Archive | March, 2008
Using two monitors with X.org & FreeBSD
Dan Langille has added a useful howto to his FreeBSD Diary website: Using two monitors with X.org This is a must-read if you’re trying to / going to set up a FreeBSD system with 2 screens and x.org. BSDTalk has an interview with Dan Langille about his new job with Afilias and BSDCan 2008 (BSDCan 2008 [...]
Continue reading...Zimbra on FreeBSD – petition
24. March 2008
Would you like to see Zimbra ported to FreeBSD? Zimbra is a next generation, open source messaging and collaboration suite. If you like me would love to use Zimbra on FreeBSD, please sign the petition and let’s encourage Yahoo to port this to FreeBSD. Zimbra, a Yahoo! company, is the leader in open source, next-generation messaging and [...]
Continue reading...GNOME 2.22.0 for FreeBSD
24. March 2008
The GNOME 2.22.0 desktop environment is now available for FreeBSD. The official GNOME 2.22 release notes can be found here (inlc screenshots). On the FreeBSD front, this release features: an updated hal port with support for video4linux [...]
Continue reading...DesktopBSD 1.7 – Development snapshot
24. March 2008
The first development build of DesktopBSD 1.7, an operating system based on the recently released FreeBSD 7.0, was announced and ready for downloading & testing. First, remember it’s an early snapshot, so there will be certainly some problems! But apart from that it’s DesktopBSD based on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. I did a first test, there are some [...]
Continue reading...BSDCan 2008 registration open
19. March 2008
BSDCan 2008 will be held on 16-17 May 2008 at the University of Ottawa, and will be preceded by two days of Tutorials on 14-15 May. Registration is now open
Continue reading...First look at PC-BSD 1.5
19. March 2008
PC-BSD 1.5 Featured Story on Distrowatch. I’ve followed the development of PC-BSD with enthusiasm since my first test drive three years ago of version 0.6. I was highly impressed with the developers’ ability to provide a free BSD that was easy to install and even easier to use. Truthfully, I thought it was just amazing. I’ve [...]
Continue reading...DTrace support in FreeBSD Current
19. March 2008
John Birrell has announced that Sun’s DTrace support is being committed to FreeBSD Current. I plan to start committing stuff bit-by-bit starting a week from now, subject to review of the bits. As part of this work I will be moving the CDDL sources that ZFS uses into a separate CDDL-specific tree according to core@ instructions (resulting [...]
Continue reading...Open USENIX archives
18. March 2008
USENIX has made the records of all its proceedings public The USENIX Association, a leading forum for presenting cutting edge developments in computing, announced today that open access to its conference proceedings will now be available free of charge to the general public. In doing so, USENIX continues to fulfill its mission to support and disseminate [...]
Continue reading...Upgrade FreeBSD 6.3 to 7.0 stable
18. March 2008
Those wanting to upgrade from FreeBSD 6.3 to 7.0 check out this step-by-step howto
Continue reading...gotbsd.net for BSD torrents
18. March 2008
There’s a great BSD torrent website that I want to bring to your attention. It’s gotbsd.net where you can download FreeBSD 7.0, PC-BSD 1.5 and FreeSBIE 2.0.1 CD images via the Bittorrent protocol. This site was originally started in 2007 shortly after the FreeBSD Project took their official server off-line. We originally ran on a dedicated [...]
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24. March 2008
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