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 1.5

Eric Turgeon has announced the availability of GhostBSD 1.5 Now You can install GhostBSD by terminal commands and a list with pc-sysinstall. The partition Supported to install GhostBSD are UFS, UFS+S (plus soft updates7), UFS+J (plus journaling8), ZFS, and SWAP. A … Continue reading

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Projects funded by the FreeBSD Foundation

The FreeBSD Foundation funds various projects each year and there are several interesting projects in progress: DAHDI (formerly known as Zaptel) FreeBSD driver port–this project will make it possible to use FreeBSD as a base system for software PBX solutions resource … Continue reading

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FreeBSD 8.1 provides evolutionary open source software upgrade

FreeBSD 8.1 has been released, and Sean Michael Kerner from serverwatch.com spoke to Josh Paetzel, iXsystems IT director, about this latest release. “Putting out new releases of OS software isn’t always about adding major new features — sometimes it’s just … Continue reading

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FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE available

FreeBSD 8.1 has been available for a few days on the download mirrors, but the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has now officially announced FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of … Continue reading

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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Apr – Jun 2010)

FreeBSD’s quarterly status report for 2010 Q2 is now available. This report covers FreeBSD related projects between April and June 2010. It’s good to see so much activity, projects and contribution to FreeBSD, most of which is done by dedicated volunteers. … Continue reading

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PC-BSD 8.1 released

The PC-BSD Team has announced the availability of PC-BSD 8.1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, and KDE 4.4.5 Version 8.1 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the … Continue reading

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Bordeaux 50% off sale in celebration of the Wine 1.2 release

The Bordeaux Technology Group has announced a one month sale on Bordeaux for Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, PC-BSD and OpenSolaris. With the release of Wine 1.2 it marks the first stable Wine release in nearly two years. And with this release they’d … Continue reading

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FreeBSD quick news and links (21/07/2010)

I Super-accurate computer clock created A free pies of software that allows computers to keep phenomenally accurate time has been developed by researchers in Melbourne. The software, called RADclock, should improve everything from Skype conversations to the tracking of subway … Continue reading

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