Category Archives: FreeBSD

Translation of BSD man pages (Brazilian Portuguese)

Posted on May 2, 2009 by Gerard

Alan Bueno has begun a project translating FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD man pages into Brazilian Portuguese. Information about the project can be found in the FAQ. [Google Translation – EN) Translated MAN Pages: FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD

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FreeBSD link roundup – 28/04/09

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Gerard

FreeBSD 1) Martin Wilke is looking for people to test QT 4.5.1. He also reports he managed to get Firefox 3.1 Beta4 working on FreeBSD. Please test. 2) Ivan Voras has done some virtualised benchmarking of Ubuntu 8.10, FreeBSD 7.1 and … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 Released

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Gerard

Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 7.2: The second of the two planed release candidates for the 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. We believe, with the exception of the new bce(4) driver not working with … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD 7.1 vs. Kubuntu 9.04 Benchmarks

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Gerard

The well-know bench marking website Phoronix has carried out a benchmark run between Kubuntu 9.04 and PC-BSD 7.1 (20/04/2009) Earlier this month PC-BSD 7.1 was released, which is based upon the FreeBSD 7.1 stable release, but of course with the … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Security Advisories (openssl, libc)

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Security Team has issued the following security warnings: FreeBSD-SA-09:08.openssl  - Remotely exploitable crash in OpenSSL FreeBSD-SA-09:07.libc - Information leak in db(3) For background info, problem description, impact, workaround and solution, have a look at the individual advisory pages: openssl | libc

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FreeBSD Foundation Project: IEEE 802.11s wireless mesh

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Gerard

A couple of days ago, Google announced it’s sponsoring some FreeBSD related projects in its annual Summer of Code. Now the FreeBSD Foundation has also announced it has accepted a project (not GSoC) for funding. Rui Paulo will be implementing the … Continue reading →

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BSDTalk interview with Dan Langille (BSDCan)

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Gerard

BSDTalk has a 13 minutes interview with Dan Langille about the upcoming BSD Can 2009 (8-9 May) BSDTalk 172 – Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG

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FreeBSD 7.2-RC1 Released

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Gerard

Ken Smith has announced the availability of FreeBSD 7.2-RC1 t.  The first of two planned Release Candidates for the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. Testing of some of the recent work would be particularly appreciated. The release schedule states that the final release is … Continue reading →

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