Category Archives: FreeBSD

New FreeBSD Foundation funded projects: DIFFUSE, Porting of libc++

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced it will be funding two new  projects. The first is DIFFUSE for FreeBSD by Swinburne University and the second project is implementing xlocale APIs to enable porting libc++ by David Chisnall.  

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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Apr – Jun 2011)

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Gerard

This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between April and June 2011. It is the second of the four reports planned for 2011: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Apr – Jun 2011) Since this quarter, the work is being focused on the next major … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Events Update (vendor summit, KyivBSD, SFD, netmap video)

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Gerard

I have linked to a couple of past and upcoming FreeBSD events that are worth sharing.   1. FreeBSD vendor summit (3-4 November) I wasn’t aware of any FreeBSD vendor event, but there’s one from 3-4 November 2011 in Sunnyvale, … Continue reading →

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Howto: Keeping FreeBSD up-to-date

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Gerard

Vermaden has posted two very useful step-by-step tutorials on the FreeBSD Forums showing how you can keep your base system and applications up-to-date (the vermaden way): PART I. Keeping the FreeBSD base system up-to-date PART II. Keeping the FreeBSD packages … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Installer 9.0 (BSDInstall) screenshots

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Gerard

If you haven’t  had a chance to try out the new FreeBSD Installer and you’re keen to see what it looks like, Phoronix has a couple of screenshots. The new system installer is described as a modern installer for FreeBSD … Continue reading →

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HighPoint ships FreeBSD compliant four-port SAS-6Gb/s controller

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Gerard

HighPoint Technologies, a storage solutions manufacturer, said Thursday that it had begun shipments of its cost-efficient SAS-6Gb/s HBA, the RocketRAID 2711. The device is the first-in-the-industry controller with support up to four serial attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives that costs … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 available for testing, esp BSDInstall

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Gerard

Ken Smith has announced today the availability of FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2, which is little over a month past the initially planned date of 3 August. The FreeBSD 9.0 release schedule is expected to be updated with new BETA and RC dates. … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter – August 2011

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Gerard

In the latest edition of the semi annual FreeBSD Foundation newsletter you can read about: Letter From the President Fundraising Update Development Project Updates IPv6 support in FreeBSD and PC-BSD Implementing support of GEM, KMS, and DRI for Intel Drivers … Continue reading →

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