Archive | May, 2007
BSDStats numbers (May 2007)
BSDStats.org is a website that records the numbers of PCs/servers running a particular BSD system. This is broken down per country, releases, drivers/HW stats, CPU stats, and port stats. Though these figures are interesting enough, they cannot be used for any benchmarking or market analysis or so, since the software that anonymously updates (pings) the bsdstats [...]
Continue reading...BSDCan – BSD Conference
30. May 2007
BSDCan, a BSD conference held in Ottawa (Canada), is a yearly 2-day FreeBSD developers summit. In just three short years, BSDCan, has quickly established itself as the technical conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. This year BSDCan 2007 was on 18-19 May 2007. Over 60 FreeBSD developers attended [...]
Continue reading...Comparing GNU/Linux and FreeBSD
30. May 2007
The Free Software Magazine has published today an article explaining the main differences between FreeBSD and GNU/Linux. This article is especially interesting for those who are (fairly) new to BSD and/or Linux. GNU/Linux is the most popular operating system built with free/open source software. However, it is not the only one: FreeBSD is also becoming popular [...]
Continue reading...iXsystems acquires BSD Mall
29. May 2007
iXsystems, the company that sponsors the PC-BSD Project, announced today its acquisition of BSD Mall, a division of cyLogistics, that offers BSD-based CDs and DVDs for the FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Dragonfly and Darwin communities, as well as clothing, hats and other promotional items. iXsystems intends to merge BSD Mall into FreeBSD Mall in order to provide [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Summer of Code 2007
29. May 2007
The FreeBSD Project will be taking part in the Google Summer of Code 2007 (SoC). This is a program set up by Google to fund students to contribute to an open source project over the summer break. This year the FreeBSD Project has received quite a number of high quality applications, out of which 25 [...]
Continue reading...Differentiating Among BSD flavours
26. May 2007
This website deals mostly with FreeBSD and systems derived from or based on this superb operating system. However it’s also good to be aware of other BSD systems that are around and the reason why they exist or why have been developed: OpenBSD (secure by default – the world’s most secure OS), NetBSD (runs on [...]
Continue reading...What is FreeBSD?
25. May 2007
This website deals with the FreeBSD Operating System, but what is FreeBSD? FreeBSD (FBSD) is an advanced Unix-like operating system developed by the FreeBSD Project. FBSD is one of the most reliable, robust and secure operating systems in the world. It is free, open source and powers some of the internet’s largest web servers, including [...]
Continue reading...Free OCR Software
25. May 2007
OCR (Optical Character Recognition software converts hard-copy documents into editable text in a word processor by using a scanner) is still an area where the open source world has a lot of catching up to do with commercially available applications (e.g. Nuance – Omnipage). Recently there have been some interesting developments with regards to open [...]
Continue reading...Unix and BSD Family Trees
24. May 2007
Recently I came across two interesting websites that show an up-to-date family tree of Unix and BSD operating systems, and thought that those of you who are not too familiar with the different Unix and Unix-like systems might find these pages interesting. UNIX history The BSD Family Tree
Continue reading...Flash/Youtube videos on FreeBSD
24. May 2007
To be able to watch Adobe Flash animations and videos on BSD systems, has been not too easy so far. This is caused by Adobe not releasing a (Free)BSD version of Flash, but only a (closed source) version for Windows and Linux. In order to watch Flash content on BSD one has to install the [...]
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31. May 2007
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