FreeBSD Archive

nVidia Drivers for FreeBSD

Submitted by Matt Lacey 2003-08-15 FreeBSD 20 Comments

It came to my attention today that there has been a new release of nVidia detonator drivers for FreeBSD. Apparently released on 1st July, the first I heard of them was when I randomly checked the nVidia website today. The new drivers support 4.8 onwards, including -RELEASE -STABLE and -CURRENT branches. The drivers support the most recent hardware including the FX based cards.

FreeBSD 4.x Forked Into DragonFly

Submitted by RJW & Jon 2003-07-17 FreeBSD 51 Comments

DragonFly is an operating system and environment designed to be the logical continuation of the FreeBSD-4.x OS series. Prominent former FreeBSD developer Matthew Dillon is a major player in the development. According to the website, DragonFly gives "the BSD base an opportunity to grow in entirely new direction from the one taken in the FreeBSD-5 series."

Nearly 2 Million Active Sites Running FreeBSD

Submitted by Mike Prettejohn 2003-07-15 FreeBSD 47 Comments

Although nearly all of the public focus is geared around advocacy of Linux and Windows, there is a third Intel based operating system, which generates a tiny fraction of the publicity surrounding these operating systems, and has a much smaller user and developer community. FreeBSD secured a strong foothold with the hosting and internet services communities at the genesis of the web and has anything but gone away. Indeed it is the only other operating system that is gaining, rather than losing share of the active sites found by the Web Server Survey, Netcraft says.

Netcraft: Top Five Reliable/Speedy ISPs Are Running FreeBSD

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-10 FreeBSD 33 Comments

TheAge reports: The Top five of the top 10 hosting providers for the month of June, measured in terms of those whose sites experienced the fewest failed requests and provided the fastest connection times, are all running the FreeBSD operating system, data from Netcraft shows.

FreeBSD 5.1 Worth a Look

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-08 FreeBSD 79 Comments

"New tech" release supports more platforms but is less stable than 4.8, says eWEEK for FreeBSD.

Advanced FreeBSD Installation Issues

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-30 FreeBSD 8 Comments

Get the basic information necessary to begin installing FreeBSD on a system with another operating system that was previously installed. You will see how to prepare for a FreeBSD installation that will allow the system to operate with Windows, and you will also see how to install FreeBSD on a system that is running Linux.

FreeBSD First Open Source OS to Support 802.11a and 802.11g

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-28 FreeBSD 53 Comments

Sam Leffler has added 802.11a and 802.11g support in FreeBSD-Current. Sam says that the 'ath' drivers support all Atheros devices, making FreeBSD the first open source OS to support both standards.

KSE Progress on FreeBSD SMP Environment

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-24 FreeBSD 14 Comments

This is a significant milestone to be shared with everyone! Khairil Yusof reports that libkse is now running quite well on his FreeBSD 5.1+ current based SMP system. He has tested a bunch of apps on his system, taking the approach of enabling kse one app at a time. Read more at FreeBSDForums.

FreeBSD is Ten Years Old

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-20 FreeBSD 30 Comments

FreeBSD turned 10 years old yesterday. Happy Birthday FreeBSD.

FreeBSD 5.1-Release Available

Submitted by parano1dx 2003-06-09 FreeBSD 62 Comments

FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE is now available. Release notes for all five architectures, here.

FreeBSD 5.1-RC1 Now Available

Submitted by Owen Anderson 2003-06-04 FreeBSD 48 Comments

FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Scott Long has uploaded FreeBSD RC1 for i386, he says that alpha RC1 is in the works. Kris Kennaway has uploaded i386 packages. Marcel Moolenaar is working on RC1 ia64, ISOs for which will be available sometime tomorrow. You can find RC1 at one of your preferred mirror sites.

New Bootloader, Preliminary ELF Prebinding Patches for FreeBSD

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-27 FreeBSD 18 Comments

FreeBSD Release Engineering team's Scott Long has written a bootloader front-end script that allows one to enable/disable acpi, boot single users, etc. Elsewhere, Matthew N. Dodd has implemented per-executable ELF prebinding in FreeBSD-current. Initial performance measurements are very encouraging. Relocatable objects (executables and libraries) contain elements that require relocation before they are usable. By 'prebinding', much of this work can be done beforehand and speed up the actual relocation process. As a result, apps like KDE and other library happy executables take a little less time to load.

FreeBSD 5.1 Beta2 Now Available

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-21 FreeBSD 39 Comments

FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Scott Long has uploaded the 5.1 i386 Beta2 release of FreeBSD. He will be uploading the alpha release, work is under way to get a beta2 for sparc64 and pc98. Additionally, FreeBSD team's Hiten Pandya has written a manual page for the Asynchronous Logging Queues (ALQ) for FreeBSD 5.x and is requesting your comments and reviews.

FreeBSD: Todo Lists for 5.1 and 5.2

Submitted by CooCooCaChoo 2003-05-18 FreeBSD 8 Comments

"Robert Watson has started the automatic posting of open issues for the upcoming 5.1 and 5.2 releases. The list for 5.1 is automatically posted to -current every other day, with the most up-to-date version found here. The list is divided into the following four sections: "Must Resolve Issues", "Desired Features", "Documentation items that must be resolved", and "Areas requiring immediate testing". Read it at KernelTrap.

FreeBSD 5.1 Beta Available

Submitted by Matthew Baulch 2003-05-11 FreeBSD 33 Comments

FreeBSD 5.1 Beta 1 was released during the last few days and can be obtained from here (ISOs here, select a mirror). The release notes are available from here. They will be replaced with RC-1 in 3-4 weeks.

FreeBSD 5.1 Release Schedule; Bluetooth Stack Update

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-02 FreeBSD 20 Comments

BSDForums reports that the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has posted the schedule for the Release of FreeBSD 5.1 late spring. FreeBSD roadmap, posted earlier at BSDForums.org, outlines the future of FreeBSD-5 stable releases, specifically 5.1 and 5.2. Also, Maksim Yevmenkin has announced another set of updates to Bluetooth stack for FreeBSD. He has made many code fixes, added new firmware driver support for Broadcom BCM2033 based devices, updated man pages and more. The Bluetooth stack is developed only for the 5-CURRENT branch. OSNews featured an in-depth interview with the FreeBSD Core team a few days ago discussing the 5.x branch among other topics.

A Small FreeBSD UFS2 FAQ

Guest post by Dan Naumov 2003-04-23 FreeBSD 16 Comments

Since the introduction of the UFS2 filesystem (to the general public) in FreeBSD 5.0, there have been many questions from BSD users asking what does it actually mean for them. Recently when browsing the freebsd-current mailing list, I stumbled across a micro-FAQ about UFS2, which might be of interest to OSNews readers.

UFS2 Now the Default Creation Type on FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-21 FreeBSD 8 Comments

FreeBSD's Robert Watson says that effective today, newfs(8) and sysinstall(8) will create UFS2 file systems by default, unless explicitly specified.

New NSS for FreeBSD; DHCP for FreeBSD

Submitted by Dan 2003-04-18 FreeBSD 2 Comments

J. Vidrine says he is about to commit a new name service switch (NSS) implementation for FreeBSD.

Getting to Know FreeBSD 5.0

Guest post by Carl G. Mathisen 2003-04-09 FreeBSD 102 Comments

I have read many OS/distribution reviews in the last couple of years, but it always seems like it is distros like Red Hat, SuSe and Mandrake (and the fairly new distro, Lindows) that get all the attention. The light has sometimes moved towards other less "user friendly" distros as Slackware, Debian and so forth, but the main concern of the authors has always been the distros meant to be used by Joe User.