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Wednesday Dec 9 | OSNews.com

RE[2]: Good news

"DesktopBSD 1.6RC3 for AMD64 is now available for download via BitTorrent and from our mirror sites.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Computers, Open Source Software, BSD, PC

Tue Dec 01, 2009

SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq: Upcoming FreeBSD Security Advisory

FreeBSD Security Officer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, A short time ago a "local root" exploit was posted to the full-disclosure mailing list; as the name suggests, this allows a local user to execute arbitrary code as root.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Open Source Software, BSD

Wed Oct 14, 2009

OSNews.com

FreeBSD Gets Grand Central Dispatch Port

Not too long ago, Apple open sourced its Grand Central Dispatch library , which aids in developing multithreaded code.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Open Source Software, BSD, Apple

Mon Sep 14, 2009

The Register

FreeBSD bug grants local root access

A security researcher has uncovered a security bug in the FreeBSD operating system that allows users with limited privileges to take full control of underlying systems.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Open Source Software, BSD

Wed Aug 26, 2009

NixCraft

FreeBSD Update All Installed Ports / Applications

The yum command line tool is used to install and update software packages under CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Open Source Software, BSD, Linux

Sat Jul 11, 2009

OSNews.com

Things I look forward in FreeBSD 8.0

The FreeBSD team has started the beta cycle for FreeBSD 8.0 by releasing this new version's first beta .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Open Source Software, BSD, Linux

Mon Jun 15, 2009

Freshmeat

FreeBSD 7.2

Briefly, FreeBSD is a UNIX operating system based on U.C. Berkeley's 4.4BSD-lite release for the i386 platform .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Open Source Software, BSD, CPU, Bluetooth, Linux

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