FreeBSD project servers hacked

Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open SourceThe Cyanogemmod project has hit an unexpected roadblock with the person who was in charge of its web presence deciding to hold the others to hostage.

Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open SourceVeteran BSD hacker Marshall Kirk McKusick has played down fears that the FreeBSD project will fall short of its target of raising $US500,000 through donations for this year.

Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open SourceThe CyanogeMod project has resolved the problem it was facing after a member decided to demand money for handing over control of the website domain.

The FreeBSD.org cluster saw a security breach on two of its machines on Sunday. Following the breach, FreeBSD.org was taken offline, and although most of it is back online now, some deprecated projects are being removed.

Last month we ran a 50% off sale on Bordeaux and this month we would like to do something a little different and raise some money for a good cause. With your help we would like to help support three very important projects.

The first project is the Wine Development Fund. Proceeds from the WDF go toward supporting the annual Wine Conference.

Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open SourceThe GNOME Desktop project has decided to offer users a set of extensions so that they can revert their desktops back to the style of GNOME 2.0.

Daniel Gerzo with the FreeBSD project has issued a status report concerning work going on within FreeBSD and related projects for the first quarter of this year. Catching our interest in particular were the updates surrounding LLVM/Clang as the compiler for FreeBSD's base, the Chromium web browser...

The FreeBSD Foundation, the maker of the FreeBSD open source operating system, proudly announced on the last day of 2012 that the FreeBSD 9.1 release is now officially available. Actually, the FreeBSD 9.1 operating system was available for download (without any official release) on the FTP servers of the FreeBSD Foundation since last week.

Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open SauceFrom time to time, the GNOME Desktop Project blows up, with one developer or another indulging in soul-searching and realising that the project lacks direction. Or people. Or something else.