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FreeBSD 8.1 ports feature freeze starting soon
In preparation for 8.1-RELEASE, the ports tree will be in feature freeze after release candidate 1 (RC1) is released, currently planned for June 11. If you have any commits with high impact planned, get them in the tree before then … Continue reading
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LLVM Clang integrated into FreeBSD 9-CURRENT
LLVM Clang, a BSD licenced compiler, is an alternative base compiler, with the general intention of it becoming the official FreeBSD base compiler. On June 9th, we are importing clang/LLVM into FreeBSD HEAD. We are going to import clang/LLVM sources … Continue reading
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FreeBSD Foundation announces jail based virtualization project
The FreeBSD Foundation has selected another project for funding: FreeBSD Jail based virtualisation project, to be undertaken by Bjoern A. Zeeb: “We are pleased to announce that Bjoern A. Zeeb has been awarded a grant to improve FreeBSD’s jail based virtualization … Continue reading
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I’m a BSD
Rick Jelliffe has written up his experience of installing FreeBSD and tweaking it so he could use it for every day use instead of Windows, Linux or Solaris: “I’m a BSD” This is her verdict: But so far I am … Continue reading
Interesting FreeBSD related projects: FreeWDE, mfsBSD and easyBSD
Every now and then when browsing the web and hopping from one link to another you sometimes come across some interesting little projects. Recently I’ve found the following three that I want to share with you: FreeWDE – http://rop.gonggri.jp/?p=269 FreeWDE … Continue reading
FreeBSD 7.2 EoL coming soon
On June 30th, FreeBSD 7.2 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of this release are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.3 before that date; FreeBSD 7.3 will … Continue reading
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Download FreeBSD 8.1 BETA1
FreeBSD 8.1 BETA1 is available for downloading on (most of) the mirrors, as mentioned on the FreeBSD Stable Mailinglist: The first of the test builds for the FreeBSD 8.1 release cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. … Continue reading
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FreeBSD Google SoC Projects started
The FreeBSD Project received many applications from students wanting to participate in Google’s Summer of Code program. This year 18 student proposals to work with the FreeBSD Project were accepted as part of this program. For those with projects that … Continue reading
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