Another look at FreeBSD 8

A customer recently linked us to a blog post, https://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html (link broken as of 02/28/2016), that gives a really good look at what there is to come in the up-and-coming version 8 of the FreeBSD operating system. It looks like the...

FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE

The FreeBSD release team announced the availability of 7.2-RELEASE on May 4.  We’ve loaded it in our system and its now available for new VPS setups. Official announcement: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/announce.html Highlights: support for fully...

FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

In the last few days, the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team finalized 7.1-RELEASE and it is now available for download.  We are now also offering the option for 7.1-RELEASE on new VPS setups.  It is listed as an option in the signup process (along with 6.3 and 7.0)....

A Sneak Peak at FreeBSD 8

Along with the release of FreeBSD 7 last year came the birth of FreeBSD 8 in the development stage. Its planned release is the 2nd quarter of 2009, but here is a quick overview of what we know is in the works for the new version. (1) A rewrite of the TTY layer...

What is TrustedBSD?

You may have heard of something called “TrustedBSD” in your discussions of FreeBSD security features. But what is it? A part of the operating system? An application? Something new? Actually, TrustedBSD is a project, started in 2000 with the goal of...