Archive | February, 2009
DesktopBSD; what’s happened?
It’s been quiet around DesktopBSD the last few months. It’s been a looooong time since the last stable release, and many months since the last publicly available snapshot. There aren’t any blog updates and the svn.desktopbsd.net subdomain is dead. The forums are quite quiet; not as busy as they used to be. I emailed Peter Hofer, the founder of [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 7.1 on VMware Workstation 6.5 (howto)
24. February 2009
Last week we wrote about VirtualBSD, a pre-configured vmware appliance that can be used in VMware Workstation or the VMware Player. If you want to use another window manager, for instance, or want to install a minimal installation, why not do create your own virtual FreeBSD in VMware? This howto (ptankov.wordpress.com) shows step-by-step with screenshots how to install FreeBSD [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Foundation update – February 2009
24. February 2009
The FreeBSD Foundation has issued today the following update: Accepting Project Proposals Do you have a great idea for improving FreeBSD? Do you need funding to get the job done? We are currently accepting project proposals until March 10. We will consider work relating to any of the major subsystems or infrastructure with the FreeBSD Operating System. [...]
Continue reading...OpenBSM 1.1 beta 1
24. February 2009
Robert Watson has announced the release of OpenBSM 1.1 beta 1; this is a test snapshot of OpenBSM 1.1. The following are the change notes from the OpenBSM NEWS file included with this release: The filesz parameter in audit_control(5) now accepts suffixes: ‘B’ for Bytes, ‘K’ for Kilobytes, ‘M’ for Megabytes, and ‘G’ for Gigabytes. For legacy [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD wallpapers galore
24. February 2009
Feeling like your FreeBSD desktop needs a facelift? Well, now thanks to Randy Belk (active member of the FreeBSD Forums who goes by the nickname rbelk) we have almost every FreeBSD related wallpaper known to man in a single place: http://picasaweb.google.com/randy.belk/FreeBSDWallpaper# So .. get in there and beautify your desktop at will ! Go get it at http://killasmurf86.lv/en.html (Beastie Sources) and [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD/arm for Samsung S2C24xx
24. February 2009
Work has been undertaken to make FreeBSD run on the Samsung S2C24xx CPU. This page describes FreeBSD support for the Samsung S3C24xx CPU’s FreeBSD is already running on the OpenMoko handset.
Continue reading...Upgrade to KDE 4.2 on FreeBSD
24. February 2009
As mentioned before, KDE 4.2 is now available for FreeBSD. To upgrade KDE 4.1.4 to the latest and the greatest, enter the following: Ensure your ports directory is up-to-date and you’re su (superuser) # pkg_delete -f kde\*4.1.4\* automoc4-\* # portupgrade -a # cd ${PORTSDIR}/x11/kde4 && make config && make install clean
Continue reading...OpenJDK on FreeBSD
24. February 2009
Ivan Voras writes (19/02/2009) that he’d love to rewrite his finstall project (FreeBSD GUI Installer) in Java, which may result in license issue. OpenJDK would be a much more preferable option: OpenJDK looks like it might “soon” be ported to FreeBSD (though judging by the progress it looks like the official FreeBSD Java crowd is working on OpenJDK 1.7 [...]
Continue reading...(Free)BSD links round up (week 8)
21. February 2009
Welcome to the (Free)BSD leftovers for week 8. In this post we have a mix of news snippets, links, howto’s ’n software/package update. Just a roundup of those little things I saved up throughout the week. Previous roundups can be found here. (Free)BSD News Desktop NetBSD Project An interesting discussion was started by Andrew Doran on the NetBSD [...]
Continue reading...New FreeBSD videos on BSDConferences YouTube channel
21. February 2009
Recently a few more (Free)BSD related videos have been added to the BSDConferencec Youtube channel. These videos were taken at last years AsiaBSDCon: Keynote, internet systems consortium, Peter Losher Reducing lock contention in a multi-core System, Randall Stewart GEOM – in infrastructure we trust, Pawel Jakub Dawidek Using FreeBSD to promote open source development methods, Brooks Davis PC-BSD, Matt Olander
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28. February 2009
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