Posts Tagged ‘PC BSD’
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 [...]
announce::iXsystems – PC-BSD 9.0 Isotope Edition Released
More desktop choices, updated PBI system round out new feature list From the outer reaches of deep space to the miniscule nucleus of an atom, the developers of PC-BSD make it clear that the scope and possibilities of PC-BSD are endless. Following the release of the Hubble Edition, iXsystems eagerly announces the release of PC-BSD® 9.0: Isotope [...]
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 [...]
Review of PC-BSD 9.0RC1
Recently the PC-BSD camp made 9.0 release candidate 1 available for open trial. Mikel King has taken it for a test drive and offered a brief review of the new desktop operating system. Basically giving it a huge thumbs up in an article geared toward average users rather than technical gurus. read more...
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 [...]
PC-BSD Developer Summit October 6th
A working group to help encourage the cooperation between PC-BSD and FreeBSD. In order to attend you need register for the developer summit as well as by email for the session and be confirmed by the working group organizer. Follow the guidelines described on the main page or what you received by email. For questions or if in doubt ask the [...]
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 [...]
BigBlueButton & FreeBSD/PC-BSD
Recently Dru Lavigne drafted a comprehensive 'How-To' on the installation of BigBlueButton on FreeBSD and PC-BSD.If you are not familiar with the project in a nutshell it is an open source web conferencing, video chat, whiteboard and desktop sharing application. Use this link to read Dru's write up about the installation.
