This is so particular: on the day that I moved Frenzy to the inactive/no-longer-maintained section a new release was announced. After being formally discontinued by its creator, Sergei Mozhaisky, a number of developers headed by Egor Vershinin has taken over the work. Frenzy is a FreeBSD-based live CD featuring a variety of security, system testing, networking and [...]
Continue reading...6. January 2009
I contacted Sergei Mozhaisky, the Frenzy Administrator LiveCD developer, for his reasons (which he blogged about on his Russion blog) to stop with the development of Frenzy BSD. I made Frenzy 5 years ago because I needed it in my work. I was a system administrator (first at university, then in local ISPs) and Frenzy helped me a lot in my [...]
Continue reading...9. December 2008
Sergei Mozhaisky has announced the release of Frenzy 1.1, a FreeBSD-based toolkit for system and network administrators. It is sad, but this version will be the project’s last release: At last, Frenzy 1.1 is released. This is a final release of Frenzy, I decided to discontinue the development of this project.” What’s new? “Added Unionfs support; [...]
Continue reading...12. January 2008
digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/REVIEWED_FreeBSD_in_2007';2007 is over. It was a very successful year for open source software and another 12 interesting months have passed for FreeBSD. In this post I want to look back at 2007 and see how FreeBSD faired, what happened in “FreeBSD land” and how FreeBSD based operating systems have developed. This post will [...]
Continue reading...12. December 2007
Sergei Mozhaisky has announced the third beta release of Frenzy 1.1, a portable toolkit for system and network administrators based on FreeBSD 6.2. More info on Frenzy here. These are most important changes since the 1.0-release: Base system is FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE, Xorg updated to 7.3. System totally moved to unionfs file system organization, you can edit almost all [...]
Continue reading...1. December 2007
After a long period of silence the development of Frenzy will be continued. The next version will be more sysadmin-oriented (most of desktop applications will be removed and installation to HDD will be disabled). Since unionfs is usuable in FreeBSD now, Frenzy will heavily use it’s advantages. The most notable feature is Frenzy Extension Modules (FEM), [...]
Continue reading...25. May 2007
This website deals with the FreeBSD Operating System, but what is FreeBSD? FreeBSD (FBSD) is an advanced Unix-like operating system developed by the FreeBSD Project. FBSD is one of the most reliable, robust and secure operating systems in the world. It is free, open source and powers some of the internet’s largest web servers, including [...]
Continue reading...21. May 2007
FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon 64, and EM64T), UltraSPARC, IA-64, PC-98 and ARM architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional [...]
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