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Chromium 7.0 FreeBSD builds available (1 week only)
Ruben from the FreeBSD Chromium porting team emailed me to say that for this week only the latest Chromium 7.0 for FreeBSD subscriber builds will be available for free (excluding HTML 5 video). The subscriber builds are largely open source and funded by a hybrid model. If you like what you see, you may consider subscribing to the [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Project iPhone app
18. June 2010
Edwin Groothuis created a FreeBSD iPhone app that provides general information about FreeBSD, news, upcoming events, videos from YouTube (BSD conference) and so on. May be useful if you have an iPhone. But the FreeBSD community is larger than just a map of the committers. There is a Newsflash on the website so you can see what [...]
Continue reading...Google changes WebM License, now pure BSD
8. June 2010
When Google first unveiled its WebM project, there were quite some concerns over its license. This license was incompatible with version 2 and 3 of the GPL, and was effectively a new license, causing unnecessary confusion. Google has now cleared everything up by switching to a regular BSD license. The WebM project is dedicated to developing [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Google SoC Projects started
31. May 2010
The FreeBSD Project received many applications from students wanting to participate in Google’s Summer of Code program. This year 18 student proposals to work with the FreeBSD Project were accepted as part of this program. For those with projects that were not accepted this year, the FreeBSD Project is always willing to help mentor students so [...]
Continue reading...Google SoC 2010: FreeBSD Projects
26. April 2010
Google has just announced the projects it will be funding this summer during its annual Summer of Code Event : 6 FreeBSD related Projects are included : Jacub Klama : Generic DMA engine framework for FreeBSD The aim of this project is to provide a generic, flexible framework for initiating and controlling DMA transfers using General Purpose DMA engines, found in [...]
Continue reading...Development of Chromium (Chrome) for FreeBSD
24. April 2010
A new and alternative open source business model. Chromium / Google Chrome Google Chrome does not need much introduction any more, especially not to those interested in open source software. It is the best browser available. It is fast, secure, supports bookmark sync and extensions. The Chromium project is the open-source core of the Chrome Browser, and as we [...]
Continue reading...Google’s Go programming language
29. March 2010
Google’s Go is now supported under FreeBSD (source) “Go, Google’s programming language, has now been with us for four months. Ridiculed at first, then named Programming Language of the Year 2009 by TIOBE for its rapid climb up its language index, Go has continued on its way with rather less fanfare. But that is definitely not [...]
Continue reading...Google SoC 2009 FreeBSD projects announced
21. April 2009
Google announced yesterday the students selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2009. Among the 1,000 students, 20 will be working on FreeBSD related projects. The list with students, mentors and projects can be found here We wish all the students the best and hopefully a lot/all of their coding will find their way into future [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD and Google Summer of Code 2009
28. March 2009
Google is now hosting the Google Summer of Code for the 5th year running, and FreeBSD has been selected again as eligible for the mentoring organisation. If you or any other student is interested in contributing to the development of FreeBSD and get paid for doing so, have a look at the FreeBSD Summer of Code 2009 page. [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD and Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC)
27. March 2009
The FreeBSD Project is pleased that Google has once again invited the FreeBSD Project to participate in their Summer of Code program, which pays student developers to work on Open Source projects. Over the last four years, over 70 Summer of Code projects have generated improvements to almost every part of FreeBSD; many of the students have gone on to become permanent [...]
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23. August 2010
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