Following the FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 last week, Kris Moore has made PC-BSD 9.0-BETA2 available for testing.
This release includes the latest FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 base, along with numerous bug fixes and enhancements.
Check out the blog post for a list of changes and enhancements: PC-BSD 9.0-BETA2 available for testing
The availability of FreeBSD 9.0 BETA1 has now been confirmed by Ken Smith: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 Available:
The first BETA build of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Since this will be the first release on a brand new branch I’ll cross-post the announcements on both -current and -stable. But just so you know most of the developers active in head pay more attention to the -current mailing list. If you notice problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or on the -current mailing list.
The 9.0-RELEASE cycle will be tracked here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/9.0TODO
You can download the i386 image from here and the AMD64 is available here.
Since the PC-BSD project closely follows the FreeBSD release schedule, PC-BSD 9.0 BETA1 is available too: Release Announcement: PC-BSD 9.0-BETA1.
The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release in the new9.x series. 9.0-BETA1 is now available for download from the website or ftp server.
Below a number of links to interesting FreeBSD (related) projects and resources.
ArabBSD
ArabBSD is a new FreeBSD related project, working to create an Arabian FreeBSD operating system:
ArabBSD is a project which aims to provide infrastructure for the most reliable and secure operating system FreeBSD. We aim to have our own Arab Operating System developers soon starting from the analysis of FreeBSD infrastructure, block diagram formulation and call for research groups within each field. Anyone who is interesting in operating systems and their news can join us. They will keep up with OS. OS is about everything in life containing all the types of programming. You can develop in the kernel and you can use this Operating System as a virtual environment for your project.
10 years of pf presentation
Henning Brauer has made his presentation from BSDCan 2011 available. Weighing in at 82 pages, he gives a detailed overview of what happened to the packet filter firewall (pf) in the last 10 years.
Interview with Kris Moore (PC-BSD)
PC Perspective‘s John Davis interviewed Kris Moore recently. They talk about PC-BSD’s hardware support, performance, games and the future. The full interview can be read here: Interview with Kris Moore, Founder and Lead Developer at PC-BSD.
There’s also an interview on Distrowatch by Jesse Smith on OS design elements. Jesse interviews Jenny Rosenberg and James Nixon (iXsystems). Read the full interview here: In the eye of the beholder.
cyphertite
cyphertite is a high-security scalable solution for online backups that can be installed on FreeBSD. The project is looking for testers and feedback. cyphertite features include:
cyphertite.com | Install cyphertite | Configure cyphertite
The Unix Method of Development Management
This is a mp3 recording of William Baxter’s NYCBUG presentation on The Unix Method of Development Management
Spanish video on PC-BSD
Sergio Ligregnio’s presentation on PC-BSD (in Spanish).
A few days ago I mentioned that Kris Moore would be attending AsiaBSDCon 2011. Due to the changed circumstances in Japan Kris won’t be able to make this presentation now.
However, from his slides on the new PBI 9.0 format you can pretty much figure out what he was going to present. These slides are available in PDF format: The PBI Format re-implemented for Free/PC-BSD.
PBI 9 will be part of the upcoming PC-BSD 9.0 and Kris has written up an article in the lasted BSD Magazine on his progress and what new features we can expect: A quick look at the upcoming PC-BSD 9.
If you have some free time this week and wanting to check out some of the new features of the upcoming PC-BSD 9.0, you can download and test drive the latest snapshot of PC-BSD 9.0.
One of the most interesting features are support of multiple window managers (gnome, kde, fluxbox etc) and the new PBI format.
If you come across any issues or if you have any suggestions, you may report them to the testing mailing list.
Download the PC-BSD 9-CURRENT testing snapshot
Following the release of FreeBSD 8.2, iXsystems has now released PC-BSD 8.2.
As you will know, PC-BSD closely follows FreeBSD’s release cycle (on which it is based) but makes it easier for use on the desktop. As a sidenote, Dru Lavigne, PC-BSD’s Community Manager, is doing a presentation this weekend at Scale 2011 on how PC-BSD compares to Linux and FreeBSD. This is her presentation outline:
With regards to the release of PC-BSD 8.2 (Hubble Edition), this version contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, have a look at the changelog.
Some of the notable changes are:
Version 8.2 of PC-BSD is available for download from the mirrors, as well as via torrent from gotbsd.net.
Following the release of FreeBSD 8.2-RC3, the third Release Candidate for PC-BSD 8.2 was announced today by Kris Moore, Lead Developer of PC-BSD.
This RC is expected to be the last RC version prior to release which is expected some time in the next 2-3 weeks.
In addition to some fixes in response to previous 8.2 testing snapshots, RC2 contains the following software components:
PC-BSD 8.2-RC3 is available for download from our mirrors. Everyone is encouraged to test this beta and to report any bugs to the testing mailing list. Instructions for beta testers can be found in the PC-BSD Handbook.
The PC-BSD Team has announced (pc-bsd blog) the availability of the second Release Candidate for PC-BSD 8.2. This will be the last beta version prior to release which is expected some time in the next 2–3 weeks.
In addition to some fixes in response to previous 8.2 testing snapshots, RC2 contains the following software components:
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