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28 May: New committer: Alexander Logvinov (ports)
27 May: New committer: Kris Moore (ports)
23 May: New committer: Benedict Reuschling (doc/de_DE, www/de)
22 May: New committer: Jilles Tjoelker (src)
20 May: New committer: TAKATSU Tomonari (ports)
10 May:
The FreeBSD Project again received many high quality applications from students
participating in Google's Summer of Code
program. This year 20 student proposals were accepted to work with the FreeBSD Project as
part of this program. For those with projects that were not accepted this year, we'd like
to note that the FreeBSD Project is always willing to help mentor students so they can
learn more about operating system development through our normal community mailing lists
and development forums.
The complete list of student projects selected for funding is :
7 May: The January - March, 2009 Status Reports are now available with 15 entries.
5 May: New committer, SoC alumnus: Nick Barkas (src)
4 May: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 7.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.
24 April: The second of two planned Release Candidates for the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.
21 April: All of the technical sessions from the recent DCBSDCon 2009 conference were recorded and are now available in the BSDConferences channel on YouTube. There are now 50 separate videos of technical talks from MeetBSD, NYCBSDCon, AsiaBSDCon, and BSDCan available in the channel.
17 April: The first of two planned Release Candidates for the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.
12 April: Enhanced commit privileges: Gábor Páli (ports, doc)
10
April: PC-BSD 7.1 has been released. PC-BSD is a successful desktop operating system
based on FreeBSD that focuses on providing an easy to use desktop system for casual
computer users. A list of new features/updates since the last version can be found here.
The new release may be downloaded or purchased on DVD.
6 April: New committer: Rick Macklem (src)
3 April: The final stage of the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE cycle has begun with the first beta release. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.
25 March: New committer: Steven Kreuzer (ports)
22
March: We are pleased to announce that Google has invited the FreeBSD Project to
participate in their Summer of Code 2009 program, which allows students to get paid to
work on the FreeBSD source code. We invite students interested in working on FreeBSD to
submit their proposals as soon as possible.
For more information please see the FreeBSD
Summer Projects page for recommended project ideas and the official announcement.
16 March: New committer: Fabien Thomas (src)
12 March: There are a number of semi-official Twitter streams available now with the latest updates from the FreeBSD Project. The @freebsdannounce stream provides a short summary and link to the full newsflash posts. @freebsdblogs syndicates the FreeBSD developer blogs from Planet FreeBSD. @freebsd syndicates both of the above sources and more. Finally, the new @bsdevents stream includes all the events from our events page plus additional reminders and notices of BSD gatherings.
3 March: New committer: Dennis Herrmann (ports)
1 March: New committer: Dmitry Chagin (src)
19 February: New committer: Marcus von Appen (ports)
18 February: New committer: Andriy Gapon (src)
14 February: KDE 4.2.0 has been merged into the ports tree. For a detailed list of improvements, please refer to the announcement. For general information about KDE on FreeBSD, please see the KDE on FreeBSD project page.
28 January: The October - December, 2008 Status Reports are now available with 19 entries.
28 January: New committer: Beat Gätzi (ports)
28 January: New committer: Jamie Gritton (src)
17 January: The first lecture from Kirk McKusick's full length FreeBSD Kernel Internals course has been posted to the BSD Conferences channel on YouTube.
9 January: The FreeBSD GNOME team is proud to announce the release of GNOME 2.24.2 for FreeBSD. More details can be found on the FreeBSD GNOME Project page.
5 January: FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 7.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.
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