Category Archives: BSD World

Released: Portable C Compiler (pcc 1.0)

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Gerard

Thanks to funding by BSD Fund,  Anders Magnusson has released the first stable release of PCC 1.0.0 (Portable C Compiler) for i386 adn amd64. PCC was developed in order to create an alternative C compiler to GCC, but licensed under BSD. … Continue reading →

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BSD Magazine 2011-04: FreeBSD: portability with VMware

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Gerard

A new issue of the free BSD Magazine is available: FreeBSD: Portability with VMware (pdf) From the table of contents Interview with Dru Lavigne Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over … Continue reading →

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BSD Magazine 2011-03: Wonders of Blender

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Gerard

A new issue of the BSD Magazine came out this month: Wonders of Blender. The title is a bit misleading. There’s a lot of mixed BSD news in there, and no main article that’s on Blender. Anyway, it’s good to … Continue reading →

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Dru Lavigne: Confessions of a community manager

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Gerard

Dru is PC-BSD‘s Community Manager. At last weekend’s Scale 9x expo she talked about being a community manager and how to decide whether an open source project is ready to have one. She talked about: What is a community manager? … Continue reading →

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BSD Magazine 2011/02: ZFS and FreeBSD

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Gerard

A new issue of the free BSD Magazine is available: ZFS and FreeBSD Table of contents: ZFS and FreeBSD The Zettabyte Filesystem (ZFS) is one of the most advanced open source filesystems available today. Its design implements several revolutionary ideas with … Continue reading →

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Available: BSD Magazine: BSD’s and Solaris (01-2011)

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Gerard

The Editors of the BSD Magazine have finished writing another issue: BSD’s and Solaris. Drupal on FreeBSD – part 3 Rob Somerville Continuing the series on the Drupal Content Management System, we will look at creating a store front for … Continue reading →

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(Free)BSD miscelaneous links and news (week 1)

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Gerard

I. The Perfect Database Server: Firebird 2.5 And FreeBSD 8.1 Here is the guide on installing Firebird 2.5 from FreeBSD 8.1 Ports and creating your first test database; also we show you how to install Flamerobin GUI (administration tool) and … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD quick news: Amazon EC2, OpenBSD and FBI

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Gerard

Some exciting and eyebrow raising news items: FreeBSD on Amazon EC2 FreeBSD developer Colin Percival announced on his blog that FreeBSD 9-CURRENT now runs on Amazon EC2: One of my largest complaints about Amazon EC2 ever since it launched has … Continue reading →

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