Archive | March, 2009
FreeBSD and Google Summer of Code 2009
Google is now hosting the Google Summer of Code for the 5th year running, and FreeBSD has been selected again as eligible for the mentoring organisation. If you or any other student is interested in contributing to the development of FreeBSD and get paid for doing so, have a look at the FreeBSD Summer of Code 2009 page. [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 7.1-RC1 released
28. March 2009
The PC-BSD Team has announced the availability of PC-BSD 7.1-RC1, running FreeBSD 7.2-Pre, and KDE 4.2.1 Version 7.1RC1 contains a number of enhancements and bugfixes from beta1. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Version 7.1-RC1 of PC-BSD is available for download from the mirrors, as well as bittorrent from www.gotbsd.net. Also, translators [...]
Continue reading...Cisco meets its match (pfSense)
27. March 2009
Cisco products are generally good and reliable, but often expensive. RickC had some issues with a Cisco firewall and takes the free pfSense for a spin, and he loves it… Is that surprising? … Enter PFSense - the BSD-based firewall distro closely related to the m0n0wall project. Having used several host-based firewalls like Smoothwall and m0n0wall over the years, [...]
Continue reading...pfSense 2.0 dashboard sneak peek
27. March 2009
The pfSense Team had their ‘09 hackaton recently with 7 developers working hard on v2.0. Judging from feedback, changelog and the 2.0 dashboard sneak peek, this was a successful get-together.
Continue reading...FreeBSD and Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC)
27. March 2009
The FreeBSD Project is pleased that Google has once again invited the FreeBSD Project to participate in their Summer of Code program, which pays student developers to work on Open Source projects. Over the last four years, over 70 Summer of Code projects have generated improvements to almost every part of FreeBSD; many of the students have gone on to become permanent [...]
Continue reading...BSD Magazine – Q2 2009 (PC-BSD Uncovered)
25. March 2009
A new issue of the BSD Magazine is now available (Q2 2009). The following is the table of contents: Installing PC-BSD Fibonacci Edition – Jerry Dixon Man pages? We don’t need no stinkin’ man pages. I don’t need to show you any man pages. Well, that being said, at least review the hardware requirements prior to selecting your computer [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Security Advisory (ktimer)
24. March 2009
The FreeBSD Security Team has issued the following security warning: FreeBSD-SA-09:06.ktimer – Local privilege escalation I. Background In FreeBSD 7.0, support was introduced for per-process timers as defined in the POSIX realtime extensions. This allows a process to have a limited number of timers running at once, with various actions taken when each timer reaches zero. II. Problem Description An [...]
Continue reading...Linsux.org – proudly powered by FreeBSD
24. March 2009
As of 21 March 2009 Linsux.org is no longer hosted on Linux, but proudly powered by FreeBSD. Announcement
Continue reading...BSD Conferences related videos
13. March 2009
More videos on the YouTube BSDConference channel since my last post: A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem by Kirk McKusick Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods by Brook Davis and some MeetBSD 2008 videos on ftp.springdeamons.com
Continue reading...KDE 4.2.1 for FreeBSD available
13. March 2009
KDE 4.2.1 is now available in the FreeBSD ports tree. KDE 4.2.1 is only a Bugfix release. PC-BSD 7.1 B1 already comes with KDE 4.2.1.
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28. March 2009
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