Category: FreeBSD
Trip report: BSDDay 2011 in Bratislava
A few weeks ago we had the BSDDay 2011 in Bratislava with a lot of interesting talks and cheap beer. Follow the link to the trip report and a few pictures from the event.
Trip Report:
FreeBSD, Personal : Read more : comments (0) : 25.11.2011 10:34
WantedPorts and how it works
Jason Helfman from Experts Exchange recently submitted a libvirt and virt-manager port. Both ports were listed on our WantedPorts page in the FreeBSD wiki where he found it and decided to work on those ports.
At last years EuroBSDCon DevSummit we talked with Dru and Kris from PC-BSD about some central place where we can maintain a list of projects that should be ported to FreeBSD and agreed on creating a wiki page for that. Well the wiki page was already there but nobody knew about it at that time. So I used that and added my private list of missing projects to it. Then I searched a few forums where people also created such lists and added it all to the list with some additional information.
If you know some very cool project that does not exist in the FreeBSD Ports Tree yet but should be added give me a note and I add it to the WantedPorts page.
So if you want to contribute to the FreeBSD ports but don't know where to start then please have a look at the FreeBSD Porters Handbook and look for an interesting project from the WantedPorts.
See: Jason Helfman blog post about his contributions
FreeBSD, PlanetFreeBSD : Read more : comments (7) : 14.06.2011 09:47
Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6
A new VirtualBox call for testers is out. Please help testing and report bugs so that we can get VirtualBox 4.0 in the tree soon. This time we also prepared binary packages for all people that don't want to build the ports themselves so that's no excuse anymore.
See: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2011-April/008678.html
Announcement, FreeBSD : Read more : comments (0) : 22.04.2011 13:16
Austria is getting more active
It's just about a year since we formed the Grazer BSD Stammtisch. Since then we were at the EuroBSDCon in Karlsruhe, the BSDDay in Budapest and had 7 meetings in Graz for beer and pizza.
This year will be very interesting for our friends in Vienna because we currently help Manuel Wiesinger to form the Vienna BSD Stammtisch. Their first meeting will be in a few weeks and I'm curious to see how many people we can motivate to go out for a beer. So if you live in or around Vienna then subscribe to the blog to get the latest news about it. We also created an aggregated BSD news feed for all our activities and all BSD related blogs from Austria which you can find on bsdstammtisch.at.
As last year we will again have a booth at the Grazer Linuxtage which is the biggest Open Source event in Graz. But this year we will also have a separate BSD track - the 1st BSD Boot Camp - which is a great opportunity to get introduced to BSD and the community. This is all organized by Daniel Seuffert with the help from the Grazer BSD Stammtisch people.
I'm very happy to see the overall progress and what we archived in just one year. Thanks a lot to all people that helped to make this all a reality!
FreeBSD, Grazer Linuxtage : Read more : comments (1) : 23.02.2011 17:22
Donations for 2010
Since a few years I have a tradition to donate a small percentage of my yearly income to Open Source projects. Over the years I have refined my thoughts about it and what I want to archive with it. To keep the overhead low and to reach the correct people with that donation I prefer to directly donate to the people. What is also important to mention is that it is always meant as a "Thank you for your great work" so it is not connected to any requirements. I usually take a few moments at the end of the year to think about what was archieved in the last year and had a big impact on my work or to what I think is important for FreeBSD.
So without further ado my donation for 2010 goes to Hans Petter Selasky for his extraordinary work on webcamd which enables FreeBSD to use modern DVB-S/C/T USB devices and webcams. This makes FreeBSD a viable platform for Home Theater PCs and improves our multimedia support.
Thanks a lot Hans for your great work!
Last years recipient:
| Date | Person | Project | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01.2011 | Hans Petter Selasky | webcamd | |
| 12.2009 | Alexander Eichner & Knut St. Osmundsen | VirtualBox | |
| 01.2009 | Martin Wilke | FreeBSD | |
| 09.2008 | Jannis Pohlmann | Xfce | |
| 11.2006 | OpenBSD | OpenBSD | |
| 05.2006 | FreeBSD Foundation and OpenBSD | FreeBSD and OpenBSD |
FreeBSD, Personal : Read more : comments (0) : 29.01.2011 12:52
XBMC 10.0 is available in the FreeBSD ports collection now!
Thanks to Mickael Maillot and all testers on multimedia@ we now have a working XBMC 10.0 port. Go check it out!
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/xbmc/
FreeBSD, Multimedia : Read more : comments (1) : 29.12.2010 21:59
XBMC Port for FreeBSD
Good news for all multimedia users! The XBMC port is ready for wider testing so please test and give us feedback how it worked for you.
If someone knows how to create a PBI for it i'm sure there would be a few people on PC-BSD interested in XBMC.
See: Call for Testers: XBMC 10.0
FreeBSD, Multimedia : Read more : comments (2) : 08.12.2010 20:37
BSDDay 2010 Summary
Over the weekend we had a few hungarian beers at the BSDDay in Budapest together with other FreeBSD developers. It was well organized and a good opportunity to talk to interested students. I'm definitely looking forward to next years BSDDay.
More Pictures:
FreeBSD, PlanetFreeBSD : Read more : comments (0) : 24.11.2010 23:19
BSDDay 2010 in Hungary
BSDDay 2010 in Budapest, Hungary is tomorrow. It's the first time in Hungary and organized by Gabor Pali so I'm sure it will be a lot of fun for us all.
We are currently 4 people from the Grazer BSD Stammtisch that will attend and we will bring you pictures and stories from the event. More blog posts will hopefully follow.
FreeBSD, PlanetFreeBSD : Read more : comments (0) : 19.11.2010 12:53
MythTV 0.24 for FreeBSD
The new MythTV 0.24 is now out for a week and no call for testers has yet been done. I'm sorry for that but there are a few more details that have to be fixed first and I am at the BSDDay in Hungary over the weekend so don't expect a call for testers of it until late November. But it basically works so i can already show you a few screenshots of it.
Screenshots: http://home.bluelife.at/images/mythtv-0.24/
I've also spend some time getting mythplugin-mythvideo working correctly with metadata download. Looks quite nice to me.
FreeBSD, Multimedia : Read more : comments (0) : 16.11.2010 15:10