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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.

PC-BSD 8.1-RC1 Released and Dru joining PC-BSD

PC-BSD has announced the availability of PC-BSD 8.1-RC1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-RC, and KDE 4.4.4. Version 8.1 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. Version 8.1 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, … Continue reading

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FreeBSD Foundation sponsors BSNMP enhancements

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that Shteryana Shopova has been awarded a grant to make improvements to Bsnmp (snmp category). This project includes several enhancements to the existing FreeBSD SNMP framework, including SNMPv3-compliant user authentication, packet encryption and view-based access control. … Continue reading

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Versiera 3.2 (FreeBSD) Released

NetCraft Communications Inc.,  global leader in infrastructure management Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions, has released Versiera 3.2, bringing extended management capabilities including host user account, process and service/daemon management to all supported platforms including FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. Versiera is … Continue reading

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FreeBSD OpenSVC clustered service manager available

OpenSVC is now available for FreeBSD. OpenSVC is a GPLv2 project automating the low-level operations needed 1/ to bring up system resources (virtual machine container, ip, disk groups, filesystem mounts, application launchers) on a node and 2/ to replicate data to … Continue reading

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FreeBSD Project iPhone app

Edwin Groothuis created a FreeBSD  iPhone app that provides general information about FreeBSD, news, upcoming events, videos from YouTube (BSD conference) and so on. May be useful if you have an iPhone. But the FreeBSD community is larger than just a … Continue reading

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FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 Available

The first Release Candidate for the FreeBSD 8.1 release cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures. Source: FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 Available

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FreeBSD News: 3 years old

Well, this FreeBSD News website is 3 years old now. When I started out 3 years ago, I didn’t realise it was going to attrack so many (regular) visitors. One big difference between Linux and FreeBSD is that there is … Continue reading

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