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.

Clonezilla Live adds UFS support

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Gerard

Developer Steven Shiau has announced the release of version 1.2.4-28 of Clonezilla Live. Clonezilla is an open source clone system with features similar to Symantec Ghost Corporate Ed and Partimage. In addition to translation updates and several bug fixes, the latest Clonezilla … Continue reading →

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Released: FreeBSD 7.3

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Gerard

FreeBSD 7.3, the latest update of the project’s older, legacy series, has been released: “The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on … Continue reading →

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bsdevents.net – the end?

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Gerard

It was my aim to fill bsdevents.net with information regarding the main 4 BSD operating systems: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD, and in particular: major releases, bsd conferences, interviews, release dates etc. Welcome to bsdevents.net where where you can keep … Continue reading →

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m0n0wall 1.31 Released

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Gerard

Manual Kasper has announced the release of m0n0wall 1.31. This is a quick summary of the changes since 1.3: various IPv6 improvements (in DNS forwarder, DHCPv6, AYIYA, etc.) bridge “disable spoof check” option (for non-m0n0wall DHCP and multicast) fans/temperature monitoring on status … Continue reading →

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Versiera surpasses the Big 4 Infrastructure Management vendors

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Gerard

NetCraft Communications will release an updated version of its Versiera Infrastructure Management System next week along with new groundbreaking technology in rendering and visualizing large-scale enterprise network infrastructures. Versiera is a remote monitoring and management system supporting a wide range … Continue reading →

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Audio presentations: 1 pfSense and 2 BSD for Linux Users

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Gerard

Dru Lavigne has uploaded the audio file of her presentation at SCALE 2010 talk on BSD for Linux Users is now available in mp3 format. Slides are available as PDF She also mentioned an mp3 of a NYCBUG session on PFSense II, … Continue reading →

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X.org 7.5 for FreeBSD

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Gerard

No, it’s not released, but Martin Wilke is looking for a few brave people to test x.org 7.5 for FreeBSD: Please take a look on our Wikipage. There you can find the svn repo to checkout X.org ports. http://wiki.freebsd.org/ModularXorg/7.5 A small … Continue reading →

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(Free)BSD quick news and links

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Gerard

FreeBSD Returning committer: Niels Heinen (ports) (07/03/2010) New committer: Neel Natu (src) (03/03/2010) PC-BSD 1. Quick Poll – which pages would you like to see  printed from Dru’s latest book in the upcoming BSD Magazine issue? 2. How does PC-BSD 8.0 … Continue reading →

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