The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.8 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD today. Bordeaux 2.0.8 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs. With this release firefox and winetricks have been updated Bordeaux 2.0.8 was built on FreeBSD 8, PC-BSD 8 and PC-BSD 7.1 A .sh installer is provided for FreeBSD and a .pbi installer [...]
Continue reading...9. August 2010
Here is some info and details of upcoming FreeBSD related conferences and events. KyivBSD 2010 Conference On 25 Septempter the annual KyivBSD Conference will be held in Kiev, Ukraine. It’s mainly aimed at FreeBSD and PC-BSD users and developers. More info: http://ru.kyivbsd.org.ua (RU) (EN translation) (via) BSD-Day 2010 BSD-Day@2010 will be held at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary on 20 November 2010. The [...]
Continue reading...5. August 2010
PC-BSD Blog Dru Lavigne has joined the PC-BSD team this month. The first thing she did, was setting up another blog: the PC-BSD Blog. She already posts BSD related posts on it.toolbox.com: A year in the life of a BSD guru. A new *BSD Planet Website Edward launched AboutBSD recently as a new *BSD blogs agregating website. It [...]
Continue reading...8. June 2010
This shows how secure and rock-solid FreeBSD is. Makura no Soshi was running FreeBSD 4.11 as fil ter ing net work bridge, and thinking of upgrading, he’s compared the pros and cons of m0n0wall, pfSense and NanoBSD. In the end he decided to go with NanoBSD. Thus I chose NanoBSD. YMMV, and I would not recommend [...]
Continue reading...10. May 2010
An account from a happy user of pfSense: “I had been reviewing pfsense firewall recently. After using an outdated Watchguard firebox for long, we wanted to replace it with something reliable and easy to manage remotely. Previously our NOC team was looking at Endian for a lot of customers but it ended up as a wrong [...]
Continue reading...12. March 2010
Dru Lavigne has uploaded the audio file of her presentation at SCALE 2010 talk on BSD for Linux Users is now available in mp3 format. Slides are available as PDF She also mentioned an mp3 of a NYCBUG session on PFSense II, Rocking The Datacenter. pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a [...]
Continue reading...5. January 2010
Chris Buechler has announced the availability of the first beta release of pfSense 2.0, a FreeBSD-based firewall system. Our Christmas gift to the community is the 2.0 release reaching the beta milestone. The release is feature complete, with no new features being added, and should stay relatively stable throughout the remainder of the development process. That’s not to [...]
Continue reading...2. January 2010
Kris Moore announced on New Year’s day the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-BETA (Hubble Edition). Version 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are: FreeBSD 8.0-Release KDE 4.3.4 Brand new System Installer, allows the install of PC-BSD or FreeBSD Run in Live mode directly [...]
Continue reading...16. December 2009
Chris Buechler has announced pfSense 1.2.3 1.2.3 release is now available! This is a maintenance release in the 1.2.x series, bringing an updated FreeBSD base, some minor enhancements, some bug fixes, and a couple security updates. We’ve been waiting a few weeks in anticipation of a FreeBSD security advisory for the SSL/TLS renegotiation vulnerability, which came [...]
Continue reading...9. December 2009
Vincent Danen lists the benefits of using the do-it-yourself pfSense firewall system over some of the readily available firewall appliances from Linksys and D-Link. For features, security, reliability, and availability, pfSense beats the competition. Download (login: 9naomi9@mailinator.com, pwd: bugmenot)
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24. August 2010
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