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Valuable News – 2023/06/26: The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX or BSD systems.
Celebrating 30 Years of FreeBSD: Performance: FreeBSD is known for a lot of things, but high performance seems to come up over and over again.Thanks to the efficient kernel design, broad scalability and of course, integrated filesystems like ZFS, FreeBSD is designed with performance in mind.
Celebrating 30 Years of FreeBSD: Licensing: Many choices are available when it comes to deciding on what license to use for your latest project. Today, we are going to focus on the 2 clause variant of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license, also known as the FreeBSD license. For many folks, the business-friendly FreeBSD license offers the flexibility they are looking for. Why? Well first let’s take a look at the license itself.
512: BSDNow Live! 9 bits of BSDNow - Just speak into the goat: Recorded at BSDCan 2023.
Celebrating 30 Years of FreeBSD: Security: Whether it’s using FreeBSD to create security focused products or strengthening security for the FreeBSD Operating System, we all know that the effort to keep any type of technology secure is extensive and never-ending. So how do folks within FreeBSD handle the gigantic task?
4 Months of BSD: Over the past 4 months the post author have been running various BSDs on his daily machine.This will be mostly a discussion comparing BSD to Linux and what they like about and dislike about the various BSDs by itself.
shutdown reboot now require membership of group _shutdown: Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) committed changes which result in the shutdown(8) and reboot(8) commands (in -current) requiring membership of the the (new) group “_shutdown”. The xfce port has already been modified to accommodate this.
Valuable News – 2023/06/19: The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX or BSD systems.
Celebrating 30 Years of FreeBSD – FreeBSD Journal Special Edition: Inside you’ll find stories from long-time FreeBSD community members such as Poul-Henning Kamp, Greg Lehey, and Doug Rabson. Kirk McKusick discusses the secrets to FreeBSD’s success and Hiroki Sato takes a look back at the history of FreeBSD in Japan. Those are just a few of the intriguing stories you’ll find inside. Plus, a PDF of the timeline poster is included. It’s perfect for printing out and hanging on your wall.
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