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PC-BSD 8.0 Goes Gold

Looking for a desktop-centric version of BSD? Check out the latest from PC-BSD, released on Monday

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PC-BSD 8.0 Goes Gold

Nmap Gets a Major Update

Nmap users have a lot to be excited about in the 5.20 release announced on Wednesday . The 5.20 release brings a bunch of changes and improvements to Nmap. The traceroute engine has been rewritten, Nmap now has more than 10,000 signatures to detect the operating system and version of devices, and Nmap has received numerous performance improvements and reduced memory consumption.

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Nmap Gets a Major Update

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Server with boxinfo

Any system administrator worth their salt has some kind of system for collecting and maintaining information about all the systems they’re responsible for. Gathering that info by hand, especially when the systems are inherited, can be time-consuming. Or you could try out boxinfo , a Perl script that gathers most or all of the information you’d want in a few easy steps

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Disney Releases 3D Modeling Library Under BSD License

Disney Enterprises has released Ptex, a library, API, and file format used by Disney for rendering models for movies like Bolt as open source. Ptex (Per-Face Texture Mapping) is a texture mapping system which is used to give texture and color to 3D models. The code has been put up on GitHub under a BSD license.

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Disney Releases 3D Modeling Library Under BSD License

Crowdsourcing the KDE Web Site

The KDE Project is taking a smart approach to reworking the KDE Website . Lydia Pintscher put out the call Sunday for contributors to pitch in with content and screenshots for one or more KDE programs by January 23rd. KDE apps are broken down into three batches on the wiki

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Crowdsourcing the KDE Web Site