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Jan
17th

Miscelaneous (Free)BSD news and links (Week 2)

Author: Gerard | Files under syndicated

I End of Life Announcement for PC-BSD 7.x With the release of version 8.2 just around the corner, and PC-BSD 9.0 slated for later this year, we will be stopping the production of new packages / PBIs for the PC-BSD 7.x … Continue reading →


Jan
11th

pfSense development in 2011

Author: Gerard | Files under syndicated

Recently I contacted lead developers of different FreeBSD based projects and asked them about their development plans and ideas for 2011. Yesterday we looked at PC-BSD, let’s now see what the pfSense developers have in store. As most of you &#823…


Jan
7th

Series on 2011 development of FreeBSD based O/S

Author: Gerard | Files under syndicated

Next week I’ll be posting a number of posts on what project founders and developers are planning this year for some FreeBSD based operating systems. I’ll be posting on PC-BSD, pfSense, m0n0wall, HeX, MaheshaBSD, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and mayb…


Dec
8th

Quick news and links: ghostbsd, pfsense, doing business with BSD

Author: Gerard | Files under syndicated

Some links to recent project updates and howtos. pfSense Unofficial blog: http://pfsenses.blogspot.com/ pfSense 2.0 RC1 almost here: Coming soon…2.0-RC1 GhostBSD GhostBSD’s future in doubt. PC-BSD 9.0 will be available as Gnome (and other wi…


Dec
1st

kFreeBSD with ZFS, Bordeaux on PC-BSD, benchmarks and pfSense

Author: Gerard | Files under syndicated

Debian’s GNU/kFreeBSD Installer will support ZFS “While Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has supported the ZFS file-system with its FreeBSD-8 kernel, support for installing the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD distribution to a root ZFS file-system will now be possible witSpeci…


Sep
10th

4 open source firewall/router projects, incl pfSense and m0n0wall

Author: Gerard | Files under syndicated

LinuxPlanet has a post with some background information of 4 great open source firewall/router projects. Two are Linux-based (endian and smoothwall) and the other two are based on FreeBSD (m0n0wall and pfSense): pfSense pfSense is a customized distrib…


Sep
2nd

FreeBSD quick news and links (week 35)

Author: Gerard | Files under syndicated

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…


Aug
23rd

Bordeaux 2.0.8 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD released

Author: Gerard | Files under syndicated

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…


Aug
9th

FreeBSD events and conferences (KyivBSD, MeetBSD, EuroBSD)

Author: Gerard | Files under syndicated

Here is some info and details of upcoming FreeBSD related conferences and events.
KyivBSD 2010 Conference
On 25 Septempter the annual KyivBSD Conference will be held in Kiev, Ukraine. It’s mainly aimed at FreeBSD and PC-BSD users and developers.


Aug
4th

FreeBSD quick news and links (04/08/2010)

Author: Gerard | Files under syndicated

PC-BSD Blog
Dru Lavigne has joined the PC-BSD team this month. The first thing she did, was setting up another blog: the PC-BSD Blog. She already posts BSD related posts on it.toolbox.com: A year in the life of  a BSD guru.
A new *BSD Planet Website
E…