Earlier this year, the Foundation sponsored Edward Tomasz Napierala to fix FreeBSD\'s #1 reported bug: a USB disk causing a panic when detached before unmounting. Edward describes the project as follows:One of the long-standing problems encountered by FreeBSD users was the fact that the system could often crash after a mounted disk device - f [...]
Safe Removal of Active Disk Devices
Earlier this year, the Foundation sponsored Edward Tomasz Napierala to fix FreeBSD\'s #1 reported bug: a USB disk causing a panic when detached before unmounting. Edward describes the project as follows:One of the long-standing problems encountered by FreeBSD users was the fact that the system could often crash after a mounted disk device - f [...]
FreeBSD – Quick install guide (...
Much great have been said on FreeBSD;the license has all the freedom you needserver apps setup are mostly manual. no wizard of oz, no gui. Which makes the administrator have control over everything.it boots fasterits stability is like rock, hard to crash :)default installation are lean and mean. Is meant to be built from scratch. (Read more. [...]
New Board Member
We are pleased to announce the addition of Dru Lavigne to our Board of Directors. Dru brings with her years of experience as a writer, FreeBSD advocate, and FreeBSD administrator/teacher.
Be Counted Campaign
Millions of systems run FreeBSD. Hundreds of volunteers contribute to FreeBSD\'s success. But what is the size of FreeBSD\'s user base? This simple question is very hard to answer, but its answer is vital to the cause of promoting FreeBSD. It is extremely difficult to convince businesses to invest time and money to add FreeBSD support to thei [...]
Hot off the Press: FreeBSD Foundation...
In this Edition: * Letter From the President * 2009 Fundraising Drive * Dru Lavigne Helping Foundation * Safe Removal of Active Disk Devices * Wireless Mesh Support * Improvements to the FreeBSD TCP Stack * AVR32 Support * Problem Reporting Prototype * FreeBSD Powers Long Distance Wireless Link * DCBSDCon 2009 [...]
The Slashdot Effect
The Slashdot Effect
After 8 months, 66 videos uploaded, and 141,676 views, the BSD Conferences YouTube Channel was slashdotted for the first time last week. Specifically, Theo\'s OpenBSD Release Engineering talk was linked from this slashdot post. Views of the video spiked to nearly 8,000 a day after the Slashdot post, which dwarfs the previous highs of around [...]
FreeBSD – Error installing KDE4...
Halfway through installing KDE4 or any ports that is related to Xine, ended fail with the below error message :===> Found saved configuration for libxine-1.1.16.3_1=> xine-lib-1.1.16.3.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.=> Attempting to fetch from http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xine/.xine- [...]
FreeBSD – Error installing KDE4 or Xi...
Halfway through installing KDE4 or any ports that is related to Xine, ended fail with the below error message :
===> Found saved configuration for libxine-1.1.16.3_1
=> xine-lib-1.1.16.3.tar.bz2 doesn\'t seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch from http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/x [...]
Why We Send Developers to Conferences
You probably know that the FreeBSD Foundation provides travel assistance for developers to attend conferences. If you\'ve ever attended a BSD conference yourself, you have experienced first hand the value in networking with both committers and BSD users. We\'ll be asking developers we\'ve sponsored to share their experiences and will start wi [...]
New Console Driver
Ed Schouten has been awarded a grant to write a new console driver for the FreeBSD project. The FreeBSD Foundation is excited to support Ed in providing a more efficient and user-friendly console driver.This project will allow Ed to add an additional abstraction layer to the kernel. This new terminal layer will sit between the TTY layer, the [...]
FreeBSD – How to install flash ...
This post is part of the "How to install FreeBSD as your Desktop" series and it shows how to install flash plugin onto FireFox internet browser in FreeBSD. Here it is :Read more »
FreeBSD – How to install flash plugin...
This post is part of the “How to install FreeBSD as your Desktop” series and it shows how to install flash plugin onto FireFox internet browser in FreeBSD. Here it is :
Execute the below as root
Installing Linux emulators that will run the Linux version of flash plugin on FireFox:
echo compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 >� [...]
Freebsd – How to install FreeBS...
UPDATE : After testing PC-BSD for a while (more then 6 months), PC-BSD indeed is a FreeBSD variant that is superior in Desktop environment. Its user friendly installation and configuration have make FreeBSD so much more suitable running as an Desktop. Unless you\'re interested in figuring out how to tweak and turn FreeBSD to work in a Desktop [...]
Freebsd – How to install FreeBSD as y...
UPDATE : After testing PC-BSD for a while (more then 6 months), PC-BSD indeed is a FreeBSD variant that is superior in Desktop environment. Its user friendly installation and configuration have make FreeBSD so much more suitable running as an Desktop. Unless you’re interested in figuring out how to tweak and turn FreeBSD to work [... [...]
FreeBSD Code Metrics Now on Ohloh.net
FreeBSD Code Metrics Now on Ohloh.net
I\'ve written previously about Ohloh.net and how I\'d like to see more of the dynamic code metrics calculated there available on the FreeBSD web site. I am happy to report that today I noticed after several years of attempts, the ohloh repository import servers have finally managed to get through the entire FreeBSD source repository. Their [...]
FreeBSD – How to disable or tur...
A reminder to myself on how to disable the keyboard beep sound (serve as an alert) when ever an error occured in the console command line. It is control by a sysctl value. To stop it now on all console, execute :sysctl hw.syscons.bell=0To make it permanent, such as every time FreeBSD boots, disable the beep sound :echo (Read more...)
FreeBSD – How to disable or turn off ...
A reminder to myself on how to disable the keyboard beep sound (serve as an alert) when ever an error occured in the console command line. It is control by a sysctl value. To stop it now on all console, execute :
sysctl hw.syscons.bell=0
To make it permanent, such as every time FreeBSD boots, disable the beep [...]
Freebsd – How to install or add...
FreeBSD is getting more and more attention due to its stability and (well done) documentation. Geeks and nerds are getting their hands into installing FreeBSD onto their Desktop or Laptop. Some might ask "Eh ??? Why ain't ya mentioning the servers? Is BSD.". Sound card, sound card belongs to multimedia. It's mostly meant [...]
