Archive | December, 2009
FreeBSD fund raising drive – final plea
The FreeBSD Foundation has not reached its fund raising goal for 2009 yet ($46,000 short of their $300,000 goal). The Foundation is hoping to to double spending on development in 2010 and needs our help: Why make a donation? Right now we’re putting together our 2010 budget. Our goal for next year is to double our [...]
Continue reading...iredmail available for FreeBSD now
31. December 2009
Zhang Huangbin and shake.chen contacted me to say that iRedMail is now also available for FreeBSD (working on Linux already) iredmail is a mail server solution supporting FreeBSD 7.x/8.x, support both i386 and x86_64. a shell script set, used to install and configure all mail server related software automatically. open source project (GPL v2). The project’s page can be [...]
Continue reading...BSD hacker job available
31. December 2009
Justin Sherill mentions on the DragonFlyBSD Digest that was contacted by a recruiter to see if he knew anybody who might be interested in a BSD hacker job: My client right now is an established proprietary trading firm. That means that they use only their own capital, and don’t have any investors. They were founded in [...]
Continue reading...Changing FreeBSD ISO filenames
31. December 2009
People who collect ISO images from more than just the FreeBSD Project have been mentioning it would be nice if “FreeBSD” was part of the filenames for a while now. Ken Smith has committed a change that will add “FreeBSD-” to the beginning of the filenames. So for example 9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso becomes FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso Source: FreeBSD Current Mailinglist
Continue reading...Don’t miss any posts or news in 2010
30. December 2009
Did you know you can stay up to date with the news on this site without having to daily check if I’ve added any stories? No? Subscribe and use RSS and/or Twitter. There are many RSS desktop readers available for Win, Mac, Linux and FreeBSD. There are also many browser based readers, such as Google Reader etc. Never [...]
Continue reading...BSD Fund sponsoring BSDCan 2010
30. December 2009
The BSD Fund announced that they have generated enough card revenue to be a BSDCan sponsor. BSD Fund is a Bronze sponsor of BSDCan 2010 using funds raised exclusively with the BSD Fund Visa. The BSD Fund aspires to contribute to every major BSD event around the world as they play such a critical role in the community, but [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Foundation end-of-year newsletter (2009)
30. December 2009
Deb Goodkin announced the publication of the annual FreeBSD Foundation’s End-of-Year Newsletter (2009). Table of contents: Letter From the President End-of-Year Fundraising Update New Console Driver Flattened Device Tree Project Improvements to the FreeBSD TCP Stack Highly Available Storage Project FreeBSD Developer Summit, Cambridge, UK EuroBSDCon 2009 KyivBSD 2009 2009 Grant and Travel Grant Recipients FreeBSD Testimonial from iXsystems Financials The full newsletter can be read here. Previous years’ newsletters: [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD and Linux (RootBSD)
30. December 2009
The guys over at RootBSD have updated their blog with a post on the differences between Linux and FreeBSD; partly seen from a hoster’s perspective. We thought it would be a good idea to help educate our current RootBSD users, and potential users, as to some of the differences between FreeBSD and Linux. We have nothing [...]
Continue reading...Update on FreeBSD HAST Project
26. December 2009
Back in October we mentioned that the FreeBSD Foundation decided the fund the HAST project (new FreeBSD Project: HAST) Pawel Jakub Dawidek, the sponsored FreeBSD developer, has made quite a bit of progress since and finished the development of stage one: I want to report that first milestone of the HAST project is complete. Summary of the work [...]
Continue reading...BSD Security & OpenBSD 4.5 (free bsdmag issue)
26. December 2009
The BSD Mag team have made the “BSD Security & OpenBSD 4.5” issue (04-2009) available as free download. Table of contents Installing OpenBSD Postgresql, shared memory and BSD Triple booting Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.04 and PC-BSD 7.1 BuildaSearch a FreeBSD Web Service Web Servers for Embedded NetBSD Out-of-the-box sshfs on NetBSD 5.0 FreeBSD Security Event Auditing Securing OpenSSH server Staying Secure using PC-BSD Stop Hackers With [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD VPS Hosting
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31. December 2009
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