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.

BSDConTR – First BSD conference in Turkey

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Gerard

BSDConTR is the first conference on BSD systems in Turkey. BSDConTR is organized in cooperation with Marmara University and EnderUNIX Software Development team, which is largely known as its ongoing support for BSD systems in Turkey, and its open source … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD may be the next Linux

Posted on July 12, 2007 by Gerard

This is een interesting article by Brian Proffitt after iXsystem’s acquisition of PC-BSD. Slightly dated, but still of worth a read. With all of the BSD variants available for download, it’s easy to incorrectly assume all of them are pure, … Continue reading →

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How the FreeBSD Project works

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Gerard

While at Google a couple of weeks ago, Robert N M Watson from the FreeBSD Core Team, did a presentation “How the FreeBSD Project works” The FreeBSD Project is one of the oldest and most successful open source operating system … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS, how it works (video)

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Gerard

What is FreeNAS, how does it work and how do I set it up? Check out this video

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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Q2/2007)

Posted on July 10, 2007 by Gerard

If you’re interested in what’s happening with FreeBSD at the moment and especially the technical side of the project, you should have a quick read through the FreeBSD Quaterly Status Report (compiled by Max Laier). This report covers FreeBSD related … Continue reading →

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pfSense 1.2-BETA-2 released

Posted on July 7, 2007 by Gerard

After a long bug hunting and regression testing period, Scott Ullrich has announced the second beta release of pfSense 1.2, a FreeBSD-based firewall on 04 July. 1.2-BETA-2 has many new features and stability improvements making it the leading Open Source … Continue reading →

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DesktopBSD vs PC-BSD review

Posted on July 7, 2007 by Gerard

Fareast has written a quick comparison of DesktopBSD and PC-BSD on Dailykos.com: After reading a very not-nice review of DesktopBSD a couple of weeks ago, and in light of the fact that I just adore PC-BSD, it’s a bit strange … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD or Redhat Linux; what is the difference?

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Gerard

First, Linux is a kernel — not an OS — that Red Hat combines with other software they choose to form the production Red Hat distribution of Linux, currently Red Hat 7.3. As you no doubt are aware, there are … Continue reading →

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