Category Archives: FreeBSD

FreeBSD Events (Athens Digital Week, NLLGG)

NLLGG BSD Day (Utrecht, 11 Dec 2010) The NLLGG (Netherlands Linux Users Group) has organised a BSD Day in Utrecht, the Netherlands, for 11 December. This is the 3rd year running that the Group has organised a BSD Day. More … Continue reading

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BSD Events 2011 – call for speakers (FOSDEM, BSDCAN)

Marius Nünnerich has called for speakers for FOSDEM 2011  (5 and 6 Feb 2011) FOSDEM 2011 will take place February 5-6, 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. We want to continue the great success of the last years and again we have a … Continue reading

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5 new TCP Congestion Control Algorithms Project (FreeBSD Foundation)

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced it is funding the 5 new TCP Congestion Control Algorithms Project: “The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Swinburne University’s Technology’s Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures has been awarded a grant to implement five … Continue reading

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Chromium for FreeBSD – change of port maintainer

Shortly after Google Chrome was released, I was  excited to find out that Ben Laurie was porting Google Chrome/Chromium to FreeBSD. This is in my opinion the best web browser available (I know, it’s subjective). It’s light-weight, secure and extendible. The … Continue reading

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kFreeBSD with ZFS, Bordeaux on PC-BSD, benchmarks and pfSense

Debian’s GNU/kFreeBSD Installer will support ZFS “While Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has supported the ZFS file-system with its FreeBSD-8 kernel, support for installing the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD distribution to a root ZFS file-system will now be possible with the Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” release. … Continue reading

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Bjoern Zeeb receives 2nd Itojun Service Award

Bjoern Zeeb received the second Itojun Service Award at he IETF 79 meeting in Beijing last month. Bjoern A. Zeeb, a FreeBSD Developer, received the award for his dedicated work to make significant improvements in open source implementations of IPv6. IPv6 is … Continue reading

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FreeBSD Security Advisory (openssl)

The FreeBSD Security Team has identified a security bug in openssl: I. Background FreeBSD includes software from the OpenSSL Project. The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL … Continue reading

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FreeBSD Foundation EOY fund-raise drive

The FreeBSD Foundation has kicked off its annual end-of-year fund-raise drive, and is calling happy (Free)BSD users make a small donation to help the FreeBSD Project fund new initiatives, sponsor FreeBSD Conferences, grant travel grants etc. The Foundation has received … Continue reading

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