Migrate from MySQL to MariaDB in FreeBSD

MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system, the impetus being the community maintenance of its free status under the GNU GPL. As a fork of a leading open source software system, it is notable for being led by its original developers and triggered by concerns over direction by an acquiring commercial company Oracle. Contributors are required to share their copyright with Monty Program AB.
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FreeBSD Still Working On Next-Gen Package Manager

The FreeBSD camp continues to develop pkgng, a next-generation binary package manager for the operating system…
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Development Release: FreeBSD 8.4-RC2

Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 8.4, the upcoming new stable version of the project’s legacy branch: “The second RC build of the 8.4-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures. If….

    


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AMD Kernel Mode-Setting Continues On FreeBSD

For being a project that’s just a few months old and up until recently wasn’t touched by BSD developers, the port of the open-source AMD Radeon kernel mode-setting driver from the Linux kernel to FreeBSD kernel is progressing nicely…
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Development Release: FreeBSD 8.4-RC1

Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 8.4, the upcoming new stable version of the project’s legacy branch: “The first RC build of the 8.4-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures. If….

    


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AMD Kernel Mode-Setting Progresses For FreeBSD

More of the Radeon kernel mode-setting (KMS) driver stack being ported to FreeBSD from Linux is beginning to function…
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Development Release: FreeBSD 8.4-BETA1

Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first beta build of FreeBSD 8.4, in the project’s legacy branch: “The first BETA build of the 8.4-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures. Since the stable/8 branch is relatively….


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FreeBSD Works On AMD KMS, BHyVe, Clang

The FreeBSD Q4’2012 status report has been issued to update its users and other stakeholders on the state of this BSD operating system…
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BHyVe: A New Hypervisor Coming To FreeBSD 10.0

BHyVe is a legacy-free hypervisor being developed by FreeBSD developers that was recently merged into mainline to be part of the FreeBSD 10.0 release. The BHyVe virtualization hypervisor relies upon Intel VT-x and already has several interesting features as it aims to be truly legacy-free, high-performance, while being contained within a very small footprint…
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FreeBSD Works On C11, C++11 Support

FreeBSD developers are working on enabling support for the C11 and C++11 programming language standards within their operating system…
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FreeBSD 9.1: LLVM/Clang Battling GCC

With LLVM/Clang having become the default FreeBSD x86 compiler as of last year and the recent FreeBSD 9.1 release shipping not only LLVM/Clang but also the libc++ library, new benchmarks were carried out of FreeBSD 9.1 looking at its two stock compilers.
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FreeBSD Moves Along On ARM Support

While Linux continues to move along quite briskly on ARM hardware support and already has 64-bit ARM AArch64 support, that’s not the case in the BSD world. With FreeBSD, they’re still working on bringing up ARMv6 support and pulling in support for the different ARM SoCs/boards…
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