Category Archives: FreeBSD

FreeBSD 7.1 release document available

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Gerard

On Saturday we announced the availability of FreeBSD 7.1 but not documentation was available at that point yet. The 7.1 release documement can be viewed at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/relnotes.html The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE.  This … Continue reading →

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A new year & a new release: FreeBSD 7.1

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Gerard

This is an early bird announcement: The FreeBSD team has uploaded the latest stable version: FreeBSD 7.1 The files are still being synced and no formal announcement made yet. When this comes out, I’ll let you know. 7.1 can be upgraded to … Continue reading →

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Happy 2009 – a new year & a new theme

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Gerard

Welcome to 2009! I’m wishing all my readers a happy and prosperous 2009, at home and at work. Hopefully, we’ll see the birth of FreeBSD 8.0 Stable sometime this year, newer versions of FreeBSD-based operating systems and further progress of free … Continue reading →

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Bordeaux 1.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Gerard

Steven Edwards of the Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD today. Bordeaux 1.6 comes with added support for Google’s Chrome Web Browser, Google Earth, Google Picasa. Additionally, Cellar support has improved; you can now delete and … Continue reading →

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Support the FreeBSD Foundation (& FreeBSD)

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Gerard

FreeBSD Foundation is a non-profit organisation supporting the FreeBSD Project by part-funding some BSD conferences, by giving traveling grants to FreeBSD developers so they can go to conferences, by paying some developers etc etc. The Foundation is some $33.000 off their … Continue reading →

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Most reliable hosting companies – November 2008

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Gerard

Guess what operating system the number 1 on Netcraft’s most reliable hosting companies (November 2008) runs. No, guess what operating system the number 1 and 2 use… Correct, FreeBSD ;-) … the top two by average connection time (DataPipe and Aplus.net) both use … Continue reading →

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Released: pfSense 1.2.1

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Gerard

The pfSense project have announced the availability of version 1.2.1: This is a strictly a maintenance release, meaning it contains only bug fixes in the pfSense code, no new features. Though we also upgraded the base OS from FreeBSD 6.2 … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD foundation newsletter – December 2008

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Gerard

Please find below the FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter for December 2008. In this Edition: Letter From the Vice President End-of-Year Fundraising Drive Safe Removal of Active Disk Devices Improvements to the FreeBSD TCP Stack Network Stack Virtualization Project FreeBSD Advocacy in … Continue reading →

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