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We are pleased to annouce that Google has invited the FreeBSD Project to participate in their Summer of Code 2009 program, which allows students to get paid to work on the FreeBSD source code. We invite students interested in working on FreeBSD to submit their proposals as soon as possible.

There are a number of semi-official Twitter streams available now with the latest updates from the FreeBSD Project. The @freebsdannounce stream provides a short summary and link to the full newsflash posts. @freebsdblogs syndicates the FreeBSD developer blogs from Planet FreeBSD. @freebsd syndicates both of the above sources and more. Finally, the new @bsdevents stream [...]

ReeceTarbert writes “If you wanted to try FreeBSD but didn’t have the right hardware, or enough time to make it useful on the desktop, VirtualBSD might fit the bill: it’s a VMware appliance based on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and features the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment and a few of the most common applications to make it [...]

An anonymous reader writes “DragonFly BSD 2.2 is now available. The second release to feature the HAMMER (versioning, among other things) filesystem — now considered production-ready — it includes ‘major stability improvements across the board, new drivers, much better pkgsrc support and integration.’ Apart from the CD ISO, this release has a DVD ISO with [...]

Peter N. M. Hansteen writes “Once you’ve identified spam senders, OpenBSD provides all the tools you need to take one step further: exporting their addresses and publishing the evidence. You can even trap them yourself using known bad addresses. It’s easy, fun and good netizenship.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

jschauma writes “Many sites are reporting that the next Sidekick LX 2009/Blade, from Danger (acquired by Microsoft early in 2008), is going to run NetBSD as their operating system, causing Microsoft’s recruiters to look for NetBSD developers.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

jschauma writes “The first release candidate of NetBSD 5.0 is now available for download from the NetBSD FTP site. Here is the Release Engineering status of 5.0.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.