Category Archives: FreeBSD

FreeBSD 8.4-BETA1 available for testing

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Gerard

The FreeBSD developers have announced the availability of the first BETA build for the FreeBSD-8.4 release . ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. Since the stable/8 branch is relatively … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Foundation announces new technical staff member

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that Konstantin Belousov has been hired as its first full-time member of technical staff, a key milestone of the Foundation’s investment in staff for 2013. Konstantin has been a FreeBSD committer since 2006, and he … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 2012-Q4 Status Report

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Gerard

The FreeBSD team has published the FreeBSD 2012-Q4 status report covering progress of FreeBSD-related development projects during the fourth quarter of 2012. You can read amongst others about progress on the bhyve type-2 hypervisor, AMD GPUs kernel-mode setting, UEFI and the port … Continue reading →

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MaheshaBSD-2.0 Server Released

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Gerard

Juraj Sipos has announced the release of MaheshaBSD Server 2.0. This version comes with WordPress running on a USB memory stick. This is the only distro in the World with WordPress running immediately without any installation process. Many poor people will … Continue reading →

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New FreeBSD Foundation Funded Project: FreeBSD/ARM Architecture Superpages Support

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Gerard

Following the successful 2012 Year-End Fundraising Campaign the FreeBSD Foundation has announced that Semihalf, an embedded solutions company, has been awarded a grant to develop transparent superpages support for the FreeBSD/ARM architecture. Semihalf is co-sponsoring the project with the Foundation. The ARM architecture is … Continue reading →

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Introducing fbsdmon (fbsdmon.org)

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Gerard

There are some websites that keep track of new FreeBSD ports, such as the FreeBSD ports page or Freshports, and some that track (Free)BSD installations, such as bsdstats. I was not aware, but there’s also fbsdmon that measures ports popularity … Continue reading →

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BSDtalk interview with Michael Dexter, discussing bhyve

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Gerard

Will Backman has interviewed Michael Dexter and in this 23 minutes chat they talk about bhyve, a BSD hypervisor. bsdtalk223 – bhyve with Michael Dexter

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*BSD Event in Naples (April 2013)

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Gerard

Watch out, another BSD-Day is rising: next April in Naples where BSD people of Italy and Central Europe meet up! This event is an excellent opportunity for BSD developers and enthusiasts to present their work to larger audiences, share their thoughts with their fellows … Continue reading →

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