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...lmarks a new era of Java support for FreeBSD. Having easy to install binary Java packages will ensure that all users can enjoy the benefits of Java technology on the FreeBSD platform." Java users can download, without charge, the FreeBSD Foundation's Java distribution from <http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml>. The FreeBSD Foundation is also providing OEM licenses to FreeBSD distributors, permitting them to ship out-of-the-box Java support with FreeBSD. Foundation Secretary and Treasurer, Justin T. Gibbs, pledged continued support for Java technology on the FreeBSD platform...

...nt of the FreeBSD Foundation. "We are committed to continuing to enhance Java support on FreeBSD, including certified releases for FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and added support for the amd64/em64t hardware platform," Watson said. More information and downloads are available via http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml. Information on donating to the FreeBSD Foundation may be found on the FreeBSD web site. About The FreeBSD Project FreeBSD is a complete and advanced Unix-like operating system which can be used as a secure and high-performance workstation, network server or firewall. F...

Dear FreeBSD users, Slightly more than three years ago, I released FreeBSD Update, my first major contribution to FreeBSD. Since then, I have become a FreeBSD committer, joined the FreeBSD Security Team, released Portsnap, and become the FreeBSD Security Officer. However, as I have gone from being a graduate student at Oxford University -- busy writing my thesis -- to a researcher at Simon

...sing who have handed in their commit bits. We wish them well in their future endeavours and hope to see them return as soon as they can. __________________________________________________________________ The FreeBSD Foundation Links FreeBSD Foundation Website URL: https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/ Contact: Deb Goodkin <deb at FreeBSDFoundation.org> The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting the FreeBSD Project and community worldwide. Funding comes from individual and corporate donations and is used to fund...

...sing who have handed in their commit bits. We wish them well in their future endeavours and hope to see them return as soon as they can. __________________________________________________________________ The FreeBSD Foundation Links FreeBSD Foundation Website URL: https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/ Contact: Deb Goodkin <deb at FreeBSDFoundation.org> The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting the FreeBSD Project and community worldwide. Funding comes from individual and corporate donations and is used to fund...

Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses to BSDCan 2008. The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel grants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit the Travel Grant Request Application at www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/ by April 1, 2008 to apply for this grant. We have increased our travel grant budget for 2008! Now we have the resources to help send more FreeBSD developers to conferences. We still ask you to look to your employers first for sponsorship or cost-splitting. Also, to be considered fo...

...ws!! We've extended the deadline for accepting AsiaBSDCon travel grant applications. Please submit your application by Feb. 10, 2010. If you have already submitted an application, you will be hearing from us soon. Please fill out and submit the Travel Grant Request Application at http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/TravelRequestForm.pdf. How it works: This program is open to FreeBSD developers of all sorts (kernel hackers, documentation authors, bugbusters, system administrators, etc). In some cases we are also able to fund non-developers, such as active community members and FreeBSD advocate...

...complete the registration process and pay the conference fee. This conference would not be possible without our sponsors: Platinum sponsors: EMC http://www.emc.com iXsystems http://www.ixsystems.com Wheel Systems http://www.wheelsystems.com Gold sponsors: The FreeBSD Foundation http://www.freebsdfoundation.org Silver sponsors: BSDeurope.eu http://www.bsdeurope.eu Google http://www.google.com Bronze sponsors: Madison Gurkha http://www.madison-gurkha.com pfSense http://www.pfSense.org The NetBSD Foundation http://www.netbsd.org USENIX http://www.usenix.org Media partners: BSD Magazin...

...if you wish to > remain anonymous. > > For more details, see http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/funding.html . > > Colin Percival I'm just curious, is there any particular reason this wouldn't be or couldn't be facilitated through the FreeBSD Foundation? http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ Thanks, Frank

...NY kind of > > > > useful > > > > > certification, security-related or not. > > > > > > > > We probably would. This is why I'm suggesting that it become > > > > something we > > > > stick on the front page of freebsd.org/freebsdfoundation.org. > > > > Since FreeBSD > > > > is a not-for-profit organization (as Chris Odell pointed out) > > > > I think it'd > > > > actually be attractive for people (and corporations using > > > > FreeBSD) to donate > > > > as i...

...ZFS file system was ported from OpenSolaris operating system. The code in under CDDL license. I''d like to thank all SUN developers that created this great piece of software. Supported by: Wheel LTD (http://www.wheel.pl/) Supported by: The FreeBSD Foundation (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/) Supported by: Sentex (http://www.sentex.net/) Limitations. Currently ZFS is only compiled as kernel module and is only available for i386 architecture. Amd64 should be available very soon, the other archs will come later, as we implement needed atomic operations. Missing functional...

...MD5 (FreeBSD-10.0-RC2-i386-20131215-r259404.vhd.xz) = 7a58c47b496f811f8b38763be0f75867 MD5 (FreeBSD-10.0-RC2-i386-20131215-r259404.vmdk.xz) = 9bd16405d8776e955a68bae39902b376 Glen Love FreeBSD? Support this and future releases with a donation to the FreeBSD Foundation! https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 834 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20131216/73e107dc/attachment.sig>

First, I hope that this message is not considered flame bait. As someone who has used FreeBSD for for 5+ years now, I have a genuine interest in the integrity of our source code. Second, I hope that this message is not taken as any form of insult or finger pointing. Software without bugs does not exist, and I think we all know that. Acknowledging that point and working to mitigate the risks

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Since FreeBSD 6.4 is the last remaining supported release from the FreeBSD 6.x stable branch, support for the FreeBSD 6.x stable branch will also cease at the same point. Users of either of

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Since FreeBSD 6.4 is the last remaining supported release from the FreeBSD 6.x stable branch, support for the FreeBSD 6.x stable branch will also cease at the same point. Users of either of

Dear FreeBSD Community, The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce another project from our accepted project proposals! Arnar Mar Sig has been awarded a grant to develop AVR32 support for FreeBSD. AVR32 is a 32-bit MIPS architecture targeted for low power high throughput embedded applications. The target platform is the NGW100 reference design board from Atmel. "This work will advance

Dear FreeBSD Community, The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce another funded project! Rafal Jaworowski and Semihalf has been awarded a grant to provide FreeBSD with support for the flattened device tree (FDT) technology. This project allows for describing hardware resources of a computer system and their dependencies in a platform-neutral and portable way. The main consumers of this

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce Ed Maste's new role as the Foundation's part-time Director of Project Development. Ed has served on the Foundation's board for two years, and has stepped down in order to accept this new position. In this position Ed will manage the Foundation's sponsored work, including projects funded under specific grants, operational support and