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Following in the foot steps of the FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE, PC-BSD 10.1-RELEASE is now available along with the server-oriented TrueOS spin.

After being set back by only some minor delays, FreeBSD 10.1 stable is now available in released form.

The third release candidate is out for the upcoming DragonFlyBSD 4.0 operating system release.

OpenBSD's latest feature is support for USB 3.0.

In a discussion about porting the modern Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver to FreeBSD, it was brought up that a FreeBSD developer is looking at the possibility of introducing a Linux kernel API wrapper to help in porting Linux drivers to FreeBSD.

NetBSD developers have finally managed to enable SMP support for modern ARM SoCs.

Marking the twenty-first birthday of FreeBSD was the release of FreeBSD 10.1-RC4 and separately was the FreeBSD-derived PC-BSD 10.1 RC2 release.

Today marks twenty-one years since the release of FreeBSD 1.0, the first production-ready release of this BSD operating system.

OpenBSD 5.6 was released yesterday and it features the LibreSSL fork of OpenSSL, among many other changes.

Interestingly the OpenBSD developers have decided to remove support for loadable kernel modules from the BSD distribution's next release.

DragonFlyBSD 3.8 will soon be succeeded by DragonFlyBSD 4.0. For those willing to help test, the release candidate to DragonFlyBSD 4.0.0 is now available.

FreeBSD 10.1 RC3 was a few days late but it's out there this Thursday afternoon. FreeBSD 10.3 takes care of an API incompatibility between 10.0-RELEASE and the earlier 10.1-RC2 state (due to the libopie library) and aside from that this third release candidate has a lot of other fixes.

OpenBSD 5.6 is expected to be released at the start of November and with this release will come a large number of changes.

FreeBSD 10.1 is now a step closer to being released with the Monday release of FreeBSD 10.1 RC2.

Besides FreeBSD having poor open-source graphics driver support, DragonFlyBSD is in a similar boat with regard to their port of the Linux DRM/KMS drivers. In fact, it's gone from porting the driver to DragonFlyBSD to more like porting DragonFlyBSD to be more compatible with the Linux APIs.

Jean-Sébastien Pédron of the FreeBSD project gave an update at this week's XDC2014 conference about the state of the graphics stack on FreeBSD.

While OpenBSD generally prides itself on being a secure, open-source operating system and focusing more on code corectness and security rather than flashy features, it turns out a potential security bug has been living within OpenBSD for the past decade.

If all goes well FreeBSD 10.1 will be officially released before month's end but available this weekend is the first release candidate.

GhostBSD 4.0 has finally been officially released.

Almost six months ago OpenBSD developers forked OpenSSL into LibreSSL and since then this new SSL alternative continues to advance.

The third and final beta of FreeBSD 10.1 was released this Sunday.

The second beta ahead of next month's planned FreeBSD 10.1 release is now available.

Released this past week was the first beta of FreeBSD 10.1. If you haven't yet had time to explore this development release, there's a lot of improvements over FreeBSD 10.0.

The first beta release of FreeBSD 10.1 is now available ahead of its planned official debut by the end of October.

In announcing their quarterly package updates that bring a wide assortment of improvements, the PC-BSD crew shared they managed to make a CD-sized image of their TrueOS server operating system.

This summer a student developer began work on DBus daemons that accept systemd calls and emulated their behavior with their own native calls, in order to make drop-in replacements for BSD platforms where systemd is not supported and the upstream systemd developers have no plans of supporting.

HardenedBSD is the latest BSD distribution writing into Phoronix to share its work.

While Broadwell is right around the corner and Intel's open-source Linux developers are already working on Skylake graphics support, the DragonFlyBSD crew has just managed Haswell graphics support for their DRM driver ported from FreeBSD that in turn was ported from an earlier version of the Linux kernel.

Facebook is hiring another Linux kernel engineer to join its growing kernel team. The goal for the new employee will be to make "the Linux kernel network stack to rival or exceed that of FreeBSD" and carry out other improvements to the Linux network stack.

The FreeBSD project has issued their latest quarterly status report that covers activities for the open-source operating system made between April and June of 2014.

After more than a half-year in development and working on tens of thousands of lines of code, Pkg 1.3.0 has been released by FreeBSD developers.

Besides FreeBSD 9.3 now being out, so is the latest beta for the upcoming GhostBSD 4.0 release.

As expected, FreeBSD 9.3 made it out on schedule today with this new release carrying a few new features, numerous updated packages, and other improvements for those not yet riding FreeBSD 10.

OpenBSD developers have announced their first release of LibreSSL portable.

The last planned release candidate for FreeBSD 9.3 was made available on Sunday.

GhostBSD 4.0 continues moving along as the FreeBSD operating system focused around the MATE Desktop Environment.

The latest PC-BSD quarterly update is out for the popular desktop-focused version of FreeBSD.

The first release candidate to FreeBSD 9.3 is now available.

The FreeBSD "Newcons" effort to provide a new VT console driver continues making progress for its more proper debut in the next major FreeBSD release.

The first point release to the recent DragonFlyBSD 3.8 operating system update is now available.

The third beta of FreeBSD 9.3 is now available.

One week after FreeBSD 9.3 went into beta, the second beta update is now available.

As expected, DragonFlyBSD 3.8 has been released. This release brings several new features to the popular BSD operating system but the 3.8 series will be the last to support 32-bit releases.

For those sticking to FreeBSD 9 over FreeBSD 10, the 9.3 release is approaching for this popular BSD operating system and it's now in beta.

The plan is to release DragonFlyBSD 3.8 in early June.

Bob Beck of the OpenBSD project has provided a status update on the first 30 days of the LibreSSL project that's a fork of OpenSSL following the notorious heartbleed bug.

It's been almost two months since the release of GhostBSD 4.0 Alpha 2 but out this weekend is finally the third alpha of the desktop-focused FreeBSD-based operating system.

JabirOS is the rather peculiar operating system that started out as an Ubuntu-based distribution and turned to base itself on FreeBSD. After basing itself on FreeBSD, the latest hop for this seldom heard of distribution is to claim it "isn’t a FreeBSD distribution anymore" but an independent fork.

In the fallout from the OpenSSL heartbleed bug, OpenBSD developers forked OpenSSL into LibreSSL. Initially the only supported platform for LibreSSL was OpenBSD, but the BSD developers are pushing harder now for platform portability.

OpenBSD 5.5 has been released! OpenBSD 5.5 is now Year 2038 compliant for all platforms by making time_t 64-bit, there's new hardware support, and other changes.