Archive | February, 2008
FreeBSD KDE4 status update
Martin Wilke has been working hard to get KDE4 working on FreeBSD. He got KDE4 to build/work well but it’s not yet ready for production environments. The complete KDE4 4.0.1 (without i18n) distribution is now in the test tree. He’s working on the co-existence with KDE3 to make sure that both KDE3 and KDE4 can [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 7.0-RC3 released
22. February 2008
The availability of the third release candidate for FreeBSD 7.0 has been announced today. We’re doing a ‘mini-RC3′ to encourage testing of the Highpoint driver (hptrr) backout. Testing of 7.0-RC2 showed there were problems with the driver update done between RC1 and RC2. Because it’s a ‘mini-RC’ targeted at testing of one particular thing we have [...]
Continue reading...DesktopBSD – Unix for the masses
19. February 2008
Reptiler reports: Currently I’m playing around with DesktopBSD. This actually is because I’m anyway playing with Xen, so I decided to use the time I spend on Xen to try out a few more systems. One of those is DesktopBSD, a version of FreeBSD customized for desktop-use. Thus it offers what we are used to from [...]
Continue reading...Firefox 3 beta3 uses essential FreeBSD 7 technology
19. February 2008
jemalloc, the new default memory allocator in FreeBSD and set to become the internal allocator in Firefox 3, was turned on by default for Linux today. That means by tonight Linux builds should go live on the aforementioned nightlies page with jemalloc enabled. The reason we are integrating our own allocator is that we’ve found [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Q1/2008)
19. February 2008
The Q1/2008 FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report is now available. This report covers FreeBSD related projects between October and December 2007. AsiaBSDCon 2008 is approaching and will be held at the Tokyo University of Science in Tokyo, Japan on the 27th – 30th of March 2008. The FreeBSD Foundation has released a Newsletter detailing their activities [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD news – quick links (week 6)
16. February 2008
1) Hex Live CD 1.0.3 released HexLive is a live cd based on FreeBSD and build with the FreeSBIE toolkit. It is suited for network analysis. The idea behind this network analysis live cd builds up, according to the authors, on one of Richard Bejtlichs books. From the website: We had found that there are [...]
Continue reading...The FreeBSD Foundation february update
14. February 2008
The following is taken from the FreeBSD Foundation update for February 2008: Financial Update Last year we had a fund raising goal of $250,000. We are extremely pleased that we exceeded our goal by raising over $400,000! We want to thank everyone who donated to the foundation. We received some very large contributions from companies who benefited [...]
Continue reading...4 out of 6 most reliable web hosts run FreeBSD – Jan 2008
13. February 2008
Looking only at the first 6 most reliable sites, FreeBSD takes four places. Looking at the top 10 or top 50 Linux takes more places, but it’s good to see FreeBSD at the top of the list. Top 10 most reliable web hosters in January 2008. Current top 50
Continue reading...FreeBSD 7.0-RC2 available
13. February 2008
Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 7.0: The second Release Candidate for FreeBSD 7.0 is now available on most of the FTP mirror sites. Users of i386 or amd64 systems may wish to perform a binary upgrade to 7.0-RC2 using code recently added to the FreeBSD-update utility. On systems [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD news – quick links (week 5)
9. February 2008
The power of an integrated platform New FreeBSD Source committer: Oleksandr Tymoshenko
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22. February 2008
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