October – December, 2008 Status Reports
January 29th, 2009 by Rob
The October – December, 2008 Status Reports are now available with 19 entries.
Archive for January, 2009
New committer: Beat Gätzi (ports)
January 29th, 2009 by Rob
New committer: Beat Gätzi (ports)
January 29th, 2009 by Rob
FreeBSD Kernel Internals Video Posted
January 17th, 2009 by Rob
The first lecture from Kirk McKusick’s full length FreeBSD Kernel Internals course has been posted to the BSD Conferences channel on YouTube.
GNOME 2.24.2 Available for FreeBSD
January 12th, 2009 by Rob
The FreeBSD GNOME team is proud to announce the release of GNOME 2.24.2 for FreeBSD. More details can be found on the FreeBSD GNOME Project page.
FreeBSD 7.1 Released
January 8th, 2009 by Rob
Sol-Invictus writes “The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and [...]
Bordeaux 1.6 For FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released
January 8th, 2009 by Rob
Tom Wickline writes “Steven Edwards of the Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD today. Bordeaux 1.6 comes with added support for Google’s Chrome Web Browser, Google Earth, and Google Picasa. In addition, Cellar support has improved; you can now delete and install into an existing Cellar. There have also been many [...]
FreeBSD 6.4 Released
January 8th, 2009 by Rob
hmallett writes “FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE, the fifth release from the 6-STABLE branch of FreeBSD development, is now available. In addition to being hosted at many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, FreeBSD Update can be used to perform a binary upgrade.” Read more of [...]
Benchmarks For Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD
January 8th, 2009 by Rob
Ashmash writes “After their Mac OS X versus Ubuntu benchmarks earlier this month, Phoronix.com has now carried out a performance comparison between Ubuntu 8.10, OpenSolaris 2008.11 and FreeBSD 7.1. They used a dual quad-core workstation with the Phoronix Test Suite to run primarily Java, disk, and computational benchmarks. The 64-bit build of Ubuntu 8.10 was [...]
OpenBSD 4.4 Released
January 8th, 2009 by Rob
Linux blog writes “The new version of OpenBSD is available for download. There are lots of nifty new features to try out including OpenSSH 5.1 with chroot(2) support, Xenocara, Gnome 2.20.3, KDE 3.5.8, etc. Machines using the UltraSPARC IV/T1/T2 and Fujitsu SPARC64-V/VI/VII are now supported. It seems amazing to me that they keep delivering these [...]