Category Archives: FreeBSD Foundation

Miscelaneous News Links: auditdistd, Xorg, Linuxulator, OpenSSH

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Gerard

auditdistd The auditdistd project is complete. Pawel Jakub Dawidek provides the following report regarding the project: auditdist project completed. Xorg 7.5.2 The Xorg Team has announced the next round of Xorg updates. Phoronix’ analysis here. Linuxulator and Linux Base ‘This week­end … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Foundation accepting funding proposals

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Foundation is soliciting the submission of proposals for work relating to any of the major subsystems or infrastructure within the FreeBSD operating system. Proposals will be evaluated based on desirability, technical merit, and cost-effectiveness. Details regarding the proposal … Continue reading →

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New FBSD Foundation projects: Grow Mounted Filesystems, and NAND Flash Support

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced it is funding two new projects: Grow Mounted Filesystems NAND Flash Support Grow Mounted Filesystems This project will focus on growing filesystems whilst mounted and add GEOM and filesystem changes that are necessary to increase the … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Foundation one of 12 Initial Affiliates for OSI

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Gerard

Earlier this year, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) switched from a Board-only organization focused largely on licensing to a member-led organization of affiliates. The OSI Board invited the FreeBSD Foundation to its initial set of Affiliates and Justin Gibbs and … Continue reading →

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BSDTalk Interview with Deb Goodkin (FreeBSD Foundation)

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Gerard

There’s another BSDTalk interview available. This time with Deb Goodkin, director of operations for the FreeBSD Foundation. bsdtalk211 – The FreeBSD Foundation with Deb Goodkin (MP3 | OGG)

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FreeBSD 9.0 Press Release and Review

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Foundation has released a FreeBSD 9.0 press release: Release of FreeBSD 9.0 Delivers More Power to Serve. Today, the FreeBSD Foundation announced the recent release of FreeBSD 9.0. FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE raises the bar for open source operating systems in … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Events Updates (Scale, AsiaBSDCon, BSDCan)

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Gerard

A new year, a new series of FreeBSD Conferences. Mark them in your diaries if you’re planning to go. SCALE 2012 iXsystem, FreeNAS, PC-BSD and the FreeBSD Foundation will be represented at SCALE Linux Expo 2012. The Southern California Linux … Continue reading →

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New FreeBSD Foundation funded projects (IPv6, auditdistd)

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced it will be funding two new projects: 1. Performance analysis of FreeBSD’s IPv6 stack by Bjoern Zeeb The project will carry out a detailed performance analysis starting with benchmarking IPv6 to IPv4 to get up-to-date numbers … Continue reading →

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