The GhostBSD Team has released a pre-beta version of GhostBSD 3.0 (download link). This version comes with a revamped Installer. GhostBSD 3.0 will also contain the LXDE, Openbox and GNOME 2 window managers.
Ragable shows step by step how to setup and enable plugins on FreeNAS 8.2 beta 4
After four beta releases and one release candidate (RC), iXsystems has announced the release of FreeNAS 8.2.0, a FreeBSD-based operating systems for Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems.
This new release is the first 8.x branch release support plugins or extensions. These were available in the 0.7.x brach, prior to the project was taken over by iXsystems, but were temporarily left out of FreeNAS 8.0 so the developers could focus on making the new base (based on FreeBSD 8) sound and solid before adding advanced features.
Plugins and other extensions are now available as optional PBI (Push Button Installer) packages that run in a FreeBSD jail. This means that plugins are running separate from the FreeNAS and sandboxed for security, but can be controlled via the FreeNAS web-based user interface. If you have used PC-BSD, you will realise the potential and the usability of these PBIs. Plugins are currently available for Roku and iTunes (Firefly) streaming, and DLNA (MiniDLNA), as well as BitTorrent (Transmission).
The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.2.0-RELEASE.
FreeNAS 8.2.0-RELEASE is the first release on new branch of code that incorporates tighter integration between the ZFS command line and the FreeNAS GUI. This release also features the ability to run arbitrary services and interact with them through the FreeNAS GUI in a FreeBSD jail. This jail allows a wide range of third party software to be run on top of FreeNAS, using the PBI format from PC-BSD or FreeBSD packages or ports, as well as official FreeNAS plugins.
Apart from PBI plugin support there are many other new features:
Read the press release, the release notes, announcement or download FreeNAS 8.2.0
The FreeBSD Core Team acts as the project’s “board of directors” and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing members for sub-teams (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, etc …). The Core Team has been elected by FreeBSD developers every two years since 2000.
The FreeBSD Project is run by FreeBSD committers, or developers who have SVN/CVS commit access.
The bi-annual election period is now over and the new members (re-)elected:
Congratulations to all.
You can read more about the FreeBSD Core Team on wikipedia.
If you are aware of any other resources, please leave a comment.
Continuing his BSD summer interviews, Bill Toulas conducted an interview with Kris Moore, the founder and current leader of development of the desktop user-friendly PC-BSD project.
The questions asked and answered are:
BSD For Human Beings? | Interview
The first BETA build for the FreeBSD-9.1 release cycle is now available.
Here’s a look at some of the planned features that are being worked on for the FreeBSD 10 release:
U-Boot for Raspberry Pi is now working. This is a “fairly stable, flexible u-boot distribution suitable to be used as an environment for OS bring-up”.
So, current state of affairs is:
Next stage is to get FreeBSD working on Raspberry Pi.
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