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A bit silent here. Not an excuse but I'm overloaded with other work. Despite the aperent lack of activity some things have been done. Most of this work has been focused on the new tutorial regarding syncing files across a network to a backup machine and between portable units. It's still a tutorial in creation, so feel free to read it but do some own research before jumping in.

The last month I have installed and experienced the other two major BSD distributions, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Without digging to deep, there are not a lot of differences between the two but I found that I liked the OpenBSD variant a lot. Mostly because it resembles the FreeBSD distribution and a lot have been integrated from OpenBSD into FreeBSD

Other smaller distributions that I have fiddled around with is the pfSense which is a firewall/gateway/vpn etc distribuiton with a very nice and useful web interface. It's based on the FreeBSD distribution and uses my favorite firewall/nat program pf (which is a port from... you guessed it OpenBSD). I could never get comfortable with all the tables and such from the iptables firewall in linux, and now that I have found pf I will never let it go.

Lat but not least, I have started to have a look at the default ntpd daemon in freebsd as it seems (for my part) incapable to keep the clock syncronized. It doesn't drift by much, about 5 minutes each month, but my guess is that is a normal drift and the ntpd daemon doesn't do it's work. More to come on that issue in the blog.