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FreeBSD 8.0 is available for download on the ftp servers. Please note that at the time as we are writing this, there's not yet an official statement on the FreeBSD website.
This release brings an overhauled USB stack, a new partition class called slices and NFSv4.
The old USB …
The FreeBSD Foundation announced pleasently the new funded FreeBSD HAST project.
The software will be a file system and software independant synchronous replication which operates on the block-level in a cluster environment. It works over TCP/IP and can use any GEOM providers. Pawel Dawidek has been awarded to implent …
The FreeBSD Quaterly Status Report for April-September 2009 is now online. It's always worth to have a look at it. For example there's a working port of Grand Central Dispatch, which Apple has released the source code for a few weeks ago. Or there is the libprocstat(3) project which …
Theo de Raadt announced OpenBSD 4.6 on the openbsd-misc mailing list. The announcement gives an overview of the most important changes. For a detailed information have a look at http://www.OpenBSD.org/plus46.html. OpenBSD should be released on Oct 1st but has been delayed to Nov 1st …
The release of OpenBSD 4.6 is unfortunately postponed to Nov 1 due to serious CD production problems. Theo de Raadt announced the delay on openbsd-misc today.
The developers intended to bring out the release on Oct 1 because the tree was frozen earlier than normal. They are sorry about …
