Category Archives: FreeBSD

Mail system for distributed network – A. Zakharchenko

Mail system for distributed network. Presentation held by Andrey Zakharchenko at AsiaBSDCon2009: Sometimes it is necessary to organize a mail domain for large and geographically distributed network, which may consist of independent subnets with their own separate Internet connections (and some of … Continue reading

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Deprecating groff for BSD manual display

Kristaps Dzonsons’ presentation: Deprecating groff for BSD manual display, AsiaBSDCon2009: There are few GPL-licensed utilities remaining in BSD base installations, most of them written in C++. groff, GNU’s roff text-processing language implementation, claims a significant share of this count. Why … Continue reading

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FreeBSD on high performance multi-core embedded PowerPC systems

Rafal Jaworowski’s presentation on FreeBSD on high performance multi-core embedded PowerPC systems, AsiaBSDCon2009: This paper describes low level design and implementation of the FreeBSD operating system port for the MPC8572 system-on-chip device, a high-end member of the Freescale PowerQUICC III … Continue reading

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FreeBSD Status Report: January – March 2009

The FreeBSD 2009 Quarterly Status Report is now available (Jan – Mar): Since the last Status Reports there has been interesting progress in FreeBSD Development. FreeBSD 7.2 was released just a few days ago. Some of the highlights include: Support for superpages in … Continue reading

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FreeBSD flavours and projects

Tonight I’ve updated the FreeBSD Flavours and projects page. There was a broken link, some missing pictures and the content had to be updated here and there. Please have a look and let me know what you think and/or if anything … Continue reading

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BSDroid – porting the Android framework to FreeBSD

Android is an exciting and much promising (open source) mobile phone platform developed by Google. Android 1.5 (Cupcake), has now been released and promises to be(come) a strong contender for Apple’s iPhone. The first Android powered netbook is coming, Acer … Continue reading

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Universal BIOS Flash utility for FreeBSD, Linux

The developers of the CoreBoot project have released FlashROM 0.9 which is able to read, delete, rewrite and verify the flash chips which store a systems BIOS. coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS … Continue reading

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Multi processor compilations

Pav Lucistnik has been working on ports compilations utilising multiple cores: Two days ago, I have checked in probably most requested feature of last few years. Ports framework now systematically supports building ports on multiple processing cores. It is achieved … Continue reading

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