Posts Tagged ‘PC BSD’
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 [...]
JAFDIP reviewed The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD
Mikel King has published a review of Dru Lavigne's latest book The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD on his personal blog site JAFDIP. The review give a favorable rating to the book and PC-BSD as a whole. The book is set to hit store shelves the first week of March and covers common user tasks on PC-BSD. read more...
release::PC-BSD 8.0 Hubble Edition
Earlier today iXsystems announced the release of PC-BSD™, Version 8.0, Hubble Edition. This fully functional user friendly open source desktop operating system is built upon the new FreeBSD 8.0 release. For those who enjoy reading press releases you can find the full press release is available here. PC-BSD Hubble Edition can be [...]
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 [...]
Mac OS X buffer overflow vulnerability published
Earlier today SecurityReason released a proof of concept for the buffer overflow vulnerability found in libc gdtoa() function which is used by printf(). The index array overflow was first reported by researcher Maksymilian Arciemowicz last June. The advisory describes a flaw in the libc/gdtoa code in OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X, as [...]
Kri Moore PC-BSD founder returns
Dec 14th iXsystems announced that Kris Moore the founder of PC-BSD will return as their new Director of PC-BSD software development. iXsystems is a leading provider of high-performance computing clusters, blade servers, rackmount servers, and storage solutions to the global marketplace. iXsystems supplies FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux [...]
PC-BSD News Update:PBI Builder, Security Update and Pootle Translation
The PC-BSD Project has been pretty busy as of late. The team has enhanced PC-BSD security by releasing a new patch as of 10/05. They also released a new version of PBI (push-button-installer)Builder as well as working on Pootle for PC-BSD. The security update for PC-BSD 7.1.1 was released on 10/05/09. This update fixes a potential [...]
BSDCert::Deadline Approaching fast for the BSDP JTA Survey
October 16th marks the deadline for the BSD Professional Job Task Analysis Survey. If you are an active member of the BSD community then you should seriously consider completing the survey. These surveys are necessary prerequisite for completing the exam objectives. Without community support the exam will not be completed on schedule. We all [...]
