Archive | November, 2009
FreeBSD 8.0 benchmarked against Linux, OpenSolaris
Phoronix has done another benchmark test of FreeBSD against other *nix systems: Fedora and OpenSolaris. “With the stable release of FreeBSD 8.0 arriving last week we finally were able to put it up on the test bench and give it a thorough look over with the Phoronix Test Suite. We compared the FreeBSD 8.0 performance between [...]
Continue reading...Chromium (Google Chrome) for FreeBSD
30. November 2009
A fewe months ago we mentioned Ben Laurie’s porting of the Chromium browser to FreeBSD. There are now more instructions on jaggeri.com how to compile this fast browser. If anybody is interested in building and running Chromium on FreeBSD, before an official port is released, check out these links: jaggeri.com FreeBSD Forum thread Experimental port Personally, I think Google Chrome is [...]
Continue reading...GNOME 2.28.1 for FreeBSD
30. November 2009
Gnome 2.28.1 has been released for FreeBSD On the FreeBSD front, though, a lot went into this release. Major thanks goes to kwm and avl who did a lot of the porting work for this release. In particular, kwm brought in Evolution MAPI support for better Microsoft Exchange integration. Avl made sure that the new gobject [...]
Continue reading...Welcome to FreeBSD 8!
30. November 2009
In this article I will write about the latest release from FreeBSD, 8.0. This is a major version that offers new functionality and much improved parts of the code. Why are major releases so special? Major releases offer the possibility to include changes in the system that are not allowed in stable branches. This could be new [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 8.0: Enterprise Ready Server Operating System
27. November 2009
The FreeBSD Project is one of the oldest and successful project. FreeBSD is well known for its reliability, robustness, and performance. A new version of the FreeBSD 8 is scheduled for release this week. A RC3 was made available for download few weeks ago for final round of testing before the official launch. nixCraft takes you [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 8.0 Released (officially)
27. November 2009
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the availability of FreeBSD 8 stable release. Some of the highlights of this version are: Xen DomU support network stack virtualization stack-smashing protection TTY layer rewrite much improved ZFS v13 a new USB stack multicast updates including IGMPv3 vimage — a new virtualization container Fedora 10 Linux binary compatibility to run Linux software such as Flash 10 [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 8.0 Release – Press Release
27. November 2009
FreeBSD Project Announces Release of FreeBSD Version 8.0 Release includes enhanced virtualization support, NFSv4, and 802.11s D3.03 wireless mesh networking San Jose, CA (PRWEB) November 25, 2009 — The FreeBSD Project has announced the release of FreeBSD Version 8.0. This next major release branch of FreeBSD delivers a large number of new technologies into the hands of [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 8 supports GCD
27. November 2009
Robert Watson wrote on the FreeBSD Stable mailing list that FreeBSD 8 now supports Apple’s Grand Central Dispatch: …may be interested in using Apple’s GCD technology on FreeBSD. GCD, for those who may have missed it, is a concurrent programming framework introdued in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, now also supported on FreeBSD. There are a number of useful [...]
Continue reading...Support FreeBSD and the FreeBSD Foundation
27. November 2009
Many people have already donated since my last post about the FreeBSD Foundation’s end of year fund raising drive. So far almost 600 people (and companies) have donated to the FreeBSD Foundation, but the $300.000 target hasn’t been achieved yet: the counter stands at $166.381. What does the FreeBSD Foundation do? We fund and manage projects, sponsor FreeBSD [...]
Continue reading...Yandex uses FreeBSD
24. November 2009
Russia’s Yandex search engine (Google’s competitor in Russia) uses two operating systems, one of which is FreeBSD. Any surprise? No, FreeBSD stays rock solid under heavy workloads. Yandex is now looking for managers to work with one of the largest and most complex IT systems in Russia. More about the job vacancy (via)
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30. November 2009
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