Category Archives: FreeBSD

FreeBSD quick news and links (28/06/2010)

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Gerard

PC-BSD Installer The new PC-BSD installer (available as GUI and text installer), which is also able to install plain FreeBSD, has now been committed to the FreeBSD source tree. This video goes into the details of the installer. Kris Moore: PC-SYSINSTALL … Continue reading →

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CrossOver Office and Games for FreeBSD / PC-BSD

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Gerard

Tom Wickline has written a short introduction on CrossOver Office for FreeBSD / PC-BSD. Codeweavers, the company behind CrossOver, is according to their website, the leading corporate backer of the Wine Project. Wine is an open source software initiative that is … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Foundation sponsors BSNMP enhancements

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that Shteryana Shopova has been awarded a grant to make improvements to Bsnmp (snmp category). This project includes several enhancements to the existing FreeBSD SNMP framework, including SNMPv3-compliant user authentication, packet encryption and view-based access control. … Continue reading →

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Versiera 3.2 (FreeBSD) Released

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Gerard

NetCraft Communications Inc.,  global leader in infrastructure management Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions, has released Versiera 3.2, bringing extended management capabilities including host user account, process and service/daemon management to all supported platforms including FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. Versiera is … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD OpenSVC clustered service manager available

Posted on June 19, 2010 by Gerard

OpenSVC is now available for FreeBSD. OpenSVC is a GPLv2 project automating the low-level operations needed 1/ to bring up system resources (virtual machine container, ip, disk groups, filesystem mounts, application launchers) on a node and 2/ to replicate data to … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 18, 2010 by Gerard
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FreeBSD Project iPhone app

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Gerard

Edwin Groothuis created a FreeBSD  iPhone app that provides general information about FreeBSD, news, upcoming events, videos from YouTube (BSD conference) and so on. May be useful if you have an iPhone. But the FreeBSD community is larger than just a … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 Available

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Gerard

The first Release Candidate for the FreeBSD 8.1 release cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures. Source: FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 Available

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