Archive | April, 2008
FreeBSD VMWare 7.0 images updated
We wrote before about the availability of the VMWare FreeBSD 7.0 image. Unfortunately, there was a problem with that image. Greg Larkin has now updated the image. The new VMware 7.0 virtual machine with ZFS enabled torrent can be downloaded here.
Continue reading...PC-BSD & DesktopBSD artwork
22. April 2008
Vermaden has created some nice artwork for both PC-BSD and DesktopBSD. Check these links: PC-BSD artwork DesktopBSD artwork
Continue reading...PC-BSD, FreeBSD & the Google SoC
22. April 2008
The subject sounds more exciting than it is ;-) Google has selected 21 FreeBSD related projects for the annual Google Summer of Code (Soc). It would have been nice if Google had selected 21 PC-BSD projects, but, hey, who knows what the future holds ;-) Kris Moore, the founder of PC-BSD, will be mentoring Eric Durbin [...]
Continue reading...CrossOver Games announced
19. April 2008
CodeWeavers, the makers of CrossOver Office, have announced a new product: CrossOver Games Now gamers can play the games they want, on whatever platform they want! With CrossOver Games, you can run many popular Windows games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux PC (or FreeBSD, PC-BSD and DesktopBSD, GvE) Whatever your tastes — first-person [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD News – quick links (week 16)
19. April 2008
Howto’s Remote Installation of the FreeBSD Operating System without a remote console Installing Squid – Basic installation of the popular proxy server to reduce network traffic on your WAN Installing GRUB on FreeBSD Interesting pages The FreeBSD boot process BSDtalk147 – interview wit FreeBSD developer Alexander Motin. This interview is about mpd, the netgraph based Multi-link PPP Daemon Heat map of FreeBSD [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD clustering
19. April 2008
Cluster computing is often associated with Linux, but this is equally possible to set up with FreeBSD, which, in fact, can be used for a lot of specific purposes. Brooks Davis presented an interesting and helpful paper at the New York City * BSD User Group back in 2003. Since late 2000 we have developed and maintained [...]
Continue reading...AsiaBSDCon 2008 – papers & photos
19. April 2008
The AsiaBSDCon 2008 took place last month (27-30 March) in Tokio, Japan. According to reports it was a very successful and enjoyable get-together. If you’ve not been able to attend, check the presentations and photographs online. Enjoy. Some interesting (FreeBSD related) papers are: PC-BSD: FreeBSD on the Desktop Tracking FreeBSD in a Commercial Setting Using FreeBSD to Promote Open [...]
Continue reading...BSDTalk interview with James Cornell
19. April 2008
Will Backman did an interview with James Cornell. They talked about their favourite BSD web sites and about shopping for BSD. Thanks for those who recommended this blog in the comments on the BSDTalk page. This reminds me, I should have a look at my links page and update it where necessary. I noticed some sites have [...]
Continue reading...Google Summer of Code update
19. April 2008
The Google Summer of Code organisers have tentatively allocated 20 students this year to work on FreeBSD. The winning students will be announced on Monday April 21, 2008. Check out my blog on Monday for the latest updates!!! Links:FreeBSD GSoC Summer Projects | FreeBSD GSoC Projects & ideas
Continue reading...Building a server with FreeBSD 7
16. April 2008
No Starch Press has released its eagerly awaited Building a Server with FreeBSD 7 This modular guide to building a FreeBSD server is has been written to make it easy for (new) users to choose the packages that they need, with step-by-step directions for installation and configuration. The book’s modules cover topics like: Running common FreeBSD admin commands [...]
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22. April 2008
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