or cvsup, set tag to RELENG_7 2. Using freebsd-update, just use : freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-BETA2 Download iso files : i386 Amd64 For full release What is FreeBSD, click here for general review from wikipedia.

FreeBSD movement always make me interest as latest news from distrowatch : 1. PCBSD7, big move from version 1.5 to version 7. Estimated for release at mid-september Full news 2. Tentative release of FreeBSD 7.1 and 6.4 Full news For PCBSD I’ll download their vmware version first 🙂