For starters and advanced *BSD users
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 ‘a fully operational X environment,’ as well as a bootable USB disk-key image.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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 ‘a fully operational X environment,’ as well as a bootable USB disk-key image.”
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KDE 4.2.0 has been merged into the ports tree. For a detailed list of improvements, please refer to the announcement. For general information about KDE on FreeBSD, please see the KDE on FreeBSD project page.
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.
