PC-BSD Installer The new PC-BSD installer (available as GUI and text installer), which is also able to install plain FreeBSD, has now been committed to the FreeBSD source tree. This video goes into the details of the installer. Kris Moore: PC-SYSINSTALL – A new system installer backend for PC-BSD and FreeBSD BSD Certification The BSD Certification Group needs reviewers for the [...]
Continue reading...24. April 2010
Welcome to the (Free)BSD leftovers for week 6. In this post we have a mix of news snippets, quick links, howto’s, links ’n software/package updates. Just a round up of those little things I saved up this week. Previous weeks’ roundups can be found here. FreeBSD News FreeBSD & Google Summer of Code 2010 FreeBSD Project is participating [...]
Continue reading...11. November 2009
Dru Lavigne is on a video entitled “BSD Certification Group: A Case Study in Open Source Certification“.where she discusses the goals of BSD certification, the process of creating a certification exam, and how you can help. Watch the video here
Continue reading...13. October 2009
The BSD Certification group has posted a survey that is meant to help determine the tasks that should be a part of the BSD Professional Certification Exam (BSDP). The BSD Professional Certification Exam is a more in-depth exam than our BSD Associate exam. The typical BSD Professional is experienced in using one or more versions [...]
Continue reading...29. August 2009
The U.K. Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) is hosting the EuroBSDCon 2009 in Cambridge from 18-20 September. The conference by many seen as the annual get-together for the European BSD community. The conference runs over three days starting with many tutorials. Tutorial 1: Kirk McKusick’s FreeBSD Overview, and a focus on FileSystems and VM Tutorial 2: [...]
Continue reading...12. August 2009
Dru Lavigne has uploaded an mp3 version of one of her recent talks at NYCBUG on BSD Certification. Download / Listen
Continue reading...29. April 2009
FreeBSD 1) Martin Wilke is looking for people to test QT 4.5.1. He also reports he managed to get Firefox 3.1 Beta4 working on FreeBSD. Please test. 2) Ivan Voras has done some virtualised benchmarking of Ubuntu 8.10, FreeBSD 7.1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 beta on the three currently most prominent virtualisation platforms: VMWare ESX 3.5 U3, Citrix XenServer 5.0 U2, Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 [...]
Continue reading...28. January 2009
I’ve updated my FreeBSD Events & Conference Calendar and added: FreeBSD Network Hackaton pfSense Hackaton ‘09 BSD Certification dates. Please note, that there won’t be any BSDA exams taken at Fosdem 2009 this year. Did you know being BSDA certified gives you an edge? TAO Security is looking to hire a BSDA certified FreeBSD systems administrator. If you’re aware of any FreeBSD [...]
Continue reading...6. January 2009
Dru Lavign writes on her blog about the Winter versions of BSDA study DVD: The newest version of the BSDA Study DVD is finally ready and available for sale from the BSDA Certification website. Due to the holidays, we won’t start shipping til next Friday, January 9th. Those of you who have already ordered a DVD or [...]
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28. June 2010
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