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Category Archives: FreeBSD based systems
Time for a new FreeSBIE ISO image
It looks like people want it , so I think it is a really good idea. I must admit I’ve not a lot of time to work on it, so I’ll probably end up using the same configuration of FreeSBIE-2.0.1 … Continue reading
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DesktopBSD Developer Blog
DesktopBSD has now a (developer) blog at http://desktopbsd.net/blog/
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3rd pfSense hackaton this weekend
The third annual pfSense Hackathon starts this coming weekend through the following weekend, in Louisville, KY US. Two developers (Holger and Seth) will be coming in from Europe, as well as Bill from the Chicago area, Gary with Centipede Networks … Continue reading
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SpreadBSD Campaign
iXsystems, the company behind the PC-BSD Project and supporter of the FreeBSD Project is currently developing a community web site to promote FreeBSD and PC-BSD. The site will look pretty much like SpreadFirefox. We will need banner ads such as … Continue reading
30 Days with PC-BSD and DesktopBSD
Jan Stedehouder used PC-BSD for thirty days to see what living with it is like. On day thirty, he concludes: Does PC-BSD have the potential to be a serious contender for the open source desktop? I answered that question with … Continue reading
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Joe Sixpack goes BSD
Marti van Lin has started using Marti van Lin has started using PC-BSD and is sharing his experience on his blog: BSD has the reputation of being the most geeky OS, simply because it’ s rarely used by average users. … Continue reading
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Flash on FreeBSD/PC-BSD/DBSD
Previously we reported Matteo’s suggestion on how to get Flash and YouTube/Google Video to work on FreeBSD, but now that gnash-0.8.1 is in the ports tree (and hence avilable for FreeBSD, PC-BSD and DesktopBSD), the greasemonkey+mplayer hack is no longer … Continue reading
Posted in DesktopBSD, FreeBSD, PC-BSD
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Win4BSD 1.1 in ports
Win4BSD is a PC emulator that runs Windows as a guest at nearly native speed under FreeBSD. It is based on QEMU, a partially open, partially closed source emulator package. However, Win4BSD offers many advantages, including much greater speed, ease … Continue reading
Posted in DesktopBSD, FreeBSD, PC-BSD
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