Author Archives: Gerard

About Gerard

Gerard is a keen user of open source operating systems and software. On this blog he shares FreeBSD news and links that he comes across.

GhostBSD 3.0 RC2 (Gnome 2 and LXDE) available for testing

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Gerard

Eric Turgeon has announced the second release candidate of GhostBSD 3.0 with Gnome 2 and LXDE. This is now available for download and testing. There have been a few updates and additions since RC1. Check the changelog for these changes. About GhostBSD: GhostBSD is a … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Events Updates (EuroBSDCon 2012, AsiaBSDCon 2013, BSDCan 2013)

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Gerard

Below some updates and links with regards to past and future FreeBSD related conferences. 1. EuroBSCon 2012 took place between 18-21 October in Warshaw, Poland. There is an overview of all presentations that took place on bsdevents. When PDFss and video recordings … Continue reading →

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ACM Queue Interviews Robert Watson on Open Source Hardware and Research

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Gerard

ACM Queue interviewed Cambridge researcher (and FreeBSD developer) Robert Watson on why processor designs need to change in order to better support security features like Capsicum — and how they change all the time (RISC, GPUs, etc). He also talks … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS 8.3.0-RC1 is available

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Gerard

The FreeNAS development team (www.freenas.org) has announced the availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RC1. Images and plugins can be downloaded from FreeNAS SourceForge page: This is the first and only release candidate planned for the final version of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE. FreeNAS 8.3.0 … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 available (and PC-BSD 9.1-RC2)

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Gerard

The second RC build for the FreeBSD-9.1 release cycle was released last week (due to a busy break abroad I’m posting this only now). ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and powerpc64 architectures are available. Remember, this is not the … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD News Leftovers (Nvidia, Gerrit, ARM, Tricks, ELF, EC2)

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Gerard

Today’s left-overs: FreeBSD: 102 Tips and Tricks (for reference / refreshing your mind) [mebsd] An Easy Way To Try Out FreeBSD 10 [Phoronix] FreeBSD On ARM Is Still In Severed State [Phoronix] Nvidia GeForce Graphics Driver 304.51 for FreeBSD 64-bit / … Continue reading →

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BSD Magazine (Oct 2012): Network Security & Auditing

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Gerard

October’s issue of the BSD Magazine is now available: Network Security & Auditing (free PDF download). You’ll find the following subjects inside: VX ConnectBot: Open Source SSH Client for Android Devices Installing Xfce Desktop Environment on OpenBSD 5.1 Browse the Internet Differently FreeBSD Enterprise … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Email Server howto’s

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Gerard

Over the last week or so I have come across two posts showing how to set up a FreeBSD based email server. If this is something you have been wanting to do, have a look at the following two links. … Continue reading →

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