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RetroBSD

Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 12:33 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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From the web site: "RetroBSD is a port of 2.11BSD Unix intended for embedded systems with fixed memory mapping. The current target is Microchip PIC32 microcontroller with 128 kbytes of RAM and 512 kbytes of Flash. PIC32 processor has MIPS M4K architecture, executable data memory and flexible RAM partitioning between user and kernel modes". Cool.

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Apache OpenOffice 3.4

Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 13:08 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Apache OpenOffice 3.4 was announced yesterday.

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Papilio

Monday, May 07 2012 @ 21:58 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Papilio is an interesting FPGA platform. Currently, the hardware is Papilio One plus a number of add-ons ("Wings") , but more boards are in the works. The really interesting thing is the software. There is an ArduinoCore (AVR8) and a matching IDE, which allows you to run arduino sketches on the platform. How cool is that? Then there is the ZPUino, a 32-bit SoC (System-on-a-Chip) based on Zylin's ZPU 32-bit processor core. This also comes with a Arduino-style IDE. Wonderful!

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auditdistd

Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 14:12 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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For people interested in FreeBSD: the auditdistd project is now complete.
The auditdistd daemon nicely complements the audit framework. It allows one to distribute audit records collected locally with minimal latency to another system. This helps in postmortem analysis, as we know that at least to some point in time audit logs stored on a separate machine can be trusted. This is very important, because once the system is compromised, we cannot trust any of its local files.

First seen on the FreeBSD Forums.

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FreeBSD 8.3 released

Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 22:31 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE is now available. People wanting to use it should read the release notes, the errata and get it.

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HeeksCAD

Monday, April 16 2012 @ 22:40 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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On Heeks.net you can find HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC. You might also find No Secrets: Open-source CAM application bares all interesting.

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NAS4Free

Monday, April 16 2012 @ 01:16 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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NAS4Free is an embedded Open Source Storage NAS (Network-Attached Storage) distribution based on FreeBSD, it's supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems. It includes ZFS v28, Software RAID (0,1,5), disk encryption, S.M.A.R.T / email reports etc. with the following protocols: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, TFTP, AFP, RSYNC, Unison, iSCSI (initiator and target), UPnP, and Bittorent which is all highly configurable by it's WEB interface (from m0n0wall). NAS4Free can be installed on Compact Flash/USB/SSD key, Hard disk or booted of from a LiveCD.

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MythTV 0.25 released

Tuesday, April 10 2012 @ 21:31 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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MythTV 0.25 has been released. From the release announcement: 'Although we may not be known for using a witty naming scheme, and the version number only increments itself by a single "hundredth" every major release, we're extremely proud to announce the immediate release of what we loving refer to as - "0.25"! It's been 516 days (that's 1 year, 4 months, 30 days) since our last major release, so it goes without saying that a significant amount of work has made its way in to this current release with over 5200 commits making up 0.25.'
Relase notes are here.

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EmbedVM

Tuesday, March 27 2012 @ 21:42 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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EmbedVM is a small embeddable virtual machine for microcontrollers with a C-like language frontend. It has been tested with GCC and AVR microcontrollers. But as the Virtual machine is rather simple it should be easy to port it to other architectures.

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python-on-a-chip

Tuesday, March 27 2012 @ 21:27 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Python-on-a-Chip (p14p) is a project to develop a reduced Python virtual machine (codenamed PyMite) that runs a significant subset of the Python language on microcontrollers without an OS. Cool!

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