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Explaining Why We Don't Endorse Other Systems

http://www.gnu.org

"We're often asked why we don't endorse a particular system—usually a popular GNU/Linux distribution. The short answer to that question is that they don't follow the free system distribution guidelines. But since it isn't always easy to see how a particular system fails to follow the guidelines, we still get these questions.

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Created by can.axis 12 years 33 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 33 weeks ago
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FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks

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With these two popular free software operating systems both having major updates coming out at around the same time, we decided it warranted some early benchmarking.

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Created by oshea 12 years 34 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 34 weeks ago
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FreeBSD Local Root Escalation Vulnerability

http://www.darknet.org.uk

It’s been a long time since we’ve heard about a problem with FreeBSD, partially because the mass of people using it isn’t that large and secondly because BSD tends to be pretty secure as operating systems go.

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Created by arslinuxum 12 years 36 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 36 weeks ago
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FreeBSD 8 Getting New Routing Architecture

http://www.internetnews.com

FreeBSD 8.0, due out next month, will include a new routing architecture that takes advantage of parallel processing capabilities. According to its developers, the update will provide FreeBSD 8.0 with a faster more advanced routing architecture than the legacy architecture.

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Created by FFlover 12 years 39 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 39 weeks ago
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FreeBSD 8.0 – What to look forward to

http://www.freebsdnews.net

Over the next few months new versions of the major operating systems will be released: Mac OS X v10.6 (Snow Leopard) sometime in September, Windows 7 on 22 October, and Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), also in October. Let’s not forget about FreeBSD.

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Created by andrejzh 12 years 40 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 40 weeks ago
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Bordeaux The frontend for Wine

http://wine-reviews.net

Juraj Šípoš Who maintains http://www.freebsd.nfo.sk/ wrote a nice review about Bordeaux on FreeBSD. The original review is at www.linuxexpres.cz and can be translated with google translate. Just choose Slovak to English or your language of choice, Here is a link to the English translation.

Here is a small snip of the review, Juraj also talks about WineTricks and CodeWeavers CrossOver Ofiice.

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Created by twickline 12 years 41 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 41 weeks ago
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Bordeaux 1.8.2 for FreeBSD Released

http://www.wine-reviews.net

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.8.2 for FreeBSD today. Bordeaux 1.8.2 adds support for Apple's QuickTime 6.5.2 Player, IrfanView 4.25 the extreamly popular image viewer and editor. This release aslo bundles in Cabextract, Wget and Unzip to remove external dependencies.

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Created by twickline 12 years 42 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 42 weeks ago
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Why FreeBSD 8 Won't Rewrite the Book

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A major release of an operating system typically brings significant changes that require users to learn new skills. But backers of the open source FreeBSD 8 operating system say that's not necessarily going to be the case with its next major version.

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Created by jeff2007 12 years 45 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 45 weeks ago
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FreeBSD 7.2 enters Beta

http://blog.internetnews.com

The first Beta for FreeBSD 7.2 has been released, updating network drivers as well as some threading libraries. The FreeBSD 7.2 release is the first point upgrade since the 7.1 release which became generally available in January of this year. The final release of FreeBSD 7.2 is currently scheduled for the first week of May.

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Created by mads 13 years 6 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 5 weeks ago
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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 298, 13 April 2009

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Recently the latest version of perhaps the world's most friendly BSD distribution was released. PC-BSD 7.1 is based off FreeBSD and we take a first look at this interesting operating system.

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Created by Noog 13 years 6 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 6 weeks ago
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Combining Debian and FreeBSD; Pushing the Envelope of FOSS

http://www.linux-mag.com

The Debian project made a splash on Sunday with the announcement that two new “architectures” had been added to the Debian FTP archive. So what exactly does that mean?

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Created by laloj 13 years 6 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 6 weeks ago
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Contributing to FreeBSD

http://keramida.wordpress.com

«As part of the FreeBSD team, I often get asked the same question: “How can I get started as a FreeBSD contributor?” There are usually two reasons why a new contributor feels overwhelmed by the idea of getting started. One of them is that he or she feels that it is difficult to find out exactly how to start contributing to a free software project.

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Created by can.axis 13 years 15 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 15 weeks ago
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FreeBSD 7.1 release announcement

http://www.freebsd.org

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some new features.

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Created by stargrave 13 years 20 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 20 weeks ago
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FreeBSD today and 15 years ago

http://ivoras.sharanet.org

Ivan Voras (one of current commiters) reading release notes for FreeBSD 1.1 noticed that anymore there are no developers, that was developing FreeBSD from the very beginning. Also, there are still similiar organizational and technical problems that were 15 years ago.

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Created by stargrave 13 years 21 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 21 weeks ago
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FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE Announcement

http://www.freebsd.org

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE. At this time 6.4-RELEASE is expected to be the last of the 6-STABLE releases. Some of the highlights...

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Created by Gorossian 13 years 24 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 24 weeks ago
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