‘FreeBSD’ Archives
FreeBSD Foundation Turns to NYI for East Coast US Mirror
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FreeBSD Foundation Turns to NYI for East Coast US Mirror Deployment Adds Enterprise-Grade Redundancy for Improved Reliability, Reduced Latency, High-Speed Backups and Other Efficiencies BOULDER, CO, August 10, 2010—The FreeBSD Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD [...]
Bsnmp enhancements announced
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Shteryana Shopova has been awarded a grant to make improvements to BSNMP. This project includes several enhancements to the existing FreeBSD SNMP framework, including SNMPv3-compliant user authentication, packet encryption and view-based access control. In addition, the project also includes [...]
OpenSVC clustered service manager comes to FreeBSD 8
Christophe Varoqui <christophe DOT varoqui AT opensvc DOT com>Published the following announcement earlier this morning on the FreeBSD Announce mailing list. OpenSVC has is now available for FreeBSD OpenSVC is a GPLv2 project automating the low-level operations needed 1) to bring up system resources (virtual machine container, ip, disk [...]
Announcement: End of Travel Grant Applications for BSDCan
Dear FreeBSD Community, Today is the last day to submit your travel grant application for 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 at by April 9, 2010 to apply for this grant. How it [...]
X.org 7.5 on FreeBSD
Recently a call for testers of the latest X.org version 7.5 went out specifically for FreeBSD users. There have been numerous driver updates that require testing. X.org is the default x11 windowing system for FreeBSD. If you are interested in helping the project along please see the original notice. To read more about the project please [...]
Schedule for BSDCan 2010 published
For those who are unfamiliar BSDCan is a BSD Conference held in Ottawa, Canada typically during the second week of May. This year's conference will run from May 13th & 14th and is preceded by two days of conferences on the 11th & 12th. As this year's conference approaches the organizers have published a list of events. The schedule of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
FreeBSD Foundation Accepting Project Proposals
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce we are soliciting the submission of proposals for work relating to any of the major subsystems or infrastructure within the FreeBSD operating system. Proposals will be evaluated based on desirability, technical merit and cost-effectiveness. To find out more about the proposal process please [...]
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 [...]
