Archive | November, 2007
PC-BSD 1.4.1 available
PC-BSD 1.4.1 has been released. These are the major changes: Upgrades Compiz 0.5.2 to Compiz-Fusion 0.6.0 Switches from HPIJS to HPLIP for better printer / scanner support. Adds extra screen savers with X-Screensaver package Updates NVIDIA drivers to latest releases from NVIDIA. Updates GTK / Pango libraries to latest in ports Fixes some misc bugs with PBI Removal tool, and Network [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD at LISA ‘07 Conference
14. November 2007
Currently the LISA ‘07 Conference (Texas) is on where PC-BSD is represented by Matt Olander. 2 pictures here. If you know any more pictures please let me know.
Continue reading...Smoothwall vs M0n0wall: a comparison
10. November 2007
When it comes to firewalls, most people are fine with a consumer grade solution like a Linksys, Netgear or D-Link “router,” but these devices lack in features. With a Pentium II 200MHz processor and 1GB of RAM, you can create a firewall that’s way more powerful than the standard cable/DSL router you get from a [...]
Continue reading...pfSense 1.2 RC3 released
8. November 2007
The pfSense team have now released version 1.2-RC3. A lot of new improvements and features have been added to this version, a list of which can be found here. Here’s an upgrade note.
Continue reading...Weekly DBSD snapshots for i386
8. November 2007
The DesktopBSD project is now also providing weekly snapshots for i386 computers, in addition to the AMD64 snapshots. Like AMD64 snapshots, they are built every Saturday from the latest DesktopBSD Tools, the most recent FreeBSD 6-STABLE sources and an up-to-date ports collection. Additionally, the i386 snapshots include the Nvidia video driver. Source
Continue reading...TrueBSD – ever heard of it?
8. November 2007
Recently I came across a fairly new project called TrueBSD, a FreeBSD LiveCD based on XFCE. There’s not a great deal of information on the TrueBSD website as to what the goals of the project are, how their project differs from FreeSBIE (another FreeSBIE Live CD based on XFCE), if they’re planning to branch off etc [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 available
5. November 2007
Ken Smith has announced the availability of FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2: The 7.0-BETA2 builds have completed and are on many of the FreeBSD mirror sites. If you want to update an existing machine using cvsup, use RELENG_7 as the branch tag. Instructions on using FreeBSD Update to perform a binary upgrade from FreeBSD 6.x to 7.0-BETA2 will be [...]
Continue reading...BSDStats numbers (Oct 2007)
1. November 2007
These are the final figures from BSDstats.org for October 2007 showing the use of *BSD operating systems: PC-BSD 7554 (54.2%) FreeBSD 5614 (40.3%) DesktopBSD 554 (4.0%) NetBSD 111 (0.8%) OpenBSD 71 (0.5%) DragonFlyBSD 21 (0.2%) MirBSD 7 (0.1%) MidnightBSD 6 (0.0%) Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 2 (0.0%) PC-BSD is #1 for a few months now, but that can be explained since bsdstats pinging is on by default. [...]
Continue reading...BSD, the more Unix-like OS
1. November 2007
This is an interesting blog post looking at the BSD as a viable alternative to Linux. The BSDs are less hyped and are in some areas superior to Linux: “The BSDs have been around for a long time – longer than Linux. But they have received much less attention than Linux in the press because they [...]
Continue reading...DesktopBSD Day 1
1. November 2007
Jan Stedehouder has been reviewing PC-BSD for 30 days in September. Now (November) he’s using DesktopBSD for 30 days and writing about his experience on his blog: DesktopBSD Day 1 – Getting Started (part 1) DesktopBSD Day 1 – Getting Started (part 2) The PC-BSD series was well written, balanced and fair. The PC-BSD has been following the [...]
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16. November 2007
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