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.

What’s new in EasyPBI 2.0

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Gerard

With EasyPBI 2.0 now available in the FreeBSD ports tree and as a PBI in the PC-BSD AppCafe, Ken, the creator of EasyPBI, has highlighted some of the new features in EasyPBI 2.0, and why you should want to start using … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA3 is now available

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Gerard

The FreeNAS development team has announce the availability of FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA3.  This is the last planned public beta of 8.3.1 as it moves towards the final. FreeNAS 8.3.1 adds ZFS volume encryption to the features available in FreeNAS 8.3.0.  BETA3 has a number … Continue reading →

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Android on FreeBSD

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Gerard

gferenc88 wrote up a guide showing how to get Android running in Oracle VM VirtualBox on FreeBSD. Maybe it is not a big thing, but I have managed to run the Android OS with OpenGL support on FreeBSD. Before we … Continue reading →

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What’s new in FreeBSD

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Gerard

This video has been made from the slides and an audio recording of a NYCBUG talk by Eitan Adler in Jan of 2013 and gives an over view on the newest features in FreeBSD since 9.0. This talk covered some … Continue reading →

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BSDTalk222 – Tinkering with Raspberry Pi

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Gerard

This is a short chat about FreeBSD on the Raspberry Pi followed by some wise words from Peter Salus at BSDCan2011. BSDTalk222 – Tinkering with Raspberry Pi

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PC-BSD Status Update and Future Plans

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Gerard

Kris Moore has laid out his plans for the future of PC-BSD, especially around PC-BSD moving to rolling releases. First of all, I want to let you know, that I’ve personally not been satisfied with the frequency of PC-BSD releases … Continue reading →

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A decade of OS Access-control Extensibility (MAC)

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Gerard

This is an interesting piece on mandatory access-control by the well-known computer researcher and FreeBSD Foundation member Robert Watson: To discuss operating system security is to marvel at the diversity of deployed access-control models: Unix and Windows NT multiuser security; Type … Continue reading →

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Making computing easier: PC-BSD 9.1

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Gerard

Distrowatch has favourable review of recently released PC-BSD 9.1: …”Nothing is perfect and PC-BSD does have an Achilles’ heel, specifically hardware compatibility. As much as I enjoyed the polish and the features and the wonderful ease of use, I suspect … Continue reading →

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