FreeBSD News

Remember that we linked to a post called “Why BSDs got no love” by Jack Wallen on TechRepublic? That article has provoked a lot of comments and feedback.

If you’re interested in reading them, check the comments on Jack’s blog and the discussion on the FreeBSD Advocacy mailinglist.

Chad Perrin has now published an article called “Why security gets no love“. GUI’s decrease security…

I wish you all, regular readers and visitors of this website, a happy and prosperous 2010.

Hopefully, we will be seeing a stronger and bigger open source software c0mmunity in general this year and an increase in the use and adoption of FreeBSD. I’m looking forward to PC-BSD 8.0 with KDE 4.4 as well (going beta very soon).

Let’s see how FreeBSD 9 is shaping up at the end of the year. Ivan Voras has started a new page with all the new stuff finding its way into FreeBSD 9 (just like he did with FreeBSD 7 and 8): What’s cooking for FreeBSD 9.

Zhang Huangbin and shake.chen contacted me to say that iRedMail is now also available for FreeBSD (working on Linux already)

iredmail is a

• mail server solution supporting FreeBSD 7.x/8.x, support both i386 and x86_64.
• a shell script set, used to install and configure all mail server related software automatically.
• open source project (GPL v2).

The project’s page can be found on Google Code

Has anybody experience with iredmail, and how does it compare to other mail server solutions?

Justin Sherill mentions on the DragonFlyBSD Digest that was contacted by a recruiter to see if he knew anybody who might be interested in a BSD hacker job:

My client right now is an established proprietary trading firm. That means that they use only their own capital, and don’t have any investors. They were founded in 2002 and currently have about 50 people. They focus on trading multiple asset classes with extremely high-frequency both in the US and abroad. The unique twist on this firm is that they don’t hire people with finance backgrounds. They are looking for the best talent they can find in both math and technology, and then let them come up with unique solutions of their own.

We’re currently looking for some top-notch systems programmers. People who are really great C++ hacks, and have experience using one of the versions of BSD are ideal for us. In addition, we like people who have experience programming in Perl, and working on network protocols or file systems. This place has a very flat organization, and is pretty casual in dress…jeans are the norm. It’s basically a dot.com that got transported from Silicon Valley to NYC.

Head over to the Digest for more info, required experience and Justin’s email address to get you in touch with the recruiter.

People who collect ISO images from more than just the FreeBSD Project have been mentioning it would be nice if “FreeBSD” was part of the filenames for a while now.

Ken Smith has committed a change that will add “FreeBSD-” to the beginning of the filenames.

So for example 9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso becomes FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso

Source: FreeBSD Current Mailinglist