FreeNAS 0686c (BETA3) released
Volker Theile has announced the third and final beta release of FreeNAS 0.686, a FreeBSD-based operating system which provides free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services. This will hopefully the last beta to become stable. Majors changes Add file system check...
GPL vs BSD, a matter of sustainability
Both licensing models have been around for a very long time. I don’t know which predates which, but it really doesn’t matter. The spirit behind both licenses is very similar: free software is good. But they realize this idea in different ways. In the GPL license you...
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Building a bootable ARM SD card (FreeBSD) NAS: Roll your own or turnkey? (FreeNAS) Using pfSense as a Server Only (pfSense) Fileserver converted to use ZFS (FreeBSD)
DesktopBSD vs PC-BSD
Jan Stedehouder has almost finished his DesktopBSD - the first 30 days series and the following are his observations with regards to how PC-BSD and DesktopBSD compare: Today may be a good day to at least do a formal comparison between DesktopBSD and PC-BSD. I guess it...
FreeBSD 7.0 Beta4 LiveCD
Ivan Voras has created a new (installable) LiveCD (version alpha 2) based on FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4. This release fixes most of the bugs present in earlier versions, and introduces only one new feature: file systems are created on glabel devices. The ISO can be downloaded...
FreeBSD ports tree unfrozen
For those who haven’t noticed the announcement on the ports mailinglist, or noticed the flood of commits that started already before the announcement, the ports tree has been thawed, with the usual restrictions. Interesting note: Please also take into account that the...
Genesis Software develops FreeBSD-based radars
Genesis Software engineers design, manufacture and customise computer equipment connected to radar receivers for research institutions and universities. The radars measure wind speed and meteor flux and these scientific radar systems are exported around the world....
LinuxReality Podcast: M0n0wall and pfSense
LinuxReality.com (a site with Linux related podcasts - similar to the BSD focused bsdtalk.blogspot.com) has posted a podcast (episode 84) that focuses on Linux and (network) security. In this episode Paul Asadoorian and Larry Pesce of the Pauldotcom Security Weekly...
Frenzy 1.1 (BETA3) released
Sergei Mozhaisky has announced the third beta release of Frenzy 1.1, a portable toolkit for system and network administrators based on FreeBSD 6.2. More info on Frenzy here. These are most important changes since the 1.0-release: Base system is FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE,...
FreeBSD Fundraising
The FreeBSD Foundation is kicking off the End-of-Year Fund Raising Drive! The FreeBSD Project is not a company and to keep functioning it is dependent upon financial support from users and supporters. So far, $221,808 has been raised - short of the $250,000 target for...
FreeBSD FTP mirrors quality
At Statistics for FTP FreeBSD mirrors Edwin Groothuis has made an overview of how good the FreeBSD FTP mirrors are. It's tot a full overview (just for the ISO images directories) but it will give an indication of the quality of the mirroring. For Australia, for...
FreeBSD and Windows software (Wine)
There’s some encouraging news about running Windows applications on WINE on FreeBSD 7. More and more native Windows application can now be run on FreeBSD without too much tweaking. Wine-Review has recently been testing, running and benchmarking the installation of...
FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 Available
The FreeBSD betas are coming out, one after the other. The 7.0-BETA4 builds are now available. If you would like to download an ISO image to install from they are available here (MD5 checksums here). If you would like to use cvsup to update an older machine the branch...
DesktopBSD added to Vietnam BSD/Linux Mirror
The Saigon Linux Group (SLG) added DesktopBSD to the Vietnam BSD/Linux Mirror. The Vietnam BSD/Linux Mirror is the only public mirror available in Vietnam to promote open source technology within Vietnam managed by the Saigon Linux Group with the bandwidth and IP...
iXsystems announces distribution agreement with Micro Center
After the distribution agreement with Fry's Electronics, iXsystems has announced (10/12/2007) an agreement with Micro Center: "iXsystems announced today a distribution agreement with Micro Center, a leading edge provider of computer products, whereby all Micro Center...
DigitalUnderground TV: M0n0wall
On the <a href="http://digitalunderground.tv/">Digital Underground</a> (episode 4) <em>Frank Linhares</em> and <em>Mike Lazazzera</em> discuss the open source FreeBSD based M0n0wall (from minute 34:03). Other subjecs discussed are:...
Perils of .0 releases
Ivan Voras has created an excellent page listing all the new and exciting features that will find their way into FreeBSD 7.0. Now with 3 betas released of FreeBSD 7.0 there are still some issues and bugs that need to be resolved. Ivan has done a post outlining where...
AsiaBSDCon 2008 update
AsiaBSDCon 2008 is scheduled for March 27-30 in Tokyo. The deadline for paper proposals has been extended to December 11th. A mailing list has been set up for those who want to stay up-do-date with the latest announcements. AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and...
New PBI Build Server
PC-BSD is in the process implementing a new PBI build system, which automatically tracks the FreeBSD ports collection, and generates new PBIs from these ports, daily. Please watch the pcbsd.org site for more information about this new build system over the next few...
Minor PC-BSD update (1.4.1.1)
An online update from PC-BSD 1.4.1 -> 1.4.1.1 has been released today, as both a standalone PBI patch & Online Update. This version includes an update to the CUPS 1.3.3 package, as well as other fixes / improvements to printing support. Users may upgrade to...
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