Category Archives: FreeBSD based systems

Miscelaneous (Free)BSD news and links (Week 2)

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Gerard

I End of Life Announcement for PC-BSD 7.x With the release of version 8.2 just around the corner, and PC-BSD 9.0 slated for later this year, we will be stopping the production of new packages / PBIs for the PC-BSD 7.x … Continue reading →

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HeX LiveCD development in 2011

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Gerard

This is the 3rd post relating to planned development for FreeBSD-based O/S this yea (1: PC-BSD, 2: pfSense) HeX LiveCD is a Network Security Monitoring (NSM) centric Live CD, built based on the principles of NSM, for analysts, by analysts. Besides containing … Continue reading →

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pfSense development in 2011

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Gerard

Recently I contacted lead developers of different FreeBSD based projects and asked them about their development plans and ideas for 2011. Yesterday we looked at PC-BSD, let’s now see what the pfSense developers have in store. As most of you … Continue reading →

Posted in M0n0wall, pfSense | 1 Comment

PC-BSD development in 2011

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Gerard

I’ve contacted the lead developers of different FreeBSD based projects and asked them about their development plans and ideas for 2011. Let’s start with PC-BSD today. As you all know, PC-BSD is a free, open-source operating system based on rock-solid … Continue reading →

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Available: PC-BSD 8.2-RC1

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Gerard

The PC-BSD Team has announced the availability of the first Release Candidate for PC-BSD 8.2. Version 8.2-RC1 contains a number of enhancements, improvements, and bug fixes in response to previous 8.2 testing snapshots. Some of the notable changes are: Updated … Continue reading →

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Series on 2011 development of FreeBSD based O/S

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Gerard

Next week I’ll be posting a number of posts on what project founders and developers are planning this year for some FreeBSD based operating systems. I’ll be posting on PC-BSD, pfSense, m0n0wall, HeX, MaheshaBSD, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and maybe a few … Continue reading →

Posted in FreeBSD, FreeNAS, Hex LiveCD, M0n0wall, MaheshaBSD, pfSense | Tagged | 3 Comments

Kylin OS – more details and download links

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Gerard

My last post on Kylin, China’s secure, FreeBSD based operating system, has raised quite a bit of interest and people have been asking for download links. I’ve done some more research into Kylin, and came across the main Kylin website: … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS for beginners: What it can and cannot do

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Gerard

FreeNAS for beginners: What it can and cannot do gives a quick summary of FreeNAS, the protocols it supports and what it can do. All pretty general, but there are some interesting links included, e.g. How do I configure RSync … Continue reading →

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