Category Archives: FreeBSD

Bordeaux 2.0.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Gerard

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD. Bordeaux 2.0.6 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs and includes many new features. Some of the changes are: Wine 1.2 included, Updated to the … Continue reading →

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Projects funded by the FreeBSD Foundation

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Foundation funds various projects each year and there are several interesting projects in progress: DAHDI (formerly known as Zaptel) FreeBSD driver port–this project will make it possible to use FreeBSD as a base system for software PBX solutions resource … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 8.1 provides evolutionary open source software upgrade

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Gerard

FreeBSD 8.1 has been released, and Sean Michael Kerner from serverwatch.com spoke to Josh Paetzel, iXsystems IT director, about this latest release. “Putting out new releases of OS software isn’t always about adding major new features — sometimes it’s just … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE available

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Gerard

FreeBSD 8.1 has been available for a few days on the download mirrors, but the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has now officially announced FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Apr – Jun 2010)

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Gerard

FreeBSD’s quarterly status report for 2010 Q2 is now available. This report covers FreeBSD related projects between April and June 2010. It’s good to see so much activity, projects and contribution to FreeBSD, most of which is done by dedicated volunteers. … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD 8.1 released

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Gerard

The PC-BSD Team has announced the availability of PC-BSD 8.1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, and KDE 4.4.5 Version 8.1 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD quick news and links (21/07/2010)

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Gerard

I Super-accurate computer clock created A free pies of software that allows computers to keep phenomenally accurate time has been developed by researchers in Melbourne. The software, called RADclock, should improve everything from Skype conversations to the tracking of subway … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE available

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Gerard

There’s no official announcement yet, but FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE is available on the FreeBSD FTP servers: i386 - ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/ amd64 - ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/8.1-RELEASE/

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