Posts Tagged ‘FreeBSD’
announce::OpenSSH 6.0 Released
OpenSSH 6.0 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly. OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support. Once again, we would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their continued support of the [...]
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::EuroBSDCon 2012
EuroBSDCon 2012 EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and developers on BSD-based systems. The EuroBSDcon 2012 conference will be held in Warsaw, Poland from Thursday 18 October 2012 to Sunday 21 October 2012, with tutorials on Thursday and Friday and talks on Saturday and Sunday. Call for Proposals The EuroBSDcon conference [...]
FreeBSD Foundation Announces NAND File System for FreeBSD Project
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Semihalf, an embedded solutions company, has been awarded a grant to bring their comprehensive NAND Flash file system and storage stack to FreeBSD. This technology enables FreeBSD to natively manage NAND Flash devices, satisfying a crucial requirement for many applications needing access to [...]
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...
