The January to March 2013 Status Report is now available with 31 entries.
FreeBSD Foundation Announces Ed Maste as New Director of Project Development
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce Ed Maste’s new role as the Foundation’s part-time Director of Project Development. Ed has served on the Foundation’s board for two years, and has stepped down in order to accept this new position.
FreeBSD 8.4-RC3 Available
The third RC build for the FreeBSD-8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
OpenBSD 5.3 Released
An anonymous reader writes “Today, OpenBSD 5.3 has been released. It has many improvements, updates, and new stuff. Also, OpenSMTPD 5.3 is included. This is the first version of OpenSMTPD considered to be ready for production. Many pre-built packages are available for many architectures. OpenBSD 5.3 ships with various Desktop Environments, including Gnome 3.6, KDE 3.5, and XFCE 4.10.” And don’t forget the release song, “Blade Swimmer.”
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DragonFly BSD 3.4 Released, With New Packaging System
An anonymous reader writes “DragonFly BSD has released version 3.4. This version is the first BSD to support GCC 4.7, and contains a new experimental Aptitude-like binary package installed called DPorts, which uses the FreeBSD ports collection as a base.”
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New FreeBSD Foundation Technical Staff Member: Edward Tomasz Napierała
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz Napierała has joined as its second member of technical staff. This is a continuation of the Foundation’s plan to invest in staff in 2013.
New FreeBSD Foundation Technical Staff Member: Edward Tomasz Napierala
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz Napierala has joined as its second member of technical staff. This is a continuation of the Foundation’s plan to invest in staff in 2013.
New committer: Alan Somers (src)
FreeBSD Project to participate in Google Summer of Code 2013
The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation In Google’s 2013 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project’s ninth year in the program, having mentored over 150 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2012.
FreeBSD Project to participate in Google Summer of Code 2013
The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation In Google’s 2013 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project’s ninth year in the program, having mentored over 150 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2012.