PC-BSD 10.0-RELEASE (Joule) released
Closely tracking the release cycle of FreeBSD, Kris Moore has now announced the availability of PC-BSD 10.0-RELEASE. Some of the most notable features in this release are: Includes FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE Updated KMS / AMD driver support ISO file is a hybrid USB file,...
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FreeNAS 9.2.1-RC available
Jordan Hubbard has announced the availability of FreeNAS 9.2.1-RC. It is expected that this will be the only Release Candidate to be made available, unless show stopper are found. The most interesting changes from the BETA releases are an upgraded version of Samba (to...
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The BIG FreeBSD 10 Installation/Upgrade POLL
FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE became available just over a week ago and we thought it would be interesting to do a poll on FreeBSD 10-RELEASE installations and upgrades. This to find out how many people want to use the latest and the greatest, and how many of you are happy...
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FreeBSD Status Report – 2013-Q4
The FreeBSD Project has released its fourth status report for 2013 (October to December 2013). It comes with 37 entries and gives a nice insight on what developers have been working on. "The last quarter of 2013 was very active for the FreeBSD community, much like the...
read moreFreeBSD 10.0 in the news
After some delays, FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE was released earlier this week. This release has been reported about on some of the major open source websites, and seems to have been well received. Some reports can be read here. FreeBSD 10.0 Final Released - ostatic.com...
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The Daemon and the Penguin, FreeNAS labels, pfSense, PC-BSD updates
Welcome to the latest (Free)BSD news round-up in which we have a mix of news snippets and links. Just a round-up of those miscellaneous (Free)BSD related links that are news worthy and which you may find hopefully interesting, but are yet too small to package as...
read moreBSD Now Episode 21: Tendresse for Ten (video)
The BSDNow.tv Team has uploaded a new episode: Tendresse for Ten 20, featuring an interview with Colin Percival.In this episode you will find the following topics being discussed: FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE is out OpenSSH 6.5 CFT DIY NAS story, FreeNAS 9.2.1-BETA OpenBSD...
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FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE Announcement
Well, after a long wait and an unexpected RC5, FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE is here, the 10th version of this venerable operating system. FreeBSD 10 comes with a lot more and better support for virtualisation (Hyper-V, virtio, BHyVe), Clang is the default compiler (replacing...
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BSD Now Episode 20: BHyve Mind (video)
The BSD Now TV Team has uploaded a new episode, BHyve Mind (Episode 20), featuring an interview with the developers of BHyve and a tutorial on how to set it up and to use it. Bhyve, the "BSD hypervisor", is a legacy-free hypervisor/virtual machine manager developed on...
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m0n0wall 1.8.1 released
Manuel Kasper has announced the release of m0n0wall 1.8.1. This version is based on FreeBSD 8.4 and will thus give better support for newer hardware than m0n0wall 1.34. Some of the change highlights are add scheduler ("Croen") service with many different job types...
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FreeBSD security advisories
The FreeBSD Security Team notifies the Community of a handful of vulnerabilities that have been discovered. Please check the advisories and take the appropriate actions. These issues either don't affect the upcoming FreeBSD 10.0 (building was kicked off on 15 Jan) or...
read moreBSD Now Episode 19: The InstallFest (video) – UPDATED
The BSD Now TV Team has uploaded a new episode, The Installfest – Episode 19, featuring the much anticipated *BSD Installations comparison.In this episode you will find the following topics being discussed: FreeBSD's new testing infrastructure (starts 01:22) OpenBSD...
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FreeBSD 10-RC5 released
Glen Barber has announced, on behalf of the FreeBSD Release Engineering team, the 5th RC build for FreeBSD 10. The waiting for 10.0 Release will soon be over, as this is (definitely, this time) be the last RC build. Major changes between -RC4 and -RC5 include: Fix an...
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BSDTalk interview with George Neville-Neil on FreeBSD Journal
Will Backman of BSDTalk (BSDTalk 237) has uploaded a 22 minutes interview with George Neville-Neil (MP3 or OGG) wherein they talk about the upcoming FreeBSD Journal. Will and George chat about the following - these are just some notes: There's already a BSD Magazine,...
read moreFreeBSD (based) releases and events – December 2013
This is a quick recap of what happened in the world of FreeBSD in December 2013. Releases 2 December - PC-BSD 10 Stable test image 3 December - FreeBSD 10.0-BETA4 released 6 December - FreeNAS 9.2.0-RC released 9 December - FreeBSD 10.0-RC1 released 16 December...
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PC-BSD 10.0-RC3 now available
Kris has announced RC3 version of the upcoming PC-BSD 10.0-RELEASE. Notable features and changes from RC2 are: Includes FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 from 12/26/2013 Updated KMS / AMD driver support ISO file is a hybrid USB file, and can be "dd"ed to a USB media. New text-based...
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FreeBSD Capsicum, MEGACORE, pfSense Store, Faces and more
In this post we have a mix of news snippets, links to howtos, projects, resources and software/package updates collated over the last two weeks. Just a round-up of those miscellaneous FreeBSD related links you may find interesting. Jailing FreeBSD 4 on FreeBSD 10...
read moreBSD Now Episode 18: Eclipsing Binaries (video)
The BSD Now TV Team has uploaded a new episode, Eclipsing Binaries – Episode 18, featuring an interview with Baptiste Daroussin. In this episode you will find the following topics being discussed: Faces of FreeBSD continues OpenPF? Year of BSD on the server Getting to...
read moreFreeBSD 10.0-RC4 available
Glen Barber has announced the fourth, and possibly last, RC of the upcoming FreeBSD 10: "The fourth RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. This is expected...
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BSD Magazine (December 2013) – CARP on FreeBSD
December's issue of the BSD Magazine is now available: CARP on FreeBSD (free PDF download). You’ll find the following subjects inside: Configuring a Highly Available Service on FreeBSD – part 2: CARP and devd In the first part of this series, we learned how to make...
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