by iXsystems | Jul 8, 2008 | FreeBSD, FreeBSD based systems, Miscellaneous
The number of FreeBSD related operating systems is fortunately not as as high as the number of Linux distributions. Most of you, if not all, will agree there are no FreeBSD distributions/distro’s due to the fact that FreeBSD is developed as a coherent operating...
by iXsystems | Jul 4, 2008 | PC-BSD
After several weeks of porting and hard work by KDE on FreeBSD and PC-BSD teams, PC-BSD is pleased to make the first PC-BSD 7 Alpha with KDE 4.1 (beta2) available! This release is quite a bit different from our previous alphas, as the jump from KDE 3.5 to KDE 4.1 is...
by iXsystems | Jul 3, 2008 | PC-BSD
PC-BSD is a straight-forward and easy-to-install KDE based operating system. However, on the PC-BSD forums a number of users have been saying they prefer the Gnome desktop environment over KDE and would welcome a Gnome based version of PC-BSD. It is possible to...
by iXsystems | Jul 2, 2008 | DesktopBSD, FreeBSD, PC-BSD
Mozilla Firefox 3 is now available for FreeBSD. Firefox is an award winning, free, open-source web browser for many platforms and is based on the Mozilla codebase. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advanced features: Popup Blocking Tabbed Browsing...
by iXsystems | Jun 28, 2008 | pfSense
The Free Software Magazine has a good howto on installing and setting up pfSense. This guide was written for Linksys, Netgear, and D-link users with no firewall or router experience. No experience is needed with FreeBSD or GNU/Linux to install and run pfSense. When...
by iXsystems | Jun 21, 2008 | FreeNAS
Folker Theile has announced the release of FreeNAS 0.69 beta 1, a tiny FreeBSD-based operating system for NAS services. From the changelog Upgrade to FreeBSD 6.3; add ‘lagg’ link aggregation and link failover interface support (kernel); switch back to...
