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FreeBSD : News : FreeBSD 6.0 to target wireless devices
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:03:51[PM] UTC )
FreeBSD is hoping to move beyond the server and desktop market by tackling wireless devices.

OpenBSD : News : OpenBSD 3.4 Released
Posted: ( Fri 30th Jan 2004 03:32:26[PM] UTC )
The latest version is out, and they have out done themselves once again. Have a look at the release page at the latest and greatest security enhancements, leaving se linux in the proverbial dust once again.

NetBSD : News : NetBSD 1.6.1 has been released
Posted: ( Sun 7th Dec 2003 03:44:56[AM] UTC )
The latest version of NetBSD - 1.6.1 - has been released on April 21, 2003. NetBSD 1.6.1 is a maintenance release for users of NetBSD 1.6 which provides the following updates relative to 1.6: * A number of security issues have been fixed. * Some performance fixes have been incorporated. * Improved device support in some existing drivers. * Some new device drivers have been added. * The evbsh3 port has been added to the binary distribution. * Some minor userland fixes have been applied. A more complete Release Announcement can be found here: http://netbsd.org/Releases/formal-1.6/NetBSD-1.6.1.html

FreeBSD : News : FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #2
Posted: ( Tue 17th Dec 2002 07:31:11[AM] UTC )
The FreeBSD Project is proud to announce the availability of the second Developer Preview snapshot of FreeBSD 5.0 (5.0-DP2). This snapshot, intended for widespread testing purposes, is the latest milestone towards the eventual release of FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE, currently scheduled for mid-December 2002.

NetBSD : News : NetBSD 1.5.3 released
Posted: ( Mon 5th Aug 2002 09:17:20[AM] UTC )
In the ten months since the last release of the NetBSD 1.5 branch, various improvements, new hardware support, and a few security fixes have been integrated. The new maintenance release is now officially available.

FreeBSD : News : FreeBSD Versus Linux Revisited
Posted: ( Thu 15th Nov 2001 02:07:10[AM] UTC )
Many people say FreeBSD has a very good virtual memory manager. Now, with the new VM engine in Linux as of 2.4.10, things might look different, so I prepared a new test environment for the benchmark.

FreeBSD : News : FreeBSD's Jordan Hubbard to work for Apple
Posted: ( Mon 25th Jun 2001 10:42:26[PM] UTC )
For the past seven years, Hubbard has worked as a FreeBSD CD's product manager and FreeBSD evangelist for Walnut Creek CDROM, BSDi and WindRiver Systems. Part of Hubbard's new job will be helping Apple strengthen its relationships with other open source projects.

xMach : News : Free powerful distributed Operating System for download
Posted: ( Mon 30th Apr 2001 12:00:53[AM] UTC )
Based on Mach, and POSIX compliant this distributed Operating System, supported on i386 and SUN SPARC among others, can be used to paralell process many single board computers over Ethernet.

xMach : News : xMach Announces Core Team
Posted: ( Wed 25th Apr 2001 08:08:13[AM] UTC )
Joseph Mallett writes "xMach today announces our brand new Core Team. We've also (finally) added a CVS server, as well as a CVSweb front-end so people can browse the source. Since the first Slashdot post, we've accomplished one of our major goals of being GPL-free (and thus fully BSD License'd), as well as added two mailing lists and fixed the wishlist code. Due to Mach's history with Multiprocessing, we are currently looking more and more and the ideas of distributed processing. The code base is now cleaned up, so that everything should compile out of box. Some of our more abitious goals are to move to a multiserver format, and do a major update of the filesystem interfaces, short term. And unlike the HURD, it's software that's here right now, and isn't vapourware."

xMach : News : Less GPL, Less Bloat
Posted: ( Wed 25th Apr 2001 08:04:04[AM] UTC )
Joseph Mallett writes "We've now removed most (all?) of the GPL code. Also, we've integrated the RTMach Lites code, for better application-level compat with modern operating systems. We've got a few individuals working on porting either FreeBSD or OpenBSD device driver frameworks to xMach so that our native drivers (as the Linux ones are gone) will be wider and varying than the (extremely) limited Mach drivers that we currently have. We're also removing all code not pertinent to Mach4 (i.e. OSFMACH and Mach3) as part of our new 'slogan'(?): Proactively Unbloated. Eventually, non bloat will lead to lessening the amount of code to do certain things, which would hopefully lead to better optimisation. As always, we're looking for people to help, and we'll soon have mailing lists and a CVS server, and possibly a GNATS database."

xMach : News : xMach goes to Australia
Posted: ( Tue 20th Mar 2001 04:20:19[AM] UTC )
"Myself, Joseph Mallett, and David Jorm have recently begun to take xMach in a slightly more specialised direction, concentrating on disk and i/o for mass storage, network fileserver, and (possibly) forensics applications. With improvements made to Disk I/O, a server setting could also be suitable. I've begun to squash some of the bugs that were left in by previous developers, because I didn't quite understand some workings of assembley constructs inside GCC. I'm taking a trip to Australia to stay with David Jorm and work out details of xMach and do some (hopefully) serious code hacking. Oh, and the wishlist is now publicly viewable (note: some of the 'wish'es are off topic AT BEST, and some are downright offensive)."

xMach : News : Two new xMach releases.
Posted: ( Tue 20th Mar 2001 04:20:19[AM] UTC )
"We have two new uploads. A binary tarball, and a source tarball. With the source... kernel and lites compile cleanly on FreeBSD, user and kernel compile cleanly on Linux 2.4.1 (Slackware). The binary should be extracted in / and will require a little hacking with symlinks, etc., on whoever's part, but they should work. I don't have a test box, all the fixes are compile-time related... But it IS a step in the right direction. By the way, I redid the website so it's a little cleaner."

FreeBSD : News : Official site for FreeBSD/*BSD in India
Posted: ( Sat 24th Feb 2001 12:09:09[AM] UTC )
"We are pleased to announce the launch of FreeBSD.org.in - The official site for FreeBSD/*BSD in India. The site has news, articles, downloads and links. We request the FreeBSD/*BSD community in India and around the world to contribute to make this site a success and help us promote FreeBSD/*BSD."

NetBSD : News : Wasabi Systems suite of popular applications for NetBSD 1.5
Posted: ( Tue 13th Feb 2001 08:29:45[PM] UTC )
The Wasabi NetBSD 1.5 Package Release includes two supplemental CDs featuring over 1,600 precompiled, ready-to-run third party software for the x86-based PC platform.

xMach : News : New License
Posted: ( Thu 11th Jan 2001 07:07:35[PM] UTC )
xMach is now released under the BSD license, with the understanding that certain portions of the code, which were taken from an outside source, which will be modified and incorporated into xMach at will, but all modifications to them must be made available under the terms of the original license. In other words, you can make a closed-source xMach derivative, but the GPL'd code has to be released publicly under the GPL.