Category Archives: FreeBSD

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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FreeBSD DAHDI driver project announcement

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced it will sponsor Max Khon to finish the DAHDI FreeBSD driver port. DAHDI (Digium/Asterisk Hardware Device Interface) is the open source device interface technology used to control Digium and other legacy telephony interface cards. “The purpose … Continue reading →

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NYCBSDCon 2010 – Call for Papers

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Gerard

The New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) is the main technical conference on the US East Coast for the BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to have fun. This event … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Core Team 2010 Elected

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Gerard

One of the features that sets FreeBSD apart from other open source opeating systems, is its governance structure. FreeBSD is not owned by a company, though many companies use it and contribute code back, but yet is run as if … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Security Advisory (mbuf)

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Security Team have identified a little bug in FreeBSD where a lost mbuf flag can result in data loss. “I. Background An mbuf is a basic unit of memory management in the FreeBSD kernel inter-process communication and networking … Continue reading →

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