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Your blog host Gerard van Essen is a keen user of FreeBSD and PC-BSD and likes to share FreeBSD news with the aim more people will use BSD systems
FreeBSD quick news and links (week 35)
Some FreeBSD related links and updates below: New NVidia FreeBSD drivers 256.53 NVidia has updated its graphics drivers for FreeBSD. Some of the changes are: Fixed a bug that prevented XvMC from initializing in most cases. Added support for xorg-server video driver ABI version 8, which will be included in the upcoming xorg-server-1.9 series of releases. Fixed a bug [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD will continue supporting ZFS
Friday, September 3, 2010
OpenSolaris may be dead now,; its advanced techologies such as the ZFS file system continue to live on in FreeBSD. FreeBSD Developer Pawel Jakub Dawidek confirmed that he is praparing a port of the OpenSolaris ZFS v28 file-system. Some of the new features included in v28 are: Data deduplication Triple parity RAIDZ (RAIDZ3) zfs diff zpool split Snapshot holds zpool import -F continue to [...]
Continue reading...Should OpenSolaris users consider moving to FreeBSD?
Friday, September 3, 2010
OpenSolaris has been in troubled waters after Oracle acquired Sun, the corporate sponsor of the OpenSolaris Project. The OpenSolaris operating system is a descendent of the UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4) codebase, and OpenSolaris is was the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around the software. A [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Mall donates FreeBSD discs to NSRC workshops in Africa
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The FreeBSD Mall, a provider of high quality FreeBSD software, documentation, support, and services to the open source community, recently donated FreeBSD CDs and DVDs to the NSRC (Network Startup Resource Center) for UNIX / FreeBSD workshops being held in Malawi and Tanzania. The NSRC is a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading networking knowledge to diverse [...]
Continue reading...Update on FreeBSD Jail Based Virtualization Project
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Bjoern Zeeb has provided a summary regarding the completion of the funded portion of the FreeBSD Jail Based Virtualization Project: “I am happy to report that the funded parts of the FreeBSD Jail Based Virtualization project are completed. Some of the results have been shipping with 8.1-RELEASE while others are ready to be merged to HEAD. Jails [...]
Continue reading...BSD Show – more BSD interviews
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Most readers here will be aware of BSDTalk, a blog filled with audio interviews about the BSD family of free operating systems. There is now another BSD related show over at webbaverse.com: The BSD Show So fare there are the following FreeBSD related interviews: The BSD Show! – 2010-08-25: chat with Warner Losh from The FreeNAS Project The BSD [...]
Continue reading...Bordeaux 2.0.8 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD released
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.8 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD today. Bordeaux 2.0.8 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs. With this release firefox and winetricks have been updated Bordeaux 2.0.8 was built on FreeBSD 8, PC-BSD 8 and PC-BSD 7.1 A .sh installer is provided for FreeBSD and a .pbi installer [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Mall now shipping FreeBSD 8.1
Monday, August 23, 2010
Four-Disc CD Set, Dual-Sided DVD now available for purchase The FreeBSD Mall is now shipping FreeBSD® Version 8.1, the second release of the FreeBSD 8-STABLE branch in AMD64 and i386 architectures. FreeBSD Version 8.1 is the first update to FreeBSD Version 8.0, which added Virtual Access Points (VAP) support to 802.11 wireless networking, and allowed virtual machine [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 8.1 review by linuxbsdos
Monday, August 23, 2010
linuxbsdos has a fairly positive review of PC-BSD 8.1, though there is still room for improvement: “PC-BSD 8.1 was released on July 20, 2010, roughly five months after version 8.0 was released. Some of the suggestions made in the review of PC-BSD 8.0 have been carried out in this latest release. In fact, the changes were [...]
Continue reading...MeetBSD 2010 videos available in HD on YouTube
Monday, August 23, 2010
The presentations from the recent MeetBSD 2010 (Cracow, Poland) conference are now available on the BSD Conferences Youtube Chanel. The following videos are all in HD quality and most are in English, though a few are in Polish. Dru Lavigne – Update on BSD Certification Hans Peter Selasky – The new USB stack in FreeBSD Jakub Klama – [...]
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