Category Archives: FreeBSD

LinuxReality Podcast: M0n0wall and pfSense

LinuxReality.com (a site with Linux related podcasts – similar to the BSD focused bsdtalk.blogspot.com) has posted a podcast (episode 84) that focuses on Linux and (network) security. In this episode Paul Asadoorian and Larry Pesce of the Pauldotcom Security Weekly … Continue reading

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FreeBSD Fundraising

The FreeBSD Foundation is kicking off the End-of-Year Fund Raising Drive! The FreeBSD Project is not a company and to keep functioning it is dependent upon financial support from users and supporters. So far, $221,808 has been raised – short … Continue reading

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FreeBSD FTP mirrors quality

At Statistics for FTP FreeBSD mirrors Edwin Groothuis has made an overview of how good the FreeBSD FTP mirrors are. It’s tot a full overview (just for the ISO images directories) but it will give an indication of the quality … Continue reading

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FreeBSD and Windows software (Wine)

There’s some encouraging news about running Windows applications on WINE on FreeBSD 7. More and more native Windows application can now be run on FreeBSD without too much tweaking. Wine-Review has recently been testing, running and benchmarking the installation of … Continue reading

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FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 Available

The FreeBSD betas are coming out, one after the other. The 7.0-BETA4 builds are now available. If you would like to download an ISO image to install from they are available here (MD5 checksums here). If you would like to … Continue reading

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Perils of .0 releases

Ivan Voras has created an excellent page listing all the new and exciting features that will find their way into FreeBSD 7.0. Now with 3 betas released of FreeBSD 7.0 there are still some issues and bugs that need to … Continue reading

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AsiaBSDCon 2008 update

AsiaBSDCon 2008 is scheduled for March 27-30 in Tokyo. The deadline for paper proposals has been extended to December 11th. A mailing list has been set up for those who want to stay up-do-date with the latest announcements. AsiaBSDCon is … Continue reading

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FreeBSD tops reliability survey (Oct)

Datapipe running FreeBSD was the most reliable hosting company for Oct/2007. 3 of the top 10 run FreeBSD, 4 linux. All hosting/operating systems statistics here.

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