Archive | May, 2007
PC-BSD announces logo contest
PC-BSD has just announced a logo contest on the Announce Mailing List and on the Forums: While the new web site is cooking, the PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the logomark contest! If you have artwork skills and would like to take part in the PC-BSD project, you can set your imagination free to create a [...]
Continue reading...Linux too vanilla? Try this
23. May 2007
Yesterday we wrote about a review of PC-BSD by LinuxHelp, but a week ago (15/07/2007) The Inquirer also reviewed this Desktop OS: “Linux too vanilla? Try this – PC-BSD 1.3: Basic, simple, does the job” It went on first time, no hesitation. Even booting from the install CD, it found the Cardbus slot, found my old [...]
Continue reading...pfSense 1.2-BETA-1 released
23. May 2007
About 2 weeks ago the pfSense Project have released 1.2-Beta-1. This version contains a quite a number of improvements and new features, including FreeBSD updated to 6.2 Reworked load balancing pools which allow for round robin or failover miniupnpd has proven to work so well that it is now in the base install but deactivated by default (uninstall [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 1.3.4 Review
22. May 2007
LinuxHelp has just (22/05/2007) posted an interesting and balanced review of the latest version of PC-BSD. Some of the suggestions for improvement (3-5) will be included in the upcoming version 1.4 (June/July 2007). Though PC-BSD is not a Linux distriution, it’s good to see that a website dedicated to Linux also pays attention [...]
Continue reading...A list of FreeBSD based operating systems
21. May 2007
FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon 64, and EM64T), UltraSPARC, IA-64, PC-98 and ARM architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional [...]
Continue reading...BSD compared with Linux (funny)
21. May 2007
Browsing some forum I came accross the following quote which I want to share with you. I don’t want to start a Linux-BSD flame war, but to me, being a BSD fan, I think there’s some truth it (slightly edited): BSD rules because it’s time-tested and stable. Linux peeps can’t even get their act together with [...]
Continue reading...X.org 7.2 hitting ports tree
19. May 2007
This is really good news. X.org 7.2 has hit the ports tree. Beryl and other 3-D goodies can now be installed on FreeBSD. Dear FreeBSD Users, Within the next 24 hours, the long-awaited update to the X.org 7.2 windowing system will be committed to the ports tree. This upgrade has been 6 months in the making and [...]
Continue reading...Differences between PC-BSD and FreeBSD
18. May 2007
First things first: PC-BSD is NOT Linux. Both are UNIX-like systems, but PC-BSD is NOT Linux. The main difference between PC-BSD and FBSD is: PC-BSD is geared towards desktop use; FBSD has been created with server use in mind PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD (6.1 currently) and KDE (currently 3.5.5) PC-BSD is installed by a nice graphical installer, [...]
Continue reading...What’s cooking for FreeBSD?
17. May 2007
The next major release of FreeBSD, version 7, is one of the most significant so far, with amount of new technologies and improvement largest since introduction of 5.0. Some of the upcoming features are: New sendfile() implementation, improved sosend() TOE and TSO support TCP socket buffers auto-sizing Superpages DTrace ZFS gjournal gvirstor jemalloc New platform: ARM architecture Security event auditing New platform: sun4v (Niagara / T1) New scheduler: SCHED_CORE New [...]
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