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FreeBSD Foundation turns to NYI.net for East Coast US Mirror
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 quick news and links (04/08/2010)
5. August 2010
PC-BSD Blog Dru Lavigne has joined the PC-BSD team this month. The first thing she did, was setting up another blog: the PC-BSD Blog. She already posts BSD related posts on it.toolbox.com: A year in the life of a BSD guru. A new *BSD Planet Website Edward launched AboutBSD recently as a new *BSD blogs agregating website. It [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 8.1 release uses different open source philosophy
5. August 2010
This post was written by James Mowery, a computer geek who writes about technology and related topics. FreeBSD may not receive the attention that Linux does, but its latest upgrade could provide some instruction to the makers of Ubuntu about how to do open source releases. The makers of Ubuntu and the popular Linux Mint usually [...]
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...Bordeaux 2.0.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released
4. August 2010
The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD. Bordeaux 2.0.6 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs and includes many new features. Some of the changes are: Wine 1.2 included, Updated to the latest winetricks release, Updated to the latest DIB Engine patch, Added support for IrfanView 4.27, Install the IrfanView Plug ins during [...]
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 8.1 provides evolutionary open source software upgrade
24. July 2010
FreeBSD 8.1 has been released, and Sean Michael Kerner from serverwatch.com spoke to Josh Paetzel, iXsystems IT director, about this latest release. “Putting out new releases of OS software isn’t always about adding major new features — sometimes it’s just about making existing features usable and stable. In the case of the open source software FreeBSD, [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE available
24. July 2010
FreeBSD 8.1 has been available for a few days on the download mirrors, but the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has now officially announced FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights are: zfsloader added zpool version of ZFS [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Apr – Jun 2010)
22. July 2010
FreeBSD’s quarterly status report for 2010 Q2 is now available. This report covers FreeBSD related projects between April and June 2010. It’s good to see so much activity, projects and contribution to FreeBSD, most of which is done by dedicated volunteers. From the table of contents: Google Summer of Code Binary Package Patch Infrastructure — pkg_patch Collective Resource Limits (aka. Jobs) ExtFS [...]
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11. August 2010
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