Not Just GNU/Linux: News About Other Free Operating Systems
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-03-20 16:40:53 UTC
- Modified: 2014-03-20 16:40:53 UTC
Genode OS
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The Genode Operating System Framework has been one of the more interesting and successful open-source OS research projects of recent times. Genode OS is becoming increasingly usable to enthusiasts and is also proving to be an interesting environment for developers. A lot of headway was made for Genode OS in 2013, but there's already a list of TODO items for the community-based operating system in 2014.
MINIX
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MINIX 3.2.1 can successfully power-up on the BeagleBoard-xM with a working frame-buffer and is "off to discover the world." While there is a frame-buffer, networking support doesn't yet work on MINIX. MINIX 3.2.1 has been advertised as a great fit for ARM since its small, BSD licensed, and reliable.
Plan 9
ReactOS
OpenBSD
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The OpenBSD Foundation would like your help to meet our fundraising goals for 2014. Our 2014 Fundraising goal is $150,000. This amount will ensure the continued health of the projects we support, and will enable us to help them do more, and we can avoid the distractions of financial emergencies that could potentially spell the end of the project.
PC-BSD
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With FreeBSD 10.0 having been released and the final release of the PC-BSD 10.0 coming this week, I decided to try out the PC-BSD 10.0-RC5 ahead of the final release. While I intended to run some benchmarks of FreeBSD/PC-BSD 10.0 against its predecessor and compared to Linux distributions, this initial PC-BSD 10.0 encounter was cut short after about ten minutes.
FreeBSD
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Linux isn't the only open-source operating system, and it isn't the only one with both server and desktop components either. The FreeBSD Project is one of the earliest open-source operating system projects, with roots connecting it to the original open-source BSD Unix work performed at the University of California at Berkeley. On Jan. 20, FreeBSD 10 debuted, providing server users with multiple performance and virtualization improvements. While FreeBSD itself could potentially be used as a desktop system, the PC-BSD open-source project is the home base for FreeBSD as a desktop operating system.
BSD (General)
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EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and developers of BSD-based systems. The conference will take place September 25 to 28 at InterExpo Congress Center in Sofia (see http://iec.bg/en/). Tutorials will be held on Thursday and Friday, while the shorter talks and papers program is on Saturday and Sunday.
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This is a feature-focused release. New features: * ssh(1), sshd(8): Add support for key exchange using elliptic-curve Diffie Hellman in Daniel Bernstein's Curve25519. This key exchange method is the default when both the client and server support it.
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