‘FreeBSD’ Archives
Go for FreeBSD
After 30 months Google has released their Go programming language for FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. In addition Google has released a corresponding update to their App Engine SDK all of this in hope of luring developers to their side of the playground. What is especially interesting is that go is a compiled language and that Google aims to [...]
announce::The FreeBSD Foundation Funds Project to Grow Mounted Filesystems
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz Napierala has been awarded a grant to implement the ability to grow filesystems while they are mounted. "Users of FreeBSD in a virtualized environment will be pleased with the increased ease of deployment afforded by the ability to grow mounted filesystems," said Ed Maste, [...]
announce::FreeBSD 9.0 officially released
Earlier this afternoon the official announcement of the latest release of FreeBSD hit the mailing list. A copy is available below as well as on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/announce.html FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Announcement The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. [...]
release::FreeBSD 9.0
If you haven't been paying attention FreeBSD development team has been working extremely diligently to release the ninth major revision of the venerable operating system. Earlier this evening the ftp servers were updated in preparation of tomorrow's anticipated forthcoming announcement of the 9.0 release availability. For those who are not aware [...]
A Part of UNIX Died This Week
We at BSD News are especially remorseful at learning about the death of one of the fathers of UNIX. Dennis Ritchie passed away on October 8th. It is sufficient to say that without the contributions of Mr. Ritchie the world would be extremely different. Just about every major computer technology we take for granted today is a direct result of his [...]
announce::Porting of libc++ to FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that David Chisnall has been awarded a grant to implement xlocale APIs to enable porting libc++. The C standard library (libc) is one of the most important parts of a UNIX system as most programs interact with the kernel through interfaces written in C. Porting code between platforms with similar [...]
annoounce::DIFFUSE project comes to FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA) has been awarded a grant to implement DIFFUSE for FreeBSD. DIFFUSE (Distributed Firewall and Flow-shaper Using Statistical Evidence) is an extension to the FreeBSD IPFW firewall subsystem developed by [...]
Troll hunting
In the article Trolling For A Quality Operating System Mikel King takes a moment to analyze a recent flame baited post to FeeBSD-Questions. Most of the analysis is light hearted and tries to expose the troll for what he is. This particular individual carefully crafted a rather insidious post that was at most times non threatening and seemingly [...]
Announcement The FreeBSD Foundation Accepting Travel Grant Applications for EuroBSDCon
Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses to EuroBSDCon 2011. 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 http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/TravelRequestForm.pdf [...]
BSD overtake Linux for development
According to TheInquire.net ~ The irony in all this is that Evans Data's data shows that while Linux fans have been talking about the death of BSD for well over a decade, it seems that thanks to Apple, BSD in the form of Mac OS X appears to have overtaken Linux in one usage metric. read more...
