Category Archives: FreeBSD

Audio presentations: 1 pfSense and 2 BSD for Linux Users

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Gerard

Dru Lavigne has uploaded the audio file of her presentation at SCALE 2010 talk on BSD for Linux Users is now available in mp3 format. Slides are available as PDF She also mentioned an mp3 of a NYCBUG session on PFSense II, … Continue reading →

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X.org 7.5 for FreeBSD

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Gerard

No, it’s not released, but Martin Wilke is looking for a few brave people to test x.org 7.5 for FreeBSD: Please take a look on our Wikipage. There you can find the svn repo to checkout X.org ports. http://wiki.freebsd.org/ModularXorg/7.5 A small … Continue reading →

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(Free)BSD quick news and links

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Gerard

FreeBSD Returning committer: Niels Heinen (ports) (07/03/2010) New committer: Neel Natu (src) (03/03/2010) PC-BSD 1. Quick Poll – which pages would you like to see  printed from Dru’s latest book in the upcoming BSD Magazine issue? 2. How does PC-BSD 8.0 … Continue reading →

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AsiaBSDCon 2010

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Gerard

AsiaBSDCon 2010 will be held from 11-14 March in Tokyo AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held in Tokyo, in 11-14 March, 2010. The conference is for anyone developing, … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD, Building a Computing Cluster (meetbsd 2007)

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Gerard

“Reflections on Building a High-Performance Computing Cluster using FreeBSD” By Brooks Davis at MeetBSD 2007 in Warsaw, Poland.

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FreeBSD Twitter feed list

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Gerard

For those interested in following news on Twitter: I (http://twitter.com/gvanessen) have created a custom FreeBSD news list: http://twitter.com/gvanessen/freebsd This list if made up of the following feeds: http://twitter.com/freebsdsecurity http://twitter.com/freebsd http://twitter.com/realfreebsdtips http://twitter.com/PCBSD http://twitter.com/BSDmag http://twitter.com/freebsdannounce http://twitter.com/bsdevents http://twitter.com/freebsdblogs http://twitter.com/freenas http://twitter.com/freebsdfndation If you’re aware of … Continue reading →

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Best of FreeBSD Basics on Kindle

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Gerard

Dru Lavigne’s Best of FreeBSD Basics book is now available for the Amazon Kindle ebook reader. (via)

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FreeBSD webcam support: video4bsd

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Gerard

Hans Petter has been working hard recently on webcamd, making Linux webcam drivers work on FreeBSD. Webcamd is a port of Video4Linux USB webcam drivers into userspace. It is a 500KiloByte daemon that enables use of hundreds of different USB … Continue reading →

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