Category Archives: FreeBSD

Pkgin (not pidgin ;-) is a tool developed by a NetBSD developer, to conveniently handle and manage pkgsrc binary packages and is aimed to be an apt / yum like tool for managing pkgsrc binary packages. Pkgin relies on pkg_summary for installation, removal and … Continue reading →

When it comes to new features in an open source operating system, sometimes features are developed by community developers and other times they are contributed by commercial vendors. The recent FreeBSD 8.0 operating system release benefited from both types of … Continue reading →

Jesse Smith from Distrowatch has taken FreeBSD 8.0 for a ride. Below his findings. FreeBSD has long been recognised as a fast, stable and reliable operating system, powering large server farms of some of the biggest web sites and search … Continue reading →

Jeff Roberson is working on an addition to UFS softupdates which includes a tiny journal to keep track of things like free space and inode orphaning that were left to background fsck to deal with in the original implementation of … Continue reading →

FreeBSD took the #1 and#8 positions in the monthly Netcraft stats for November.

This is an article by Paul Rubens on Serverwatch. Paul analyses the difference between Apple and the FreeBSD (security) Team with regards to tackling security problems: Apple is making a lot of money these days. The more money it makes, … Continue reading →