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Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 04:54 AM April - June, 2008 Status Reports

Posted by: Scott

The April - June, 2008 Status Reports are now available with 14 entries.

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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 03:37 PM PC-BSD 7 Status Update

Posted by: Scott

The PC-BSD project has posted a status update on PC-BSD 7 on their website. It will be based on FreeBSD 7, and include KDE 4.1 as the primary desktop interface.

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Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 02:18 PM FreeBSD Foundation July 2008 Newsletter

Posted by: Scott

The FreeBSD Foundation has published their Semi-Annual July 2008 newsletter which summarizes what they have done to help the FreeBSD Project and community.

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Friday, July 18, 2008 - 03:47 AM iXsystems announces professional support

Posted by: Scott

iXsystems announced today the launch of its Professional Services Division for FreeBSD and PC-BSD. The new Professional Services Division will provide Professional Enterprise Grade support, consulting, and development for FreeBSD and PC-BSD.

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Friday, April 25, 2008 - 09:09 PM First issue of BSD Magazine is out

Posted by: Scott

The first issues of the new BSD Magazine have finally been delivered. This issue includes the following articles:

* Dru Lavigne, FreeBSD 7.0 Installation and Configuration
* Michael Lucas, FreeBSD's bsnmp
* Jan Stedehouder, Pushing BSD an an Open Source Desktop
* Svetoslav Chukov, PC-BSD Overview
* Richard Bejtlich, Sguil 0.7.0 on FreeBSD 7.0
* Jay Kruizenga, How to Dual-Boot Vista with BSD
* Peter Hansteen, Keep Smiling, Waste Spammers' Time
* Henrik Lund Kramshoj, Defense in Depth and FOSS
* Donald Hayford, NetBSD on the NSSSSLU2
* Girish Venkatachalam, OpenBSD pf
* Eric Schnoebelen, Instant Messaging with jabber/XMPP
* Federico Biancuzzi, Interview with FreeBSD Developer Jeff Roberson
* Mikel King, What is in a Certification
* Henrik Lund Kramshoj, Review of the Book of PF

It also includes a DVD with FreeBSD 7.

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Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 08:37 PM OpenOffice.org 2.4 is released

Posted by: Scott

The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce the release of OpenOffice.org 2.4, the latest version of the leading open source office productivity suite. OpenOffice.org 2.4 includes many new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to all its core components. OpenOffice.org 2.4 is available for immediate download and the new features are described on the wiki.

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Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 08:30 PM Now Accepting Student Applications for Google Summer of Code

Posted by: Scott

The student application period for the Google Summer of Code 2008 program has begun. Please peruse our list of FreeBSD specific projects and potential mentors and prepare your application before the March 31 deadline. Earlier applications are encouraged as this provides an opportunity for potential mentors to work on improving the applications with students before the deadline.

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Monday, March 24, 2008 - 03:17 PM Gnome 2.22 available

Posted by: Scott

The FreeBSD GNOME team is proud to annunce the release of GNOME 2.22.0 for FreeBSD. The official GNOME 2.22 release notes can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/ . On the FreeBSD front, this release features an updated hal port with support for video4linux devices, DRM (Direct Rendering), and better support of removable media. Work is also underway to tie webkit more closely into GNOME. As part of the GNOME 2.22 upgrade, GStreamer received a rather large upgrade as well. Be sure to consult UPDATING on the proper steps to upgrade all of your GNOME ports.

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Friday, March 21, 2008 - 05:44 PM OpenOffice.org 3.0's new features, an early look

Posted by: Scott

OOO Ninja has an early preview with screenshots of what's coming up in OpenOffice 3.0, due out later this year.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 08:44 PM Firefox 3 uses less memory than Internet Explorer, Opera

Posted by: Scott

Ars Technica has a nice article where they talk about the latest tests done on Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 7, Opera, and Firefox 2 comparing memory usage. The results are promising, with Firefox 3 using only half the memory of Firefox 2 under heavy testing (50 tabs).