Archive for October, 2009
PC-BSD News Update:PBI Builder, Security Update and Pootle Translation
The PC-BSD Project has been pretty busy as of late. The team has enhanced PC-BSD security by releasing a new patch as of 10/05. They also released a new version of PBI (push-button-installer)Builder as well as working on Pootle for PC-BSD. The security update for PC-BSD 7.1.1 was released on 10/05/09. This update fixes a potential [...]
MacPorts 1.8.1 Released
MacPorts is a packaging system similar to the FreeBSD Ports, that allows you to build software from source and installing it in a uniform manner. The system can automatically manage the package dependencies by downloading, building and installing each item as needed. In addition a porting system like the MacPorts easily facilitates updating a port [...]
FreeBSD Foundation Annouced High Availability Storage (HAST) Project Funding
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce a new funded project! Pawel Jakub Dawidek has been awarded a grant to implement storage replication software that will enable users to use the FreeBSD operating system for highly available configurations where data has to be shared across the cluster nodes. The project is partly being funded by [...]
Flash bundled in next PC-BSD version
IxSystems has negotiated a redistribution agreement with Adobe Systems, to bundle the Flash player that runs on FreeBSD's Linux compatibility layer as part of the default installation. "The agreement with Adobe will allow PC-BSD to have a browser with Flash working immediately after installation of the operating system. This makes great strides [...]
Surprise OpenBSD 4.6 Released TODAY!
Approximately 2 weeks ahead of schedule Theo de Raadt transmitted the release notice that OpenBSD 4.6 is officially available. This mornings announcement was rather unexpected as the OpenBSD.org website but more than welcome. A complete list of the changes is available here. Remember that the project's CD-Rom sales help fund the project [...]
Apple’s GCD has been ported to FreeBSD
The FreeBSD developer team has demonstrated how easy it was to port Apple's Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) technology. It has been reported that out of the box support should appear in FreeBSD 8.1. The important thing to understand is that because of the dev team's effort other project will find it even easier to port this technology to their [...]
T-Minus Fourteen Days…
To what? Samhein you may ask? Perhaps I am talking about Día de los Muertos? Or maybe it's the day you nurse your hangover from that Halloween Party you were at until 3 AM. Although most of these are correct, I am talking about the much anticipated release of OpenBSD 4.6. You can support the project by preordering you CD set here. The changes [...]
Debian to adopt FreeBSD Kernel?
Is this an episode of the Twilight Zone? Did the calendar shift 6 months out so that today is really April 1? Perhaps it's prank BSD Day in the UK today. Or is it just bizarrely possible that some one in the Linux camp finally woke up and realized that FreeBSD is far from dead or even dying for that matter. According to the Register the [...]
BSDCert::Deadline Approaching fast for the BSDP JTA Survey
October 16th marks the deadline for the BSD Professional Job Task Analysis Survey. If you are an active member of the BSD community then you should seriously consider completing the survey. These surveys are necessary prerequisite for completing the exam objectives. Without community support the exam will not be completed on schedule. We all [...]
Security Update::PC-BSD 7.1.1 devfs
Earlier this morning PC-BSD released an update. The update corrects a privilege escalation issue in devfs. This is directly related to the FreeBSD security advisory SA-09:14.devfs. read more...
