Category Archives: FreeBSD

Health Check: FreeBSD – “The unknown giant”

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Gerard

A piece of FreeBSD history advocacy on H-Online: “FreeBSD is the most accessible and popular of the BSDs, has code at the heart of Darwin and Apple’s OS X, and has powered some of the more successful sites on the … Continue reading →

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Available: Firefox 3.6, KDE 4.3.5 (FreeBSD)

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Gerard

KDE 4.3.5 (desktop environment) and Firefox 3.6 (browser) are now available for FreeBSD: KDE 4.3.5 -port – announcement Firefox 3.6 – port - announcement

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Benchmarking Debian’s GNU/kFreeBSD

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Gerard

There has been an effort underway within the Debian development community to pull the FreeBSD kernel within this distribution to provide an alternative to using the Linux kernel. In essence with this Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project you have the standard Debian … Continue reading →

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Sponsoring FreeBSD

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Gerard

iX Systems has created a simple web based application for posting bounties, getting developers and sponsors on board, posting the committed code in a browser viewable format, and then handle final payout upon completion. Source I don’t know current the sponsorbsd website … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 7.3-BETA1 available

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Gerard

FreeBSD 7.3-BETA1, the first test build of the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, is now available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. The target schedule along with the current status of the release can be found on the FreeBSD 7.3 todo wiki. … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Foundation accepting project proposals for funding

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Foundation is soliciting the submission of proposals for work relating to any of the major subsystems or infrastructure within the FreeBSD operating system. Proposals will be evaluated based on desirability, technical merit, and cost-effectiveness. Interested? Check out what … Continue reading →

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