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July-September, 2011 Status Report

December 4th, 2011 by Rob


The July-September, 2011 Status Report is now available with 28 entries.

New committer: Ruslan Mahmatkhanov (ports)

December 4th, 2011 by Rob


New committer: David Chisnall (src)

December 4th, 2011 by Rob


New committer: Michael Scheidell (ports)

December 4th, 2011 by Rob


FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 Available

December 4th, 2011 by Rob


The second RC build for the FreeBSD-9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our [...]

New committer: Justin Hibbits (src)

December 4th, 2011 by Rob


New member for the Ports Management team: Beat Gätzi

December 4th, 2011 by Rob


New committer: Justin Hibbits (src)

December 3rd, 2011 by Rob


Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing

November 20th, 2011 by Rob


An anonymous reader points out an interesting, detailed interview with Andrew Tanenbaum at Linuxfr.org; Tanenbaum holds forth on the current state of MINIX, licensing decisions, and the real reason he believes that Linux caught on just when he “thought BSD was going to take over the world.” (“I think Linux succeeded against BSD, which was [...]

FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 Available

November 18th, 2011 by Rob


The second RC build for the FreeBSD-9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our [...]

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