http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:25:14 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/25504/FreeBSD_9_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25504/FreeBSD_9_0_Released/ Some people already submitted this news last week, but it wasn't until today that it became official: the FreeBSD team has announced the release of FreeBSD version 9.0. As you may expect from the major version number change, this is releas eis packed with new stuff. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:54:10 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 149 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25252/FreeBSD_9_0_RC1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25252/FreeBSD_9_0_RC1_Released/ "The first RC build for the FreeBSD-9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems. Alternatively, users upgrading existing systems may now do so using the freebsd-update(8) utility." Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:39:57 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 17 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News Oliver http://www.osnews.com/story/24826/IPv6-only_Testing_Versions_of_FreeBSD_PC-BSD/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24826/IPv6-only_Testing_Versions_of_FreeBSD_PC-BSD/ "The FreeBSD Foundation and iXsystems announced today their commitment to support the efforts of World IPv6 Day to accelerate global IPv6 deployment. Earlier this year, the FreeBSD Foundation and iXsystems jointly awarded Bjoern Zeeb a grant to create an IPv6-only version of the FreeBSD and PC-BSD open source operating systems." Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:31:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News R_T_F_M http://www.osnews.com/story/24497/FreeBSD_Needs_Fresh_Blood/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24497/FreeBSD_Needs_Fresh_Blood/ "How long have you been using FreeBSD. Months? Years? Decades? And you love using it because of whatever reason but at the same time you're feeling a bit guilty to use it all for free without giving anything back? Well now you'll have the chance to change that. We at FreeBSD are always in need of new people who are willing to spare some of their time and effort into FreeBSD development." Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:55:19 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) FreeBSD 50 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News http://www.osnews.com/story/24468/PC-BSD_8_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24468/PC-BSD_8_2_Released/ PC-BSD 8.2 has been released. As the name suggests, this version's based on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and includes KDE 4.5.5, as well as various other bugxes and updates. Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:53:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) FreeBSD 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News Gregory http://www.osnews.com/story/24460/FreeBSD_8_2_7_4_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24460/FreeBSD_8_2_7_4_Released/ 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. For more information, see the 8.2-RELEASE announcement, and the 7.4-RELEASE announcement, ehch has also been released. Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:33:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) FreeBSD 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News sonic2000gr http://www.osnews.com/story/24313/FreeBSD_7_4_RC2_arrives/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24313/FreeBSD_7_4_RC2_arrives/ "The FreeBSD developers have made available a second release candidate (RC2) for FreeBSD 7.4. This is a precursor to a third release candidate, due next week, as the developers say that there are "several bugs we feel are critical enough to warrant fixing before the 8.2/7.4 releases are finalized". FreeBSD 8.2 saw its second release candidate made available last week." Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:42:48 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hadrien Grasland) FreeBSD 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News jimmy1971 http://www.osnews.com/story/24269/FreeBSD_8_2-RC2_Now_Available/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24269/FreeBSD_8_2-RC2_Now_Available/ Ken Smith officially announced the availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RC2 on the freebsd-stable mailing list. This is the second iteration of Release Candidates which will soon lead to 8.2-RELEASE. An updated release schedule may be found on the FreeBSD wiki. Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:15:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hadrien Grasland) FreeBSD 0 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News sonic2000gr http://www.osnews.com/story/24139/FreeBSD_8_2_Beta_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24139/FreeBSD_8_2_Beta_1_Released/ "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has released the first beta for version 8.2 and 7.4 of its popular free Unix derivative. The first betas will be followed by two release candidates. The final versions of FreeBSD 7.4 and FreeBSD 8.2 are scheduled for the 24th of January." Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:10:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News Oliver http://www.osnews.com/story/24130/FreeBSD_on_EC2/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24130/FreeBSD_on_EC2/ FreeBSD developer Colin Percival announced on his blog today that FreeBSD 9-CURRENT now runs on Amazon EC2. A number of FreeBSD developers have contributed to this project. "There are some caveats to this. First, at the moment only FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT can run under EC2; I haven't merged bug fixes back to the stable branches. Second, at the moment FreeBSD only runs on t1.micro instances, for reasons I can't discuss (NDA) but hope will be resolved soon. Third, this code hasn't received very much testing and is almost certain to have more serious bugs, so it should be approached as an experimental, not-ready-for-production-use system for now. " Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:28:12 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 5 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News Marquis http://www.osnews.com/story/23956/The_FreeBSD_Status_Report_July-September/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23956/The_FreeBSD_Status_Report_July-September/ "This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between July and September 2010. It is the third of the four reports planned for 2010. During this period, we were victims of one of the biggest BSD events of the year - EuroBSDCon. We hope that the ones of you who have been able to attend it have enjoyed your stay. Another good news is that work on the new minor versions of FreeBSD, 7.4 and 8.2, is progressing well." Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:29:57 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News Daniel Gerzo http://www.osnews.com/story/23938/FreeBSD_Will_Pay_for_Some_KMS_GEM_Love/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23938/FreeBSD_Will_Pay_for_Some_KMS_GEM_Love/ "The good news, however, is that the FreeBSD Foundation is willing to finance a developer to work on bringing kernel mode-setting and Graphics Execution Manager support over to the FreeBSD kernel." Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:21:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News Oliver http://www.osnews.com/story/23922/FreeBSD_Gets_DAHDI/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23922/FreeBSD_Gets_DAHDI/ Max Khon has completed the DAHDI Project and provides the following report: "I am pleased to announce the completion of the DAHDI/FreeBSD project. DAHDI (Digium/Asterisk Hardware Device Interface) is an open-source device driver framework and a set of HW drivers for E1/T1, ISDN digital and FXO/FXS analog cards. The main goal of this funded project was to make it possible to use FreeBSD as a base system for software PBX solutions." Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:29:06 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News R_T_F_M http://www.osnews.com/story/23864/FreeBSD_Gets_USB_3_0_Support/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23864/FreeBSD_Gets_USB_3_0_Support/ FreeBSD is getting support for USB 3.0. "Commit initial version of new XHCI driver which was written from scratch. This driver adds support for USB3.0 devices. The XHCI interface is also backwards compatible to USB2.0 and USB1.0 and will eventually replace the OHCI/UHCI and EHCI drivers." Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:03:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News R_T_F_M http://www.osnews.com/story/23687/FreeBSD_8_1_Released_Like_Weeks_Ago/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23687/FreeBSD_8_1_Released_Like_Weeks_Ago/ While I was away from OSNews, FreeBSD 8.1 was released. Nobody posted it on OSNews, so here I am, a little late (my apologies). It's got all sorts of improvements, like support for UltraSPARC IV/IV+ and SPARC64 V processors, SMP support for PowerPC G5 processors, GNOME 2.30.1, KDE 4.4.5, and much more. Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:06:30 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 14 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News Oliver