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FreeBSD Mall donates FreeBSD discs to NSRC workshops in Africa
The FreeBSD Mall, a provider of high quality FreeBSD software, documentation, support, and services to the open source community, recently donated FreeBSD CDs and DVDs to the NSRC (Network Startup Resource Center) for UNIX / FreeBSD workshops being held in Malawi and Tanzania. The NSRC is a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading networking knowledge to diverse [...]
Continue reading...Bordeaux 2.0.8 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD released
24. August 2010
The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.8 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD today. Bordeaux 2.0.8 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs. With this release firefox and winetricks have been updated Bordeaux 2.0.8 was built on FreeBSD 8, PC-BSD 8 and PC-BSD 7.1 A .sh installer is provided for FreeBSD and a .pbi installer [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Mall now shipping FreeBSD 8.1
23. August 2010
Four-Disc CD Set, Dual-Sided DVD now available for purchase The FreeBSD Mall is now shipping FreeBSD® Version 8.1, the second release of the FreeBSD 8-STABLE branch in AMD64 and i386 architectures. FreeBSD Version 8.1 is the first update to FreeBSD Version 8.0, which added Virtual Access Points (VAP) support to 802.11 wireless networking, and allowed virtual machine [...]
Continue reading...Chromium 7.0 FreeBSD builds available (1 week only)
23. August 2010
Ruben from the FreeBSD Chromium porting team emailed me to say that for this week only the latest Chromium 7.0 for FreeBSD subscriber builds will be available for free (excluding HTML 5 video). The subscriber builds are largely open source and funded by a hybrid model. If you like what you see, you may consider subscribing to the [...]
Continue reading...Miscelaneous FreeBSD news and links (week 32)
13. August 2010
1. FreeBSD East Coast Mirror Yesterday we posted the FreeBSD Foundation’s turns to NYI press release, Steven Kreuzer who was directly involved in the project has put more details on his website: Pretty much since the time that The NYC BSD Users Group was formed, The NY Internet Company have donated a full cabinet and a 10 Mb internet connection [...]
Continue reading...iXsystems’ FreeNAS 0.8 development snapshot
13. August 2010
Back in December 2009 iXsystems ’resued‘ the FreeNAS project. After a few months of porting over FreeNAS from a m0n0wall base to a nanobsd base, iXsystems released a development snapshot yesterday. Yesterday, iXsystems upload a snapshot of their new FreeNAS release on the SVN. The new FreeNAS is based on nanoBSD, then here are all the steps for generate the disk image of [...]
Continue reading...Bordeaux 2.0.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released
4. August 2010
The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD. Bordeaux 2.0.6 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs and includes many new features. Some of the changes are: Wine 1.2 included, Updated to the latest winetricks release, Updated to the latest DIB Engine patch, Added support for IrfanView 4.27, Install the IrfanView Plug ins during [...]
Continue reading...Bordeaux 50% off sale in celebration of the Wine 1.2 release
21. July 2010
The Bordeaux Technology Group has announced a one month sale on Bordeaux for Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, PC-BSD and OpenSolaris. With the release of Wine 1.2 it marks the first stable Wine release in nearly two years. And with this release they’d like to celebrate and show their appreciation for all the hard work that has gone [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD quick news and links (28/06/2010)
28. June 2010
PC-BSD Installer The new PC-BSD installer (available as GUI and text installer), which is also able to install plain FreeBSD, has now been committed to the FreeBSD source tree. This video goes into the details of the installer. Kris Moore: PC-SYSINSTALL – A new system installer backend for PC-BSD and FreeBSD BSD Certification The BSD Certification Group needs reviewers for the [...]
Continue reading...CrossOver Office and Games for FreeBSD / PC-BSD
23. June 2010
Tom Wickline has written a short introduction on CrossOver Office for FreeBSD / PC-BSD. Codeweavers, the company behind CrossOver, is according to their website, the leading corporate backer of the Wine Project. Wine is an open source software initiative that is systematically re-implementing the Win32 API under Unix. Wine makes it possible for PCs running Unix-based operating [...]
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31. August 2010
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