[BSD] Get a free KVM VPS to play with! And write about it.
So it goes like this: some time ago I bought kinda cheap KVM VPS package:System RAM: 1024 MBSystem Disk: 30 GBCPU Cores: 3 CoresBandwidth: 2 TB You can find more if you will se…
BSD News 10/03/14
Last week in BSD
Releases: GhostBSD
Other news:DragonFly BSD, BSDCan, freeNAS, OpenSMTPD, iXsystems, BSDnow, PC-BSD,
Releases
GhostBSD 4.0-ALPHA1 now available
The first ALPHA build of the 4.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on SourceForge for the amd64, i386 architectures.
Where to download
The image checksums, ISO images and USB images are available here:
http://www.ghostbsd.org/download-4.0
Where to download
The image checksums, ISO images and USB images are available here:
http://www.ghostbsd.org/download-4.0
Other news
BSD News 03/03/14
Last week in BSD
Releases: DragonFly BSD, FreeNAS
Other: EuroBSDCon, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, NYCBSDCon, OpenBSD, DMA, DragonFly BSD, Google Summer of Code, BSDnow, GhostBSD
Releases
More info here.
FreeNAS 9.2.1.2-RC is now available
FreeNAS 9.2.1.2-RELEASE is now available
From a high level, these are the most significant changes:
- Samba (SMB/CIFS support) upgraded to version 4.1.5
- Linux
Google Summer of Code and BSD 2014
Indeed, this year is the 10th year. So what’s up with BSD and GSoC?
(What’s GSoC, anyway?)
Seems like only 2 mentor organizations got accepted:
What’s more interesting is mentors tagged with BSD:
BSD News 24/02/14
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Releases: FreeNAS
Other News: DragonFly BSD, PC-BSD, freeNAS, FreeBSD, EC2, BSDnow, OpenBSD
Releases
Announcing FreeNAS 9.2.1.1-RELEASE
Release Notes for FreeNAS 9.2.1.1-RELEASE
- Samba (SMB/CIFS support) upgraded to version 4.1.4, with select key fixes cherry-picked from 4.1.5. This version adds support for SMB3, the ability for FreeNAS to be a Windows Domain Controller, and advanced features like server-side
Interview: Kent Riboe from BSDEater.org
Kent Riboe from BSDEater.org is the next person I interviewed.
Not familiar with BSDEater? Well, you should be, as it’s here for quite some time. But that’s something you can read in interview! Enjoy!
Q: Could you, please, shortly introduce yourself and BSD Eater?
A: BSD Eater was originally started as planet.openbsd.nu to collect all news regarding the, at the
BSD News 17/02/14
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Releases: FreeNAS
Other news: FreeBSD Foundation, NYCBSDCon, DragonFly BSD, freeNAS, OpenBSD, FOSDEM, BSDnow, n2k14, BSDTalk, PC-BSD, Unix
Releases
iXsystems is pleased to announce that the FreeNAS Team has released FreeNAS 9.2.1. This minor update adds a few new features and fixes almost 200 bugs.
Read the full announcement and download the upgrade file
BSD and/on Twitter
No, this is not gonna be about twitter clients for BSDs. It’s gonna be about BSD on twitter.
What do you follow on twitter? I made a list for myself to be able to check latests news from BSD over twitter. Yeah, and only orgs right now, not people.
OpenSMTPD, Inc 
OpenZFS 
BSD BSD News 10/02/14
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Releases: NetBSD, FreeNAS
Other News: DragonFly BSD, pkg, FreeBSD, n2k14, OpenBSD, JabirOS, NetBSD, BSDnow
Releases
NetBSD 6.1.3, NetBSD 6.0.4, NetBSD 5.2.2, and NetBSD 5.1.4 patch releases
These releases represent a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons. Updating to one of these versions is recommended for users of all prior releases.
For
BSD News 03/02/14
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Releases: NetBSD, PC-BSD
Other news: DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Unix, BSDNow
Releases
NetBSD 6.1.3, NetBSD 6.0.4, NetBSD 5.2.2, and NetBSD 5.1.4 patch releases
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce:
- NetBSD 6.1.3, the third security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 6.1 release branch,
- NetBSD 6.0.4, the fourth security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch,
- NetBSD 5.2.2, the second
BSD Releases January 2014
FreeBSD 10.0-RC4
FreeBSD 10.0-RC5
FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE
Some of the highlights:
- GCC is no longer installed by default on architectures where clang(1) is the default compiler.
- Unbound has been imported to the base system as the local caching DNS resolver.
- BIND has been removed from the base system.
- make(1) has been replaced with bmake(1), obtained from the NetBSD Project.
- pkg(7) is now the default package management
BSD News 28/01/14
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Releases: FreeBSD, PC-BSD
Other News : OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD etc
Releases
FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE
Some of the highlights:
- GCC is no longer installed by default on architectures where clang(1) is the default compiler.
- Unbound has been imported to the base system as the local caching DNS resolver.
- BIND has been removed from the base system.
- make(1) has been replaced
BSD News 21/01/14
Last week in BSD
Releases: m0n0wall, pfSense
Other news: BSDnow, portmgr@, OpenBSD, ruBSD, DragonFly BSD, PC-BSD
Follow us at Twitter at @janhovancik. Read interview with new writer.
Releases
Change log highlights (see the SVN change log for the full details):
- add scheduler (“Croen”) service with many different job types (enable/disable interface or shaper rule, Wake
DiscoverBSD 2014 – interview with new writer Nur Agus
2014 is here, so kinda time to make something new. Well, not only because there is a change in year, but …But straight to the point.I am really happy to announce that +DiscoverBSD has a new writer!His name is Nur Agus and I made an interview with him…
BlueVM KVM and NetBSD I.
“NetBSD is a free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system. It is available for a wide range of platforms, from large-scale servers and powerful desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent for use in both production and research environments, and the source code is freely available under
BSD News 13/01/14
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Last week in BSD
Releases: PC-BSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
Other news: BSDTalk, DragonFly BSD, Halon Security, JabirOS, BSDnow, Google Summer of Code, ssh,
Releases
New release of SR (OpenBSD based router/firewall) SR 3.2-R1
Notable features and changes from RC2 are:
- Includes FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 from 12/26/2013
BSD News 07/01/14
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Releases: FreeBSD
Other News: BSDnow, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD,
Releases
FreeBSD 10.0-RC4 Now Available
The fourth RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.
This is expected to be the final RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.
Changes between 10.0-RC3 and
BSD News 30/12/13
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Releases: FreeBSD, PC-BSD, ArchBSD
Other News: BSDNow, OpenBSD, FreeBSD Foundation etc.
Releases
FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 Now Available
Changes between -RC2 and -RC3 include:
- Several minor bugfixes and functionality enhancements to bhyve.
- Add new sysctl, kern.supported_archs, containing the list of FreeBSD MACHINE_ARCH values whose binaries this kernel can run.
- Add a pkg(8) repository configuration file for cdrom-based package installation.
BSD KVM VPS – Feathur control panel settings
So second part of series is here. You might wanna read first part here to know what’s going on in here.So title says: Feathur control panel settings Right, BlueVM (affiliate link) created their own control panel, because they had some security i…
BSD News 23/12/13
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Releases: FreeNAS
Other News: ssh, OpenBSD, FreeBSD Foundation, EuroBSDCon, JabirOS, OpenBSD, ruBSD, BSDTalk, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD
Releases
Jordan Hubbard has announced the release of FreeNAS 9.2.0, a FreeBSD-based operating system that enables the users to build networked storage: “After one early beta and two release candidates, it gives us great pleasure to