IRC Channel
Thursday, August 26th, 2010The time has finally come. We now have an official IRC channel over at freenode, #rootbsd. We welcome everyone to come in and chat, ask any questions pertaining to your VPS with us, or ask questions about FreeBSD in general. We always welcome friendly conversation.
We may occasionally ask questions in the channel [...]
FreeBSD and Linux
Monday, December 14th, 2009We thought it would be a good idea to help educate our current RootBSD users, and potential users, as to some of the differences between FreeBSD and Linux. We have nothing against Linux at all, we actually like it, however there are very noticeable differences in the two. Without turning this into too much [...]
RTLD Security Exploit in FreeBSD
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009On November 30 2009, a security vulnerability was discovered by Nikolaos Rangos (aka Kingcope) in recent FreeBSD releases exploting code in the run-time link-editor, rtld. A patch was shortly issued and updated binaries were announced December 3 2009 in FreeBSD security announcement FreeBSD-SA-09:16.rtld. This vulnerability is critical in nature as it allows a [...]
Halloween Special Offer
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Hello,
Currently offering 10% off the first month on all new sign ups until the end of October. When signing up use the promo code “Halloween” to get the discount.
FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009In the last few days, the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team finalized 7.1-RELEASE and it is now available for donwload. We are now also offering the option for 7.1-RELEASE on new VPS setups. It is listed as an option in the signup process (along with 6.3 and 7.0).
Release Announcement
The ULE scheduler is now the default [...]
What is TrustedBSD?
Saturday, July 26th, 2008You may have heard of something called “TrustedBSD” in your discussions of FreeBSD security features. But what is it? A part of the operating system? An application? Something new? Actually, TrustedBSD is a project, started in 2000 with the goal of providing a set of trusted operating extensions for FreeBSD.
It [...]
Why FreeBSD?
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Whether or not you are new to the world of VPS’s (perhaps you read our entry a few days ago, “Why VPS?”), you may be wondering what the advantages are of a FreeBSD-based VPS. There are great reasons why many experts in virtual hosting, like RootBSD, have made this choice.
FreeBSD is a free operating [...]
FreeBSD in Firefox 3
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008On June 18, the Mozilla Foundation broke the Guinness World Record for most software downloads in one day when over 8 million people downloaded Firefox 3, the latest version of the popular web browser. What many Firefox users may not have realized is that with the update they acquired a number of new technologies [...]
