Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Feb 2008 22:32 UTC
FreeBSD 7.0 has been released. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the 7-STABLE branch which introduces many new features along with many improvements to functionality present in the earlier branches."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/05/12 12:26 UTC
"Among the treasure troves of recently released WikiLeaks cables, we find one whose significance has bypassed Swedish media. In short: every law proposal, every ordinance, and every governmental report hostile to the net, youth, and civil liberties here in Sweden in recent years have been commissioned by the US government and industry interests." How such prestigious nations with such long and proud histories, like Sweden, The Netherlands, and so on, can succumb to pressure from a former colony is beyond me. We should know better.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/04/12 14:53 UTC, submitted by bowkota
"A group of European regulators has written to Google calling on it to halt the introduction of its new privacy policy, saying it needs to investigate whether the proposals sufficiently protect users' personal data." I'd rather regulators are on top of this now than when it's too late and we're all plugged into the Google Hivemind Overlord.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/04/12 14:37 UTC
"Samsung, in its first acknowledgment of the European Commission's antitrust investigation of its patent licensing practices, Friday said it believed the commission would ultimately conclude the company complies with the rules. The investigation arose out of Samsung's dispute with Apple over trademarks and patents that cover smartphones and tablet computers."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/02/12 23:11 UTC, submitted by fran
"Google has added an automated scanning process that is designed to keep malicious apps out of the Android Market , the company announced today. The new service, code-named 'Bouncer', scans apps for known malware, spyware, and Trojans, and looks for suspicious behaviors and compares them against previously analyzed apps. Every app is then run on Google's cloud infrastructure to simulate how the software would operate on an Android device, he said. Existing apps are continuously analyzed, too."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/02/12 11:26 UTC
Apple has released Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (by far Apple's most inelegant product name). It's a whole bunch of under-the-hood stuff, mostly bug fixes. It adds support for Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian. It's all in Software Update.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/01/12 22:29 UTC
So, this is apparently a big thing, but because of my perpetual state of total boredom with regards to social networking, I really don't have the will to turn this into a proper item. So, here you go: Facebook is doing its IPO thing. Eh. In any case, lots of new rich people. Maybe the wealth will trickle down this time.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/01/12 21:46 UTC
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation, supported by Carpathia Hosting, today announced its plans to assess the scope of the issue facing Megaupload users who are at risk of losing their data. Carpathia has created this website to assist users in contacting EFF. EFF will review the factual situations shared by users and, if possible, try to resolve their issues." I <3 EFF. Seriously. These guys are universally fighting the good fight.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/01/12 21:39 UTC, submitted by rhavyn
"The European Commission has opened a formal investigation to assess whether Samsung Electronics has abusively, and in contravention of a commitment it gave to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), used certain of its standard essential patent rights to distort competition in European mobile device markets, in breach of EU antitrust rules. The opening of proceedings means that the Commission will examine the case as a matter of priority. It does not prejudge the outcome of the investigation." Maybe Samsung should've added '...with rounded corners' to their patent applications.
Linked by snydeq on 02/01/12 21:36 UTC
InfoWorld's Rick Grehan takes an in-depth look at Opa, MLstate's attempt to provide a single language for Web app development, and one of 10 cutting-edge programming languages that could shake up the future of IT. "With Opa, you write your Web application as though it were a single-tier program, and the compiler handles the knotty details of partitioning your program and deploying the resulting components to their proper domains. The compiler also builds the communication infrastructure among application components, and that infrastructure is invisibly managed by the runtime. The security weaknesses inherent in today's Web applications are virtually eliminated."
Linked by lemur2 on 02/01/12 21:36 UTC
Firefox 10 Arrives Today with Extended Support for Businesses. Though the software does bring an array of tweaks and enhancements for both users and developers, it's perhaps most notable for the fact that it marks the debut of the business-oriented Extended Support Release (ESR) program. One can check out whatâs new and known issues for this version of Firefox by reading Mozilla's release notes. Perhaps the most important change from a user's perspective is that add-ons and themes are assumed to function, rather than not function as assumed by previous Firefox versions, meaning that the update process won't leave a user with familiar extensions disabled and needing updates.More News »
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As it has been mentioned correctly before, nothing is "randomly placed" in FreeBSD, not even arbitrary. File locations are logically structured and support the distinction between the base OS and the additional software.
Regarding the OS, every configuration file is documented. Read well: Configuration files are documented! So, if you want to know something about /etc/rc.conf, you just "man rc.conf".
Regarding additional software, it's mostly up to the port maintainers and the authors of the software. Don't expect manpages everywhere. While "man mplayer" gives you a good manual, most parts of, for example, KDE do not come with manpages (sadly...).
For file locations and the structure of the file system, refer to "man hier" where the hierarchy is explained.
The /etc directory only contains config files for the base system. Every additional configuration is placed in /usr/local/etc. This is because everything that does not belong to the base OS resides in /usr/local where you have the commonly known substructures like bin/, lib/ or include/. For many files, default values exist in /etc/defaults or /usr/local/etc/defaults respectively.
I don't know which "improvements" you could be talking about. In fact. Just because Linux distributions don't divide between "just the OS" and "everything else" (because Linux distributions contain an arbitrary chosen set from both "classes"), I would not like to see FreeBSD getting untidy in these regards...
If you're willing to learn more, the FreeBSD handbook should answer all your questions. If you're not interested in learning why all this stuff is well intended, use preconfigured systems that are based upon FreeBSD, namely PC-BSD and DesktopBSD, which provide exvellent tools to do all the work.