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dnaumov writes “FreeNAS, a popular, free NAS solution, is moving away from using FreeBSD as its underlying core OS and switching to Debian Linux. Version 0.8 of FreeNAS as well as all further releases are going to be based on Linux, while the FreeBSD-based 0.7 branch of FreeNAS is going into maintenance-only mode, according to [...]

The NVIDIA Corporation releases an initial BETA version of NVIDIA 195.22 FreeBSD graphics drivers for both i386 and amd64 architectures. The drivers support recent versions of the FreeBSD operating system, i.e. 7.2-STABLE and 8.0-RELEASE and provide support for features like SLI, improved compatibility and performance, especially on systems with 4GB or more of RAM. This [...]

An anonymous reader writes “Two weeks ago, The Daily WTF’s Alex Papadimoulis announced Bad Code Offsets, a join venture between many big names in the software development community (including StackOverflow’s Jeff Atwood and Jon Skeet and SourceGear’s Eric Sink). The premise is that you can offset bad code by purchasing Bad Code Offsets (much in [...]

Trailrunner7 writes “A researcher has published an explanation of a new flaw in FreeBSD that allows a remote attacker to take control of a vulnerable machine. The vulnerability could give an attacker root access to the FreeBSD machine, and the FreeBSD developers have published a patch for the flaw early Tuesday. The vulnerability lies in [...]