Category: FreeBSD

Cloud computing, FreeBSD, FreeBSD instance, Open source, OpenStack, Ubuntu Cloud

Bundling FreeBSD 8.2 image for OpenStack

Johnson D

The following method was tested with FreeBSD 8.2 image bundled into Diablo version of OpenStack. The OpenStack cloud was setup using the procedure given in the following link.

http://cssoss.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/openstackbookv2-0_csscorp.pdf

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Command Line audio players, FreeBSD, Linux, Open source audio players and tools

Open Source – Command line Audio Players for FreeBSD and Linux

Johnson D

A FreeBSD or a Linux system in which GUI is not installed can play audio files with the help the following tools:

  1. mpg123
  2. mpg321
  3. ogg123

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FreeBSD, Qemu, Virtualization, Virtualization on FreeBSD

Installing Qemu on FreeBSD 8.1

Johnson D

Installation

To install Kqemu-kmod use the following command.

 # pkg_add -r kqemu-kmod

To Install Qemu use the following command.

 # pkg_add -r qemu

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Apache, Apache2.2, FreeBSD, FreeBSD web server, MySQL, PHP

FAMP – Installing Apache2.2, MySQL, PHP on FreeBSD-8.1

Johnson D

Pre-Installation Tasks

Before installation of the components, Download the compressed snapshot of the ports collection, using the following command

# portsnap fetch

Now extract the snapshot into /usr/ports using the following command

# portsnap extract

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Desktop Environment, FreeBSD, X11, Xfce, Xorg

Installing Xfce4 on FreeBSD 8.1

Johnson D

Installing X11

Xorg is the default X11 implementation for FreeBSD and can be installed using the following command as the root user

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