Archive | May, 2009
China chooses FreeBSD as basis for secure OS
A report by the Washington Post claims China is equipping all of its government and military PCs with a version of the Kylin operating system to make hacking attempts by foreign intelligence services more difficult. The information about the highly secure operating system was made public during a US China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing in [...]
Continue reading...2 Year Anniversary – FreeBSD News
16. May 2009
I’ve been running this FreeBSD news blog for exactly 2 years today. FreeBSD and operating systems have developed and evolved a lot since then; reporting and writing about these have been enjoyable. Many thanks to everybody who’s notified and emailed me about stories, and those that have left comments. If you can think of any ways [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD with XFCE window manager
16. May 2009
PC-BSD Software has now made an XFCE PBI available. PC-BSD comes with KDE4 pre-installed, but if you prefer a lightweight window manager, this one is for you. The Gnome window manager PBI can be downloaded here. Another interesting PBI is the Thin Client Server. This PBI installs dhcpd and configures PC-BSD as a Thin Client Server. Clients connected to [...]
Continue reading...The Locking Infrastructure in the FreeBSD kernel
16. May 2009
The presentation at AsiaBSDCon 2009 is focused on explaining theoretical approaches and pratical aspect of the locking support in the FreeBSD kernel. The locking KPI as well as underlying mechanisms and interactions with the scheduler will be analized and discussed deeply. Typical locking strategies and some edge cases will also be shown along with a [...]
Continue reading...Isolating Cluster Users for Performance and Predictability
16. May 2009
At The Aerospace Corporation, we run a large FreeBSD based computing cluster to support engineering applications. These applications come in all shapes, sizes, and qualities of implementation. To support them and our diverse userbase we have been searching for ways to isolate jobs from one another in ways that are more effective than Unix time [...]
Continue reading...Mohamad Dikshie Fauzie: FreeBSD and SOI-Asia Project
16. May 2009
In this paper we describe usage of FreeBSD operating system for IPv6 Multicast routing platform in SOI-Asia Project. SOI-Asia project is platform to deliver realtime lecture via UniDirectional Link of satellite to several countries in Asia. Because of limited bandwidth in satellite, we use IPv6 multicast to deliver material of lecture and realtime video and [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD – Making FreeBSD on the Desktop a reality – Kris Moore
16. May 2009
FreeBSD has a reputation for its rock-solid reliability, and top-notch performance in the server world, but is noticeably absent when it comes to the vast market of desktop computing. Why is this? FreeBSD offers many, if not almost all of the same open-source packages and software that can be found in the more popular Linux desktop [...]
Continue reading...BSDTalk interview with some FreeBSD devs
11. May 2009
BSDTalk has a 38 minutes interview with some FreeBSD developers at last weeks BSDCan 2009: Robert Watson, Brooks Davis, Hiroki Sato, Philip Paeps, and George V. Neville-Neil. They talk about the recent FreeBSD 7.2 release, and what is coming for 8. BSDTalk 173 - Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG
Continue reading...Mail system for distributed network – A. Zakharchenko
11. May 2009
Mail system for distributed network. Presentation held by Andrey Zakharchenko at AsiaBSDCon2009: Sometimes it is necessary to organize a mail domain for large and geographically distributed network, which may consist of independent subnets with their own separate Internet connections (and some of those connections may be not very good, or not very fast, or not very cheap). But [...]
Continue reading...Deprecating groff for BSD manual display
11. May 2009
Kristaps Dzonsons’ presentation: Deprecating groff for BSD manual display, AsiaBSDCon2009: There are few GPL-licensed utilities remaining in BSD base installations, most of them written in C++. groff, GNU’s roff text-processing language implementation, claims a significant share of this count. Why does groff still persist in base? Although its text-processing features have been mostly usurped by LaTeX, [...]
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