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BSDVault Interviews Rick Collette of EkkoBSD
An anonymous reader writes "BSDVault has interviewed Rick Collette of the EkkoBSD project. Among other things they discuss project goals and roadmap for this new distro."
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ekkoBSD is OpenBSD with an as yet unwritten web front end to the config files.
Good luck to them but I can't help thinking
"quick, set up a bit torrent mirror before it gets
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
From the neglected-to-be-mentioned web site:
What is it?
The goal of the ekkoBSD project is to provide a safe, secure, and simple to administer network operating system. This will be accomplished in a democratic manner, with a well-defined hierarchy, and an eye towards new ways of thinking.
The Operating System
ekkoBSD as a core OS offers security, stability, and flexibility to your infrastructure. As a default installation, ekkoBSD gives you an E-Mail server, Web Server, ssh, and several other services that would normally need to be added and secured.
Single Servers
A concept that has been with ekkoBSD since it's beginning are the implementations of "Single Servers". These are much like the single-floppy firewalls, rescue discs, etc. found within PicoBSD. ekkoBSD/TF is a single server example of a transparent nat firewall on a single floppy, hard disk, or CD.
It always helps when you use something newer than 4.3 on Lites. Cheers!
On the more serious side, there could be a few reasons (likely a combination). Your disk could be slow, dying, or both. You partitioned stupidly, or at least in a way that is not as good as it could be. Your filesystem could be mounted with the wrong options (perhaps a bug in the installer?). You might want to patch for softupdates in your filesystem (you are using a BSD UFS right?), or enable it because it is likely there.
You also might want to check for resource utilization. Most BSD-based systems that aren't brand-spankin'-new have low default values for MAXUSERS and other kernel variables that can dramatically affect system performance. Newer versions of FreeBSD detect your memory size at boot-time and set this for you, but others you may have to edit your kernel config and recompile.
For the record, I have never seen a BSD (Free, Net, Open, 4.4 on Lites) machine transfer a file that slow unless the disk is bad or I fucked up a config. For more information, I suggest reading the tuning manpage (www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi if you aren't on bsd now) and reading the freebsd handbook (www.freebsd.org). If you're using an older copy of BSD, you also might want to upgrade to a newer copy.
Brandon