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Projects funded by the FreeBSD Foundation

Gerard — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:49:28 +0000

The FreeBSD Foundation funds various projects each year and there are several interesting projects in progress: DAHDI (formerly known as Zaptel) FreeBSD driver port–this project will make it possible to use FreeBSD as a base system for software PBX solutions resource containers and a simple per-jail resource limits mechanism userland dtrace BSNMP improvements jail-based virtualization The FreeBSD Foundation is able to fund [...]

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FreeBSD 8.1 provides evolutionary open source software upgrade

Gerard — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:38:08 +0000

FreeBSD 8.1 has been released, and Sean Michael Kerner from serverwatch.com spoke to Josh Paetzel, iXsystems IT director, about this latest release. “Putting out new releases of OS software isn’t always about adding major new features — sometimes it’s just about making existing features usable and stable. In the case of the open source software FreeBSD, [...]

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FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE available

Gerard — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:45:25 +0000

FreeBSD 8.1 has been available for a few days on the download mirrors, but the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has now officially announced FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights are: zfsloader added zpool version of ZFS [...]

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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Apr – Jun 2010)

Gerard — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:52:33 +0000

FreeBSD’s quarterly status report for 2010 Q2 is now available. This report covers FreeBSD related projects between April and June 2010. It’s good to see so much activity, projects and contribution to FreeBSD, most of which is done by dedicated volunteers. From the table of contents: Google Summer of Code Binary Package Patch Infrastructure — pkg_patch Collective Resource Limits (aka. Jobs) ExtFS [...]

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PC-BSD 8.1 released

Gerard — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:07:44 +0000

The PC-BSD Team has announced the availability of PC-BSD 8.1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, and KDE 4.4.5 Version 8.1 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are: FreeBSD 8.1-Release KDE 4.4.5 Numerous fixes to the installation backend Support for creating dedicated disk GPT partitioning Improved [...]

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Bordeaux 50% off sale in celebration of the Wine 1.2 release

Gerard — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:45:57 +0000

The Bordeaux Technology Group has announced a one month sale on Bordeaux for Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, PC-BSD and OpenSolaris. With the release of Wine 1.2 it marks the first stable Wine release in nearly two years. And with this release they’d like to celebrate and show their appreciation for all the hard work that has gone [...]

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FreeBSD quick news and links (21/07/2010)

Gerard — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:44:35 +0000

I Super-accurate computer clock created A free pies of software that allows computers to keep phenomenally accurate time has been developed by researchers in Melbourne. The software, called RADclock, should improve everything from Skype conversations to the tracking of subway trains. For computers to communicate effectively keeping accurate time is vital. Every application or service that relies [...]

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FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE available

Gerard — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:46:56 +0000

There’s no official announcement yet, but FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE is available on the FreeBSD FTP servers: i386 - ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/ amd64 - ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/8.1-RELEASE/ Click here for access to a reliable and friendly Free-BSD based hosting company

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FreeBSD DAHDI driver project announcement

Gerard — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:41:45 +0000

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced it will sponsor Max Khon to finish the DAHDI FreeBSD driver port. DAHDI (Digium/Asterisk Hardware Device Interface) is the open source device interface technology used to control Digium and other legacy telephony interface cards. “The purpose of DAHDI/FreeBSD project is to make it possible to use FreeBSD as a base system for software PBX [...]

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NYCBSDCon 2010 – Call for Papers

Gerard — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:24:09 +0000

The New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) is the main technical conference on the US East Coast for the BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to have fun. This event is organized by members of the New York City *BSD Users Group (NYC*BUG). This bi-annual event [...]

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