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Update on FreeBSD Jail Based Virtualization Project
Bjoern Zeeb has provided a summary regarding the completion of the funded portion of the FreeBSD Jail Based Virtualization Project: “I am happy to report that the funded parts of the FreeBSD Jail Based Virtualization project are completed. Some of the results have been shipping with 8.1-RELEASE while others are ready to be merged to HEAD. Jails [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Foundation turns to NYI.net for East Coast US Mirror
11. August 2010
The following is a press release issued by the FreeBSD Foundation and New York Internet; Bill Lessard from nyi.net forwarded this to me. If you have any FreeBSD related products or services you want to generate interest in, why not contact me too? FreeBSD Foundation turns to NYI.net for East Coast US Mirror Deployment Adds Enterprise-Grade Redundancy for [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD events and conferences (KyivBSD, MeetBSD, EuroBSD)
9. August 2010
Here is some info and details of upcoming FreeBSD related conferences and events. KyivBSD 2010 Conference On 25 Septempter the annual KyivBSD Conference will be held in Kiev, Ukraine. It’s mainly aimed at FreeBSD and PC-BSD users and developers. More info: http://ru.kyivbsd.org.ua (RU) (EN translation) (via) BSD-Day 2010 BSD-Day@2010 will be held at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary on 20 November 2010. The [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD foundation newsletter – July 2010
4. August 2010
The FreeBSD Foundation has published their semi-anual newsletter with updates on projects receiving support and funding, their donation goal for 2010 and how FreeBSD and commercial vendors can co-operate. Letter From the President Fundraising Update Flattened Device Tree Project Userland DTrace Project FreeBSD Jail Based Virtualization Project Resource Containers Project HA Storage Project BSNMP Improvements DAHDI FreeBSD driver port FreeBSD Lectures Captioning Project Upgrades to the [...]
Continue reading...Projects funded by the FreeBSD Foundation
31. July 2010
The FreeBSD Foundation funds various projects each year and there are several interesting projects in progress: DAHDI (formerly known as Zaptel) FreeBSD driver port–this project will make it possible to use FreeBSD as a base system for software PBX solutions resource containers and a simple per-jail resource limits mechanism userland dtrace BSNMP improvements jail-based virtualization The FreeBSD Foundation is able to fund [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD DAHDI driver project announcement
19. July 2010
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced it will sponsor Max Khon to finish the DAHDI FreeBSD driver port. DAHDI (Digium/Asterisk Hardware Device Interface) is the open source device interface technology used to control Digium and other legacy telephony interface cards. “The purpose of DAHDI/FreeBSD project is to make it possible to use FreeBSD as a base system for software PBX [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Foundation funded projects (Jail, DTrace)
8. July 2010
One of the ways the FreeBSD Foundation supports FreeBSD, is by funding FreeBSD development (e.g. the Jail based virtualisation project). The Foundation has agreed to fund two more projects: Jail Resource Containers Project (announcement) Dtrace Userland Project (announcement) I Resource Containers Project This project will be undertaken by Edward Tomasz Napierala. ”Unlike Solaris zones, the current implementation of FreeBSD Jails does [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD quick news and links (28/06/2010)
28. June 2010
PC-BSD Installer The new PC-BSD installer (available as GUI and text installer), which is also able to install plain FreeBSD, has now been committed to the FreeBSD source tree. This video goes into the details of the installer. Kris Moore: PC-SYSINSTALL – A new system installer backend for PC-BSD and FreeBSD BSD Certification The BSD Certification Group needs reviewers for the [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Foundation sponsors BSNMP enhancements
21. June 2010
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that Shteryana Shopova has been awarded a grant to make improvements to Bsnmp (snmp category). This project includes several enhancements to the existing FreeBSD SNMP framework, including SNMPv3-compliant user authentication, packet encryption and view-based access control. In addition, the project also includes a new module that will allow full SNMP management and monitoring of [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Foundation announces jail based virtualization project
14. June 2010
The FreeBSD Foundation has selected another project for funding: FreeBSD Jail based virtualisation project, to be undertaken by Bjoern A. Zeeb: “We are pleased to announce that Bjoern A. Zeeb has been awarded a grant to improve FreeBSD’s jail based virtualization infrastructure and to continue to work on the virtual network stack. His employer, CK Software GmbH is matching [...]
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31. August 2010
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