Category Archives: FreeBSD

GEM/KMS working on FreeBSD (for testing and code review)

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Gerard

Kostik Belousov, who is paid by the FreeBSD Foundation to port the Linux graphics code, provided a status update on the freebsd-x11 mailing list. The project aims to implement GEM, port KMS, and write new DRI drivers for Intel Graphics, including … Continue reading →

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Quick news: Firewalls, VirtualBSD, pfSense

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Gerard

Below three links to posts on pfSense and VirtualBSD Techsource has an overview of 5 firewalls, one of which is the FreeBSD based pfSense. If you’re having a small computer network at home or a huge office with hundreds of … Continue reading →

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BSDTalk interview with Peter Losher (ISC)

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Gerard

There’s a 17 minute interview with Peter Losher from the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) on bsdtalk. Subject of the conversation is the ISC, running DNS root servers, and various other projects. BSDTalk Interview with Peter Losher (ISC)  

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Google discontinues BSD Search (google.com/bsd)

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Gerard

Long before even Google Image Search, Google News or Blog Search existed, there was the handy Google BSD Search @ www.google.com/bsd Today Google announced it is discontinuing some specialised search services: We are no longer offering specialized search services at google.com/linux, … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS 8: interview and review

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Gerard

Techworld Australia caught up with Josh Paetzel, director of IT at iXsystems and project manager for FreeNAS 8, to talk about the current state of the OS, what lies ahead for it, and the relationship to FreeNAS 0.7. Check out … Continue reading →

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Miscelaneous news updates (arab-bsd, pf, cyphertite, PC-BSD)

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Gerard

Below a number of links to interesting FreeBSD (related) projects and resources. ArabBSD ArabBSD is a new FreeBSD related project, working to create an Arabian FreeBSD operating system: ArabBSD is a project which aims to provide infrastructure for the most … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD VPS Hosting with RootBSD – Exclusive Offer

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Gerard

If you are looking for an affordable and robust virtual server solution you can’t go wrong with RootBSD. RootBSD offers virtual private servers based on one of the most solid systems available. VPS hosting is an interesting option to those … Continue reading →

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libcxxrt C++ runtime available under BSD License

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Foundation and the NetBSD Foundation announced that they have acquired a non-exclusive copyright license to the libcxxrt C++ runtime software from PathScale, a leader in high performance Fortran, C and C++ compiler products for AMD64, Intel64 and MIPS. … Continue reading →

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