FreeBSD News

PC-BSD Hardware Store Opened

Gerard — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:26:16 +0000

Josh Smith has announced the initial launch of the PC-BSD hardware store. This resource is meant to make it easier to find hardware that has been tested to work on PC-BSD. FreeBSD and PC-BSD are known to be quite particular with regards to hardware … Continue reading →

FreeBSD binary packages available again

Gerard — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:46:23 +0000

The FreeBSD Project has announced that all binary package building services are restored and live again. This service was put on hold following a security incident in November 2012. Consequently, the security throughout the FreeBSD Project’s infrastructure has been reviewed and the package-building … Continue reading →

JabirBSD, a new FreeBSD based project

Gerard — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:35:38 +0000

Muhammadreza Haghiri emailed me about the release of the JabirBSD 1.0. JabirBSD is a rebranded FreeBSD version for Iranian and Farsi speaking users “with rsync, sudo, nano and a lot of command-line based software”. This first release is a re-branded … Continue reading →

Migrate From MySQL to MariaDB In FreeBSD

Gerard — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:52:52 +0000

unixmen has put together a howto showing how to migrate your databases from MySQL to MariaDB. As most of you will be aware, since Oracle took over MySQL and took control of the project, a lot changed. Oracle doesn’t like … Continue reading →

BSD Magazine (May 2013): Jails Firewall with PF

Gerard — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:07:13 +0000

April’s issue of the BSD Magazine is now available: Jails Firewall with PF (free PDF download). You’ll find the following subjects inside: SpiderFoot 2.0: The Open Source Footprinting Tool FreeBSD Jails Firewall with PF Improvements to Jail Management via the Warden msearch: MidnightBSD … Continue reading →

BSDCan 2013 – Live Streaming and Groups Photo

Gerard — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:09:27 +0000

As you will be aware, the BSDCan 2013 Dev Summit has happened and the Conference taking place this weekend. BSDCan is an annual conference for users and developers of the 4.4 BSD family of operating system, hosted each spring at … Continue reading →

FreeBSD 8.4-RC3 available for testing

Gerard — Fri, 17 May 2013 23:07:27 +0000

Glen Barber announced last week the availability of RC3 for FreeBSD 8.4, the upcoming new stable version of the Project’s legacy branch. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. The FreeBSD 8.4 Release Schedule … Continue reading →

BSDTalk interview with Kris Moore (PC-BSD)

Gerard — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:37:10 +0000

BSDTalk has a 12 minutes interview with Kris Moore (BSDTalk225) about PC-BSD, recorded at BSDCan 2013. Listen to the podcast as MP3 or OGG. Previous interviews with Kris Moore can be found here: bsdtalk216 – PC-BSD with Kris Moore bsdtalk201 – PC-BSD 9 Alpha with Kris Moore bsdtalk174 – … Continue reading →

PC-BSD, a friendly first-time contributor project

Gerard — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:25:35 +0000

IT World has identified 7 open source projects that are friendly to the first-time contributor to get their teeth in. Apart from LibreOffice, PostgreSQL and Ubuntu, IT World also shortlists PC-BSD: “If Ubuntu sounds interesting, but you want something a little … Continue reading →

freebsdnews.net: 6 years today

Gerard — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:22:27 +0000

freebsdnews.net started exactly 6 years ago on 17 May 2007 with the post What is cooking for FreeBSD (7)? I had never thought the site would make it 6 years, but thanks to feedback, suggestions and contributions from quite a … Continue reading →