Install Asterisk with GUI in 5 easy Steps: The FreeBSD Way

It is beyond the scope of this guide to teach you how to install the FreeBSD OS.
To make this tutorial even simpler, I remove the Digium PCI Card with 4 FX0.

Requirements:

* Running FreeBSD OS (I’m currently using FreeBSD 7.2)
* Root Access to install from ports
* Basic Unix Commands
* Win32 X-lite SIP Phone

FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1 available via FreeBSD Update

In the early days of the FreeBSD 7.0 release cycle I posted here with some instructions on performing a major version upgrade of FreeBSD using FreeBSD Update; now that we're in to the 8.0 release cycle, I think it's time to post some updated instructions. For a number of reasons this post is coming almost a week late -- Ken Smith announced 8.0-BETA1 on Monday -- but I expect that I'll have FreeBSD Update bits in place when future BETAs and RCs are announced.

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FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1 Available

The first public test build of the FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE test cycle is now available, 8.0-BETA1. Through the next week or so more information about the release will be posted but here is the current target schedule for the other 'major events':

BETA2: July 13, 2009
BETA3: July 20, 2009
RC1: July 27, 2009
RC2: August 17, 2009
RELEASE:August 31, 2009

PC-BSD 7.1.1 Released

The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PC-BSD 7.1.1

Version 7.1.1 contains a number of bugfixes and improvements from PC-BSD 7.1, including KDE 4.2.4, improvements to printing support, Xorg Server 1.6.1, and much more.

BSD Router Project

Olivier Cochard-Labbé, founder of FreeNAS, has released the first alpha (0.1) image of his new project: BSD Router Project - http://bsdrp.net

bsdrp is an open source, customised distribution of FreeBSD dedicated to offering IP routing services for small ISP's.

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Mercurial 1.3 released

The new version 1.3 of distributed version control system Mercurial has added experimental support for subrepositories. The new feature will allow developers to take a set of repositories and treat them as a group. Other changes include a share extension to make creating working directories faster and less expensive.

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FreeNAS 0.7 RC1 adds ZFS support

"The development release is based on FreeBSD 7.2 and now includes the addition of ZFS (Zettabyte File System) file system support. The first RC also includes several upgrades to the iSCSI initiator driver, the E2fsprogs file system utilities for Ext2 and the rsync file transfer utility. The Transmission BitTorrent client has been updated to version 1.61 and the 'Watch directory' and 'Extra options' fields have been added to the 'Services|BitTorrent' WebGUI. The WebGUI has also been hardened to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks."

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Linux VS BSD

Interesting article about the differences between Linux and BSD.

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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