Archive | October, 2007
FreeBSD 7 – a taste of things to come
Kris Kennaway from the FreeBSD project has created an interesting 37-page PDF showing some of the good things to come with FreeBSD 7.0. (including some much promising graphs!). Especially the speed of MySQL on a FreeBSD server is impressive. It now even beats Linux! This is the table of contents: Introducing FreeBSD 7.0 Part I: The SMPng project: [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 Available
24. October 2007
Now that FreeBSD 7.0-beta1 has been released, the final stage of the FreeBSD-7.0 Release cycle has begun. The FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available for download on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. The more people that test and report bugs, the better FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE will be. For more information about [...]
Continue reading...AsiaBSDCon 2008 Update
24. October 2007
Will Beckman has posted a podcast on AsiaBSDCon 2008 with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil. Download/listen MP3 | OGG
Continue reading...BSDConTR – Turkey BSD conference
22. October 2007
The BSD Conference in Turkey is over now. Diomidis Spinellis, a FreeBSD committer since 2003, wrote about the conference on his blog This has been a wonderful experience. The conference’s location, the Rectorate of the Marmara University, (SultanAhmet, Istanbul), was impressive, and near many even more remarkable sights, the guesthouse of the University were extremely [...]
Continue reading...DesktopBSD weekly snapshots (dev)
22. October 2007
The release cycle of DesktopBSD is rather slow, since the developers spend a lot of time making sure the release is almost bug-free. For those who are always excited about trying the latest and greatest features, DBSD provides now weekly snapshot ISOs. They are built every Saturday from the latest DesktopBSD Tools, the most recent [...]
Continue reading...Low-Cost Storage Tools
20. October 2007
The Processor website has published (19/10/2007) an article “Low-Cost Storage Tools – Open-Source Projects Provide Increasing Choices” that gives a short description of the following open source storage tools: Amanda FreeNAS NASLite Open Filer Demands for storage continue to increase, even as the technological complexities of running a data center multiply, leaving IT departments and data center managers in businesses [...]
Continue reading...Building bootable FreeBSD/i386 images
20. October 2007
From time to time I hear people complain at how hard it is to build an image from the FreeBSD sources. This week, I’ll explain how I built a bootable i386 image on a USB flash device and also make some observations about the results. Recently, I needed to create a bootable i386 image. The easiest [...]
Continue reading...Managing Multiple FreeBSD Systems
20. October 2007
It is quite simple to manage multiple FreeBSD systems on your network, and to keep them maintained to the same revision level. The buildworld process can be quite long, but luckily, you only need to do it once, no matter how many FreeBSD machines you operate. In this document, I will describe how to keep [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 6.2 EoL =~ s/January/May/
20. October 2007
In light of the longer-than-expected window between 6.2-RELEASE and 6.2-RELEASE, the End-of-Life date for FreeBSD 6.2 has been adjusted from January 31st, 2008 to May 31st, 2008. As a result, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will all cease to be supported at the end of May 2008. FreeBSD users should plan on upgrading to [...]
Continue reading...Google Docs updates
17. October 2007
Google has made two interesting updates to the Docs Suite. Google Docs is now available on mobile phones Google Spreadsheets supports now conditional formatting I’ve been missing this last feature and it’s an important one to make Spreadsheets even more accepted in businesses. However, a lot still needs to be done to make it a power app. I’m [...]
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24. October 2007
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