Category Archives: FreeBSD

Porting Apache OpenOffice to FreeBSD — Ready to test

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Gerard

Nakata, Maho and Pedro Giffuni have ported Apache OpenOffice to FreeBSD. The results of their porting effort are now in the FreeBSD ports tree, so everyone can easily build and use it. FreeBSD users are invited to help test this port and report … 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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BSD Magazine (Mar 2012): Nessus, Exploitation Tools and Payloads

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Gerard

March’s issue of the BSD Magazine is now available: Nessus, Exploitation Tools and Payloads (free PDF download). You’ll find the following subjects inside: MaheshaBSD-2.0: What’s New On The Lake Manasarovar? GhostBSD: A Brief Overview How Do I Study for the BSDA Certification? GDB and … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 8.3-RC1 Available

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Paul

Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 8.3, the project’s legacy stable branch: “The first release candidate build of the 8.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 8.3-BETA1 Available

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Gerard

The legacy production branch of FreeBSD 8 has received another update, version 8.3. As of now there is only one BETA build scheduled for this release cycle. The next test build is slated to be RC1. “The first beta build of 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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FreeBSD and PC-BSD installers in pictures

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Gerard

Chris Duckett from zdnet news compared PC-BSD’s installer and FreeBSD’s new bsdinstall (screenshots). FreeBSD and PC-BSD installers in pictures We all know which one looks better and has the best features….

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pkgng: First look at FreeBSD’s new package manager

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Gerard

Most of you will be aware that a group of developers have released the first beta of FreeBSD’s new package management: pkgng. Jake Smith has been playing around with the new package manager and has summarised the main pkgng commands: pkgng: First look … Continue reading →

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