by iXsystems | Jan 5, 2010 | pfSense
Chris Buechler has announced the availability of the first beta release of pfSense 2.0, a FreeBSD-based firewall system. Our Christmas gift to the community is the 2.0 release reaching the beta milestone. The release is feature complete, with no new features being...
by iXsystems | Jan 2, 2010 | pfSense
Kris Moore announced on New Year’s day the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-BETA (Hubble Edition). Version 8.0 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...
by iXsystems | Dec 26, 2009 | BSD Talk, PC-BSD
Scott Ullrich and Chris Buechler, the guys behind the pfSense project, have been interviewed by Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte on FLOSS 101. (via) FLOSS Weekly is a podcast covering free and open source software. Will Backman has interviewed Randal Schwartz on...
by iXsystems | Dec 16, 2009 | pfSense
Chris Buechler has announced pfSense 1.2.3 1.2.3 release is now available! This is a maintenance release in the 1.2.x series, bringing an updated FreeBSD base, some minor enhancements, some bug fixes, and a couple security updates. We’ve been waiting a few weeks in...
by iXsystems | Dec 16, 2009 | BSD Talk, FreeNAS, iXsystems
BSDTalk has a 12 minute interview with Josh Paetzel, IT director at iXsystems. Will and Josh talk about the recent takeover of the FreeNAS project by iXsystems. FreeNAS will stay FreeBSD-based, with the ZFS file system and the project will stay open source. The...
by iXsystems | Dec 9, 2009 | PC-BSD
Last weekend brought about the latest alpha release of the upcoming PC-BSD 8.0. This is the first build based on FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, with KDE 4.3.4, NVIDIA driver 195.22 (32-bit and 64-bit drivers included), a re-written system installer, and new artwork. Here are...