Saturday, August 2, 2008

nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog

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Free Software Usability Issues and Solutions

Posted: 02 Aug 2008 09:14 AM CDT

Many of these problems are not specific to Free Software in particular, but to volunteer software. Hobbyist proprietary programs often have poor designs for many of the same reasons. But the easiest way of getting volunteers to contribute to a program is to make it open source.

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BSD FTP-Proxy: PF Firewall Allow Outgoing Active / Passive FTP Connections

Posted: 01 Aug 2008 10:44 PM CDT

Q. I've FreeBSD based Apache webserver. I need to allow outgoing ftp client requests so that BSD ports collection can download from various ftp sites. How do I allow outgoing FTP connection via PF network firewall software under FreeBSD or OpenBSD operating system?

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