Posts Tagged ‘Mac OS X’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Working with the built-in Apache server on Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server
Mikel King posted a handy how to setup Name Based Vhosting in Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server. The article covers how to modify the httpd.conf and then use the Mac OS X Server Admin GUI to set up vhosts and associated aliases. The article is a good expose of what you can expect with the changes to Mac OS X Server that we will face with Lion. Because [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
VMWare acuires Zimbra from Yahoo
The announcement published on Zimbra's site states that VMWare will has acquired Zimbra from Yahoo. It is apparent that VMWare has it's sites set on entering the cloud in a bold way, and this move places them in competition with Gmail. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite is available as an open source community supported version, a closed source and [...]
HighPoint Technologies RocketRAID 622 for FreeBSD and Mac OS X
The RocketRAID 622 from HighPoint Technologies supports most modern operating systems, according to the site, but only list Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. It took some additional digging on the HighPoint Mac support page to discover that Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) has support already built in. While the RocketRAID 622 boasts some pretty [...]
