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FreeBSD 8.1 released

Thursday, August 05 2010 @ 22:27 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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FreeBSD 8.1 was released on July 24th, 2010. Here is the release announcement (you will find links to the release notes and errata on that page). Some changes:

zfsloader added
zpool version of ZFS subsystem updated to version 14
NFSv4 ACL support in UFS and ZFS; support added to cp(1), find(1), getfacl(1), mv(1), and setfacl(1) utilities
UltraSPARC IV/IV+, SPARC64 V support

. Cool!

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PXE Booting Utilities With FreeBSD

Saturday, July 17 2010 @ 10:37 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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A new article by Warren Block: PXE Booting Utilities With FreeBSD. From the introduction: "Numerous useful utilities like Clonezilla, HDT, and FreeBSD’s "memstick" are available as bootable images. A PXE boot server can make these utilities more convenient and accessible. With PXE, no external media is needed, just boot the target computer from the network. We will set up all of the components necessary to provide PXE booting to any computer networked with the FreeBSD server. Instead of simply booting a single install CD image, this setup will boot into a menu with multiple utilities.". Very Nice!

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FreeBSD 8.1 Beta 1 released

Thursday, June 03 2010 @ 12:55 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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FreeBSD 8.1 beta 1 was released on May 29th, 2010. Announcement, 8.1 release schedule, current status.

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FreeBSD 7.3 released

Wednesday, March 24 2010 @ 01:19 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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FreeBSD 7.3 was released today. From the release announcement: "This is the fourth release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.2 and introduces a few new features. There will be one more release from this branch to allow future improvements to be made available in the 7-STABLE branch but at this point most developers are focused on 8-STABLE."

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PC-BSD 8.0 released

Saturday, February 27 2010 @ 23:06 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 74

PC-BSD 8.0 (Hubble Edition) was released on February 22nd, 2010. Some notable changes from the previous version are:

FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2
KDE 4.3.5
Brand new System Installer, allows the install of PC-BSD or FreeBSD
Run in Live mode directly from DVD
Updated Software Manager, allows browsing and installing applications directly
Support for 3D acceleration with NVIDIA drivers on amd64

Cool!

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Quick tip: cups - web admin - localhost works, hostname doesn't

Saturday, January 30 2010 @ 23:56 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 178

In cups if http://localhost:631/ works, but http://hostname:631/ gives you a "400 Bad Request", try this: cupsctl "ServerAlias=hostname". It worked for me. If the server have aliases, you can add them with more cupsctl commands.

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Quick tip: avoid filling up root partion with *symbol files

Monday, January 25 2010 @ 20:49 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 99

If you put INSTALL_NODEBUG=yes in /etc/make.conf, you will avoid all the *.symbol files (which fills up your root partition) when doing 'make kernel' or 'make buildkernel; make installkernel'.

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Quick tip: SqueezeCenter and favorites

Tuesday, December 29 2009 @ 13:15 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 215

First it was named slimserver, then SqueezeCenter, now Squeezebox Server (in ports as audio/squeezeboxserver) and it is still a great product. Anyway, in FreeBSD the server runs under the slimserv user, which is a member of the slimserv group. When you set up a Favorites folder, make sure that this user can write to that folder, or you won't be able to save your playlists and favorites.

FreeNAS - revived

Friday, December 25 2009 @ 21:46 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 106

FreeNAS will survive.iXsystems will be the new sponsor, supporting the project with developers and development resources. They are dedicated to keeping FreeNAS on FreeBSD, and on keeping zfs support top notch.

MythTV 0.22 - now in FreeBSD ports

Sunday, December 20 2009 @ 19:08 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 144

MythTV version 0.22 is now in FreeBSD ports. Yay! Time to test and upgrade my mythtv backend with the new version. There are currently three ports: mythtv, mythtv-frontend and mythtv-themes.

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