Archive for December, 2009
FreeBSD Foundation End-of-Year Fund Raising Drive Final Plea!
Dear FreeBSD Community, We want to extend a very sincere thank you to everyone who has made a donation this year. Right now in Boulder, Colorado at around 1:30 PM, December 30, we have logged $254,000 in donations from 833 donors! We are so grateful for all the support. But, we wanted to make one last plea for donations this year. Our goal [...]
NYCBUG is now on Facebook
Earlier today we received an announcement that NYCBUG now has a Facebook group. It was started by a couple of concerned NYCBUGgers. The membership is open to all Facebook members and not limited to just the NYC BSD User's Group (NYCBUG).
Site upgrades round one complete
We have completed the first round of site upgrades. The underlying CMS has been completely upgraded to the latest and hopefully greatest version. However one area that remains a huge source of pain and frustration is the CMS theme. Although we do like many of the aspects of the theme and find it a relatively good fit, we would like to find a [...]
Kri Moore PC-BSD founder returns
Dec 14th iXsystems announced that Kris Moore the founder of PC-BSD will return as their new Director of PC-BSD software development. iXsystems is a leading provider of high-performance computing clusters, blade servers, rackmount servers, and storage solutions to the global marketplace. iXsystems supplies FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux [...]
FreeNAS is not switching to Linux from FreeBSD
The project is going to fork into two similar projects. The FreeNAS project will be championed by IXSystems and continue to be developed on FreeBSD of course. The forked project tentatively titled OpenMediaVault will be developed on a version of Linux. read more...
FreeBSD 7.x & 8.x Root Exploit PATCHED!
Recently a root exploit to FreeBSD 7.x and 8.x was released by it's discoverer into the wild. A root kit has been posted at the following location http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Nov/371. It is disturbing that the discoverer chose to release a root kit into the wild rather than follow protocol. This lack of etiquette suggests that the [...]
