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BSD Magazine 01/2010 in stores now
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009Our friends at BSD Magazine have released the 01/2010 edition of the publication. It began shipping to bookstores here in the United States earlier this month. You should now be able to find it in your local Barnes & Noble or Borders bookstore. The magazine has 85 feature-packed color pages with articles on BSD variants [...]
FreeBSD and Linux
Monday, December 14th, 2009We thought it would be a good idea to help educate our current RootBSD users, and potential users, as to some of the differences between FreeBSD and Linux. We have nothing against Linux at all, we actually like it, however there are very noticeable differences in the two. Without turning this into too much [...]
RTLD Security Exploit in FreeBSD
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009On November 30 2009, a security vulnerability was discovered by Nikolaos Rangos (aka Kingcope) in recent FreeBSD releases exploting code in the run-time link-editor, rtld. A patch was shortly issued and updated binaries were announced December 3 2009 in FreeBSD security announcement FreeBSD-SA-09:16.rtld. This vulnerability is critical in nature as it allows a [...]
FreeBSD 8.0 now available
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Hello all,
RootBSD is pleased to announce that FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE is now available on all of our Xen VPS Products. If you are an existing customer and need help upgrading to the latest release, please let us know, we will be happy to assist you with the upgrade.
Don’t forget we are still running several promotions [...]
Another look at FreeBSD 8
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009A customer recently linked us to a blog post (http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html) that gives a really good look at what there is to come in the up-and-coming version 8 of the FreeBSD operating system. It looks like the FreeBSD developers have been busy and there are a number of new features which caught our eye.
First, as a [...]
FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009The FreeBSD release team announced the availability of 7.2-RELEASE on May 4. We’ve loaded it in our system and its now available for new VPS setups.
Official announcement:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/announce.html
Highlights:
support for fully transparent use of superpages for application memory
support for multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for jails
csup(1) now supports CVSMode to fetch a complete CVS repository
Gnome updated to [...]
FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009In the last few days, the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team finalized 7.1-RELEASE and it is now available for donwload. We are now also offering the option for 7.1-RELEASE on new VPS setups. It is listed as an option in the signup process (along with 6.3 and 7.0).
Release Announcement
The ULE scheduler is now the default [...]
A Sneak Peak at FreeBSD 8
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Along with the release of FreeBSD 7 last year came the birth of FreeBSD 8 in the development stage. Its planned release is the 2nd quarter of 2009, but here is a quick overview of what we know is in the works for the new version.
(1) A rewrite of the TTY layer (traditional UNIX [...]
