by iXsystems | Apr 27, 2011 | FreeBSD, Google
Google has announced today that the following FreeBSD related projects have been accepted for the annual Google Summer of Code (2011). With 17 approved projects, FreeBSD is one of the Top 10 supported projects. Path-based file system MAC policy (Alan Alvarez)...
by iXsystems | Mar 24, 2011 | BSD Talk, FreeBSD Conferences, FreeBSD Foundation, Google
As most of you will be aware, BSDCan is one of the major annual BSD conferences, and Google sponsors development of the 5 big BSD’s each year in the Summer of Code. More info with regards to these events below. BSDCan 2011 BSD Talk has a 15 minutes interview...
by iXsystems | Dec 6, 2010 | FreeBSD, Google
Shortly after Google Chrome was released, I was excited to find out that Ben Laurie was porting Google Chrome/Chromium to FreeBSD. This is in my opinion the best web browser available (I know, it’s subjective). It’s light-weight, secure and extendible....
by iXsystems | Nov 3, 2010 | DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, Google, OpenBSD
FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Since FreeBSD 6.4 is the last remaining supported release from the FreeBSD 6.x stable...
by iXsystems | Aug 23, 2010 | FreeBSD, Google
Ruben from the FreeBSD Chromium porting team emailed me to say that for this week only the latest Chromium 7.0 for FreeBSD subscriber builds will be available for free (excluding HTML 5 video). The subscriber builds are largely open source and funded by a hybrid...
by iXsystems | Jun 18, 2010 | FreeBSD, Google
Edwin Groothuis created a FreeBSD iPhone app that provides general information about FreeBSD, news, upcoming events, videos from YouTube (BSD conference) and so on. May be useful if you have an iPhone. But the FreeBSD community is larger than just a map of the...
