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HowtoForge: "Here is the guide on installing Firebird 2.5.1 from FreeBSD 9 Ports and creating your first test database."
ServerWatch: The ability to do realtime replication to another box is very important to the workflows of many entities that do storage..
The FreeBSD Engineering Team has announced the release of FreeBSD 9.0, a major new version of the BSD operating featuring a brand-new system installer: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch, which....
Ken Smith has announced the availability of the third release candidate for FreeBSD 9.0: "The third and what should be final release candidate build for the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. This should be the last of the test builds. We hope to begin the final release....
Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 9.0: "The second of the release candidate builds for the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available." According to the FreeBSD 9.0 release engineering page, this will be followed by one more release candidate before the....
Ken Smith has announced the availability of the delayed release candidate one for FreeBSD 9.0. According to the release schedule, it will be followed by two more release candidates before the final build on 13 November. From the release announcement: "The first of the Release Candidate builds of....
Ken Smith has announced the availability of the third beta release of FreeBSD 9.0: "The third beta build of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. The 9.0-RELEASE cycle will be tracked here though the schedule listed there is still way off. We'll re-work the schedule some time soon.....
FreeBSD: The second BETA build of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available.
Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second beta of FreeBSD 9.0, more than a month later than planned: "The second beta build of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Note: the location of the FTP install tree and ISOs have changed slightly. What we used....
Robert Milan: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD was first released with Squeeze in last February.
Phoronix: This is the first dramatic update to the FreeBSD operating system in nearly two years
Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first beta release of FreeBSD 9.0: "The first beta build of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Due to lack of support for boot floppies and issues with the new ATA_CAM infrastructure the pc98 architecture is being dropped to....
Wine-Reviews: "The upcoming Bordeaux for Linux and BSD 2011.03 release will see a major shift in how the program is written and the new features that will be available to current and future Bordeaux customers."
Datamation: "When one door closes, sometimes another one opens. The open source FreeBSD operating systems is out this week with a new release expanding support for the ZFS filesystem and improving disk encryption performance."
FreeBSD: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some new features"
Ken Smith has announced the release of FreeBSD 8.2: "The FreeBSD release engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the....
IT World: "Here's some good news for all you Debian fans: Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) has now been released."
itwbennett writes "After two years of work, the Debian Project has announced the release of Debian 6.0. 'There are many goodies in Debian 6.0 GNU/Linux, not the least of which is the new completely free-as-in-freedom Linux kernel, which no longer contains firmware modules that Debian developers found troublesome,' says blogger Brian Proffitt. And in addition to Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced as a technology preview. 'Debian GNU/kFreeBSD will port both a 32- and 64-bit PC version of the FreeBSD kernel into the Debian userspace, making them the first Debian release without a Linux kernel,' says Proffitt. 'The Debian Project is serious about the technology preview label, though: these FreeBSD-based versions will have limited advanced desktop features.' The release notes and installation manual have been posted, and installation images may be downloaded right now via bittorrent, jigdo, or HTTP." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
The third release candidates for FreeBSD 8.2 (production branch) and 7.4 (legacy production branch) have been released: "The third release candidate for the 8.2/7.4 release cycle is now available. For 8.2-RC3 the amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, powerpc and sparc64 architectures are available. For 7.4-RC3 the amd64, i386, pc98,....
Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 7.4, the latest update of the project's "production legacy" branch: "The second release candidate for the FreeBSD 7.4 release cycle is now available. An initial set of pre-build packages are available on the DVD and....
Ken Smith has announced that the second release candidate for FreeBSD 8.2 is available and ready for testing: "The second release candidate for the FreeBSD 8.2 release cycle is now available. Initial testing of the 7.4-RC2 install images turned up an issue with the pre-built packages that will....
Howtoforge: "Here is the guide on installing Firebird 2.5 from FreeBSD 8.1 Ports and creating your first test database; also we show you how to install Flamerobin GUI (administration tool) and the PHP driver for it. This was tested on fresh FreeBSD 8.1 on a virtual machine."
Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidates for FreeBSD 8.2 and 7.4: "The first release candidate for the FreeBSD 7.4/8.2 release cycle is now available. For 7.4-RC1 the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures are available, for 8.2-RC1 those architectures plus ia64 and powerpc....
I Am, Therefore I Think: "Don't let the title scare you. This is only on my main file server, which holds both shared material (source tarballs and update packages) and 116G of movie files. It has recently begun to mis-behave under Linux."
Netstat -vat: "The open source FreeBSD operating system is headed to the Amazon cloud. Not the mainline FreeBSD 8.x release, but rather the next generation FreeBSD 9 release that is currently in development."
Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first beta releases of FreeBSD 8.2 and 7.4, new upcoming versions in the production (version 8) and legacy production (version 7) series: "The first of the test builds for the 8.2/7.4 release cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64,....
Phoronix: "As was reported recently, the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port now has limited support for handling ZFS file-systems and its stock kernel has been upgraded against that of FreeBSD 8.1. Due to the upgraded kernel we ran a quick set of benchmarks to see how the performance of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD to that of Debian Linux."
Click: "The topic, "Should I try OpenBSD/FreeBSD?" came up recently on the Fedora Forum, and while I answered there, my answer is sufficiently long-winded enough to spin into a blog post here:"
Ghacks: "FreeBSD is a UNIX-like OS that has been around since 1993. If you're familiar with Linux or other UNIXes, you have most of the knowledge required to try it out, but you will also notice a few differences. Those familiar with the underpinnings of Mac OSX know that it, too, is based on BSD."