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.

iXsystems grows QAT

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Gerard

Josh Paetzel, Director of IT at iXsystems is looking for your input about FreeBSD’s Quality Assurance Tinderbox (QAT). [ .. ] For some time now iXsystems has been hosting a small part of the FreeBSD ports infrastructure called QAT, the … Continue reading →

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Moving on from Debian to FreeBSD

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Gerard

Steven Rosenberg has written up his experience with installing, tweaking and running FreeBSD 8.0: Dru Lavigne made me do it: I killed Debian, installed an unbootable Ubuntu, now I’m running FreeBSD 8.0 with GNOME I was listening to Dru Lavigne’s … Continue reading →

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New Nvidia AMD64 Beta drivers

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Gerard

Nvidia has made new Beta drivers available for FreeBSD AMD64: “I am pleased to announce the release of updated NVIDIA FreeBSD beta graphics drivers that take advantage of kernel features (feature requests) added in FreeBSD 7.3 and 8.0 that enable … Continue reading →

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Google’s Go programming language

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Gerard

Google’s Go is now supported under FreeBSD (source) “Go, Google’s programming language, has now been with us for four months. Ridiculed at first, then named Programming Language of the Year 2009 by TIOBE for its rapid climb up its language … Continue reading →

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Step-by-step how to make a FreeNAS Box

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Gerard

Pox and Ragble give an in depth guide for making your own Network Attached Storage device with FreeNAS.

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FreeBSD Ports unstable for the next 10 days

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Gerard

Ion-Mihai Tetcu writes on the FreeBSD ports Mailinglist: As announced before, a few big commits, that touch some thousands ports are being done: png, curl, x11, gnome, kde4. The target ETA is 6-7 April. The first one was done, update of graphics/png … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD 8-Stable testing snapshots

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Gerard

Kris Moore announced bi-weekly snapshots for PC-BSD 8-Stable Our first PC-BSD 8-Stable snapshot is now ready for testing / inspection on i386 & amd64: In the upcoming months I’m going to try and get out a stable snapshot on a … Continue reading →