Archive | December, 2008
Support the FreeBSD Foundation (& FreeBSD)
FreeBSD Foundation is a non-profit organisation supporting the FreeBSD Project by part-funding some BSD conferences, by giving traveling grants to FreeBSD developers so they can go to conferences, by paying some developers etc etc. The Foundation is some $33.000 off their 2008 goal ($300,000), so if you want to show your appreciation of the work the Foundation [...]
Continue reading...Evoke (formerly D*mnSmallBSD)
31. December 2008
It’s been quiet around D*mnSmallBSD the last 12 months. Progress is slow as it’s only a small project and there has been a leadership change. The project has moved their website to Google Code and changed it’s name to Evoke on request of the D*mn Small Linux team who said there was confusion amongst their users who thought [...]
Continue reading...Most reliable hosting companies – November 2008
27. December 2008
Guess what operating system the number 1 on Netcraft’s most reliable hosting companies (November 2008) runs. No, guess what operating system the number 1 and 2 use… Correct, FreeBSD ;-) … the top two by average connection time (DataPipe and Aplus.net) both use FreeBSD to run their main websites. In November, DataPipe was named among New Jersey’s fastest growing companies. In [...]
Continue reading...Released: pfSense 1.2.1
27. December 2008
The pfSense project have announced the availability of version 1.2.1: This is a strictly a maintenance release, meaning it contains only bug fixes in the pfSense code, no new features. Though we also upgraded the base OS from FreeBSD 6.2 to 7.0, which necessitated numerous changes in how things are configured. The change to FreeBSD 7.0 [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD foundation newsletter – December 2008
27. December 2008
Please find below the FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter for December 2008. In this Edition: Letter From the Vice President End-of-Year Fundraising Drive Safe Removal of Active Disk Devices Improvements to the FreeBSD TCP Stack Network Stack Virtualization Project FreeBSD Advocacy in Ticino 2008 NYCBSDCon 2008 EuroBSDCan 2008 meetBSD 2008 Foundation at meetBSD and Developer Recognition 2008 Grant and Travel Grant Recipients Travel Grant Recipient Spotlight FreeBSD Testimonial from Hobnob, Inc. Financials Full [...]
Continue reading...The circle of technology and FreeBSD
27. December 2008
Ivan Voras writes he read the release notes of FreeBSD 1.1 and it struck him how many developers have joined the Core Team and then moved on, i.e. there’s a lot of fresh blood and no “tsar” heading up the project. Additionally there are also technical and organisational problems that in some way seem to be [...]
Continue reading...BSDTalk interview with Michael Lauth, CEO of iXsystems
27. December 2008
Will Backman from BSDTalk has a 17 minutes interview with Michael Lauth, CEO of iXsystems. They talk about how iXsystems has build its business model around open source software and how open source software is being used internally as much as possible. iXsystems offer PC-BSD laptops and desktops, FreeNAS base NAS servers etc As a sidenote, BSDTalk is celebrating its 3rd birthday. [...]
Continue reading...OpenBSM 1.1 (alpha 4)
26. December 2008
Robert Watson has announced a test snapshot of OpenBSM 1.1 (alpha 4) The following are the change notes from the OpenBSM NEWS file included with this release: With the addition of BSM error number mapping, we also need to map the local error number passed to audit_submit(3) to a BSM error number, rather than have the caller perform that [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 6.4 CDs/DVDs now shipping from FreeBSDMall
26. December 2008
iXsystems have announced the availability of FreeBSD 6.4-based products through FreeBSD Mall, one of their subsidiaries. In addition to CD and DVD products, there’s a large collection of FreeBSD shirts, hats, jackets, boxer shorts, stickers, case-plates, coffee mugs, mouse pads, and other promotional materials. FreeBSD is a free operating system developed by many volunteers. To help [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 7.1 RC2 available
26. December 2008
The FreeBSD Project has announced the availability of FreeBSD 7.1 Release Candidate 2. FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 is now available, the second of the Release Candidates. Unless an as yet undiscovered show-stopper comes along the release itself will be anywhere from a week to two weeks from now. We might be doing it next week since the release test cycle [...]
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31. December 2008
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