Posts in category DiscoverBSD

BSD News 11/11/13

Nov 11, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
BSD News 11/11/13 Last week in BSDReleases: FreeBSD, GhostBSD, Security Router Other News:DragonFly BSD, portmgr@ , OpenBSD, OpenSSH, b2k13 hackathon, BSDnow, PC-BSDReleasesFreeBSD 10.0-BETA3 now available The third BETA build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 archi [...]
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BSD News 4/11/13

Nov 05, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
BSD News 4/11/13 Last week in BSDReleases: FreeBSD, OpenBSDOther News: BSDTalk, PC-BSD, FreeBSD Foundation, EuroBSDCon, b2k13 hackathon, BSDnow, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, ReleasesFreeBSD 10.0-BETA2 Available The second BETA build for the FreeBSD-10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and [...]
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October BSD releases

Nov 02, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
October BSD releases FreeBSDFreeBSD 9.2-RELEASESome of the highlights:The ZFS filesystem now supports TRIM when used on solid state drives.The virtio(4) drivers have been added to the GENERIC kernel configuration for amd64 and i386 architectures.The ZFS filesystem now supports lz4 compression.OpenSSL has been updated to version 0.9.8y.DTrace hooks have been [...]
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BSD News 28/10/13

Oct 28, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
BSD News 28/10/13 Last week in BSDReleases: BSD Router ProjectOther news: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, BSDnow, FreeBSD Foundation, ArchBSDReleasesBSD Router Project BSDRP 1.5 is out, here are the majors changes:- updated to FreeBSD 9.2 with some patches: autotune mbuf, pf NAT+UDP fix, etc..- new kernel modules: stf — 6to4 tunnel interface module and hwpmc- new pa [...]
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BSD News 10/21/13

Oct 22, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
BSD News 10/21/13 Last week in BSDReleases - FreeBSDOther News: DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD, BSD Magazine, PC-BSD, NetBSDFreeBSD 10.0-BETA1 now availableThe first beta build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.  ISO images and, for architectures that support it, memo [...]
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BSD News 10/14/13

Oct 14, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
BSD News 10/14/13 Last week in BSDReleases: PC-BSD, FreeBSDOther news: Code recap,  FreeBSD Foundation, AsiaBSDCon, DragonFly BSD, BSDnowNew series on PC-BSD 9.2!Trying out PC-BSD 9.2: IntroTrying out PC-BSD 9.2: First login, Networking, Crash ReleasesPC-BSD 9.2-RELEASEThe PC-BSD 9.2-RELEASE images images are now available for download. Users alread [...]
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Trying out PC-BSD 9.2: First login, N...

Oct 12, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
First part: Trying out PC-BSD 9.2: Intro So I logged, looking for way how to make a screenshot. People wanna see stuff. But first about boot: feels swift, not much longer than my Debian. Login took a bit longer, it took about 2 minutes to finish, but I am running from live USB so no problem. Can\'t really (Read more...)
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Trying out PC-BSD 9.2: Intro

Oct 09, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
Trying out PC-BSD 9.2: Intro You might read about how I tried to get some BSD running on my kinda spare Samsung Series 5 laptop. And how I was not successful. I pretty much gave up. Here you might read that I am thinking about getting rid of Windows on my another laptop, that I use everyday (gateway nv5214u, specs here). And I really (Read more...)
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BSD News 10/07/13

Oct 07, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
BSD News 10/07/13 Last week in BSDReleases: FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASEOther News: PC-BSD, freeNAS, pfSense, DragonFly BSD, BSDNowReleasesFreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE Now AvailableSome of the highlights:The ZFS filesystem now supports TRIM when used on solid state drives.The virtio(4) drivers have been added to the GENERIC kernel configuration for amd64 and i386 architect [...]
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BSD and Dropbox

Oct 06, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
BSD and Dropbox Some very long time ago I wrote about how to change an OS.One of steps was to check whether it supports software that one uses. In my case, I did not manage to get to that step, as I wasn\'t successful in running desktop environment.  All live CDs I tried (different BSDs) had troubles with configuring Xorg. Maybe because (Read more...)
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September BSD releases

Oct 02, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
September have been another successful month for BSD community. One way to look at it can be via releases. So let\'s look at them.GhostBSDGhostBSD 3.5-BETA2GhostBSD 3.5 BETA3  GhostBSD 3.5 RC1FeeNASFreeNAS 9.1.1-RELEASE This release offers small, but significant, improvements to FreeNAS 9.1.0!A number of cosmetic issues, UI tra [...]
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BSD News 09/30/13

Sep 30, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
BSD News 09/30/13 Last week in BSDReleases: NetBSD, FreeBSDOthers: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD FoundationReleasesNetBSD 5.2.1 and NetBSD 5.1.3 patch releasesThe NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 5.2.1, the first security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 5.2 release branch, and NetBSD 5.1.3, the third security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 5.1 re [...]
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BSD News 9/23/13

Sep 24, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
BSD News 9/23/13 Last week in BSDReleases: FreeBSD, GhostBSDOther News: JabirOS, BSDNow, OpenZFS, MirOS, DragonFlyBSDReleases FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA2 Now AvailableThe second ALPHA build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures.The image checksums are at the end of the announ [...]
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BSD News 9/16/13

Sep 16, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
BSD News 9/16/13 Last week in BSDReleases of FreeBSD, GhostBSD, PC-BSD, pfSense and other newsReleasesFreeBSD 9.2-RC4 Now Available FreeBSD 9.2-RC4 has been announced. Refer to the announcement for the checksums for each file.The fourth release candidate builds of the 9.2-RELEASE release cycle are now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, i [...]
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August BSD releases

Sep 02, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
August BSD releases It\'s been a long month. Pretty much the same as any other August. BSD folks were really busy so we can get some fresh releases.Here is a list of some (based on time of release, from beginning till end of August +-).FreeNAS 9.1.0The FreeNAS development team is delighted to announce the general release of FreeNAS 9.1.0. This (Read [...]
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BSD News 08/26/13

Aug 26, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
BSD News 08/26/13 Last week in BSDReleases: PC-BSD, NetBSD, GhostBSD, freeNAS, MidnightBSD Other news: DragonFly BSD, NetBSD, GhostBSDReleases New PC-BSD 9.2-RELEASE Images Available for DownloadKris has announced the availability of the latest PC-BSD images: The latest PC-BSD 9.2-RELEASE images (based upon FreeBSD 9.2-RC1) are now available for download. [...]
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History of BSD: 1BSD

Aug 21, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
History of BSD: 1BSD In last part I wrote what let to creation of BSD operating system.And I finished with talking a bit about 1BSD, the very first BSD. I mentioned, that it was not operating system, it didn\'t provide a kernel nor operating system. It provided a variety of useful programs and utilities for UNIX. [1]When looking for software included, (Read more [...]
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BSD News 08/19/13

Aug 20, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
BSD News 08/19/13 Last week in BSDFreeBSD  9.2-RC2 - JabirOS 1.0.1 - DragonFly BSD GSoC - Viking OS - OpenBSD 64-bit time - BSDTalk - vBSDConReleasesFreeBSD 9.2-RC2 has been announced. FreeBSD 9.2-RC2 has been announced.Changes between -RC1 and -RC2 include:Fix a boot issue caused by some GPT partitioning tools.Fix a regression that caused some [...]
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Google Summer of Code 2013 – Fr...

Aug 15, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
Google Summer of Code 2013 – FreeBSD part II. Hello guys, welcome to next part of my series about  Google Summer of Code 2013. You might wanna read previous ones: Google Summer of Code 2013 - Introduction Google Summer of Code 2013 - NetBSDGoogle Summer of Code 2013 - DragonFlyBSDThis time I will continue writing about FreeBSD. First part is here.What is FreeBSD?FreeBSD (Read [...]
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Google Summer of Code 2013 – Fr...

Aug 07, 2013 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
Google Summer of Code 2013 – FreeBSD part I. Hello guys, welcome to next part of my series about  Google Summer of Code 2013. You might wanna read previous ones: Google Summer of Code 2013 - Introduction Google Summer of Code 2013 - NetBSDGoogle Summer of Code 2013 - DragonFlyBSDThis time I will write about FreeBSD. What is FreeBSD?FreeBSD is an advanced operating system [...]
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