Category Archives: Miscelaneous

kFreeBSD with ZFS, Bordeaux on PC-BSD, benchmarks and pfSense

Debian’s GNU/kFreeBSD Installer will support ZFS “While Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has supported the ZFS file-system with its FreeBSD-8 kernel, support for installing the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD distribution to a root ZFS file-system will now be possible with the Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” release. … Continue reading

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Bordeaux Sale on (50% discount)

Tom Wickline has announced a 50% off recession busting sale on Bordeaux for FreeBSD and PC-BSD. If sustainable, the sale will last till US unemployment rate falls below 7%. To help the FreeBSD Foundation in it’s end-of-year fund-raise drive, I will … Continue reading

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New theme

Since I’m having a few issues with the current theme and I’m in favour of something lighter, I’m going to update the theme based on your suggestions and feedback next week. Apart from being lighter, the new theme will have … Continue reading

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Of EoL, GSoC, paid development and why I love UNIX

FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Since FreeBSD 6.4 is the last remaining … Continue reading

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FreeBSD news and links (week 40)

I have some  news links an leftovers for you from (the) last (few) week(s): 1. PC-BSD 8.1 [Review] We always wonder why is it that Microsoft makes us pay to use its OS, so why not shift to Linux or … Continue reading

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An update

I know, I’ve not been posting a lot and regularly lately. However, this is not because I’ve lost interest in FreeBSD or in running this website ;-). It’s because I’ve been working on some very interesting things in the background; … Continue reading

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FreeBSD quick news and links (week 35)

Some FreeBSD related links and updates below: New NVidia FreeBSD drivers 256.53 NVidia has updated its graphics drivers for FreeBSD. Some of the changes are: Fixed a bug that prevented XvMC from initializing in most cases. Added support for xorg-server … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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