BSD & Gaming

Join Cryptic for their Star Trek Online festivities, the event will run from around 10:00am PST on Thursday, February 2, 2012 through around 10:00am PST on Monday, February 6, 2012.

Celebrations include missions to acquire the new flagships for both the Klingon Empire and the Federation faction, as well as a daily ‘Q’ mission for other prizes!

Download a free to play copy of Star Trek Online today.

Just released, PC-BSD 9.0 [Isotope Edition] go get it now!!

PC-BSD 9.0 changes include the following:

• Based upon FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE
• Support for installing a variety of Window Managers, such as KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE and more!
• Improved networking utilities, including wifi quick-connect
• Support for UFS+Journaling out of box
• New graphical boot options page
• Improved PBI system, allows library sharing, binary diff updating, custom repositories, digital signing and more!
• Support for “freebsd-update” via the System Update GUI
• Enhanced “Life-Preserver” utility for doing off-site rsync backups of user data.

Read the release notes here – [LINK]
Download your free copy here – [LINK]
Download via BitTorrent here – [LINK]

(For a full list of changes in this release refer to the changelog.)

I’m still alive and kicking, just took some time off for xmas & new years. I’ll get back on track soon, thanks for hanging in there! Hope everyone had a great holiday!

FLOSS Weekly had a very good episode taking an in depth look at PC-BSD with a Q&A session involving one of the developers and FreeBSD Girl, Randi Harper.

If you want to hear what PC-BSD is all about and what changes are coming in the new version then go take a look – [LINK] Definitely worth watching!!

The April Issue Articles Include:

• Interview with Dru Lavigne

• Why You Use FreeBSD Just May Start With A ‘Z’

• OpenBSD improves upon /etc/rc.d/

• DragonFly News

• Package Management for the upcoming PC-BSD 9

• Converting a Physical Partition with FreeBSD to a vmware Image

• Build appliances with QEMU and OpenBSD

• Drupal on FreeBSD part 5

• Mutt On OS X part 2

• Realtime Weather Data EMWIN on FreeBSD

• Benchmarking Different Kind of Storage

• Content Management Made Easy The Open Source Way!

Get it fresh off the press by going to BSDMag.Org for your free copy now.

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The new 4.0 series of Firefox for FreeBSD is now available as a PBI for PC-BSD users.

Use your software update tool or download the push button installer from here – [LINK]

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March Issue Articles Include:

• Ramblings from the Rogue Admin

• DragonFly News

• Run your Phone System on OpenBSD

• A quick look at the upcoming PC-BSD 9

• Drupal on FreeBSD part 4

• Using FreeBSD to authenticate users with OpenLDAP and FreeRADIUS

• How To Setup OpenBSD On The Embeded Alix Card

• Setting up Git and Mercurial Servers

• The Wonders Of Blender

• Useful OpenBSD Tools

Get it fresh off the press by going to BSDMag.Org for your free copy now.

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Just released, PC-BSD 8.2 [Hubble Edition] go get it now!!

PC-BSD 8.2 changes include the following:

• FreeBSD 8.2-Release
• KDE 4.5.5
• Added ability to select file-system type and encryption during auto-partitioning
• Able to toggle between MBR/GPT partitioning
• Various bug fixes to the wireless / network managers

Read the release notes here – [LINK]
Download your free copy here – [LINK]
Download via BitTorrent here – [LINK]

(For a full list of changes in this release refer to the changelog.)

Articles Include:

• ZFS and FreeBSD
• Network transparent rate limitation with ipfw
• Building an iSCSI storage with BSD
• How to setup a USB Memory stick for installing a pfSense SoHo Firewall/Router
• Mutt On OS X
• The Missing Links to Strategic Implementation
• Browser Wars
• Interview with Dan Langille
• PC-SYSINSTALL – A new system installer backend for PC-BSD & FreeBSD

Get it fresh off the press by going to BSDMagazine.Org for your free copy now.

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The TechWave Dev Team has released information about an updated version of
MobileFreeNAS, it will now be called mFreeNAS 7.

Some of the details include:

This application allows you to control your FreeNAS Server within your local network.
Supported features:
-Wake On Lan
-Reboot
-Shutdown
-System Info
-HDDs Info
-HTTP Support only
-Tested on FreeNAS 0.7.2.5543

You can download the application here – [LINK]

The full write up about this can be found on TechWave’s site here – [LINK]