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View ArticleFreeBSD 8.1-BETA1 Available...
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...
View ArticlePC-BSD 8.1-BETA1 - Now available!
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 4.4.4Version 8.1 contains a number of enhancements and...
View ArticleDesktopBSD lives on under new leadership
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...
View ArticleFreeBSD 7.2 EoL coming soon
Hello Everyone,On June 30th, FreeBSD 7.2 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of this release are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.3...
View ArticleFreeBSD: ports feature freeze starts soon
In preparation for 8.1-RELEASE, the ports tree will be in feature freeze after release candidate 1 (RC1) is released, currently planned for June 11.If you have any commits with high impact planned, get...
View ArticleFreeBSD: Foundation Announces Jail Based Virtualization
We are pleased to announce that Bjoern A. Zeeb has been awarded a grant to improve FreeBSD's jail based virtualization infrastructure and to continue to work on the virtual network stack. His employer,...
View ArticleFreeBSD 8.1-RC1 Available
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...
View ArticlePC-BSD 8.1-RC1 Now Available
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 4.4.4Version 8.1 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a...
View ArticleFreeBSD supported branches update
Hello Everyone,The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect the EoL (end-of-life) of FreeBSD 7.2. The new list is below and at http://security.freebsd.org.Users...
View ArticleFreeBSD 8.1-RC2 Available
The second and most likely final 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...
View ArticleZFS version 15 committed to head
Dear community,as you may have noticed, ZFS v15 support with many bugfixes was committed to head in revision 209962.The commit was tagged for MFC, so if there are no stopper issues I am going to commit...
View ArticleNew FreeBSD core team elected
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...
View ArticleFreeBSD: Foundation Announces Resource Containers Project
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...
View ArticlePC-BSD 8.1 "Hubble Edition" released
The PC-BSD development team have announced the release of version 8.1, the "Hubble Edition", of their open source operating system. According to the developers, the first point update to the 8.0 branch...
View ArticleFreeBSD 8.1 RELEASED
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...
View ArticleStopping SSH Brute Force attacks with PF on FreeBSD
Most people know that port 22 is used for SSH communication and due to this common knowledge, you get people using scripts to test for weak passwords. If you look into your /var/log/auth.log and you...
View ArticleFreeBSD 8.1 Provides Evolutionary Open Source Software Upgrade
Putting out new releases of OS software isn't always about adding major new features -- sometimes it's just about making existing features usable and stable. In the case of the open source software...
View ArticlePC-BSD 8.1 review
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...
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