Joe Sixpack goes BSD
Marti van Lin has started using Marti van Lin has started using PC-BSD and is sharing his experience on his blog: BSD has the reputation of being the most geeky OS, simply because it' s rarely used by average users. The reason is that the average think its too...
Flash on FreeBSD/PC-BSD/DBSD
Previously we reported Matteo's suggestion on how to get Flash and YouTube/Google Video to work on FreeBSD, but now that gnash-0.8.1 is in the ports tree (and hence avilable for FreeBSD, PC-BSD and DesktopBSD), the greasemonkey+mplayer hack is no longer needed to...
Win4BSD 1.1 in ports
Win4BSD is a PC emulator that runs Windows as a guest at nearly native speed under FreeBSD. It is based on QEMU, a partially open, partially closed source emulator package. However, Win4BSD offers many advantages, including much greater speed, ease of use, more...
PC-BSD 1.4: An Initial Look
This is a review on Cthulhu Linux Blog This is a release I’ve been waiting for quite a while; it’s a nifty front-end installer for FreeBSD 6.2 (the latest and greatest version of FreeBSD) that takes all the hassle out of installing a Unix-like system, with the added...
FreeNAS article in german PC magazine
Daten verteilen leicht gemacht Wenn Sie Besitzer mehrerer Computer und/oder Notebooks sind, kennen Sie das Problem: Daten befinden sich nie dort, wo sie gerade gebraucht werden. Die Lösung dieses Problems ist eine Netzwerkfestplatte, auf die alle Rechner zugreifen...
PC-BSD 1.4 Tour (screenshots)
PC-BSD 1.4 screenshots now available on OSDir.com
PC-BSD 1.4 – changelog (Flash, Wifi etc)
PC-BSD 1.4 (da Vinci) includes many exciting new features and software, such as: Wireless connection GUI (WIFI) 3D desktop support via Compiz Fusion (optional) Support for Adobe Flash 7 for native BSD browsers. (Konq, Opera, FireFox) (watch Youtube, Google Video etc)...
PC-BSD 1.4 – a free masterpiece?
Along with the release of PC-BSD 1.4 we have updated our website. Please let us know what you think about it. www.pcbsd.org
New PC-BSD website
Along with the release of PC-BSD 1.4 we have updated our website. Please let us know what you think about it. www.pcbsd.org
PC-BSD 1.4 (Da Vinci) Released
iXsystems announced today the release of PC-BSD Da Vinci Edition. PC-BSD is a fully-functional desktop operating system based on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. FreeBSD is one of the most used UNIX-like operating systems in the world. It is widely renowned as the most stable and...
Interview with Dru Lavigne
Dru Lavigne has been interviewed by BSDTalk. The first half of the interview is an update on BSD Certification and the second half is an introduction to the OSBR. Download here. .
PC-BSD – The first 30 days
Jan Stedehouder is using PC-BSD and telling us about his findings for 30 days. Read more here
EuroBSDCon 2007 (photos & papers)
The EuroBSDCon 2007 Conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 14 to 15 September. For photos please visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/13801854@N02/sets/72157602081330565 https://bilder.bsdgroup.de/galleries/EuroBSDCon2007/overview.html For papers visit:...
RoFreeSBIE 1.3 RC4 Released
Dan Angelescu has announced the availability of a public release candidate of RoFreeSBIE 1.3, a FreeBSD-based live DVD: RoFreeSBIE 1.3RC4 has been released. It is based on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE based. It has improved start-up, backup and restore scripts. Using backup and...
Major differences FreeBSD – Linux
I like this comparison between Linux and FreeBSD: Although FreeBSD and Linux are close cousins with a considerable number of similarities under the hood, some major differences separate them. FreeBSD is tidy, self-contained, and well-organized. All the pieces form a...
The UNIX acronym list
In case one needs to refresh his/her memory... UNIX acronyms and their meaning: adb, ar, as, atob, awk, bash, bc, bsh, btoa, c89, cal, cat cb, cc, chgrp, chmod, chown, chsh, ci, cmp, co, comm, etc etc
Best of open source in storage
FreeNAS takes our Bossie for best open source NAS server. FreeNAS is far and away the most mature open source NAS platform, built on a FreeBSD base and backed by an active community. Providing CIFS, NFS, FTP, iSCSI, RSYNC, and AFP (Apple File Protocol) support, not to...
New Project: AskoziaPBX
Michael Iedema has posted details of a new FreeBSD based Asterisk OS(AskoziaPBX) forked from m0n0wall: Greetings everyone, I've been working on a (yet another) "all-in-one" Asterisk based project. It is aimed at embedded / low power systems (but scales fine on more...
PC-BSD: the first 30 days
Jan Stedehouder is on his journey using PC-BSD for 30 days. These are his experiences PC-BSD Day 5: BSD Certification Previous blog entries BSD Revisited: PC-BSD 1.4 RC PC-BSD Day 1: extending the system PC-BSD Day 2: music & ports gui PC-BSD Day 3: Angels 1 -...
FreeNAS 0.685RC1 Released
After a long time and hard work the FreeNAS team have released a new beta version (v0.685b) of FreeNAS. It includes many new features and a lot of bugs fixes. Download | Change log | Report problems
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