Archive | February, 2008
FreeBSD 7.0 DVDs
Eric A. emailed me yesterday saying he was creating a FreeBSD 7.0 DVD since the installation was quite cumbersome when he had to juggle CDs constantly. His DVD combines the 4 CDs into 1 bootable installation DVD ISO image which is now available on bittorrent: http://thepiratebay.org http://isohunt.com http://linuxtracker.org Today I Dru Lavigne wrote that she has done the same [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 7.0 Released
28. February 2008
The other day we mentioned the availability of FreeBSD 7.0 on the FTP servers, but now 7.0 has been officially announced and released by the FreeBSD Team: The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the 7-STABLE branch which introduces many new features [...]
Continue reading...BSDCon: Barcelona 2008
27. February 2008
A new BSD conference is being organised: BSDCon Barcelona 2008. This event is to be held in Barcelona from 19-20 April 2008 and the organisers are aiming to make this an annual event to cater for the growing BSD community in Spain. Details about registering, presentations etc can be found on the website which is in [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 7.0 available for download
27. February 2008
FreeBSD 7.0 Stable, the long awaited next major release of the popular open source BSD operating has finally arrived! The ISO’s can now be downloaded from the FreeBSD FTP or torrent servers. We still have to wait for the official announcement ;-) Congratulations to the FreeBSD release engineering team for another great release of FreeBSD (release [...]
Continue reading...What’s new in FreeBSD 7?
26. February 2008
FreeBSD is back to its incredible performance and now can take advantage of multi-core/CPUs systems very well… So well that some benchmarks on both Intel and AMD systems showed release 7.0 being faster than Linux 2.6 when running PostreSQL or MySQL. Federico Biancuzzi interviewed two dozen developers to discuss all the cool details of FreeBSD 7.0: [...]
Continue reading...pfSense 1.2 release available
26. February 2008
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/linux_unix/pfSense_1_2_released';The pfSense development team has announced the release of version 1.2! This brings the features and bug fixes from more than 16 months of development since the 1.0 release. Already widely tested and deployed throughout the Release Candidate phase, this release provides the finishing touches on releases already proven in a wide range [...]
Continue reading...pfSense launches new website
25. February 2008
Chris Buechler announced that the final required item for the 1.2 release is now finished: the new website (based on one of the best, if not THE best, open source content management systems, Joomla) is now available. I really like the new look-n-feel. Check it out here.
Continue reading...Kris Moore on PBI v4 (Interview)
25. February 2008
Will Backman from BSDTalk has interviewed Kris Moore, PC-BSD founder, on the latest version of PBI (PC-BSD Push Button Installer). Listen to the interview here.
Continue reading...PBI creating tutorial (in Spanish)
25. February 2008
Jacob Luevano has created a great tutorial for Spanish speakers showing how to create PBIs (PC-BSD’s click-n-install packages). If your mother tongue is Spanish and you’ve been wanting to create PBIs, there’s no excuse any more. PC-BSD proporciona un sistema de empaquetar aplicaciones denominado PBI(Push Button Installer), el cual permite a los usuarios de una forma [...]
Continue reading...FreeNAS 0.686.1 (stable) released
22. February 2008
Volker Teile from the FreeNAS team has announced today that FreeNAS 0.686.1 stable has been released. The following changes and additions have been made: Majors changes: Upgrade Samba to 3.0.28. Add attributes ‘Guest account’ and ‘Null passwords’ to ‘Samba: Settings’ advanced section in WebGUI. Enhance WebGUI + rc-script to define additional group memberships for user accounts. Replace uShare UPnP Mediaserver [...]
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28. February 2008
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