Category Archives: Miscelaneous

FreeDOS 1.1 released – nostalgia

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Gerard

Remember the days of DOS gaming, piles of floppy disks, messing around to get your 14.4k modem working? No, this is not FreeBSD related, but I though you may be interested to hear that the FreeDOS is not dead. 5 … Continue reading →

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Thanks for your emails – freebsdnews.net is to stay

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Gerard

Many thanks to everybody who send in an email expressing their regret on my decision to discontinue freebsdnews.net. Many made it clear this website was one of their main sources for FreeBSD related news and how much it would be … Continue reading →

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Decisions are not irreversible

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Gerard

When a decision has been taken, it doesn’t mean you can’t change your mind…… Stay tuned. I’ll keep you posted.

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Available: FreeBSD News website (freebsdnews.net)

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Gerard

As some of my regular readers will have noticed, over the past few months I have not updated this website as often as previously. It’s not that I’m not committed any more, or that I’ve lost interest, but other things … Continue reading →

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Miscelaneous news updates (arab-bsd, pf, cyphertite, PC-BSD)

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Gerard

Below a number of links to interesting FreeBSD (related) projects and resources. ArabBSD ArabBSD is a new FreeBSD related project, working to create an Arabian FreeBSD operating system: ArabBSD is a project which aims to provide infrastructure for the most … Continue reading →

Posted in (Free)BSD links wrap-up, iXsystems, PC-BSD, UNIX | 3 Comments

Simple description of popular open source licences

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Gerard

Paul Bagwell has a simple but very clear graph on his site showing the main differences between the most popular open source licences. I don’t think it can’t be done any simpler. Thanks, Paul.

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FreeNAS 8.0-RELEASE now available (detailed)

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Gerard

Following one beta and five release candidates (RC’s), FreeNAS 8.0-RELEASE has been made availabe earlier this week by iXsystems, the corporate sponser behind the FreeNAS Project. The last stable release was FreeNAS 0.7.2 (Sabanda), released mid-October 2010. FreeNAS is a … Continue reading →

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(Free)BSD quick news ‘n links (week 17)

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Gerard

Below some links to some FreeBSD resourses that you guys may be interested in, and other BSD related items I’ve come across. FreeBSD Chromium 10, Google’s blazingly fast internet browser, is now available in the FreeBSD Ports directory (www/chromium). New FreeBSD Installer test … Continue reading →