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+-   openbsd 4.6 released on Sunday October 18, @01:53PM pgilman

Submitted by pgilman on Sunday October 18, @01:53PM
bsd
pgilman writes "the release of openbsd 4.6 was announced today. highlights of the new release include a new privilege-separated smtpd, numerous improvements to packet filtering, software RAID, routing daemons, and the tcp stack, a new installer, and lots more too. grab a cd set or download from a mirror, and please support the project (which also brings you openssh and lots of other great free software) if you can."
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+-   DesktopBSD 1.7 Review[->] on Thursday September 10, @10:21AM JimLynch

Submitted by JimLynch on Thursday September 10, @10:21AM
os
JimLynch writes "Although the official name of this blog is Desktop Linux Reviews, we will occasionally be looking at non-Linux operating systems too. Such is the case with DesktopBSD 1.7 which is a version of the FreeBSD operating system. DesktopBSD is, as you can tell from its name, geared toward desktop users."
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+-   FreeBSD Developer Sues Lenovo over "Microsoft on Friday August 14, @06:39AM Handbrewer

Submitted by Handbrewer on Friday August 14, @06:39AM
windows
Handbrewer writes "The FreeBSD Developer Poul-Henning Kamp (phk), has sued Lenovo in Denmark over their refusal to refund the Windows Vista Business license eventhough he declined the EULA during installation. Lenovo argues that they sell the computer as a full product, and that they cannot refund it partially, such as the power supply or the OS even if people intend to use a different one. This seems to be contrary to previous rulings in the EU where Acer and HP has been forced to refund the Microsoft "tax"."
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+-   OpenBSD's Release Process on Thursday July 16, @12:14PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16, @12:14PM
os
An anonymous reader writes "Twelve years ago OpenBSD developers started engineering a release process that has resulted in quality software being delivered on a consistent 6 month schedule — 25 times in a row, exactly on the date promised, and with no critical bugs. This on-time delivery process is very different from how corporations manage their product releases and much more in tune with how volunteer driven communities are supposed to function. Theo de Raadt explains in this presentation how OpenBSD release process is managed and why it has been such a success."
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+-   NetBSD.org Asking US $60,000 For NetBSD 6.0[->] on Sunday July 12, @11:12PM Trollaxor

Submitted by Trollaxor on Sunday July 12, @11:12PM
os
Trollaxor writes "Hot on the heels of their NetBSD 5.0 release, the NetBSD organization is gearing up for NetBSD 6.0, due in just under a year ("The sixth major release for the six month of 2010!"). To make that happen, NetBSD is asking its industry partners, users, and anyone with spare change to contribute US $60,000. Matt Thomas, of NetBSD's core group, says the money will allow for "network performance improvements and embedded and realtime optimization," meaning NetBSD can finally move onto specialized hardware, something it has struggled with in the past. So far, they have $40. Do Slashdot readers find $60,000 an appropriate amount to sponsor the BSD family's middle child, or does the price outweigh the upgrade?"
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Comments: 2 +-   China chooses FreeBSD as basis for secure OS on Sunday May 31, @10:57AM dnaumov

Submitted by dnaumov on Sunday May 31, @10:57AM
security
dnaumov writes "A report by the Washington Post claims China is equipping all of its government and military PCs with a version of the Kylin (site in Chinese) operating system to make hacking attempts by foreign intelligence services more difficult. The information about the highly secure operating system was made public during a US China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing in late April. In addition to the secure operating system, the computers will also contain a special microprocessor to prevent attacks. The Kylin (Chinese page link) operating system was developed by China's University of Science and Technology for National Defence, and although it appears the system is claimed to be proprietary, an analysis of the code (site in Chinese) in the kernel indicates that it is in fact a hardened version of FreeBSD 5.3. Kylin"
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+-   FreeBSD 7.2 Released[->] on Sunday May 03 2009, @07:43PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2009, @07:43PM
announcement
An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:
- Support for fully transparent use of superpages for application memory
- Support for multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for jails
- csup(1) now supports CVSMode to fetch a complete CVS repository
- Gnome updated to 2.26, KDE updated to 4.2.2
- Sparc64 now supports UltraSparc-III processors

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/relnotes.html
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/errata.html"
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+-   OpenBSD 4.5 Released on Thursday April 30 2009, @11:16PM portscan

Submitted by portscan on Thursday April 30 2009, @11:16PM
os
portscan writes "OpenBSD 4.5 has been released. New and extended platforms include sparc64, and added device drivers. OpenSSH 5.2 is included, plus a number of tweaks, bugfixes, and enhancements. See the announcement page for a full list. OpenBSD is a security-oriented UNIX/BSD operating system."
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+-   NetBSD Blog This, NetBSD Twitter That[->] on Sunday April 26 2009, @09:37PM jschauma

Submitted by jschauma on Sunday April 26 2009, @09:37PM
os
jschauma writes "The NetBSD Project announced today the availability of the NetBSD Project Blog, their first offical interactive news outlet. In addition to the netbsd-announce mailing list and the regular website announcements, this blog hopes to provide frequent and somehwat more detailed updates on new developments within NetBSD and pkgsrc. In addition to the blog, a NetBSD tweet or whatever those things are called has been created. What's next? A facepage? A MyBook site? NetBSD/iphone?"
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+-   Debia get FreeBSD kernel support[->] on Sunday April 05 2009, @04:33PM mu22le

Submitted by mu22le on Sunday April 05 2009, @04:33PM
debian
mu22le writes "Today Debian get one step closer to really became "the universal operating system" by adding two architectures based on the FreeBSD kernel to the unstable archive. This does not mean that the Debian project is ditching the Linux kernel, Debian users will be able to choose which kernel they want to install (at least on on the i386 and amd64 architectures) and get more or less the same Debian operating system they are used to. This makes Debian the first distribution, and probably the first large OS, to support two completely different kernels at the same time."
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+-   FreeBSD removes GCC in favour of LLVM/Clang[->] on Wednesday April 01 2009, @12:10AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2009, @12:10AM
os
An anonymous reader writes "FreeBSD committer Ed Schouten has deleted GCC from the FreeBSD Subversion repository in preparation for an import of LLVM/Clang."
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+-   Forget Microsoft CE, new Sidekick to run NetBSD[->] on Monday February 02 2009, @10:45AM jschauma

Submitted by jschauma on Monday February 02 2009, @10:45AM
os
jschauma writes "Various sites, are reporting that the next Sidekick LX 2009/Blade is going to run NetBSD as their operating system, causing Microsoft's recruiters to look for NetBSD developers."
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+-   NetBSD 5.0 RC1 released[->] on Sunday February 01 2009, @02:08PM jschauma

Submitted by jschauma on Sunday February 01 2009, @02:08PM
os
jschauma writes "The first release candidate of NetBSD 5.0 is now available for download from the NetBSD ftp site. See this page for the Release Engineering status of the 5.0 release as well as this email for more information."
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+-   FreeBSD 7.1 released[->] on Tuesday January 06 2009, @07:34AM Sol-Invictus

Submitted by Sol-Invictus on Tuesday January 06 2009, @07:34AM
os
Sol-Invictus writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: * The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and i386 architectures. The ULE scheduler significantly improves performance on multicore systems for many workloads. * Support for using DTrace inside the kernel has been imported from OpenSolaris. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework. * A new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client. * Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices. * The cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command have been added, providing an API for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and assignment. * KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3. * DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures"
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+-   FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE is now available. [->] on Monday January 05 2009, @12:50PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 05 2009, @12:50PM
os
An anonymous reader writes "FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE is now available."
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Comments: 1 +-   FreeBSD 7.1 released on Monday January 05 2009, @09:14AM ByOhTek

Submitted by ByOhTek on Monday January 05 2009, @09:14AM
os
ByOhTek writes "FreeBSD 7.1 has been released today. You can get it here, with the standard release notes and hardware notes. Amusingly, RC2 was released on Christmas — given the multi-week/month steps between the beta/rc releases, this was a rather quick transition.

I'm looking forward to upgrading my notebook and desktop, though my server will stick with 6.2, since I like to keep the uptime.

Some interesting features:

* The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and i386 architectures. The ULE scheduler significantly improves performance on multicore systems for many workloads.
* A new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client.
* Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices.
* The cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command have been added, providing an API for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and assignment.
* KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3.
* DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures

and there are the usual security/multimedia/hardware updates."

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+-   FreeBSD 6.4 released[->] on Tuesday December 02 2008, @06:43AM hmallett

Submitted by hmallett on Tuesday December 02 2008, @06:43AM
unix
hmallett writes "FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE, the fifth release from the 6-STABLE branch of FreeBSD development, has been released. In addition to being available from many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, FreeBSD Update can be used to perform a binary upgrade."
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Comments: 1 +-   I think I just modded myself up.[->] on Tuesday November 25 2008, @06:51AM tjstork

Submitted by tjstork on Tuesday November 25 2008, @06:51AM
tjstork writes "There seems to be some kind of a bug or something in slashdot where I was able to mod up my own thread. When I log into "my page" to marvel at my bad karma, I can mod my own articles up, and I swear I even got a karma boost for modding up a rejected submission. Can you please fix this and bring back the old page? I worked hard to get my bad karma, and I didn't mean to screw it up so capriciously."
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+-   BSDanywhere announces first release on Friday October 17 2008, @09:21AM The call of ktulu

Submitted by The call of ktulu on Friday October 17 2008, @09:21AM
os
The call of ktulu writes "Good things come to those who wait. After eight months of work the relatively new project BSDanywhere has announced its first final release 4.3. BSDanywhere is a bootable Live-CD image based on OpenBSD. It consists of the entire OpenBSD base system (without compiler) plus enlightenment desktop, an unrepresentative collection of software, automatic hardware detection and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices as well as other peripherals. Give it a spin."
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+-   Gnome's Nautilus gets ZFS integration[->] on Tuesday October 14 2008, @10:47AM 13bpower

Submitted by 13bpower on Tuesday October 14 2008, @10:47AM
gnome
13bpower writes "Sun developer Erwann Chenede posted a new plugin for Nautilus that will integrate ZFS's backup capabilities with Nautilus. This should be a pretty killer feature."
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