The third and what should be last of the test builds for the 7.3-RELEASE
cycle, 7.3-RC2, is available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64
architectures. The target schedule as well as the current status of the
release is available here:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/7.3TODO
The schedule has slipped by a bit over a week so the actual target for
the release [...] The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2, and KDE 4.3.5
PC-BSD 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements over the 7.x series. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2
KDE 4.3.5
Brand new System Installer, allows [...] Linus Torvalds has said Linux wouldn’t have happened if 386BSD had been around when he started up. We trace the history of FreeBSD and how it’s affected the open source world.
The first free Unix-like operating system available on the IBM PC was 386BSD, of which Linus Torvalds said in 1993: “If 386BSD had been available [...] Well, I figured that I should take an opportunity to introduce a few opensource OSs that really haven’t been in the lime light much. We all know about Linux and many of us also know about Darwin and BSD. Still some know about OpenSolaris. Which ever ones you know or don’t here’s a chance to [...] The second of the test builds for the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, 7.3-RC1, is now
available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. The target
schedule as well as the current status of the release is available here:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/7.3TODO
The schedule has slipped by about a week but so far it looks like we are
on track for just [...] The main objective of this blog is to help narrow down the list of Linux- and BSD-based distributions that a new user will feel comfortable using. Distributions that provide the same or better level of user-friendliness than the malware-infested and DRM-riddled operating system that they currently use. With more than 600 distributions listed at Distrowatch [...] The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-RC2 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2, and KDE 4.3.5
PC-BSD 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements over the 7.x series. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2
KDE 4.3.5
Brand new System Installer, allows [...] On behalf of the NetBSD developers, I am pleased to announce that
NetBSD 5.0.2 is now available for download. NetBSD 5.0.2 is the second
critical/security update of the NetBSD 5.0 release branch. It represents
a selected subset of fixes deemed critical for security or stability
reasons. All users are encouraged to upgrade.
For full details, please see the [...] Hello Everyone,
The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated
to reflect the EoL (end-of-life) of FreeBSD 6.3. The new list is below
and at <URL: http://security.freebsd.org/ >.
Users of FreeBSD 6.3 are advised to upgrade promptly to a newer release,
either by downloading an updated source tree and building updates manually,
or (for i386 and amd64 [...] FreeBSD is the most accessible and popular of the BSDs, has code at the heart of Darwin and Apple’s OS X, and has powered some of the more successful sites on the Web, including Hotmail, Netcraft and Yahoo!, which before the rise of Google was the busiest site on the internet.
FreeBSD rose from the ashes [...] 7.3-BETA1, the first test build of the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, is now
available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. The target
schedule along with the current status of the release is available here:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/7.3TODO
For now we plan on BETA1 being followed by two Release Candidates, then
the release itself. If you notice problems you can [...] The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-RC (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2, and KDE 4.3.4
PC-BSD 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements over the 7.x series. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2
KDE 4.3.4
Brand new System Installer, allows [...] Disney Enterprises has released Ptex, a library, API, and file format used by Disney for rendering models for movies like Bolt as open source.
Ptex (Per-Face Texture Mapping) is a texture mapping system which is used to give texture and color to 3D models. The code has been put up on GitHub under a BSD license. [...] Hello everyone!
We are happy to announce that BSD Magazine is transforming into a free monthly online publication. The online version of BSD Magazine will stay in the same quality and form. It will look like the BSD magazine one is familiar and comfortable with. Please sign up to our newsletter at [...] The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-BETA (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, and KDE 4.3.4
Version 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are: FreeBSD 8.0-Release
KDE 4.3.4
Brand new System Installer, allows the install of PC-BSD [...] Hi all,
On January 31st, FreeBSD 6.3 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be
supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of this release are strongly
encouraged to upgrade to a newer release before that date — more conservative
users will probably wish to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.4 or FreeBSD 7.1 (which are
both extended-support [...] Dear FreeBSD Community,
We would like to thank everyone who has donated to the FreeBSD
Foundation this year. We have raised $183,888 towards our 2009 goal of
$300,000! We are almost 2/3 of the way to reaching our goal! Oh, and
BTW, we have had 671 donors this year. This is compared to just over 300
this time last year. [...] It was a warm summer night, circa 1996, when I installed my first Linux distribution. I remember it well, the old text-based installation of Caldera Open Linux (and then Red Hat Linux, when Caldera proved to just not work well). The install took some time to get used to, but it worked. I felt at [...] Apple is making a lot of money these days. The more money it makes, the greater the contempt for its customers it seems to display. A critical bug recently discovered in FreeBSD, and the speed with which this bug was resolved, illustrates this rather well. If you use Apple’s products in your business, be afraid; [...] Hello m0n0wall users,
after almost three years in beta, I have decided that m0n0wall 1.3 is now good enough for
production. It’s basically a re-release of 1.3b18, with two fixes thrown in. No major bugs have been
reported anymore, but as always, upgrade on your own risk
Major changes in this release (since 1.23):
- switched base operating [...] | 