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GhostBSD – Gnome based FreeBSD liveCD

Gerard — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:10:34 +0000

PC-BSD is currently the best well-knows FreeBSD based OS for desktop use, but it’s KDE based. Though there’s a Gnome PBI available, those interested in Gnome as desktop interface may want to have a look at GhostBSD, the Gnome based FreeBSD system for desktop use. GhostBSD 1.0 has the following new features: Procfs, kernel sound support. [...]

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GhostBSD – Gnome based FreeBSD liveCD

FreeBroid

Gerard — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:56:44 +0000

Edmondas emailed me about a new project: FreeBroid FreeBSD is one of the best operating systems and Android is developing into something awesome, so why not combine the two? is porting Android to FreeBSD. It, now, enables FreeBSD users to develop Android without installation of Linux. The target of the project to run Android on FreeBSD; a.k.a. with [...]

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FreeBroid

A Case Study in Open Source Certification video

Gerard — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:48:09 +0000

Dru Lavigne is on a video entitled “BSD Certification Group: A Case Study in Open Source Certification“.where she discusses the goals of BSD certification, the process of creating a certification exam, and how you can help. Watch the video here This is a post by Gerard van Essen from: FreeBSD - the unknown Giant A Case Study in [...]

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A Case Study in Open Source Certification video

PC-BSD and pfSense books

Gerard — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:41:54 +0000

Authored by pfSense co-founder Chris Buechler and pfSense developer Jim Pingle, The Definitive Guide to pfSense covers installation and basic configuration through advanced networking and firewalling of the popular open source firewall and router distribution. This book is designed to be a friendly step-by-step guide to common networking and security tasks, plus a thorough reference of pfSense’s [...]

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PC-BSD and pfSense books

Using the Condensed DejaVu Font-Family Variant by Default

Gerard — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:21:48 +0000

Keramidas talks about font substitution in Firefox and other GTK+ base programs. The DejaVu font family is a very popular font collection for Linux and BSD systems. The font package of DejaVu includes a condensed variant; a variation of the same basic font theme that sports narrower characters. The difference between the two font variants is very [...]

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Using the Condensed DejaVu Font-Family Variant by Default

FreeBSD FIFO resource leak

Gerard — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:57:42 +0000

Researches Chitti Nimmagadda and Dorr H. Clark of Santa Clara University seem to have discovered and reported a bug in usr/src/sys/fs/fifofs/fifo_vnops.c of FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE release as reported on the FreeBSD bugs mailinglist. We believe we have identified a significant resource leak present in 6.x, 7.x, and 8.x. We believe this is a regression versus FreeBSD [...]

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FreeBSD FIFO resource leak

LIOKS’ FreeBSD tutorials & tips for beginners

Gerard — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:51:45 +0000

Liok has put 3 tutorials together for FreeBSD novices: I often hear from people who don’t use FreeBSD that it’s an operating system only dedicated to server/production purposes. In a way, yes, FreeBSD is not as user-friendly than popular Linux distributions and it’s sometimes hard to get what you want working the way you want but I [...]

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LIOKS’ FreeBSD tutorials & tips for beginners

On taking FreeBSD seriously

Gerard — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:44:59 +0000

Pongoewin found himself frustrated with Windows 7 at work and decided to take FreeBSD for a spin: I found myself frustrated with Windows 7 at work. It’s a fairly decent system, and a craptonne better than Vista in both performance and resource usage on the old desktop I have (a Pentium 4/2.66 with a gig [...]

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On taking FreeBSD seriously

Released: FreeNAS 0.7 (Khasadar)

Gerard — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:46:46 +0000

FreeNAS 0.7 (Khasadar) has been released. Volker announced: Today i’m proud to announce the release of FreeNAS 0.7. I want to say thanks to all contributors for their help. Please see below the changes done in this version. You can download the ISO and image files here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/stable/0.7 Majors changes: ability to configure the login shell for a user. Upgrade Samba to [...]

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Released: FreeNAS 0.7 (Khasadar)

Evoke 0.2 Project Update

Gerard — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:30:59 +0000

Dylan Cochran posted an update as to where he is with the developement of Evoke and what we can expect to come: I’ve been working on portions of what will become 0.2. We’ve replaced init with nexusd (a hybrid of init, watchdogd, and eventually powerd and devd). This means that now evoke has a ’single user [...]

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Evoke 0.2 Project Update