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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 [...]

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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. - - - - - - - - - - - [...]

Best of FreeBSD Basics on Kindle

Gerard — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:24:44 +0000

Dru Lavigne’s Best of FreeBSD Basics book is now available for the Amazon Kindle ebook reader. (via) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Need [...]

FreeBSD webcam support: video4bsd

Gerard — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:17:55 +0000

Hans Petter has been working hard recently on webcamd, making Linux webcam drivers work on FreeBSD. Webcamd is a port of Video4Linux USB webcam drivers into userspace. It is a 500KiloByte daemon that enables use of hundreds of different USB based webcam devices under the FreeBSD-8/9 operating system. The webcam daemon is basically an [...]

BSDTalk interview with Jeff Roberson (FreeBSD Dev)

Gerard — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:08:58 +0000

BSDTalk has a 30 minute interview with Jeff Roberson. Will Backman talks withFreeBSD committer Jeff about his recent work on softupdates journaling (SUJ) and also the ULE scheduler. BSDTalk 186 – Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [...]

BSDTalk interview with James Nixon (iXsystems)

Gerard — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:05:53 +0000

BSDTalk has a 16 minute interview with James Nixon, webmaster and committer for PC-BSD and employed by iXsystems. They talk about some of the new features coming up in PC-BSD 8.0, gaming on BSD, his work on the unique look and feel of PC-BSD, and Camp KDE. BSDTalk 185 – Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG - - [...]