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ZFS Now Part Of FreeBSD 7-CURRENT

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:07:25 -0400

Support for Sun's Zettabyte File System (ZFS) has been committed to the FreeBSD 7-CURRENT development branch and will be available as an experimental feature in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. For more information please refer to the announcement.

OpenSSH 4.4 released

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:06:15 -0400

OpenSSH 4.4 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly.

NetBSD Bugathon squashes many problems!

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:31:16 -0400

The first NetBSD "Bugathon" has been a resounding success, closing as many as 270 bug reports.

For more information, see here:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/09/25/0000.html

Updated BSDFreak News Engine

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:52:44 -0400

I have updated BSDFreak's news engine to grab stories off of other sites and display them on the front page by date and relevance. This change should bring the latest news as often as the engine can sort through it (which at this point is hourly). I would appreciate any feedback or questions you may have. Thanks for continuing to support BSDFreak!

Donate to the FreeBSD Foundation

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:46:48 -0400

In fiscal year 2006, the FreeBSD Foundation has only collected $9721.00 out of their $200,000.00 goal. Everyone who uses this operating system should consider donating what they feel is a fair amount from the benefits they have received. FreeBSD is a reliable, secure and widely used Unix-like operating system.

Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 quietly released

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:01:27 -0400

This release fixed a lot of problems for me on a dual core system:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.4/

Try it yourself and see what you think!

BSDFreak outage

Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:48:39 -0400

Hey folks. From around 2AM to 11AM EST on June 3rd, 2006 there was an outage as a result of a fiber problem on Verizon's network. I do apologize for any inconvenience and was up all night trying to resolve the issue with my NSP (Sprint) and then subsequently Verizon when the physical layer group discovered the problem was with Verizon.

NetBSD and the Google "Summer of Code" Projects 2006

Fri, 26 May 2006 03:00:34 -0400

The Google ``Summer of Code'' is designed to introduce students to the world of open source software development, to create new Open Source programs and to help currently established projects. NetBSD is one of the projects participating as mentoring organisation in the Summer of Code for the second time this year, and after evaluating over seventy distinct applications, the NetBSD Foundation is now pleased to announce the list of projects that have been chosen...

OpenBSD 3.7 End of Life

Sat, 20 May 2006 14:54:30 -0400

Due to the release of OpenBSD 3.9, the 3.7-STABLE branch will be out of regular maintainance. There will be NO MORE fixes commited to this branch nor new patches.

CARP support added to NetBSD-current

Fri, 19 May 2006 13:00:44 -0400

CARP is the Common Address Redundancy Protocol, developed by OpenBSD Project. Its primary purpose is to allow multiple hosts on the same network segment to share an IP address. CARP is a secure, free alternative to the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol and the Hot Standby Router Protocol. CARP works by allowing a group of hosts on the same network segment (known as redundancy group) to share an IP address, and in the event that the master host suffers a failure, the IP will move to one of the backups hosts and the service will continue unaffected.