Some FreeBSD related links and updates below: New NVidia FreeBSD drivers 256.53 NVidia has updated its graphics drivers for FreeBSD. Some of the changes are: Fixed a bug that prevented XvMC from initializing in most cases. Added support for xorg-server…
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OpenSolaris may be dead now,; its advanced techologies such as the ZFS file system continue to live on in FreeBSD. FreeBSD Developer Pawel Jakub Dawidek confirmed that he is praparing a port of the OpenSolaris ZFS v28 file-system. Some of the new featu…
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OpenSolaris has been in troubled waters after Oracle acquired Sun, the corporate sponsor of the OpenSolaris Project. The OpenSolaris operating system is a descendent of the UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4) codebase, and OpenSolaris is was the name of the…
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When visiting the Linux Mint blog I noticed there was a monthly stats post with numbers relating to the project (August 2010), and thought that’s maybe something we should do to.
Below some numbers and statistics for this website and FreeBSD as o…
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The FreeBSD Mall, a provider of high quality FreeBSD software, documentation, support, and services to the open source community, recently donated FreeBSD CDs and DVDs to the NSRC (Network Startup Resource Center) for UNIX / FreeBSD workshops being hel…
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Bjoern Zeeb has provided a summary regarding the completion of the funded portion of the FreeBSD Jail Based Virtualization Project: “I am happy to report that the funded parts of the FreeBSD Jail Based Virtualization project are completed. Some o…
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The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.8 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD today. Bordeaux 2.0.8 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs. With this release firefox and winetricks have been updated Bordeaux 2.0.8 was built on FreeB…
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Four-Disc CD Set, Dual-Sided DVD now available for purchase The FreeBSD Mall is now shipping FreeBSD® Version 8.1, the second release of the FreeBSD 8-STABLE branch in AMD64 and i386 architectures. FreeBSD Version 8.1 is the first update to FreeBSD Ve…
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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 …
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1. FreeBSD East Coast Mirror
Yesterday we posted the FreeBSD Foundation’s turns to NYI press release, Steven Kreuzer who was directly involved in the project has put more details on his website:
Pretty much since the time that The NYC BSD Users…
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