pfSense 2.0 tutorial at EuroBSDCon 2010 EuroBSDCon 2010 will be held October 8-10, 2010 in Karlsruhe, Germany. I will be in attendance presenting a training-focused tutorial on pfSense 2.0. I’m also looking forward to numerous other great looking presentations. The BSD conferences offer a great opportunity to learn and network with numerous people working on the BSD operating systems and derived [...]
List of 2.0 New Features and Changes Haven’t had a post up here in a while, but for anyone who watches our git repository, you know development never ceases. Vast amounts of work have gone into 2.0 this year, and it really shows. We’re deploying it in production, though generally recommend you don’t yet. A work in progress list of 2.0 new [...]
pfSense 2.0 training at BSDCan 2010 We will be having a half day training session on pfSense 2.0 at BSDCan 2010. It will cover as many of the changes in the 2.0 release as time permits. The schedule is not available yet, however registration is open. The full schedule will be available soon. BSDCan is always a great conference, and we look [...]
The FreeBSD Foundation needs donations The FreeBSD Foundation needs donations to meet their 2009 goal. They provide very important funding to the FreeBSD project, which serves as the base of the pfSense project. They are a not for profit organization, so your contribution may be tax deductible.
Merry Christmas from the pfSense team – 2.0 now beta! Our Christmas gift to the community is our 2.0 release reaching the beta milestone. What does this mean? The release is feature complete, with no new features being added, and should stay relatively stable throughout the remainder of the development process. That’s not to say it’s production ready though, most of our developers are using [...]
pfSense on FLOSS Scott and I are on FLOSS 101 discussing the project, check it out. Thanks much to Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte for having us! FLOSS Weekly is a podcast covering free and open source software.
1.2.3 Release Available! 1.2.3 release is now available! This is a maintenance release in the 1.2.x series, bringing an updated FreeBSD base, some minor enhancements, some bug fixes, and a couple security updates. We’ve been waiting a few weeks in anticipation of a FreeBSD security advisory for the SSL/TLS renegotiation vulnerability, which came last week and allowed us [...]
Book foreword / first reviews out Glad to see two book reviews on Amazon already, both with five stars! I was thrilled to have the foreword for the book written by one of my favorite authors, Michael W Lucas, the author of Absolute FreeBSD, Absolute OpenBSD, Cisco Routers for the Desperate, PGP & GPG, among other things. Thought I would share [...]
Happy 5th anniversary to pfSense Five years ago today, the pfsense.* domains were first registered. The project actually hit 5 years since its inception about 2-3 months ago, living the first part of its life as projectx (some history here) with no website.We’ve come a long way! Thanks to everyone who has supported the project in any fashion over the [...]
pfSense book now available for purchase! Now available on Amazon Finally, comprehensive documentation for pfSense is available in print! Table of contents is available here. Authored by pfSense co-founder Chris Buechler and pfSense developer Jim Pingle, The Definitive Guide to pfSense covers installation and basic configuration through advanced networking and firewalling of the popular open source firewall and router distribution. This [...]
