BSD & Gaming

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!

Last year I stated [link] the disappointment of Fallout 3 from 2008 left me in no hurry to pick up a copy of  New Vegas. The initial reviews for FO3:NV looked promising but that quickly changed with a barrage of negativity about the game’s technical problems. To make things worse, I also had an aging computer setup that would have left me running the game on mid-level or low end graphics settings, yet one more reason buying this game quickly got filed under the “why bother” category for me.

…Fast forward one year and mix in a new pc.. Booyah Babuh! FO3:NV rocks like nobody’s business! Since I took forever to get my hands on a copy, it appears the developers had time to patch all the technical issues everyone complained about. So far I have had zero problems. The quality of the storyline and general content of FO3:NV is ridiculously better than Bethesda’s work on Fo3, it really shines with competent story telling from Obsidian Entertainment. I would love to have seen what these guys could have come up with for the Capital Wasteland, I imagine it would have been light years better than anything Bethesda squeezed out.

Naturally it still wouldn’t be a great PC Game without a lot of mods from the community to make it ever so much better, stock games are usually bland at best.

Interesting day today, got to experience my first earthquake. I live less than a couple hours away from the epicenter and it was definitely a holy crap moment. No damage or injuries, but fairly exciting the 20-30 seconds it lasted. Even though I had never been through a tremor before it took only seconds to realize what was happening.

If you experienced the quake you can help the USGS gather more data on the event here at this [LINK]

#vaquake #earthquake

Last xmas my family was generous and got me the little 10″ Zt-180 tablet I wanted. It’s been a lot of fun to use especially since this little “hu flung dung” epad has more features than many pricier alternatives, and does everything I want with a price tag that was well under 200 bucks. Gotta love it!!

It originally came with Android 2.1 1030 but the good news is I finally got around to upgrading the firmware to Android 2.2 0603! It’s fast and has flash support. I haven’t messed with it much to check on the actual performance but it seems pretty good so far. When I make the time I’ll put together detailed info on the upgrade and how I made it work for me.

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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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.)

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]

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]

FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE is available.

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:

-zfsloader added
-zpool version of ZFS subsystem updated to version 14
-NFSv4 ACL support in UFS and ZFS; support added to cp(1), find(1), getfacl(1), mv(1), and setfacl(1) utilities
-UltraSPARC IV/IV+, SPARC64 V support
-SMP support in PowerPC G5
-BIND 9.6.2-P2
-sendmail updated to 8.14.4
-OpenSSH updated to 5.4p1
-GNOME 2.30.1, KDE 4.4.5

Announcement – [LINK]

Release notes – [LINK]

Download via official BitTorrent – [LINK]

Download via FTP mirrors – [LINK]