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BSDers at the Googleplex
Matt Olander and Murray Stokely have written up a summary of the MeetBSD Conference last month: The meetBSD 2008 conference recently held at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, USA brought together more than 150 users and developers of the various flavors of the BSD operating system. The conference featured some great speakers, including talks by [...]
Continue reading...New Channel on YouTube for BSD Technical Content
4. December 2008
Murray Stokely, from the FreeBSD Core Team, has setup a new channel for technical BSD content on Youtube for high quality, full hour-long videos of talks and tutorials from BSD Conferences http://uk.youtube.com/bsdconferences Thanks to help from the Open Source Program Office at Google I was able to setup a new channel for technical BSD content without the 10 [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Summer of Code finished – update
13. October 2008
Murray Stockely reports about the success rate for Summer of Code students working on FreeBSD. 19 out of 21 students successfully completed the program this summer. He has created a summary of all 19 individual projects. On the Google Open Source Blog he wrote a post to showcase some student projects from our fourth successful [...]
Continue reading...Google FreeBSD Summer of Code 2008 results
22. September 2008
The FreeBSD Project is proud to have taken part in the Google Summer of Code 2008. We received more high quality applications this year than ever before. In the end it was a very tough decision to narrow it down to the 21 students selected for funding by Google. These student projects included security research, [...]
Continue reading...Running Google Chrome on FreeBSD
4. September 2008
Since Google Chrome just recently launched and it unfortunatly only supports Windows I felt a little bit dissapointed. But hey that doesn’t stop me so easy. So i decided to check out what wine (a windows api emulator for linux and FreeBSD) could do for me. So i downloaded chrome and tried to run ChromeSetup.exe with [...]
Continue reading...Google web browser: Chrome
3. September 2008
On 1 September Google introduced its new web browser, Chrome, with a comic book. Yesterday when Chrome became available I installed it and have been using it happily for a few hours. It’s light weight, fast and stable. As can be expected from Google the browser is simple and has a clean and intuitive user interface. Today, [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD, FreeBSD & the Google SoC
22. April 2008
The subject sounds more exciting than it is ;-) Google has selected 21 FreeBSD related projects for the annual Google Summer of Code (Soc). It would have been nice if Google had selected 21 PC-BSD projects, but, hey, who knows what the future holds ;-) Kris Moore, the founder of PC-BSD, will be mentoring Eric Durbin [...]
Continue reading...Google Summer of Code update
19. April 2008
The Google Summer of Code organisers have tentatively allocated 20 students this year to work on FreeBSD. The winning students will be announced on Monday April 21, 2008. Check out my blog on Monday for the latest updates!!! Links:FreeBSD GSoC Summer Projects | FreeBSD GSoC Projects & ideas
Continue reading...FreeBSD Projects for Google SoC 2008
18. March 2008
The FreeBSD Project was again accepted as a mentoring organisation into the Google Summer of Code. The Project is now looking for potential students, mentors and projects. If you have an idea for a potential FreeBSD related summer of code project that isn’t already listed here then please contact Murray Stokely (murray at freebsd dot [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD in 2007 – a review
12. January 2008
digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/REVIEWED_FreeBSD_in_2007';2007 is over. It was a very successful year for open source software and another 12 interesting months have passed for FreeBSD. In this post I want to look back at 2007 and see how FreeBSD faired, what happened in “FreeBSD land” and how FreeBSD based operating systems have developed. This post will [...]
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15. December 2008
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