Category Archives: FreeBSD

BSDTalk interview with James Nixon (iXsystems)

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Gerard

BSDTalk has a 16 minute interview with James Nixon, webmaster and committer for PC-BSD and employed by iXsystems. They talk about some of the new features coming up in PC-BSD 8.0, gaming on BSD, his work on the unique look and … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Errata: Deadlock in ULE scheduler

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Gerard

A problem has been identified with the FreeBSD 7 series ULE Scheduler : FreeBSD has two schedulers: the classic 4BSD scheduler and a newer, more SMP-aware scheduler called ULE. The 4BSD scheduler was the default scheduler until FreeBSD 7.0. Starting … Continue reading →

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BSD TV launched

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Gerard

bsdtv.org has launched on blip.tv Currently there are 3 videos listed: 1 BSDTV -NYCBUG This video was made from the slides and audio recording of a NYCBUG meeting in Jan. of 2010. From the NYCBUG site: This presentation gives a … Continue reading →

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Download Nvidia 195.36.08 FreeBSD display driver

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Gerard

Nvidia has released new video drivers for FreeBSD yesterday (v 195.36.08) Nvidia is making quite a lot of gamers happy with the latest update to its display drivers for *NIX platforms (Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris). Nvidia 195.36.08 adds support for … Continue reading →

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Definitive Guide to PC-BSD book (ToC + pre-order)

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Gerard

Dru Lavigne’s “Definitive Guide to PC-BSD” book is now available to pre-order at freebsdmall.com and amazon.com This is the table of contents.

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FreeBSD 7.3-RC2 Available

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Gerard

The second Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD-7.3 release cycle is now available. Ken Smith announced FreeBSD 7.3 RC yesterday: The third and what should be last of the test builds for the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, 7.3-RC2, is available for amd64, i386, … Continue reading →

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Most reliable webhosts – February 2010

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Gerard

According to last months Netcraft webhost reliability report, two web hosts in the top 10 run FreeBSD as their operating system. After an email conversation with one of the guys from RootBSD last month, I realised that these statistics are … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD and the GPL

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Gerard

Every so many months the never ending discussion about the BSD vs GPL license heats up. Supporters for either license have their thoughts and opinions to why one license is better than the other. Some say that these discussions are … Continue reading →

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