FreeBSD is a free, open-source and UNIX-like operating system. Though relatively unknown, it’s a performing and powerful work-horse, capable of coping with massive work-loads whilest remaining fast, ultra-stable and rock-solid. Blogging about FreeBSD and operating systems based on this versatile, safe and secure OS, I want to generate more interest in FreeBSD and its dependants. If you need a reliable, rock-solid and performing system for either your desktop or servers, consider FreeBSD!
If there were no (regular) readers interested in this website, there would be no point for me maintaining it. Without readers and a community one may as well stop spending time and resources on maintaining a digital presence.
As you can see on the right hand side, there are now over 1800 RSS subscribers. This, for the first time ever. Can you help us to get to 2000? Tell your friends about this site, mention it on Facebook or other social networks, tweet about it or submit to Stumble Upon)
Apart from readers there are also many website owners and maintainers that have linked to this site over the last 2 years. As a result, freebsdnews.net is now listed on page 1 (place 10) on Google.com when you search for FreeBSD.
Thank you for all your regular feedback, the links to news articles / blog posts that you submitted, and your request to mention your BSD related products.
Ken Smith has announced the release candidate of FreeBSD 7.3, a new version of the project’s legacy branch:
“The second of the test builds for the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, 7.3-RC1, is now available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. The schedule has slipped by about a week but so far it looks like we are on track for just having one more public test build (7.3-RC2) followed by the release itself. If you notice problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or on the freebsd-stable mailing list. There have been some significant changes to the ports that are not incorporated in this set of pre-built packages (e.g. the default version of Perl has been updated to 5.10). If you are using csup/cvsup methods to update an older system the branch tag to use is now RELENG_7_3. The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases.”
The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-RC2 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2, and KDE 4.3.5
PC-BSD 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements over the 7.x series. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are:
FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2
KDE 4.3.5
Brand new System Installer, allows the install of PC-BSD or FreeBSD
Run in Live mode directly from DVD
Updated Software Manager, allows browsing and installing applications directly
Support for 3D acceleration with NVIDIA drivers on amd64
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Keramidas talks about font substitution in Firefox and other GTK+ base programs.
The DejaVu font family is a very popular font collection for Linux and BSD systems. The font package of DejaVu includes a condensed variant; a variation of the same basic font theme that sports narrower characters.
The difference between the two font variants is very easy to spot when they are displayed side by side. The following image shows a small part of a Firefox window, displaying news articles as part of a Google Reader session:
FreeBSD developer Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) has sued Lenovo in Denmark (Google translation, original here) over their refusal to refund the Windows Vista Business license, even though he declined the EULA during installation. Lenovo argues that they sell the computer as a full product, and that they cannot refund it partially, such as the power supply or the OS even if people intend to use a different one. This seems to be contrary to previous rulings in the EU where Acer and HP has been forced to refund the ‘Microsoft tax.’
“It is clear from Lenovo’s website to your computer comes with Windows Vista Business installed and any reasonable customer should expect that the general license terms for Windows Vista applies, including the previous paragraph.
“Nowhere on the Lenovo website, I have been able to find any indication that Microsoft’s standard license was not valid for the copy of Windows Vista Business that came with your computer.
“Lenovo has certainly lots of Microsoft-paid “advertising” on their website where they write that “Lenovo recommends Windows Vista”, but a recommendation is not a requirement.
“My first contention is that Lenovo should live up to the wording of the agreement text explicitly makes them the one party that they themselves cause presented at the computer screen when you turn the first time and explicitly described the screen as only being an requirements for using Windows Vista Business and not the computer as a whole.”
Some people have been asking why this website is mainly blue, whilst the ‘main colour’ for FreeBSD is red? Well, blue is my favourite colour and it looks not too formal but yet quite professional.
Red is the colour of FreeBSD (often with black) but I find that too much red give an aggressive impression.
As many of you visit this website regularly, I thought it might be an idea to find out what most people like best, and if preferred, I may change the theme/colour-scheme.
Please let me know what you think below with the poll and/or comments.
The KDE Community released today KDE 4.3 ( “Caizen”), bringing many improvements to the user experience and development platform. KDE 4.3 continues to refine the unique features brought in previous releases while bringing new innovations. With the 4.2 release aimed at the majority of end users, KDE 4.3 offers a more stable and complete product for the home and small office.
Read on for an overview of the changes in the KDE 4.3 Desktop Workspace, Application Suites and the KDE 4.3 Development Platform.
Desktop Improves Performance And Usability
The KDE Desktop Workspace provides a powerful and complete desktop experience that features excellent integration with Linux and UNIX operating systems. The key components that make up the KDE Desktop Workspace include:
KWin, a powerful window manager that provides modern 3D graphical effects
The Plasma Desktop Shell, a cutting-edge desktop and panels system that features productivity enhancements and online integration through customizable widgets
Dolphin, a user-friendly, network- and content-aware file manager
KRunner, a search and launch system for running commands and finding useful information
easy access to desktop and system controls through SystemSettings.
It is beyond the scope of this guide to teach you how to install the FreeBSD OS.
To make this tutorial even simpler, I remove the Digium PCI Card with 4 FX0.
Requirements:
Running FreeBSD OS (I’m currently using FreeBSD 7.2)
Root Access to install from ports
Basic Unix Commands
Win32 X-lite SIP Phone
Typography:
letters/words in red must be change
1. Install from ports
2. edit rc.conf to start asterisk on boot
3. Modify the Asterisk config files.
4. start asterisk service
5. browse
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