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.

MeetBSD 2010 videos available in HD on YouTube

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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Chromium 7.0 FreeBSD builds available (1 week only)

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Gerard

Ruben from the FreeBSD Chromium porting team emailed me to say that for this week only the latest Chromium 7.0 for FreeBSD subscriber builds will be available for free (excluding HTML 5 video). The subscriber builds are largely open source … Continue reading →

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Miscelaneous FreeBSD news and links (week 32)

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Gerard

1. FreeBSD East Coast Mirror Yesterday we posted the FreeBSD Foundation’s turns to NYI press release, Steven Kreuzer who was directly involved in the project has put more details on his website: Pretty much since the time that The NYC BSD Users … Continue reading →

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iXsystems’ FreeNAS 0.8 development snapshot

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Gerard

Back in December 2009 iXsystems ’resued‘ the FreeNAS project. After a few months of porting over FreeNAS from a m0n0wall base to a nanobsd base, iXsystems released a development snapshot yesterday. Yesterday, iXsystems upload a snapshot of their new FreeNAS release on the SVN. The new … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Foundation turns to NYI.net for East Coast US Mirror

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Gerard

The following is a press release issued by the FreeBSD Foundation and New York Internet; Bill Lessard from nyi.net forwarded this to me. If you have any FreeBSD related products or services you want to generate interest in, why not … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD events and conferences (KyivBSD, MeetBSD, EuroBSD)

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Gerard

Here is some info and details of upcoming FreeBSD related conferences and events. KyivBSD 2010 Conference On 25 Septempter the annual KyivBSD Conference will be held in Kiev, Ukraine. It’s mainly aimed at FreeBSD and PC-BSD users and developers. More … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD quick news and links (04/08/2010)

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Gerard

PC-BSD Blog Dru Lavigne has joined the PC-BSD team this month. The first thing she did, was setting up another blog: the PC-BSD Blog. She already posts BSD related posts on it.toolbox.com: A year in the life of  a BSD … Continue reading →

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BSD Magazine 08/2010: BSD as Operating System

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Gerard

The BSD Magazine editors have uploaded a new issue: BSD as Operating System (download PDF). According to Olga Kartseva, the Magazine’s chief editor, there are already more than 22.000 subscribers: BSD Magazine is growing, it has already around 22,000 subscribers all … Continue reading →

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