What’s New This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 5.1. For a comprehensive list, see the changelog leading to 5.1.   Improved hardware support, including: umsm(4) supports additional mobile broadband devices. Non-GigE ale(4) devices can now establish link to a GigE link partner. Support for Intel 82580 has been [...]

I’ve just completed uploading FreeNAS 8.2.0-BETA3. https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.2.0/ Upgrades from BETA2 work, but most likely any plugin stuff that is working in BETA2 will stop working You’ll want to use the plugins in the BETA3 directory with this beta, don’t mix and match. Notable highlights are a complete refactor of plugins, iSCSI target reload, and the [...]

FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-p1 is now available for immediate download from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.0.4/ FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-p1 contains Samba 3.6.4, which addresses the critical security flaw in CVE-2012-1182. This update is critical for anyone using CIFS. A small handful of other fixes since 8.0.4-RELEASE have been included in this release. Release Notes for FreeNAS 8.0.4-RELEASE-p1 *** IMPORTANT *** – – The image [...]

On behalf of NetBSD developers, I’m happy to announce the availability of a public beta of NetBSD 6.0, for your testing pleasure. (For a more-marked-up version of this announcment, see the NetBSD blog: http://blog.NetBSD.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_6_0_beta_binaries ) This beta is substantially feature-complete; there may be some additional changes to the installer and possibly some additional hardware support [...]

It’s been a long road, and it’s not anywhere close to being done, but FreeNAS is a step closer to a release with plugins. I’m pleased to announce on behalf of the FreeNAS team, FreeNAS 8.2.0-BETA2, available for immediate download from sourceforge. https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.2.0/ Release Notes for FreeNAS 8.2.0-BETA2 *** IMPORTANT *** – – The image [...]

Dear All, I am glad to inform you that we are again organizing a “DanuBSDCon” (aka. BSD-Day) [1].  It is going to be held at the UAS Technikum Wien [2] in Vienna, Austria [3] on May 5, 2012 as part of the Austrian Linuxweeks (Linuxwochen Österreich). We are inviting all developers to spread the word [...]

FreeNAS 8.0.4-RELEASE is now available for immediate download. https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.0.4/ Release Notes for FreeNAS 8.0.4-RELEASE *** IMPORTANT *** – – The image size increased in 8.0.1-BETA3. The new size requires a 2 GB storage device. The GUI upgrade can be used to upgrade a system from BETA3, BETA4, or RC1 but upgrades from earlier releases can [...]

The DragonFly 3.0 release is here! This release was delayed from our regular schedule for tracking down what appears to be a AMD CPU bug. As a pleasant side effect, the giant kernel lock has been removed from much of the system and this release performs significantly better on multi-core systems than previous DragonFly versions. [...]

On behalf of the NetBSD developers, I am pleased to announce that NetBSD 5.1.2 is now available for download. NetBSD 5.1.2 is the second critical/security update of the NetBSD 5.1 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, [...]

After months of work, the official, final release of GhostBSD 2.5 is finally here! Many bugs have been fixed, many parts of the system updated, tweaked and fine-tuned. We now have two main branches of the system – one is based on GNOME desktop, the other on LXDE. Both fit perfectly on their respective mediums, [...]

It is based upon FreeBSD RC3 and includes a number of changes and bugfixes. BugFixes: CUPS should now be working with most printers, LXDE USB image and CD image are ready to download and use, GDM now allows users to choose their language for the GNOME session. The log-in credentials for GNOME session are: ghostbsd [...]

*** IMPORTANT *** The image size increased in 8.0.1-BETA3. The new size requires a 2 GB storage device. The GUI upgrade can be used to upgrade a system from BETA3, BETA4, or RC1 but upgrades from earlier releases can only be done from the CD. The other option is to save the config, reinstall the [...]

pfSense 2.0.1 release is now available. About half the mirrors are synced at the time of posting this, and the remainder will be synced in the next few hours. This is a maintenance release with some bug and security fixes since 2.0 release. This is the recommended release for all installations. As always, you can [...]