Archive for September, 2009
Could Oracle Embrace BSD?
In the "Oracle; ready for dinner, if only the EU would stop messing with the soup..." author Mikel King speculates on the state of the of the acquisition. The article raises some interesting questions about the future of Sun's product line. It even offers some slightly tongue and cheek advice to the powers that be at Oracle. Funnily enough [...]
FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 available
Ken Smith in freebsd-stable@ mailing list announce first release candidate in FreeBSD 8 branch. How many RC's we have will depend on how well 8.0-RC1 does. At the moment only one more RC is on the schedule but odds are fairly high we will wind up inserting at least one more RC. Between BETA4 and RC1 a lot of work has gone into IPv6 issues as [...]
BNN::Flash
We would like to take this opportunity the let everyone know that today's upgrades were mostly successful. Our sites have been relocated to a new system, and everthing appears to be functioning normally. From everyone involved with bringing you the news, thank you for your continued patronage and support. It is our sincere hope that the new [...]
DragonFly BSD 2.4 Released
In addition to the usual CD and DVD ISO this marks the first time that there is a 64bit ISO release of DragonFlyBSD. read more...
BSD Magazine September 2k9 Issue
The latest issue of BSD Magazine has been out for a few weeks and this article delves into the resource a bit deeper. Take a moment to read the article especially if you've never looked at the magazine before. read more...
Arekeia Software Releases a 8.1 of it’s Network Backup Utility
Arekeia Network Backup is available for a variety of Operating Systems and there are agents available to assist with backing up common services like the following; Arkeia agents, including: IBM DB2 Novell eDirectory Lotus [...]
Poul-Henning Kamp Sues Lenovo over Microsoft Tax
FreeBSD developer Poul-Henning Kamp sued Lenovo in Denmark because of their refusal to refund the Windows Vista license fee. Story here.
Ask yourself a question: What does it take to make an operating system Like FreeBSD?
Have you ever really sat down an taken the time to ponder what it takes to build a complete operating system like FreeBSD? Where all the gears and cogs actually mesh together in the symbiotic harmony. That carefully orchestrated relationship unmatched by simple distributions? Let's pause a moment here while you click the 'read more...' link and [...]
Interview::Matt Juszczak creator of BSDJobs.net
Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Matt Juszczak creator of BSDJobs.net and ask him some questions about the project. I would like to thank Matt for taking the time out of his busy schedule to talk with me about the project. The following is a synopsis of that Q&A session. read more...
Facebook Desktop Notifications for Mac OS X
For Mac OS X, Adds Notifications to your desktop, alerting you when interesting activity happens on Facebook! Note: This software is experimental and has only been tested on Mac OS X 10.5 read more...
