Archive | December, 2007
New life for the Dutch FreeBSD Doc Project
Remco Lodder who is responsible for the Dutch Documentation Project has been updating the handbook Since somewhat more than a week ago I decided to give a burst of energy back to the FreeBSD Dutch Documentation project again by making the current translations up to date and submitting them towards the main project. As you could [...]
Continue reading...Help a FreeBSD committer get away (and back)
31. December 2007
One of FreeBSD’s most active ports committers, Martin Wilke, is in desperate need of a break; away from computers and human beings. Alaska doesn’t sound too bad a place for it. If you appreciate his work, please consider giving a donation to recharge his mental batteries and to carry on with his FreeBSD commitments in [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 6.3-RC2 released
31. December 2007
Apart from FreeBSD 7.0 RC1, RC2 of version 6.3 has been released too. Sorry for the delay with this phase of the 6.3 release. A few glitches were found during testing of the 6.3-RC2 ISOs that included pre-built packages. The 6.3-RC2 builds for amd64 and i386 should now be available on the majority of the FreeBSD [...]
Continue reading...Sun ZFS filesystem on FreeBSD
31. December 2007
ZFS – the breakthrough file system in FreeBSD 7 (ported from Sun’s Solaris 10 Operating System) delivers virtually unlimited capacity, provable data integrity, and near-zero administration. However, FreeBSD’s sysinstall(8) does not yet support installing the system onto anything more exotic than a commonly used UFS partition scheme. Read how to implement the solution on coolrat.org. Back in [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 released
31. December 2007
FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 has been released: “The ports team has gotten the release package sets built for most of the architectures (sparc64 is still a long way off) so we have begun including the pre-built packages on the ISOs. Even a very basic post-build test turned up one latent bug in sysinstall, and once that was fixed [...]
Continue reading...2007 – 2008
31. December 2007
Last May I started Last May I started this blog as a sort of experiment to see if there was a ’market’ for a FreeBSD related blog. Feedback, emails and visitor stats have been showing that there’s indeed a great interest in such a blog. Because Wordpress doesn’t grant much flexibility (installing plugins, scripts etc) to [...]
Continue reading...DS BSD, The pocket sized BSD
31. December 2007
On the first of December 2007 a very tiny FreeBSD-based flavour was launched: D*mn Small BSD (DSBSD). It’s weighing in only under 50mb and comes with a Fluxbox desktop. There are many Linux distros like this, the most popular distro being D*mn Small Linux (DSL Linux). This must have been the inspiration for Damn Small BSD Damn [...]
Continue reading...Review of “The Book of PF”
28. December 2007
Dru Lavigne has reviewed “The Book of PF – A No-Nonsense Guide to the OpenBSD Firewall“. Peter N.M. Hansteen, the writer, has written this book as an expanded follow-up to his very popular online PF tutorial. PF (Packet Filter) is a robust packet filter that originated in OpenBSD and that has been ported to [...]
Continue reading...New FreeBSD source and ports committers
28. December 2007
The FreeBSD project has welcomed 2 new source committers: Rafal Jaworowski (26/12/2007) Weongyo Jeong (28/12/2007) and one ports committer Wesley Shields To find out how the FreeBSD Project operates have a look at this video (How the FreeBSD Project works), read this paragraph (FreeBSD Governance Structure) on Wikipedia, or listen to BSDTalk podcast no 114.
Continue reading...Juniper Networks releases FreeBSD/MIPS port to public
28. December 2007
Juniper Networks, Inc. has donated a reference FreeBSD port to the MIPS architecture to the FreeBSD Project. (Juniper’s embedded router operating system (JUNOS) is based on FreeBSD.) The donated code will be used as one reference for creating an official project-supported FreeBSD/MIPS offering. There are no references to JNPR-specific hardware pieces but a lot of mature code for [...]
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31. December 2007
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