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Archive for February, 2010

JAFDIP reviewed The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD

Mikel King has published a review of Dru Lavigne's latest book The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD on his personal blog site JAFDIP. The review give a favorable rating to the book and PC-BSD as a whole. The book is set to hit store shelves the first week of March and covers common user tasks  on PC-BSD. read more...

release::PC-BSD 8.0 Hubble Edition

Earlier today iXsystems announced the release of PC-BSD™, Version 8.0, Hubble Edition. This fully functional user friendly open source desktop operating system is built upon the new FreeBSD 8.0 release. For those who enjoy reading press releases you can find the full press release is available here. PC-BSD Hubble Edition can be [...]

The FreeBSD Foundation is accepting BSDCan 2010 travel grant applications

Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses to BSDCan 2010. The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel grants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit the Travel Grant Request Application by April 9, 2010 to apply for this grant. How it works: This program is open [...]

HAST committed to FreeBSD 8

Late Thursday evening the HAST (High Availability STorage) project was committed to the FreeBSD HEAD. This marks a successful completion of the FreeBSD Foundation sponsored project as it has been merged into the main branch of FreeBSD 8. The commit notice from Paweł Jakub Dawidek briefly describes the project. A detailed discussion of the [...]

February issue of BSD Magazine available for download- FREE

BSD Magazine is offering the current issues available as a PDF download for FREE! In this issue: A first look at PC-BSD 8 release- Jan Stedehouder Installing and securing an Apache Jail with SSL on FreeBSD- Rob Somerville The gemstones for FreeBSD- Marko Milenovic OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD as file sharing servers [...]

AsiaBSDCon 2010 travel grant application extention

Good News!! We've extended the deadline for accepting AsiaBSDCon travel grant applications. Please submit your application by Feb. 10, 2010. If you have already submitted an application, you will be hearing from us soon. Please fill out and submit the Travel Grant Request Application [...]