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Category Archives: FreeBSD
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
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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Sun VirtualBox on FreeBSD – update
Martin Wilke has been working hard over the past 6 days to improve VirtualBox on FreeBSD. after a lot work and hacking we got finaly VirtualBox to start under FreeBSD HEAD. 6 Days work was needed with about 20 patches. :). This … Continue reading
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FreeBSD security (incl video)
These are some recent links with regards FreeBSD security: 1. Using DenyHosts to help thwart SSH attacks on FreeBSD DenyHosts is a script intended to be run by UNIX-like system administrators to help thwart SSH server attacks (also known as dictionary … Continue reading
BSD week – 4 BSD releases
In the last 7 days we’ve seen a new version released by each of the 4 major BSD operating systems: OpenBSD 4.5, NetBSD, FreeBSD 7.2 and a “minor” DragonFlyBSD release (2.2.1). Who said BSD was dying? Video 1 – “BSD is dying” (2007) … Continue reading
FreeBSD 7.2 released
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the availability of FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: support for … Continue reading