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How often do you hear people lumping together Linux and any of the BSDs? I’ve done it on occasion, and I hear it all the time. Of course, there are plenty of similarities between Linux and BSD: They are both based on UNIX. For the most part, both systems are developed by noncommercial organizations. And [...] PC-BSD 8.1 was released on July 20, 2010, roughly five months after version 8.0 was released. Some of the suggestions made in the review of PC-BSD 8.0 have been carried out in this latest release. In fact, the changes were made within one month of that review being published. It is an encouraging example of [...] Much of the focus of desktop Linux, and regrettably even Linux in the data center, is a slow and steady migration away from the command line towards GUI tools and interfaces. While this is great news for the Linux and open source community at large, many basic Unix skills get overlooked by new users. Back [...] We take great pleasure in announcing that the NetBSD core team, responsible for technical management within the NetBSD project, has increased its numbers to seven. This is to help in the running of a project with an ever-growing source base and developer community, and mirrors a similar change made to the board of directors, which [...] August issue is here! I am happy to introduce you August issue. This time we will be mentioning Windows, Ubuntu in our magazine, but surely it will be more than connected to BSD. Get yourself a copy and let us know if it was usefull and interesting. We also have modified and have another survey [...] We have update to Gnome 2.30. Now You can install GhostBSD by terminal commands and a list with pc-sysinstall. The partition Supported to install GhostBSD are UFS, UFS+S (plus soft updates7), UFS+J (plus journaling8), ZFS, and SWAP. A how to install is in the desktop. With GhostBSD in your hard drive you have Linux-f10 compatibility [...] Dear FreeBSD Community, We are pleased to announce the publication of The FreeBSD Foundation’s 2010 Semi-Annual Newsletter. Go to http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2010Jul-newsletter.shtml to find out how we have supported the FreeBSD Project and community so far this year. Sincerely, The FreeBSD Foundation The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: – zfsloader added – zpool version of ZFS subsystem updated to version 14 – NFSv4 [...] The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, and KDE 4.4.5 Version 8.1 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 8.1-Release KDE 4.4.5 Numerous fixes to the installation [...] Back in January, we published the first benchmarks of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD: the spin of Debian that replaces the Linux kernel with the FreeBSD kernel while retaining most of the same GNU user-land and it uses the GNU C library. With those original tests comparing Debian GNU/Linux to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, the Linux version ended up winning [...] The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce the completion of the 2010 core team election. The FreeBSD core team acts as the project’s “board of directors” and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, et cetera), and making any [...] Dear FreeBSD Community, We are pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz Napierala has been awarded a grant to implement resource containers and a simple per-jail resource limits mechanism. Unlike Solaris zones, the current implementation of FreeBSD Jails does not provide per-jail resource limits. As a result, users are often forced to replace jails with other [...] Good News GhostBSD 1.5 Beta is there. On this beta we have the backend of PC-BSD installer But not configure to install GhostBSD We add Cups and Compiz but we have not test if cups work. compiz is part of the system but Whit xorg config that not gonna work. But when we gonna have [...] The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.1-RC1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-RC1, and KDE 4.4.4 Version 8.1 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 8.1-RC1 KDE 4.4.4 Numerous fixes to the installation [...] The first Release Candidate for the FreeBSD 8.1 release cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures. Files suitable for creating installation media or doing FTP based installs through the network should be available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. Checksums for the images are at the bottom of this [...] The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.1-BETA1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE, and KDE 4.4.4 Version 8.1 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 8.1-PreRelease KDE 4.4.4 Numerous fixes to the installation [...] I run FreeBSD on my computers. A lot of my friends run Linux, or at least one of the distributions of it. Naturally, then, we agree that a Unix-style operating system is the right choice, but we disagree on which to use. It’s been my impression that the BSD communit{y,ies}, in general, understand Linux far [...] The first of the test builds for the FreeBSD 8.1 release cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. Files suitable for creating installation media or doing FTP based installs through the network should be on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites by now. MD5/SHA256 checksums of the images are [...] Following the September 2009 announcement that version 1.7 of DesktopBSD would be the “last and final release”, a small group of German developers have signed on to continue the distributions development. DesktopBSD is based on FreeBSD using the KDE desktop environment and is similar to PC-BSD which also focuses on a desktop version of the [...] The second release candidate of NetBSD 5.1 is now available for download at: http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.1_RC2/ Those of you who prefer to build from source can continue to follow the netbsd-5 branch, but the netbsd-5-1-RC2 tag is available as well. See src/doc/CHANGES-5.1 for the list of changes from RC1 to RC2. Please help us test this and [...] |
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