CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system for UNIX Based operating systems. CUPS stands for Common Unix Print System. It serves as the default print server for almost all the linux and BSD distributions. It consists of the following components
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Installing Lumina Desktop on FreeBSD 11
Lumina Desktop Environment is a desktop environment for Unix and Unix-like operating systems mainly developed for BSD.
In this article let us see how to install Lumina Desktop environment on FreeBSD 11.
Installing Qemu on FreeBSD 11
Installation
QEMU is a hypervisor, that can emulate many number of architectures.Some of the architectures include:
- i386
- x86_64
- Alpha
- Arm
- MIPS
- MIPS64
- PPC
- PPC64
- Sparc
- Sparc64
In this article lets look at, how to install QEMU on FreeBSD 11. By default, QEMU on FreeBSD supports the following architectures.
- i386
- x86_64
Installing and configuring WordPress 4 on FreeBSD 11
WordPress on FreeBSD needs a working FAMP stack. Let start off the installation by setting up a FAMP stack first. Install the FAMP stack using this link.
The following procedure is tested on FreeBSD 11
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Resetting root password on FreeBSD 11
In this article we will have a look at how to reset the root password on FreeBSD 11
Installing FreeBSD 11 on Raspberry pi
FreeBSD is available for installation on Raspberry pi, from version 10.0. We can install and Configure FreeBSD 11.x using the following procedure.
The FreeBSD is available as prebuilt image from the official repository .The following is a directory in one of the official mirrors of FreeBSD.
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Installing OpenCart on FreeBSD 11
The installation of OpenCart is FreeBSD is pretty straight forward. The following article can be used as a procedure to do a basic install of OpenCart on FreeBSD. This is tested on FreeBSD 11.
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Creation and Administration of Jails on FreeBSD-11
Jails are available on FreeBSD since version 4.4. Let us see how to implement jails in FreeBSD 11.x using ezjail. Ezjail is a tool used to create and administer jails.
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Installing XFCE-4 on FreeBSD 11
XFCE is a lightweight desktop environment for Unix like Operaing Systems. In this article let us see how to install XFCE on FreeBSD 11.
FreeBSD 11 can be downloaded from this link. Install FreeBSD according to your requirements, and once the installation is complete, use the following steps to install XFCE desktop evironment.
For more details and documentation of XFCE desktop you can have a look here.
Setting up FAMP server on FreeBSD 11 using Pkg
FAMP stands for “FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL and PHP”. The following procedure shows how you can install FAMP server on FreeBSD 11 using ‘pkg’ tool.
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