Unix and BSD Family Trees
Recently I came across two interesting websites that show an up-to-date family tree of Unix and BSD operating systems, and thought that those of you who are not too familiar with the different Unix and Unix-like systems might find these pages interesting. UNIX history...
Flash/Youtube videos on FreeBSD
To be able to watch Adobe Flash animations and videos on BSD systems, has been not too easy so far. This is caused by Adobe not releasing a (Free)BSD version of Flash, but only a (closed source) version for Windows and Linux. In order to watch Flash content on BSD one...
PC-BSD announces logo contest
PC-BSD has just announced a logo contest on the Announce Mailing List and on the Forums: While the new web site is cooking, the PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the logomark contest! If you have artwork skills and would like to take part in the PC-BSD project, you...
Linux too vanilla? Try this
Yesterday we wrote about a review of PC-BSD by LinuxHelp, but a week ago (15/07/2007) The Inquirer also reviewed this Desktop OS: "Linux too vanilla? Try this - PC-BSD 1.3: Basic, simple, does the job" It went on first time, no hesitation. Even booting from the...
pfSense 1.2-BETA-1 released
About 2 weeks ago the pfSense Project have released 1.2-Beta-1. This version contains a quite a number of improvements and new features, including FreeBSD updated to 6.2 Reworked load balancing pools which allow for round robin or failover miniupnpd has proven to work...
PC-BSD 1.3.4 Review
LinuxHelp has just (22/05/2007) posted an interesting and balanced review of the latest version of PC-BSD. Some of the suggestions for improvement (3-5) will be included in the upcoming version 1.4 (June/July 2007). Though PC-BSD is not a Linux distriution, it's good...
A list of FreeBSD based operating systems
FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon 64, and EM64T), UltraSPARC, IA-64, PC-98 and ARM architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the...
BSD compared with Linux (funny)
Browsing some forum I came accross the following quote which I want to share with you. I don't want to start a Linux-BSD flame war, but to me, being a BSD fan, I think there's some truth it (slightly edited): BSD rules because it's time-tested and stable. Linux peeps...
X.org 7.2 hitting ports tree
This is really good news. X.org 7.2 has hit the ports tree. Beryl and other 3-D goodies can now be installed on FreeBSD. Dear FreeBSD Users, Within the next 24 hours, the long-awaited update to the X.org 7.2 windowing system will be committed to the ports tree. This...
Differences between PC-BSD and FreeBSD
First things first: PC-BSD is NOT Linux. Both are UNIX-like systems, but PC-BSD is NOT Linux. The main difference between PC-BSD and FBSD is: PC-BSD is geared towards desktop use; FBSD has been created with server use in mind PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD (6.1 currently)...
What’s cooking for FreeBSD?
The next major release of FreeBSD, version 7, is one of the most significant so far, with amount of new technologies and improvement largest since introduction of 5.0. Some of the upcoming features are: New sendfile() implementation, improved sosend() TOE and TSO...
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