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Another look at FreeBSD 8

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

A customer recently linked us to a blog post (http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html) that gives a really good look at what there is to come in the up-and-coming version 8 of the FreeBSD operating system. It looks like the FreeBSD developers have been busy and there are a number of new features which caught our eye.
First, as a [...]

Versions 1.0, the first easy to use Subversion Mac client

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

One of our customers, Sofa, recently released the first easy to use Subversion client for the Mac, named Versions.  Version control is a critical piece to software development projects, and the tools and processes to handle versioning have often been pain points for development teams.  The ability to easily visualize commits, notes and changes that [...]

Buildasearch lets users build search engines

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Buildasearch.com is a new website that lets anyone quickly build their own customized search engine.  By signing up for a free account, users can quickly configure and customize their own search engine that can be used to search a predefined list of websites.
Besides just harvesting the power of big search engines, Buildasearch.com lets users easily [...]

Plan Upgrades

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

We have made disk space upgrades on the two lowest (and most popular) VPS Plans:

Iota VPS ($19.97/mo) is upgraded from 5GB disk to 10GB disk
Lambda VPS ($29.97/mo) is upgraded from 15GB to 20GB disk

All customers that are currently on either of these plans will see the upgrade immediately.   Enjoy!

Streaming Music with Icecast and Musicpd

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Streaming music on FreeBSD can be very easy with the right applications. I will be outlining how to stream music using the Music Player Daemon and Icecast.
Unfortunately for some reason the Music Player Daemon (mpd henceforth) is set up to not compile with support for libshout which is needed for it to play with Icecast. [...]

FreeBSD Mirror

Friday, September 28th, 2007

A few weeks ago we set up a local cvsup mirror for FreeBSD at mirror.rootbsd.net that is updated every 12 hours and can be accessed by any RootBSD customers. As part of our set up process we install the most recent version of the ports tree to the new systems but you will [...]

Welcome to RootBSD Blog

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

You have found the blog of RootBSD - a BSD-centric hosting service. We will be bringing you valuable insight into our top-secret hosting operations

So anyway, stay tuned to important cool stuff.