FreeBSD is a free, open-source and UNIX-like operating system. Though relatively unknown, it’s a powerful “work-horse”, capable of coping with massive work-loads whilest remaining fast, ultra-stable and rock-solid. Blogging about FreeBSD and systems based on this most versatile, safe and secure OS, I want to generate more interest in FreeBSD and its dependants.
Computer Magazine Linux Identity has put together a PDF with basic FreeBSD commands.
A newcomer to FreeBSD will probably find himself served well by a desktop environment (as KDE or GNOME). But there is also another world: a world of CLI – command line interface. Instead of clicking icons and menus, users memorize and type commands, exchanging all communication with the system through a rectangle of plain text.
The June 2008 issue was about FreeBSD 7.
Bordeaux is designed to make installing some of the most popular Windows applications on Linux less of a hassle when using Wine.
Bordeaux is an addon to the Wine project and uses Dan Kegel’s Winetricks script as the backend processor. Unlike Wine which is free, a Bordeaux license costs $20.00.
Work has now started to make Bordeaux work on FreeBSD 7.0 as well (already working on Linux).
Over the last couple day’s I have been working on the Bordeaux for FreeBSD 7 port. We now have everything compiling and running but a lot more testing needs to be done before it’s ready for a final release. Internet Explorer, Steam and Office 2003 are the only applications I’ve gotten around to testing thus far. The good news is everything that I have tested works fairly well on FreeBSD.
If you’re a FreeBSD user and need to run any of the software that we currently support on the Linux client you might be interested in helping beta test this build and future builds up to the final stable release. At this time we can’t give out beta builds, but what we can do is if you purchase a license from the store for a Linux build then send a mail to support. This email is provided once you purchase a licence, and ask for a FreeBSD build I can send it to you.
The second issue of the BSD Magazine (September 2008) is out now.
More than 60 pages full of news, great articles, tutorials, how-tos and extras. This is the table of contents:
06 BSD News
08 DVD contents description
10 OpenBSD 4.3 installation & configuration
18 You have installed it? Now what? Packages!!
22 OpenBSD
26 BSD Certification
30 Building an OpenBSD SAMP server with content filtering proxy
38 OpenBSD as an Desktop
40 Inside the PBI system
44 Connecting to other IM networks
50 Kernel File system - development in userspace
54 Securing IM using Jabber/XMPPP and LTS
58 OpenBSD and making money
61 Absolute FreeBSD 2nd edition
62 PC-BSD in schools
64 Interview with OpenBSD developer Damien Bergamini
For more information and subscriptions visit the BSD Magazine website.
The FreeBSD Developers Summit (15-18 August) has now kicked off in Cambridge (UK). Subject of discussions, amongst others, are operating system virtualisation, access control and the FreeBSD 8.0 release.
This is an invitation only meeting for FreeBSD (core) developers, but you can check out the Dev Summit wik to see what’s going on behind the scenes or check Philip Paep’’s blog
Our developer summit here in Cambridge started off rather well today. Robert decided that a brisk half hour walk from King’s to the computer lab was a good start of the day. I happen to agree.
Will keep you updated with any interesting stuff i find out, especially about FreeBSD 8.
For a general idea what sort of things get discussed at Dev Summits have a look at Bjoern A. Zeeb account of the BSDCan 2008 Developers Summit (with pictures).
Thanks to Rodrigo Osoriao for making me aware of this.
Check out any upcoming FreeBSD related events on my FreeBSD Google Calendar
Just to remind anybody interested in FreeBSD development, 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. A budget of $80,000 was allocated for 2008 to fund multiple development projects. Proposals will be evaluated based on desirability, technical merit and cost-effectiveness.
If you want to help improve FreeBSD and would like to receive funding to do so, be quick: the deadline is 15 August 2008.
Details and requirements of the proposals can be downloaded here. Alternatively, there’s also the BSD Fund should you want financial support while developing for BSD.
Dru Lavigne reports that BSD users have known for a long time that Beastie is pretty cool.
According to a poll held at last week’s LinuxWorld, Beastie is far cooler than Tux, by a margin of 31.6% to 6.6%. Now we just have to work on being cooler than the firefox mascot…
Perhaps the Beastie babes had something to do with the results.
Personally I’ve always liked the new FreeBSD logo over the mascot and hence I’ve not used it very often here. What do you guys think, should I put Beastie somewhere on this blog to make it look and feel more BSD? What do you think?
Loading ...The FreeBSD packages for KDE4.1 are now available on the FreeBSD FTP servers. If you don’t want to build from source you can now use these packages to quickly install a KDE 4.1.0 desktop.
to install (as su) KDE4.1 enter:
pkg_add -r kde4-4.1.0
If you’re not familiar with installation of FreeBSD packages, or if you want to brush up your knowledge, have a look at Using the Packages System chapter from the FreeBSD handbook.
Perla Ibarra has uploaded a couple of pictures of the PC-BSD / FreeBSD Booth at LinuxWorld 2008.
Matt Olander (CTO at iXsystems) with PC-BSD babe
Under FreeBSD the ifconfig utility is used to assign an address to a network interface and/or configure network interface parameters.
The ifconfig utility must be used at boot time to define the network address of each interface present on a machine; it may also be used at a later time to redefine an interface’s address or other operating parameters.
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