Category Archives: Miscelaneous

iXsystems offers professional FreeBSD and PC-BSD support

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Gerard

iXsystems announced  on 08/07/08 the launch of its Professional Services Division for FreeBSD and PC-BSD. The new Professional Services Division will provide Professional Enterprise Grade support, consulting, and development for FreeBSD and PC-BSD. Service offerings include desktop support such as … Continue reading →

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You can help me – 2

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Gerard

ContentApart from helping me financially by donating you can also help me make this website the best FreeBSD website (well, after FreeBSD.org, naturally) by letting me know about news products, services or releases, or you can even provide content. If … Continue reading →

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You can help me – 1

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Gerard

Ads and donations You will probably have noticed that I’ve put Google ads on the website in an attempt to recoup some of the costs associated with running this website.  As I don’t have the time to configure / administer … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD based systems – what would you call them?

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Gerard

The number of FreeBSD related operating systems is fortunately not as as high as the number of Linux distributions. Most of you, if not all, will agree there are no FreeBSD distributions/distro’s due to the fact that FreeBSD is developed … Continue reading →

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Redirection problem

Posted on June 19, 2008 by Gerard

The automatic redirection of all posts on freebsdos.com/news to the new domain freebsdnews.net is not working perfectly yet. I’ve installed the “redirection” WordPress plugin and added some rules, but it’s not working as it should. Anybody worked before with WordPress … Continue reading →

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Move to new domain: www.freebsdnews.net

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Gerard

Since BSDnews.com was hacked a lot of traffic has come to my site. Looking at the logs many people  googling for “FreeBSD news” or “BSD news” ended up on my site. After all these months BSDnews.com is still not back … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD workstations

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Gerard

It’s now possible to order workstations with PC-BSD pre-installed from iXsystems, the parent company of PC-BSD. Checkout this page for the specifications, customisations and orders. PC-BSD Laptops aren’t available yet until some drivers have been ported.

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Blog layout update

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Gerard

Over the last few days I’ve made a few layout changes to the blog. I’ve added darkgrey sides, made the subject lines stand out more (bold and a line underneath), added a lightgrey background colour to the side panel and … Continue reading →

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