PC-BSD 8.0 is still in beta stage. If you don’t have a chance to test drive it, have a look at the new installer on this video that Karl Fischer (floss.pro) put together.
PC-BSD 8 is the new release of PC-BSD. – FreeBSD 8.0-Release – KDE 4.3.4 – Brand new System Installer, allows the install of PC-BSD or FreeBSD
Is the UNIX/BSD job market improving?
Lately there seems to be an increase of jobs on the FreeBSD Jobs Mailinglist. (via)
PsyberMonkey has written a post on how to restore/backup FreeBSD using FreeBSD installation & fixit CD.
Jess had a chance recently to ask iXsystems IT director Josh Paetzel a few questions about the up-coming PC-BSD release and iXsystems’ involvement with BSD.
Question and Answer with Josh Paetzel
The FreeBSD’s quarterly status report for 2009 Q4 is now available:
This report covers FreeBSD related projects between October and December 2009. This is the last of the four reports covering 2009, which has shown to be a very important year for the FreeBSD Project. Besides other notable things, a new major version of FreeBSD, 8.0-RELEASE, has been released, while the release process for 7.3-RELEASE is soon to begin.
Table of Contents
Security Advisories
The FreeBSD Security issued 3 security advisories
FreeBSD Errata Notice
Since FreeBSD 8.0 was released, several stability and performance problems have been identified. This Errata Notice describes several fixes judged to be of particular importance, but low risk, to users with specific workloads or using specific features that trigger these problems.
Areas where problems are addressed include NFS, ZFS, Multicast networking, SCTP as well as the rename(2) syscall.
Adopt a FreeBSD Port
There are currently 4726 ports without maintainer, which means that no one is actively maintaining them. Out of these ports, 243 (roughly 5.00%) are out of date. Can you help?
Android SDK
Android SDK on FreeBSD is now available for FreeBSD 8
ZFS Patches on FreeBSD 7
Alexander has made a lot of ZFS patches for FreeBSD 7
FreeBSD Snapshots
The first batch of FreeBSD snapshot releases for 2010 are now available: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201001
PBI Builder 2.5
A newer version of the PC-BSD PBI Builder (package builder) has been released
This is so particular: on the day that I moved Frenzy to the inactive/no-longer-maintained section a new release was announced.
After being formally discontinued by its creator, Sergei Mozhaisky, a number of developers headed by Egor Vershinin has taken over the work.
Frenzy is a FreeBSD-based live CD featuring a variety of security, system testing, networking and penetration tools, has now been resurrected (the last version was release 12/2008).
“Frenzy 1.2 ‘reincarnation’ (community release) is out. It is based on FreeBSD 8.0 and available in 2 editions – lite and standard. This is a first version of Frenzy that isn’t made by me – the author of this build is Egor Vershinin.”
The developers have set up a new web site at frenzy.bspu.ru, with some documentation and a changelog, but it’s currently in Russian only. The project’s original web site at frenzy.org.ua also has some information about the new release. The “lite” edition of Frenzy only includes command line tools, but the “standard” edition comes with X.Org and Fluxbox.
Download the English variant from here: frenzy-1.2-reincarnation-en-release.iso
Many thanks to Dalibor - Edmondas, Lars (LME) and AxelBSD for emailing me regarding the new update.
It was some time overdue, but I have updated the FreeBSD based projects and systems Page.
I have added a section “Discontinued and unmaintained systems”, and moved DesktopBSD, AskoziaPBX and Frenzy to this section.
I have added Tomahawk Desktop under “desktop systems” and GhostBSD to the “live CD” section.
If you’re aware of any missing projects (even non-English ones), drop me a line and I’ll add them.
FreeBSD based Projects and Systems
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