Google's Summer of Code 2008
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| "Google Summer of Code 2008 is on! Over the past three years, the program has
| brought together over 1500 students and 2000 mentors from 90 countries
| worldwide, all for the love of code. We look forward to welcoming more new
| contributors and projects this year," begins a page listing all the projects
| planning to participate in this year's GSoC. Among the numerous planned
| participtants there are many kernel projects, including DragonFly BSD,
| FreeBSD, Git, GNU/Hurd, Linux, Minix, and NetBSD.
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http://kerneltrap.org/Google's_Summer_of_Code_2008
New Review:
PC-BSD 1.5 - Becoming More Usable!
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| There is no doubt that PC-BSD is has the aesthetics even without Compiz
| Fusion. It is also very easy to use. However, the small of number of the
| available PBIs has remained the Archilles' heel of PC-BSD. The number has to
| be increased exponentially and this will need more efforts from the
| developers and more commitments from the iXsystem. If I may sidetrack a
| little, I would write that I had great pleasure using Zenwalk Linux 5.0 and
| PC-BSD 1.5 for running Logmein Java applet.
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http://linuxseekers.com/index.php/component/content/article/43-unix-like-reviews/44-pcbsd-15-review
Related and recent:
First look at PC-BSD 1.5
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| Compiz Fusion is included in this release and worked really well. There's a
| menu entry which, when clicked, asks if you'd like to enable it at boot. When
| clicked, Compiz Fusion is immediately enabled and special effects are
| available. I didn't suffer any instability or performance issues when using
| this application, but it did seem to require the restart of X to disable the
| feature.
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080317#feature
iXsystems Announces Release of PC-BSD Version 1.5, Edison Edition
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| iXsystems announced today the release of PC-BSD Edison Edition. PC-BSD is a
| fully functional open source desktop operating system based on FreeBSD
| 6.3-STABLE. FreeBSD is one of the most used UNIX-like operating systems in
| the world and is widely renowned as the most stable and secure server
| operating system. PC-BSD has a Push-Button Installer (PBI) wizard developed
| exclusively for PC-BSD that lets users download and install a wide range of
| available applications in a self-extracting and self-installing format.
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http://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/56/26/
My Vietnamese Students used PC-BSD
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| Most of them were successful though all preferred doing their projects in
| Linux, that is what they told me. The bash shell in PCLinuxOS, according to
| them, was easier since it told them which directory they were in. In short,
| they got used to seeing $ /usr/home/guest/Desktop in PCLinuxOS while in
| PC-BSD, they only saw $. pwd I kept telling them :)
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http://www.saigonnezumi.com/?p=539
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