FreeBSD News

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (January – March 2012)

Gerard — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:26:59 +0000

The FreeBSD project has released its quarterly project update. The latest report covers FreeBSD related projects between January and March 2012, and is the first of the four reports planned for 2012. This quarter was highlighted by releasing the next major version … Continue reading →

PC-BSD 9-STABLE-20120505 Snapshot Available for Testing

Paul — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:11:10 +0000

Kris has announced the availability of the next testing snapshot. If you are using Intel video or would like to upgrade from a previous snapshot, read the Errata section below. The next snapshot in the PC-BSD 9-STABLE branch has just … Continue reading →

FreeNAS 8.0.4-RELEASE-p2 Vulnerability Update

Paul — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:51:26 +0000

The FreeNAS full release notes for 8.0.4-RELEASE-p2: Changes since 8.0.4-RELEASE-p1: Bugfixes OS/Third party Samba has been upgraded to 3.6.5 to address CVE-2012-2011 which is a critical vulnerability. All FreeNAS users who are using CIFS are urged to upgrade. All installation … Continue reading →

Protect Your BSD – BSD Magazine (May 2012)

Paul — Sat, 05 May 2012 07:45:46 +0000

April’s issue of the BSD Magazine is now available: BSD Security – Protect Your BSD (free PDF download). Covering the following topics: - A Fresh Look at the Warden for PC-BSD 9.1 - Intro to DTrace - A Web Application … Continue reading →

Setting up your first VPS FAMP Stack

Gerard — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:12:55 +0000

Diego from RootBSD has put together a handy blog post (Setting Up Your First VPS FAMP Stack) showing how to set up a FAMP stock (FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, PHP) on a (RootBSD) VPS. Just 5 easy steps and a bit of … Continue reading →

GSoC 2012 FreeBSD projects announced

Gerard — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:24:35 +0000

It’s that time of the year again. Holiday season is approaching in a few months time, so it’s time to get ready for the annual Google Summer of Code, GSoC 2012. Each year Google pays quite a number of mainly students … Continue reading →

Miscelaneous News Links: auditdistd, Xorg, Linuxulator, OpenSSH

Gerard — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:46:06 +0000

auditdistd The auditdistd project is complete. Pawel Jakub Dawidek provides the following report regarding the project: auditdist project completed. Xorg 7.5.2 The Xorg Team has announced the next round of Xorg updates. Phoronix’ analysis here. Linuxulator and Linux Base ‘This weekend … Continue reading →

PC-BSD 9-STABLE-20120418 snapshot available

Gerard — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:07:15 +0000

The PC-BSD team has made the first public 9-STABLE snapshot available for 64bit systems! Read the announcement. This snapshot provides both users and developers a means to test out new features in the upcoming PC-BSD 9.1 release. This snapshot may … Continue reading →

FreeNAS 8.2.0-BETA3 available for testing

Gerard — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:58:43 +0000

Josh Paetzel, who leads the FreeNAS team at iXsystems, announced that he’s uploaded FreeNAS 8.2.0-BETA3. If you download from BETA2 work there shouldn’t be any problems, however, plugins that worked in BETA2 will stop working. You’ll want to use the plugins in the BETA3 directory with … Continue reading →

FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE Announcement

Gerard — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:22:40 +0000

The FreeBSD Release Engineering team has announced the availability of FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.2 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: usb(4) now supports … Continue reading →