Archive | September, 2008
FreeBSD news in French
Rodrigo, a long time French FreeBSD enthusiastic contacted me to say he’s started a FreeBSD News website for French readers. If anybody else wants to use my theme and CSS, please feel free to contact me. In the BSD world it’s all about sharing ;-) http://www.freebsdfr.net/
Continue reading...Install PC-BSD 7 in VMware Fusion (howto)
23. September 2008
This tutorial will guide you every step of the way through installing PC-BSD 7 in VMware Fusion (version 2.0).
Continue reading...7 Reasons why BSD is better than Linux
23. September 2008
Matt Hartley, who is using Linux full time himself gives 7 reasons why BSD operating systems are preferred over Linux (but he also admits that BSD has its shortcomings): BSD is dead simple Create your own OS Speed Stability Software packaging Security Suitability for intellectual property (IP) Follow this link for the full reasoning. And a related sort of article I thought I’d link to: Why you [...]
Continue reading...The New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) 2008
23. September 2008
The New York City BSD Conference begins in a few weeks (October 11-12, 2008 at Columbia University in New York City), so make sure you register as soon as possible. NYCBSDCon brings together the best and brightest of the BSD communities from the New York area and beyond. The conference costs $95, including breakfast and lunch on both [...]
Continue reading...Setting up MLDonkey on FreeBSD (howto)
23. September 2008
Linux/BSD: sharing experiences is a blog with useful howtos for FreeBSD and Linux. The latest howto is on setting up MLDonkey on an old, headless, PC. MLDonkey is an open source, free software multi-network peer-to-peer application. Currently the following protocols are supported: eDonkey, Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Fasttrack, FileTP and Kademlia. I wanted to put my 266 Mhz [...]
Continue reading...Google FreeBSD Summer of Code 2008 results
22. September 2008
The FreeBSD Project is proud to have taken part in the Google Summer of Code 2008. We received more high quality applications this year than ever before. In the end it was a very tough decision to narrow it down to the 21 students selected for funding by Google. These student projects included security research, [...]
Continue reading...bug release: AskoziaPBX 1.0.1
20. September 2008
What happens to a lot of .0 releases happened to AskoziaPBX also: a handful of bugs managed to creap in… AskoziaPBX 1.0.1 squashed the bugs in 1.0 (The perils of .0 releases) A week has gone by since 1.0.0 was released and we’re ready for a small update. Seven bugs killed in seven days. Thanks for all [...]
Continue reading...Bordeaux 1.6 beta 1 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD
20. September 2008
Previously we mentioned that Bordeaux was coming to FreeBSD, but now this promising product (for those needing Windows software and yet wanting the stability and security of BSD) has been released by Tom Wickline: Over the past month we have made some major progress on the BSD port of Bordeaux. Bordeaux for FreeBSD now has a [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 7 Fibonacci released
15. September 2008
The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 7 (Fibonacci Edition). digg_url = 'http://digg.com/linux_unix/PC_BSD_7_Fibonacci_stable_now_Released';This release marks a milestone for PC-BSD, by moving to the latest FreeBSD 7-Stable and also incorporating the KDE 4.1.1 desktop. Users will immediately notice the improved visual interface that KDE 4.1.1 offers, as well as a large improvement in [...]
Continue reading...Beta releases FreeBSD-6.4 and FreeBSD-7.1
15. September 2008
The final stage of the FreeBSD-6.4 and FreeBSD-7.1 Release cycle has begun with the first beta releases. The ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available for download on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. We encourage people to test and report any outstanding bugs. Please find more information about these releases on the Release [...]
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26. September 2008
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