2012 Budget

The Foundation’s 2012 budget has been published and is available as a PDF download. The total budget is $595,350, more than double the 2011 budget. Highlights include: $125,850 allocated for FreeBSD infrastructure equipment $60,000 allocated for conference sponsorships and travel grants $200,000 allocated for funded projects Much of the work that was sponsored in 2011 […]

October 2007

We’re kicking off our Fall Fund-Raising Campaign! And to start it off, we’re going to auction off the first copy of Absolute FreeBSD, graciously donated by the author Michael Lucas and the publisher, No Starch Press. Click here to find the listing on eBay. The bidding will end Nov. 2. Please note that shipping is […]

August, 2003: FreeBSD JDK and JRE 1.3.1 binary distributions

As a result of development and compliance sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation, as well as negotiation of a distribution license with Sun Microsystems, it is now possible to download binary installs of the Java Development Kit and Java Runtime Environment for the FreeBSD platform.

September/October 2018 Issue of the FreeBSD Journal Now Available

The September/October 2018 issue of the FreeBSD Journal is now available! The latest issue covers the topic of Networking, and includes articles on Internetworking in FreeBSD, TCP Stack Validation at Netflix, A Quick Tour of SDN Using Mininet, and so much more. Browser-Based Subscriber? You can now download PDFs and print the articles. 

July/August 2018 Issue of the FreeBSD Journal Now Available

The July/August 2018 issue of the FreeBSD Journal is now available! The latest issue is focused on Big Data and features articles on High-performance Computing and FreeBSD, FreeBSD in Scientific Computing, pNFS, and more! Browser-Based Subscriber? You can now download PDFs and print the articles. 

New FreeBSD Quick Guide: Video Playback on FreeBSD

Setting up basic video playback on FreeBSD is quick and simple! In this guide, we’ll download and set up the xine video player on a fresh FreeBSD install. The xine multimedia player relies on the XWindow system and the XVideo extension to provide a graphical video playback interface. Find the full guide here.

Accepting Project Proposals

The FreeBSD Foundation is soliciting the submission of proposals for work relating to any of the major subsystems or infrastructure within the FreeBSD operating system. Proposals will be evaluated based on desirability, technical merit, and cost-effectiveness. Details regarding the proposal process are contained in the Proposals Call for Submission PDF which is available for download […]

Requesting Project Proposal Submissions‏

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that we are soliciting the submission of proposals for work relating to any of the major subsystems or infrastructure within the FreeBSD operating system. Proposals will be evaluated based on desirability, technical merit and cost-effectiveness. To find out more about the proposal process please read this PDF which is […]

Headless Mode Out of The Box

The Foundation sponsored Edward Napiarala for his work to provide support for headless operation in the form of USB On The Go (USB OTG) functionality. While FreeBSD did have OTG support, it was not enabled or configured by default, and often failed to work correctly. This made using FreeBSD on embedded devices, such as the […]

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Table of Contents  (Now with article PDFs) GPU Passthrough CheriBSD Ports and Packages Conference Report: SCaLE20X Practical Ports: Let’s Talk, GPT Foundation Letter We Get Letters Events Calendar   Click here to start reading. Download the full PDF here.

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