Posts Tagged ‘FreeBSD’
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. [...]
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...
release::Samba 3.6.0
Earlier this week Samba 3.6.0 was released. Most importantly a new nfs quota back-end for Linux has been added that is based on the existing Solaris/FreeBSD implementation. In addition the new SMB Traffic Analyzer (SMBTA) is has been completed. Overall this constitutes an ongoing internal restructuring for better separation of internal subsystem [...]
TrueNAS announced
iXsystems has announced the availability of the TrueNAS™ Pro family of storage appliances. TrueNAS™ Pro storage appliances provide security, scalability, and flexibility at a low total cost of ownership. The TrueNAS™ Pro software is based on the FreeNAS™ 8 operating system, and is enhanced with enterprise features such as Intent Log [...]
FreeBSD 9.0 beta1 Announced Today
Ken Smith published the announcement that FreeBSD 9.0 has reached beta1 stage. Of the many new features in 9.0 there is a new installer, so fresh installs on test systems are highley encouraged as feedback and test result are needed. ISO images are available for the following architectures: amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and [...]
Grant Annoucement: Improve IPv6 (KAME) Support for FreeBSD & PC-BSD
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has awarded Bjoern Zeeb a grant to improve the maturity of IPv6 support in FreeBSD and PC-BSD. This project is jointly sponsored with iXsystems. FreeBSD's KAME-based reference implementation of IPv6 first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0, and can be found in a broad range of FreeBSD-derived [...]
