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m0n0wall 1.31 Released

Gerard — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:02:13 +0000

Manual Kasper has announced the release of m0n0wall 1.31. This is a quick summary of the changes since 1.3: various IPv6 improvements (in DNS forwarder, DHCPv6, AYIYA, etc.) bridge “disable spoof check” option (for non-m0n0wall DHCP and multicast) fans/temperature monitoring on status page for supported platforms (unfortunately Soekris/PC Engines not included fix for OpenSSL session renegotiation vulnerability (-> HTTPS webGUI) patch to [...]

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Versiera surpasses the Big 4 Infrastructure Management vendors

Gerard — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:28:34 +0000

NetCraft Communications will release an updated version of its Versiera Infrastructure Management System next week along with new groundbreaking technology in rendering and visualizing large-scale enterprise network infrastructures. Versiera is a remote monitoring and management system supporting a wide range of open source and commercial platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OS X, Solaris and Windows. With [...]

Audio presentations: 1 pfSense and 2 BSD for Linux Users

Gerard — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:55:17 +0000

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 [...]

X.org 7.5 for FreeBSD

Gerard — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:36:10 +0000

No, it’s not released, but Martin Wilke is looking for a few brave people to test x.org 7.5 for FreeBSD: Please take a look on our Wikipage. There you can find the svn repo to checkout X.org ports. http://wiki.freebsd.org/ModularXorg/7.5 A small merge script to merge the svn checkout into the real portstree could be found here: http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/xorg/xorgmerge The script is a modified [...]

(Free)BSD quick news and links

Gerard — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:51:05 +0000

FreeBSD Returning committer: Niels Heinen (ports) (07/03/2010) New committer: Neel Natu (src) (03/03/2010) PC-BSD 1. Quick Poll – which pages would you like to see printed from Dru’s latest book in the upcoming BSD Magazine issue? 2. How does PC-BSD 8.0 compare with Kubuntu 9.10? This is probably comparing apples with pears, but for those liking comparison reviews, check PC-BSD [...]

AsiaBSDCon 2010

Gerard — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:27:16 +0000

AsiaBSDCon 2010 will be held from 11-14 March in Tokyo AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held in Tokyo, in 11-14 March, 2010. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is [...]

FreeBSD, Building a Computing Cluster (meetbsd 2007)

Gerard — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:08:51 +0000

“Reflections on Building a High-Performance Computing Cluster using FreeBSD” By Brooks Davis at MeetBSD 2007 in Warsaw, Poland. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [...]

GhostBSD 1.0 news

Gerard — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:52:44 +0000

Eric Turgeon has announced that GhostBSD 1.0 will be released next week, and will have FreeBSD 8.0 as its base. The release will feature the new green theme. Green is not really my colour, and the same applies to Ubuntu’s brown colour scheme (though it’s going to be light in 10.04), but colour schemes and themes [...]

Taking a look at PC-BSD 8.0 (Distrowatch)

Gerard — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:45:19 +0000

After having tried and reviewed FreeBSD 8, Jesse Smith has now taken PC-BSD 8 for a spin, and he’s overall very pleased with the speed, ease-of-use and the hardware support for his desktop PC. He is also very impressed with the PC-BSD Installer and its Package Manager. He concludes his review with: While on the topic of [...]

FreeBSD Twitter feed list

Gerard — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:52:39 +0000

For those interested in following news on Twitter: I (http://twitter.com/gvanessen) have created a custom FreeBSD news list: http://twitter.com/gvanessen/freebsd This list if made up of the following feeds: http://twitter.com/freebsdsecurity http://twitter.com/freebsd http://twitter.com/realfreebsdtips http://twitter.com/PCBSD http://twitter.com/BSDmag http://twitter.com/freebsdannounce http://twitter.com/bsdevents http://twitter.com/freebsdblogs http://twitter.com/freenas http://twitter.com/freebsdfndation If you’re aware of any other interesting, mainly FreeBSD related twitter feeds, let me know and I’ll add them as well. - - - - - - - - - - - [...]