BSD & Gaming » online http://www.bsdgaming.com technology, gadgets, games, freebsd, and other geek fun Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:24:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 gaming: celebrating 2 years of Star Trek Online http://www.bsdgaming.com/2012/02/gaming-celebrating-star-trek-online-2yr-anniversary/ http://www.bsdgaming.com/2012/02/gaming-celebrating-star-trek-online-2yr-anniversary/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:18:59 +0000 admin http://www.bsdgaming.com/?p=1141 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.

 

 

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  • Drupal on FreeBSD – part 3
  • Email MX server in FreeBSD – Confguring FreeBSD as a mail MX server with Postfx
  • Installing NGINX and PHP 5.3.x on FreeBSD 8.1
  • Text Terminal magic with tmux
  • Writing ‘bots using XMPP
  • How to quickly make a bootable USB stick with FreeBSD
  • FreeBSD and simple char device driver for real PCI-hardware
  • BSD’s and Solaris on the Desktop. Are they ready to serve?
  • Games Geeks Play!
  • Why can’t offce employees get along with open source offce suites?

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

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]]> http://www.bsdgaming.com/2011/01/latest-issue-of-bsd-magazine-available-for-download/feed/ 0 PCBSD 8.1 is now available ! http://www.bsdgaming.com/2010/07/pcbsd-8-1-released/ http://www.bsdgaming.com/2010/07/pcbsd-8-1-released/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:03:32 +0000 admin http://www.bsdgaming.com/?p=529 PCBSD 8.1 is now available for your desktop or laptop!! What are you waiting for? Go get yourself a copy now!

The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, and KDE 4.4.5

Version 8.1 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are:

  • FreeBSD 8.1-Release
  • KDE 4.4.5
  • Numerous fixes to the installation backend
  • Support for creating dedicated disk GPT partitioning
  • Improved ZFS support
  • Bugfixes to desktop tools / utilities

Announcement – [LINK]

Release notes – [LINK]

Download via FTP mirrors – [LINK]

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]]> http://www.bsdgaming.com/2010/07/great-dieselpunk-web-site/feed/ 0 Great site for online streaming music http://www.bsdgaming.com/2010/02/great-site-for-online-streaming-music/ http://www.bsdgaming.com/2010/02/great-site-for-online-streaming-music/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:17:50 +0000 admin http://www.bsdgaming.com/?p=151 If you haven’t already found SomaFM yourself,  you should really give it a listen.

SomaFM is a listener-supported, commercial-free internet-only radio station. This means no advertising or annoying commercial interruptions.

My two personal favorite stations are “Mission Control” and “Space Station”. There’s plenty more to choose from so it’s definitely worth taking a look.

You can find SomaFM here – [LINK]

For those on operating systems besides something windows based, you can listen with the VLC media player.

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