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Continue reading...BSD releases: FreeBSD 7.3-RC1, PC-BSD 8.0-RC2 and FreeNAS 0.7.1
19. February 2010
Over the last week we have seen new versions of FreeBSD, PC-BSD and FreeNAS: FreeBSD 7.3-RC1 (link) 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 [...]
Continue reading...Don’t miss any posts or news in 2010
30. December 2009
Did you know you can stay up to date with the news on this site without having to daily check if I’ve added any stories? No? Subscribe and use RSS and/or Twitter. There are many RSS desktop readers available for Win, Mac, Linux and FreeBSD. There are also many browser based readers, such as Google Reader etc. Never [...]
Continue reading...Using the Condensed DejaVu Font-Family Variant by Default
11. November 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Install Asterisk with GUI in FreeBSD in 5 easy Steps
21. July 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Monitis adds support for FreeBSD
17. June 2009
Monitis Inc., a leading provider of affordable easy-to-use enterprise-class systems management software as a service, today announces release of monitoring agent for FreeBSD.Monitis monitoring agent is downloadable software, which runs on clients’ machines and collect performance and configuration metrics both for the machine on which they were installed as well as for the whole network. [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD News on Floss.pro
16. June 2009
My friend Karl has added the FreeBSD News feed to his site Floss.pro. Floss.pro is a blogging platform, based on the open-source engine Laconica. There are many micro blogging sites available such as Twitter, Jaiku etc, but Floss.pro is different in that’s set up to promote and blog about open-source software. If you’re on Twitter you can find me and [...]
Continue reading...ZFS on FreeBSD (videos)
6. May 2009
ZFS is a relatively new and exciting file storage system developed by Sun. The features of ZFS include support for high storage capacities, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, RAID-Z and native NFSv4 ACLs. – Wikipedia This page has some specific FreeBSD info relating [...]
Continue reading...Sun VirtualBox on FreeBSD
2. May 2009
About a year ago, shortly after if was taken over by Sun, Innotek announced it was looking for FreeBSD developers. Their labours seem to have borne fruit, as a FreeBSD version of Virtualbox has been announced. VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality [...]
Continue reading...Videos from DCBSDCon 2009 posted (youtube)
21. April 2009
Murray Stokely has uploaded 8 videos from the first DCBSDCon to the BSDConferencesYouTube channel. With help from Jason Dixon and Will Backman and open source software such as avidemux, mplayer/mencoder and audacity. Ken Caruso, Using BSD in SchmooCon Labs Robert Luciani, M:N Threading in DragonFly BSD Kurt Miller, Implementing pie on OpenBSD Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability, Brooks Davis Epitome, Marco Peereboom Process Isolation for NetBSD and OpenBSD, Kristaps [...]
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4. March 2010
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