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.

FreeBSD 9 Review by on the Linux Action Show (video)

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Gerard

Alan, Chris and Bryan talk about FreeBSD 9.0 on the Linux Action Show. In my opinion, the hosts could be more focused, serious and professional, instead of joking around continually. Anyway, this is the link: FreeBSD 9.0 Review. If you’re interested … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 9.0 Press Release and Review

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Foundation has released a FreeBSD 9.0 press release: Release of FreeBSD 9.0 Delivers More Power to Serve. Today, the FreeBSD Foundation announced the recent release of FreeBSD 9.0. FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE raises the bar for open source operating systems in … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (October – December 2011)

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report for FreeBSD project work taken place between October – December 2011 is now available. There are 32 items in this update: Projects Auditdistd Project BSD-Licensed C++ Stack pfSense User-land Programs Replacing the Regular Expression Code System Configuration Utilities FreeBSD Team … Continue reading →

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GhostBSD 2.5 RC3 released

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Gerard

The GhostBSD team have released GhostBSD 2.5 RC3 for testing.  Did you know it is now also possible to build your own GhostBSD?

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BSD Certification Study DVD and interview

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Gerard

The Winter/Spring 2012 Edition of the BSDA Study DVD is now available from the BSD Certification website, as announced here. The DVD contains: FreeBSD 8.2 and its ports collection NetBSD 5.1 and the latest version of pkgsrc OpenBSD 5.0 and … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Events Updates (Scale, AsiaBSDCon, BSDCan)

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Gerard

A new year, a new series of FreeBSD Conferences. Mark them in your diaries if you’re planning to go. SCALE 2012 iXsystem, FreeNAS, PC-BSD and the FreeBSD Foundation will be represented at SCALE Linux Expo 2012. The Southern California Linux … Continue reading →

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New FreeBSD Foundation funded projects (IPv6, auditdistd)

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced it will be funding two new projects: 1. Performance analysis of FreeBSD’s IPv6 stack by Bjoern Zeeb The project will carry out a detailed performance analysis starting with benchmarking IPv6 to IPv4 to get up-to-date numbers … Continue reading →

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CAM Target Layer committed to HEAD

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Gerard

Ken Merry committed CTL to HEAD for testing earlier this week. From the commit message: CTL is a disk and processor device emulation subsystem originally written for Copan Systems under Linux starting in 2003. It has been shipping in Copan (now SGI) … Continue reading →

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