FreeBSD 8.0: What's cooking?

What’s cooking for FreeBSD 8? Plenty. Jails v2, Xen dom-U support, ULE 3.0, and DTrace will all likely make it into the release, not to mention all the other new features, stability and code improvements. What else is cooking in FreeBSD 8?

Finding out what httpd a website uses

Have you ever wanted to know what httpd a website is using but didn’t know how? this tutorial will be able to show you.

FreeBSD Errata Notices

FreeBSD-EN-09:02.bce
FreeBSD-EN-09:03.fxp
FreeBSD-EN-09:04.fork

Create better namespaces in PHP

PHP V5.3 introduces the ability to provide namespaces to your PHP classes, constants, and functions. Using namespaces allows you to avoid naming collisions and provide context for your PHP code. These tips provide a few guidelines for building your namespaces so that you get the most out of them.

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Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features

Firefox 3.5 is a pretty substantial update to the popular open-source browser, and it's just around the corner. See what features, fixes, and clever new tools are worth getting excited about in the next big release.

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OpenBSD Enters "I'm a Mac/PC" Ad Campaign War

Theo De Raadt, founder of the security-minded OpenBSD operating system, has announced plans to launch a series of television commercials to battle software giants Microsoft and Apple.

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FreeBSD Security Advisory

FreeBSD-SA-09:11.ntpd
FreeBSD-SA-09:10.ipv6
FreeBSD-SA-09:09.pipe

FreeBSD: PmcTools merged to RELENG_7

The PmcTools is merged to RELENG_7.

You can now enjoy the same level of features / hw supported as in head:
- Callchain in capture
- Core 2 support
- Core i7 support
- pmcannotate: source code annotation using pmc capture
- bug fixes

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