The next major release of FreeBSD, version 8, will probably be an “evolutional” release. The focus will be on further improvements of SMP capabilities and the stability of already implemented subsystems. This page will document changes that will be included in FreeBSD 8, including those that might end up being committed to earlier branches (i.e. […]
The development version of FreeBSD 7.0 AMD64 and I386 scale a lot better then linux on SMP systems, which being worked on by the FreeBSD core members to release 7.0-RELEASE , currently it’s frozen and so stable it, I use it in my server which has
A combination of latest freebsd scheduler ULE 2.0 which was […]
PC-BSD is a direct descendant of FreeBSD. As the name indicates, PC-BSD is a BSD operating system which lays stress on its use as a Desktop catering to the end users.
From the point of its inception, the USP (Unique Selling Point) of PC-BSD has been to make it as easy as possible to install, update […]
FlightAware is a free flight tracker that will change what you think about live flight tracking and aviation data.
BSD Talk #42 has an interview Karl Lehenbauer about FlightAware.com. FlightAware tracks flight information, so far example here is their page on live flights to and from Sacramento Executive Airport. There is a lot of information […]
1.4 will bring a new user management utility to PC-BSD. I thought I’d take a couple of minutes to take you all through it, with some screenshots.
With the user manager, I wanted to cater to both experienced, and novice users alike. As such, I’ve split the entire application into two views, both of which […]
PC-BSD Announces Redistribution Agreement with Adobe Systems
iXsystems announced an agreement with Adobe Systems that will allow the next version of PC-BSD to have a Flash-enabled browser available on a default installation. The Linux version of Adobe’s popular Flash player will run on PC-BSD using FreeBSD’s Linux compatibility layer.
Having Flash player available by default on PC-BSD […]
This summarizes my experiences with FreeBSD 6.2 and FreeBSD 7.0 on an Acer Aspire 5102 WLMi laptop.
This applies to Acer Aspire 3100/5100/5110 since they use the same Motherboard, and Bios.
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The stock ATI driver in 6.2-RELEASE does handle the ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 chipset in this machine […]
This is a post by Hanno Krusken to FreeBSD-Mobile@FreeBSD.Org for users will upgrade to FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE from previous versions of FreeBSD 6.x
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Hi all,
well this posting is send before, part of, the specific upgrade hint regarding the iwi0 driver !
now, FreeBSD-6.1-RELENG uses /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware, but after the upgrade to FreeBSD-6.2-RELENG iwi0 will NOT work, you need to […]
As some of you already know FreeBSD released it’s newer version of branch 6.x which is FreeBSD 6.2 which is the most stable and best performance release since the release of 6.x branch.
SMP for multi CPUs and cores has been improved with better stability.
Also there is a great new feature for the security got […]
I tried to do it with the OpenSuse 10.2, but it was too complicated, and never worked, since it needs a firmware ..etc.
So I dropped OpenSuse choice.
So I went back to my lovely OS FreeBSD.
I installed FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 since 6.1-RELEASE refused to boot due to the bugs in the Aspire 5102 WLMi bios.
I honestly have […]