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A few nice freebsd images I found:

Explaining FreeBSD to the newer members


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Installing FreeBSD Root on ZFS using GPT


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FreeBSD 5.4-RC3


Image by Gea-Suan Lin

Buffalo, NY (PRWEB) August 24, 2005

LinuxQuestions.org (http://www.linuxquestions.org) is proud to announce that LQ ISO (http://iso.linuxquestions.org/) has now facilitated over 1,000,000 Linux downloads. Founded in August of 2004, LQ ISO allows users to find and rate fast local download mirrors. The site currently allows you to download almost 120 different Linux distributions from over 430 different mirrors. The site now utilizes GEO IP data to help you find the fastest local download mirror.

“We’re glad to be able to help users easily find a fast local mirror to download their favorite Linux distro from. Being able to hit 1,000,000 downloads in only a year was a great milestone,” said LinuxQuestions.org founder Jeremy Garcia.

About LinuxQuestions.org:

LinuxQuestions.org is a free, friendly and active Linux Community with over 180,000 members and over 1,800,000 posts. Founded in 2000 LQ offers forums, reviews, a Linux hardware compatibility list, a Linux knowledge base in wiki format, Linux tutorials, a free Linux download site, a Linux podcast, a Linux Radio show, a social bookmarking site and more. LQ has forums for everything from Linux Newbies to Linux in the Enterprise and has over 20 officially recognized Linux distribution forums.

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San Jose, CA (PRWEB) November 14, 2007

iXsystems announced today a distribution agreement with Fry’s Electronics whereby all Fry’s stores nationwide will carry PC-BSD Version 1.4, Da Vinci Edition. The agreement marks the first time that the PC-BSD operating system is made available for purchase at Fry’s Electronics.

PC-BSD is a fully functional desktop operating system based on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. FreeBSD is one of the most used UNIX-like operating systems in the world. It is widely renowned as the most stable and secure server operating system.

“FreeBSD is already the server operating system of choice for many system administrators. This historic agreement will ensure that PC-BSD, the open source desktop operating system running FreeBSD under the hood, becomes available to a mainstream market”, said Theresa Garner, General Manager of FreeBSD Mall.

“We are confident that the availability of PC-BSD at Fry’s Electronics will increase the familiarity and adoption of PC-BSD”, said Michael Lauth, CEO of iXsystems. “Once users try PC-BSD they will be impressed by the wide array of features characterizing this open source operating system, including out-of-the-box support for Flash 7 in native BSD browsers, official NVIDIA drivers to simplify activating hardware acceleration, optional 3D desktop using Compiz Fusion, and a new graphical wireless configuration tool to easily establish a wireless connection with supported network adapters.”

PC-BSD is expected to become available in all Fry’s stores nationwide by Monday, November 19. Fry’s has stores in Northern California, Southern California, Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.

About PC-BSD:

PC-BSD is a rock solid, fully functional desktop operating system running FreeBSD version 6.2-STABLE, with a KDE desktop interface and graphical system installer. Its PBI system, developed exclusively for PC-BSD, lets users download and install their applications in a self-extracting and self-installing format.

About iXsystems:

iXsystems, Inc. is a leading provider of high-performance computing clusters, blade servers, rackmount servers, and storage solutions to the global marketplace. iXsystems supplies FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux servers to a wide cross-section of industries. iXsystems also supports and maintains the PC-BSD project. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

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San Jose, CA (PRWEB) February 22, 2010

iXsystems announced today the latest release of PC-BSD™, Version 8.0, Hubble Edition. This fully functional open source desktop operating system is built upon the new FreeBSD 8.0 release. FreeBSD is one of the most widely used UNIX-based operating systems, providing advanced performance and high levels of security and stability. The Hubble Edition contains a number of improvements and additions that make this release rock solid. The most notable features of PC-BSD 8.0 include a new system installer, integrated software manager, and a ports jail.

The new system installer is highly scriptable and contains many new features. Users may now upgrade from the previous release or restore from a backup created with Life-Preserver. With a single click, users can choose between the installation of PC-BSD or the traditional FreeBSD operating system. In addition, the installer provides support for ZFS on root partitions, Gmirroring of disks, and allows Geli disk encryption. This installer is perfect for a user installing on one machine or an Administrator installing on hundreds.

PC-BSD Hubble also features the ports console, which allows users to build and install ports in a jail environment without breaking the working desktop setup. The integrated Software Manager enhances PC-BSD’s general ease of use by allowing users to browse and install PBIs without launching a browser. The software manager also keeps the applications updated and allows users to recreate desktop icons at any time.

“PC-BSD Hubble Edition greatly enhances the users’ overall desktop experience, while offering new features for power users to take advantage of FreeBSD 8.0 improvements,” says Kris Moore, PC-BSD Software Development Manager, iXsystems.

Among the listed notable features, PC-BSD 8.0 Hubble Edition will offer fixes and enhancements to the desktop and system including:

The addition of the FreeBSD 8.0 install option
KDE 4.3.5 with a new desktop theme and visual improvements
nVIDIA 195.22 drivers for both i386 & AMD64
Installation logging and error reporting
Improved USB device support
nVIDIA drivers now support 3D acceleration and SLI(Scalable Link Interface) on AMD64
Support for installing and running 32bit PBIs on 64bit Operating Systems, such as Wine
Life-Preserver utility, allows backup of system to remote rsync+ssh server

“We added a handful of appearance enhancements to PC-BSD Hubble,” says James T. Nixon III, PC-BSD Project Committer. “The new look includes an iconset, Hubble Edition wallpaper pack, a dozen aesthetic changes, and default settings for commonly used programs and effects.”

Members of the PC-BSD community are praising the new edition of PC-BSD Hubble and its user-friendly functionality improvements.

“PC-BSD 8.0 is the fastest way to deploy a fully-functional modern KDE desktop based on FreeBSD 8.0,” says Michael Bybee, Senior Database Administor. “PC-BSD 8.0 delivers a highly polished Live CD based on FreeBSD 8.0 with all the features I need.”

For more information about PC-BSD 8.0 visit www.pcbsd.org. PC-BSD Hubble Edition can be downloaded from http://www.pcbsd.org. It is also available for retail sale at http://www.freebsdmall.com in a DVD version.

About PC-BSD:

PC-BSD is a rock solid, fully functional desktop operating system, running FreeBSD Version 8.0 with a KDE desktop interface and graphical system installer. Its PBI system, developed exclusively for PC-BSD, lets users download and install their applications in a self-extracting and self-installing format.

About iXsystems, Inc.™

iXsystems is the all-around FreeBSD company that builds FreeBSD-certified servers and storage solutions, runs the FreeBSD Mall, and is the corporate sponsor of the PC-BSD Project.

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(PRWEB) July 11, 2005

LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce a new addition to its network of sites – LQ Bookmarks (http://bookmarks.linuxquestions.org/). LQ Bookmarks allows you to bookmark, tag, annotate and share links to Open Source and Linux related sites. It also allows you to access your bookmarks from any browser on any machine. The ability to share and see what others are sharing is called social bookmarking. You can view links in the order they were added, by tag, by user or by popularity. RSS feeds are available for all queries. All content on the site is available under a Creative Commons license.

“LQ Bookmarks will allow you to not only share, tag and annotate the Linux and Open Source sites you frequent, but see what everyone else is sharing, tagging and annotating. It’s sort of a random stream of consciousness or instant snapshot of what is important to the Linux and Open Source community, right now”, said site founder Jeremy Garcia.

About LinuxQuestions.org:

LinuxQuestions.org is a free, friendly and active Linux Community with over 180,000 members and over 1,700,000 posts. Founded in 2000 LQ offers forums, reviews, a Linux hardware compatibility list, a Linux knowledge base in wiki format, Linux tutorials, a free Linux download site, a Linux podcast, a Linux Radio show, a social bookmarking site and more. LQ has forums for everything from Linux Newbies to Linux in the Enterprise and has over 20 officially recognized Linux distribution forums.

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Library File Errors and Data Recovery in Linux

When you start any application on your Linux system, you may come across with the following error message:

“Program name: error in loading shared libraries: lib xxx…so. X: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.”

After this error message, the application gets terminated unexpectedly and you can not use it any more.

Reason of this problem

This problem occurs with the applications which are using shared libraries. This problem occurs if your computer has incompatible libraries to the applications or the applications and system have mismatched file versions of libraries.

Another reason of this problem could be the corruption to system files. The corruption could be the result of virus attack. Due to corruption, the application could not access the required files and fails to start.

Regardless of the reason, this error message leads to the inaccessibility of your precious data stored on the hard drive and ultimately leads to data loss. For savin your business critical data, it is extremely important to solve this issue as soon as possible.

Resolution

To work around this issue, you can use the following two options:

? If the problem is due to incompatible application or system libraries, update them.

? If it does not work, the problem is due to system file corruption and it needs to reinstall the operating system.

Reinstallation of operating system is the ultimate solution of all the system related problems. But it also has a downside which can lead to data loss. Reinstallation requires hard drive formatting and formatting wipes all the data stored on the drive.

In these situations, you need for something which can perform data recovery Linux to recover your lost Linux data. The data recovery Linux is feasible with the application of Linux recovery software.

Linux data recovery software are the perfect solutios of Linux recovery. They can carry out data recovery Linux in all cases of data loss. These software are highly developed and do fast and effective Linux data recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery software is the best ever made and highly developed Linux recovery software. This software is applicable to each and every case of data loss and executes efficient data recovery Linux.

You can use this Linux data recovery software for all flavors of Linux to recover all sorts of lost files including documents, spreadsheets, library files, application data and many alike. User interface of this Linux recovery software is very cool looking and thus allows you to have trouble-free data recovery Linux.

Some cool linux images:

Linux en el avión


Image by Fer..
Aunque no se vea bien, cuando intentaban cargar el vídeo de instrucciones para casos de emergencia en vuelo, se les olvidó cargar antes el Linux. Menos mal que no tenían windows.

SUSE Linux looks good on shelfs


Image by Lloyd Budd
I really like the look of SUSE Linux on the shelf. Ubuntu would look great to the left of it.

Foolswisdom Foto

Picasa for Linux


Image by Richard & Samantha Paul
Picasa for Linux, seems ok. Doesn’t include a direct export to Flickr though (can use email upload but I’d prefer not to).
I’d rather use F-Spot.

(PRWEB) November 13, 2003

Silicon Valley Startup, OffMyServer, shuns traditional Venture Capital methods.

San Jose, CA In an effort to raise funds to further grow an established internet infrastructure business, OffMyServer, a one year old tech startup nestled in the famous golden triangle of Silicon Valley, surprises Venture Capital firms by offering limited investment to private investors.

“We’ve proven that we can make it in tough times,” states Michael Lauth, CEO of OffMyServer. “As the economy picks up, analysts predict huge revenue potential in the areas of development that we have targeted.”

In its first year of business, OffMyServer did 1.1 million dollars in revenue with less than 10 full time employees. The company has a 5,000 square foot manufacturing and development facility in San Jose, California.

Their customers include Juniper Networks, Envivio, About.com, and the U.S. Navy.

The limited investment offering consists of 25% of the privately held company in 1% increments of ,000 dollars each. This will give OffMyServer nearly 2 million dollars to focus on marketing their new product line, hiring new personnel, and completing development on several new internet appliances.

Besides internet servers, OffMyServer manufactures a unique security appliance that protects a network from attacks and manages network bandwidth usage. The company has plans to expand their FreeBSD based network appliance line to include a DNS management appliance, a clustering appliance, and a web hosting appliance.

“FreeBSD is a Unix like server operating system that is an excellent alternative to Linux,” says Matt Olander, CTO. “With all that’s going on with Linux right now, many companies are considering migrating from their current operating system to FreeBSD. In the near future, FreeBSD usage may even surpass Linux. According to Netcraft, http://www.netcraft.com, active sites using FreeBSD are already on the rise.”

With their growing reputation as a FreeBSD based company, strategic partnerships, and strong ties to the FreeBSD community, OffMyServer is in an excellent position to become the leading advocate for one of the biggest competitors to Linux, the FreeBSD operating system.

OffMyServer is able to make this offer to gauge investment interest in their company through an SEC exemption for small businesses.

About OffMyServer, Inc.

Offmyserver provides network appliances, rackmount servers, and managed hosting to a global marketplace. The Offmyserver management team consists of executives and employees from BSDi and iXsystems.