Farbot automates building of netinstall/PXE boot FreeBSD releases. It features a
simple configuration file based on the concept of "Installations",
"PackageSets", and "PartitionMaps."
Farbot currently handles the following:
* Building FreeBSD releases, including grabbing any source needed.
* Building packages for each release, derived from per installation package
sets.
* Laying out an NFS/TFTP exportable file system structure for all built
releases, customized for each installation type.
* Generation of a customized bootloader with options to install each
installation type
JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files
and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you
find obsolete files and folders.
Ledit is a line editor, allowing to use control commands like in emacs
or in shells (bash, tcsh). To be used with interactive commands. It is
written in Ocaml and Camlp5 and uses the library unix.cma.
This CDDA reader distribution reads audio from the
CDROM directly as data, with no analog step between, and writes the
data to a file or pipe as .wav, .aifc or as raw 16 bit linear PCM.
The libcdio package contains a library which encapsulates CD-ROM reading
and control. Applications wishing to be oblivious of the OS- and
device-dependant properties of a CD-ROM can use this library.
Apple's Time Machine is a great feature in their OS, and FreeBSD has almost all
of the required technology already built in to recreate it. This is a simple GUI
to make it easy to use.
This library comes from the gksu program. It provides a simple API to use su
and sudo in programs that need to execute tasks as other user. It provides X
authentication facilities for running programs in a X session.
On FreeBSD, it's possible to allow plain users to mount filesystems
without using su or sudo. This is enabled via vfs.usermount sysctl.
However, if file name conversion is used when mounting a filesystem,
in most cases mount will fail with `mount_XXX: XXX_iconv: Operation
not permitted denied' error. This is caused by the fact that character
set conversion tables need to be loaded into kernel, but, apart
from mounting, that's not allowed to plain users, because charset
tables are large enough to initiate a denial of service by filling
kernel memory with many tables.
This utility allows you to load only specific charset tables into
kernel, so usermounts with file name conversions won't fail and in
the same time it's not possible to bring the system down by filling
kernel memory.
The kldpatch utility can print or alter the content of device/quirk tables
in kernel modules. These tables are generally used to identify devices,
and possibly apply specific quirks to enable/disable certain features.
Kldpatch is especially useful to let the kernel recognise a new device
without rebooting and rebuilding/reinstalling kernel or modules.
Chiron FS is a FUSE based filesystem which implements replication at the
FILESYSTEM LEVEL like RAID 1 does at the DEVICE LEVEL. The replicated
filesystems may be of any kind you want the only requisite is that you
mount it. No need for special configuration files, the setup is as simple
as one mount command (or one line in fstab).