Archive | January, 2008
Thank you and feedback request
Thank you to those guys who have been promoting my blog recently: Dru Lavigne, Oliver Herold, Justin Sherrill and Steven Rosenburg. It was especially kind of Justin Sherrill from the DragonFlyBSD team to refer to my site since I don’t track the development of DragonFlyBSD on this blog. If you want to know more about [...]
Continue reading...DesktopBSD 1.6 reviewed
26. January 2008
raiden.net has a pretty nice review of the latest version of DesktopBSD, 1.6 DesktopBSD, a derivative of Freebsd designed for desktop use, has come a long way since its early inception back in late 2005. Originally created as a way to bring the power of Freebsd as a desktop OS to new users, it has now [...]
Continue reading...m0n0wall, an open source lightweight firewall
26. January 2008
Jeff Goldman has done an interview with Manual Kasper, the creator of m0n0wall. Here it is: Manuel Kasper developed the embedded firewall software package m0n0wall back in 2002, he says, while experimenting with embedded x86-based computers. Having just succeeded at stripping down FreeBSD enough to make it run on a Soekris net4501 board… and deploying [...]
Continue reading...Office 2007 Installation video (Wine)
25. January 2008
Wine-Review has posted a video showing the actual installation of Office 2007 and Word 2007 running on Linux on Wine. This should also work for FreeBSD with the Wine (Ports | PBI)
Continue reading...Exciting future ahead for BSD
25. January 2008
Trollaxor has written up an interesting piece about the history and future of the major BSD systems: FreeBSD, netBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD and Darwin. In the new year the Berkeley Software Distribution family of Unix-like operating systems is growing at a phenomenal rate and excitement over the possibilities for this operating system family is in the air. [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD news – quick links (week 4)
25. January 2008
Some quick links that you may want to check out. How to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.2 to 6.3-RELEASE (Peter V) Creating and managing a jailed virtual host in FreeBSD (Open Addict) Managing multiple FreeBSD Systems (Open Addict) bsdtalk138 – Central Syslog (BSD Talk – podcast) Squeeze your Gigabit NIC for top performance (Enterprise Networking Planet)
Continue reading...m0n0wall-CMI project
23. January 2008
Stumbled upon m0n0wall-CMI today, a web-based centralised management interface to manage m0n0wall devices remotely. It’s the result of an internal needs inside the TI Automotive firm that is now given to open source community; This work is licensed under the BSD license. This project is developed in PHP5 Oriented Object and packaged together with a developer documentation [...]
Continue reading...m0n0wall 1.233 update
23. January 2008
m0n0wall 1.233 is now available. This version fixes an issue with some PPPoE-based ISPs (most notably AT&T/BellSouth). Download v1.233
Continue reading...FreeBSD: the rock
23. January 2008
FreeBSD is a UNIX-like free operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) operating system. It runs on almost all known hardware architecture, including Microsoft Xbox, and has been called “the unknown giant among free operating systems.” It is generally regarded as being robust, which is why it is often called [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 7 will be revolutionary
23. January 2008
Pinderkent has made a nice summary of why FreeBSD 7.0 release is something to look forward to: A few weeks back, at the end of December, FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 was released. FreeBSD 7 will no doubt prove to be quite revolutionary. For one thing, this will be the first major FreeBSD release in a number of years. [...]
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