Archive | September, 2009
PC-BSD 8.0 – Alpha2
The alpha version number 2 of PC-BSD 8.0 is now ready for testing. Notable changes in this release: FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 Improvements to base system Using /usr/local LOCALBASE, allows users to easily modify their base desktop in the usual FreeBSD-ish way Port-Console tool, provides users a way to build / run ports in a jailed environment, without fear of destroying their working desktop [...]
Continue reading...ZFS on FreeBSD: ready for prime time
29. September 2009
According to FreeBSD developers, Sun’s amazing file system, ZFS, is ready for production use:. Also, the FreeBSD 8.0 RC1 release notes make mention of ZFS‘ use on production servers: And a patch set was committed by the people who handle porting ZFS to FreeBSD that they felt makes ZFS production-ready.
Continue reading...FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 benchmarks
29. September 2009
Some say comparing FreeBSD vs Linux benchmarks is unreliable and is as it were, comparing apples with pears. For what it’s worth: the Phoronix team has done some FreeBSD 8.0 RC1 vs Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6 benchmarking: Both FreeBSD 8.0 and Ubuntu 9.10 will be included in our upcoming big operating system comparison, but for now we [...]
Continue reading...EuroBSDCon 2009 – pictures
26. September 2009
EuroBSDCon 2009 and the preceding dev summit happened last weekendq in Cambridge, UK. Robert Watson, who has organised this successful event, noted that the FreeBSD Developer’s Summit was the largest yet in the EU with around 70 attendees. The conference was attended by about 180 attendees, and the dinner sponsored by iXsystems was sold out. Slides, [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 9.0 feature requests
22. September 2009
One of the sessions at EuroBSDCon 2009 DevSummit last week was FreeBSD 9.0 and what the devs would like to see included. I took pictures of the whiteboard. What do you think of the request and what else would you want to see included (post your comments)? Click image to magnify Click image to magnify
Continue reading...FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 available
22. September 2009
The first of the Release Candidates for the FreeBSD-8.0 release cycle is now available, as announced by Ken Smith. “The first of the Release Candidates for the FreeBSD 8.0 release cycle is now available. How many RC’s we have will depend on how well 8.0-RC1 does. At the moment only one more RC is [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 8.0 – BETA 4 available
8. September 2009
Ken Smith has announced the fourth and last of the BETA builds for the FreeBSD-8.0 release. The fourth and most likely final BETA build for the FreeBSD 8.0 release cycle is now available. We expect the next test build to be the first if the Release Candidates, RC1. Since BETA3 many bugs that were identified from [...]
Continue reading...VirtualBox: how to move FreeBSD to a new hard disk
7. September 2009
Georges has written a post showing how to move a VirtualBox FreeBSD system to another, larger, VirtualBox drive: “Let’s say that, like me, you once created a fixed-size virtual disk in VirtualBox, and installed FreeBSD on it. Now you’ve run out of disk space and you’d like to move your FreeBSD to a bigger-sized virtual disk. [...]
Continue reading...DesktopBSD 1.7 – last and final version
7. September 2009
Peter Hofer, founder of DesktopBSD, has announced on the mailinglist DesktopBSD 1.7. This new release comes with FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 as base system and KDE 3.5.10 as desktop environment and includes a large number of pre-installed applications. The easy-to-use graphical installer and utilities allow for a simple installation and configuration process. Notable changes include: FreeBSD 7.2 as stable and [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD, rock solid and stable (proof)
3. September 2009
We all know that FreeBSD is a rock solid, ultra stable and reliable (server) operating system. Here’s another proof. Nick Rogness reports: We have recently decommissioned a web server which was running FreeBSD 4.11 on a HP DL380 G3. It was hosting websites for over 20,000 subscribers and was rarely idle for any length of time. The uptime [...]
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30. September 2009
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