Category Archives: FreeBSD

BHyVe: A New Hypervisor Coming to FreeBSD 10.0

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Gerard

Phoronix has an article on the new FreeBSD hypervisor, BHyve. BHyVe is a legacy-free hypervisor being developed by FreeBSD developers that was recently merged into mainline to be part of the FreeBSD 10.0 release. The BHyVe virtualization hypervisor relies upon … Continue reading →

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Android on FreeBSD

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Gerard

gferenc88 wrote up a guide showing how to get Android running in Oracle VM VirtualBox on FreeBSD. Maybe it is not a big thing, but I have managed to run the Android OS with OpenGL support on FreeBSD. Before we … Continue reading →

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What’s new in FreeBSD

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Gerard

This video has been made from the slides and an audio recording of a NYCBUG talk by Eitan Adler in Jan of 2013 and gives an over view on the newest features in FreeBSD since 9.0. This talk covered some … Continue reading →

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BSDTalk222 – Tinkering with Raspberry Pi

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Gerard

This is a short chat about FreeBSD on the Raspberry Pi followed by some wise words from Peter Salus at BSDCan2011. BSDTalk222 – Tinkering with Raspberry Pi

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A decade of OS Access-control Extensibility (MAC)

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Gerard

This is an interesting piece on mandatory access-control by the well-known computer researcher and FreeBSD Foundation member Robert Watson: To discuss operating system security is to marvel at the diversity of deployed access-control models: Unix and Windows NT multiuser security; Type … Continue reading →

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eRacks new website now live

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Gerard

eRacks Open Source Systems is a company that builds affordable desktops and servers. And if you want, with FreeBSD pre-installed. eRacks have launched a new website.  

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FreeBSD April-June 2012 Status Report

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Gerard

A belated FreeBSD April-June 2012 Status Report has been published. Another one should be available within the next few weeks covering the remainder of 2012. This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between April and June 2012. This quarter was highlighted by having … Continue reading →

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Happy 2013 and miscelaneous news

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Gerard

Happy 2013 to all regular readers and the occasional visitor. It’s been a while since this site was updated, but this was due to work and holidays. Hopefully we’ll see FreeBSD 10 released this year and the use of FreeBSD … Continue reading →

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