Archive for April, 2009

NetBSD 5.0 Released

April 30th, 2009 by Rob


kl76 writes “The NetBSD Project have announced the release of NetBSD 5.0 after two years of development. Highlights of the seven million new lines of code in 5.0 include a new threads implementation, kernel preemption, a new scheduler, POSIX real-time scheduling, message queues and asynchronous I/O, WAPBL metadata journaling for FFS filesystems, improved ACPI support, [...]

FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 Available

April 25th, 2009 by Rob


The second of two planned Release Candidates for the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

DCBSDCon Videos Posted

April 21st, 2009 by Rob


All of the technical sessions from the recent DCBSDCon 2009 conference were recorded and are now available in the BSDConferences channel on YouTube. There are now 50 separate videos of technical talks from MeetBSD, NYCBSDCon, AsiaBSDCon, and BSDCan available in the channel.

FreeBSD 7.2-RC1 Available

April 17th, 2009 by Rob


The first of two planned Release Candidates for the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

Enhanced commit privileges: Gábor Páli (ports, doc)

April 12th, 2009 by Rob


PC-BSD 7.1 Released With Integrated Software Manager

April 11th, 2009 by Rob


Death Metal writes “PC-BSD 7.1 is built upon the FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE operating system. FreeBSD is a UNIX-based operating system that provides a high level of security and stability. The Galileo Edition of PC-BSD includes updated versions of KDE (4.2.2) and Xorg (7.4). The latest version of KDE includes new window effects, screen savers, and better [...]

New committer: Rick Macklem (src)

April 6th, 2009 by Rob


Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support

April 5th, 2009 by Rob


mu22le writes “Today Debian gets one step closer to really becoming ‘the universal operating system’ by adding two architectures based on the FreeBSD kernel to the unstable archive. This does not mean that the Debian project is ditching the Linux kernel; Debian users will be able to choose which kernel they want to install (at [...]

FreeBSD 7.2-BETA1 Available

April 3rd, 2009 by Rob


The final stage of the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE cycle has begun with the first beta release. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

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