Category Archives: FreeBSD

FreeBSD Events: BSDDay, EuroBSDCon, BSD Day Argentina, interviews

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Gerard

These are some quick links to upcoming and related FreeBSD related events, conferences and interview. 1. BSDDay EU 2011 Central European BSD day: BSDDay EU 2011 (04-06-2011, Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology). 2. EuroBSDCon 2011 … Continue reading →

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Exclusive RootBSD Hosting offer – extended

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Gerard

Due to popular demand, RootBSD has extended the VPS hosting offer until 5 August. If you’re interested in running a FreeBSD based website or web services, you will be interested to know that freebsdnews.net has teamed up with RootBSD, giving regular … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD & FreeBSD 9.0 BETA1 ready for testing (confirmed)

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Gerard

The availability of FreeBSD 9.0 BETA1 has now been confirmed by Ken Smith: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 Available: The first BETA build of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Since this will be the first release on a brand new branch I’ll … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 9 BETA1 available for testing

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Gerard

There’s no official announcement, but just over 2 years after FreeBSD 8.0 BETA1 became available, the FreeBSD Project is uploading version 9 BETA1.. According to the FreeBSD release page, BETA1 was scheduled for 20 July, so a delay of just over … Continue reading →

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Exclusive RootBSD Hosting offer

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Gerard

RootBSD is a provider of stable FreeBSD / OpenBSD hosting services and VPS Solutions. The BSD hosting experts can solve your hosting problems from small to large with their bullet-proof VPS and dedicated packages backed by friendly technical support. RootBSD offers: … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD news leftovers: BSD isn’t relevant, UNIX data center darling (week 28)

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Gerard

The following are some interesting FreeBSD related news bits from this week: I.  Testing the (new) FBFS scheduler The FBFS Scheduler (Google Summer of Code 2011) project aims to bring an experimental light-weight scheduler to FreeBSD and has now come to … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS videos, FreeBSD on Amazon EC2 and Intel GPU FreeBSD driver update

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Gerard

Three noteworthy links today to FreeBSD related news: I. FreeBSD on Amazon’s EC2 Colin Percifal mentioned on his blog that he managed to successfully run FreeBSD on Amazon’s EC2 via defenestration, tricking EC2 to think Windows is running. How can … Continue reading →

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BSD Security (BSD Magazine 2011-06)

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Gerard

A new issue of the free BSD Magazine is available: BSD Security (pdf). From the table of contents: Larger scale FreeBSD I’ve often joked that it’s quite easy to manage one FreeBSD machine or one thousand, but if you have ten machines … Continue reading →

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