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.

AsiaBSDCon 2010

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Gerard

AsiaBSDCon 2010 will be held from 11-14 March in Tokyo AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held in Tokyo, in 11-14 March, 2010. The conference is for anyone developing, … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD, Building a Computing Cluster (meetbsd 2007)

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Gerard

“Reflections on Building a High-Performance Computing Cluster using FreeBSD” By Brooks Davis at MeetBSD 2007 in Warsaw, Poland.

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GhostBSD 1.0 news

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Gerard

Eric Turgeon has announced that GhostBSD 1.0 will be released next week, and will have FreeBSD 8.0 as its base. The release will feature the new green theme. Green is not really my colour, and the same applies to Ubuntu’s … Continue reading →

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Taking a look at PC-BSD 8.0 (Distrowatch)

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Gerard

After having tried and reviewed FreeBSD 8, Jesse Smith has now taken PC-BSD 8 for a spin, and he’s overall very pleased with the speed, ease-of-use and the hardware support for his desktop PC. He is also very impressed with … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Twitter feed list

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Gerard

For those interested in following news on Twitter: I (http://twitter.com/gvanessen) have created a custom FreeBSD news list: http://twitter.com/gvanessen/freebsd This list if made up of the following feeds: http://twitter.com/freebsdsecurity http://twitter.com/freebsd http://twitter.com/realfreebsdtips http://twitter.com/PCBSD http://twitter.com/BSDmag http://twitter.com/freebsdannounce http://twitter.com/bsdevents http://twitter.com/freebsdblogs http://twitter.com/freenas http://twitter.com/freebsdfndation If you’re aware of … Continue reading →

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Best of FreeBSD Basics on Kindle

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Gerard

Dru Lavigne’s Best of FreeBSD Basics book is now available for the Amazon Kindle ebook reader. (via)

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FreeBSD webcam support: video4bsd

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Gerard

Hans Petter has been working hard recently on webcamd, making Linux webcam drivers work on FreeBSD. Webcamd is a port of Video4Linux USB webcam drivers into userspace. It is a 500KiloByte daemon that enables use of hundreds of different USB … Continue reading →

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BSDTalk interview with Jeff Roberson (FreeBSD Dev)

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Gerard

BSDTalk has a 30 minute interview with Jeff Roberson. Will Backman talks withFreeBSD committer Jeff about his recent work on softupdates journaling (SUJ) and also the ULE scheduler. BSDTalk 186 – Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG

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