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FreeBSD From Scratch

Submitted by James 2003-02-07 FreeBSD 23 Comments

This article describes the efforts at "FreeBSD From Scratch": a fully automated installation of a customized FreeBSD system compiled from source, including compilation of all your favorite ports and configured to match your idea of the perfect system. If you think make world is a wonderful concept, "FreeBSD From Scratch" extends it to make universe. This article, describes the visions in BSD security features and how to build a secure OS.

FreeBSD 5.0 Looks to the Enterprise

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-04 FreeBSD 15 Comments

"After three years in the making the FreeBSD Release 5.0 operating system has been made available to the general public. Released towards the end of January, the OS provides first-time support for Sun's Sparc64 and Intel's IA64 platforms. And while some effort has been put into AMD's Hammer architecture, there is presently no usable support for the 64-bit mode of Hammer, said FreeBSD engineer, Scott Long." Read the article at LinuxWorld.

Matthew Dillon Lost Commit Access to FreeBSD

Submitted by Jonathan 2003-02-03 FreeBSD 72 Comments

One of the most prolific and active developers of FreeBSD, Matt Dillon, responsible for a lot of the latest advances in the FreeBSD kernel, lost his right to commit code to the source tree. The FreeBSD Project didn't give a solid reason on what lead them to this decision. Last year, OSNews interviewed Matt about his (truly immense) work on FreeBSD.

Nov-Dec 2002 FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Status Report Available

Eugenia Loli 2003-01-26 FreeBSD 3 Comments

From BSDForums: "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Scott Long presents the FreeBSD November-December 2002 status report. Key highlights of the report include the anticipated FreeBSD 5.0 Release Bluetooth stack development, busdma driver conversion project, DEVD, C99 & POSIX Conformance Project, FreeBSD Package Cluster work and much more!"

FreeBSD: a Victim of Isolation and Linux’s Hype?

Eugenia Loli 2003-01-25 FreeBSD 154 Comments

It's been a week since FreeBSD 5.0 got released. Many argue that this release is the most important and most technically advanced, ever, for FreeBSD. I am truly disapointed though on the way the media have responded to this release.

FreeBSD 5.0-Release is Being Uploaded to the Mirrors

Submitted by Bascule 2003-01-18 FreeBSD 96 Comments

The OSNews mailbox has already been flooded with submissions that the FreeBSD 5.0-Release is already present on many mirrors around the world (i386 USA mirror, Europe one), but the CDs are not present to all mirrors as we type this. 5.0-Release is the next-big-thing for FreeBSD as it includes great new features (some not even found on other OSes) like SMPng, KSE, UFS2, GEOM, MAC etc. Read here for a quick explanation on what is what. The release has two CDs, and for the minimalistic, there is a mini-distro (225 MB) with only the essential tools in it (e.g. no X11). This version will also see FreeBSD supporting more platforms, like the IA64, SPARC-64 etc.

FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 Available

Adam Scheinberg 2003-01-12 FreeBSD 19 Comments

Terminus wrote in to tell us that FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 is now available on the FreeBSD FTP servers. He also reminds us "The final release is scheduled for January 17th 2003."

FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-22 FreeBSD 56 Comments

FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 has been released and the final release is scheduled for January 17th 2003.

Interview with Jordan Hubbard

Guest post by Kevin Adams 2002-12-17 FreeBSD 4 Comments

Stephen Beckwith writes: "Over at MacSlash, the "Last" interview with Jordan Hubbard, Mr. FreeBSD. Catch it while you can!" Read the full interview at MacSlash.

FreeBSD 5.0-RC1 Released

Submitted by Ice 2002-12-09 FreeBSD 25 Comments

FreeBSD 5.0-RC1 was just released, download its ISO from an ftp server near you.

FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2002-11-19 FreeBSD 37 Comments

Download the FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview 2 from the mirrors. Our Take: It seems that after the initial one year delay of FreeBSD 5, this time the project will also miss the November 2002 deadline. On the other hand, FreeBSD 5 is a major change to the traditional Unix-y way of doing things (introduces major SMP and multithreading innovations), so it worths the wait.

Nvidia Releases OpenGL Graphics Drivers for FreeBSD

Submitted by HmJ 2002-11-08 FreeBSD 15 Comments

This is an initial FreeBSD beta driver for 2D and OpenGL for FreeBSD. It requires FreeBSD -STABLE, version 4.7 or later. It can run single threaded aplications even in linux compatability mode.

Playing Audio and Video Files with FreeBSD

Eugenia Loli 2002-10-18 FreeBSD 20 Comments

"In the last few articles, I've concentrated on configuring a FreeBSD system and various applications suited for multimedia. I'll wrap up that series today by tweaking a browser's plug-in support and installing some apps which can be either called by a browser or used on their own." Read the article at ONLamp.

BSD Network Stack Virtualization Experiment

Eugenia Loli 2002-10-17 FreeBSD 9 Comments

From BSDForums: Marko Zec has setup patches against FreeBSD 4.7 kernel sources, which provide the functionality of maintaining multiple independent network stack images within a single operating system kernel. No userland patches are necessary, except an additional virtual image management util.

FreeBSD 4.7 Released

Submitted by David Jarrell 2002-10-10 FreeBSD 16 Comments

"Since FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE in June 2002, we have updated a number of software programs in the base system, such as GCC and sendmail. Several new drivers have been added for USB devices and disk controllers. We have also incorporated updates for XFree86 and our Linux compatibility libraries. FreeBSD 4.7 also incorporates all of the security and bug fixes from 4.6.2 (released in August 2002), including several ATA-related bugfixes, updates for OpenSSL and OpenSSH, and fixes to address several security advisories." Announcement for FreeBSD 4.7 and release notes.

FreeBSD 4.7-RC3 Final Release Candidate Available

Eugenia Loli 2002-10-08 FreeBSD 4 Comments

FreeBSD Release Engineering team's Murray Stokely announces that FreeBSD 4.7-RC3 (i386) is now available for FTP network installs. This includes the recent LDT patch and the final package set that will be used on the CDROMs/DVDs. Read the announcement at BSDForums.

FreeBSD 4.7-RC2/i386 Now Available

Eugenia Loli 2002-09-28 FreeBSD 8 Comments

FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Bruce Mah announces that FreeBSD 4.7-RC2 (the second release candidate for FreeBSD 4.7) is now available for the i386 architecture from the usual FTP sites. Both an FTP site and a "disc 1" ISO image are available. FreeBSD 4.7-RC2 for the alpha architecture is being built and should be available shortly.

FreeBSD 4.7-RC1 Released

Eugenia Loli 2002-09-19 FreeBSD 21 Comments

KernelTrap reports: "Bruce A. Mah announced today the availability of FreeBSD 4.7 Release Candidate 1. The final release is scheduled for just a week and a half away, on October 1'st. The release notes for FreeBSD 4.7 include quite a few improvements to PPP, updates to the 'ahc' and 'ahd' Adaptec SCSI device drivers, and several ATA fixes. Packages that have been updated included IPFilter (v3.4.29), Sendmail (v8.12.6) and XFree86 (4.2.1). Read on for Bruce's full announcement."

FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE Branch Now Frozen

Eugenia Loli 2002-09-03 FreeBSD 3 Comments

From BSDForums: The FreeBSD-STABLE branch (development branch for 4-STABLE) of the source tree has now been frozen in preparation for the release of FreeBSD 4.7. This means that any new commits to the -stable source tree must be approved by the Release Engineering Team first. The expected "ship" date for FreeBSD 4.7 is October 1, 2002.

MicroBSD 0.5 released

Eugenia Loli 2002-08-20 FreeBSD 15 Comments

As seen over at Deadly.org: "Some Bulgarian fellows made a tiny BSD distro, which is a mix between FreeBSD and OpenBSD, has some ports and other stuff -a. Full install is about 200 megs, the install iso is 64 MB.It can run on low end x86 boxes." More infrormation here.