Category Archives: Miscelaneous

iXsystems partners with NetCraft (Versiera)

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Gerard

iXsystems, Inc. announced on 23/04/2008 a partnership with NetCraft Communications. The agreement will make NetCraft’s Versiera Remote System Management and Monitoring Software available on PC-BSD. PC-BSD is a fully functional open source desktop operating system based on FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE. Versiera … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD, FreeBSD & the Google SoC

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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Google Summer of Code update

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Projects for Google SoC 2008

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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227 subscribers and going strong

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Gerard

Another milestone! As of today there are 227 RSS subscribers to my blog. Thank you, guys (and girls), for all your interest and the feedback I’ve been getting so far. If there’s anything that you want me to change or … Continue reading →

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Quiet week for FreeBSD

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Gerard

This week has been fairly quiet for FreeBSD. There’s nothing much to report. Suppose everybody is waiting for FreeBSD 7.0 to be released. I’ll post the usual Friday – quick news post tomorrow. This week I’ve been playing round with … Continue reading →

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Thank you and feedback request

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Gerard

Thank you to those guys who have been promoting my blog recently: Dru Lavigne, Oliver Herold, Justin Sherrill and Steven Rosenburg. It was especially kind of Justin Sherrill from the DragonFlyBSD team to refer to my site since I don’t … Continue reading →

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New category and FBSD Projects page updated

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Gerard

I’ve just updated the FBSD Projects page (added DSBSD and TrueBSD) and also added a X vx Y category where you will find topics such as Linux vs BSD or OS X vs OS Y, such as: Smoothwall vs M0n0wall: … Continue reading →

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