operatingsystem:freebsd

Microsoft Makes it Official : Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative | Open Source Initiative
▻https://opensource.org/node/901

Ya-t-il quelqu’un ici qui se rappelle des « Halloween documents ». Même si c’est de la "récupération", le déplacement de Microsoft vers le libre (enfin, vers l’open source, ce qui est quand même bien plus limité) est la sanction d’une victoire : le libre est un moteur du développement de l’informatique, fut-il partagé (communs) ou commercial. A moins que ce ne soit le baiser du serpent...

The Open Source Initiative ® (OSI) the global non-profit dedicated to promoting and protecting open source software through education, collaboration, and infrastructure, announced today that Microsoft has joined the organization as a Premium Sponsor.

Microsoft’s history with the OSI dates back to 2005 with the submission of the Microsoft Community License, then again in August of 2007 with the submission of the Microsoft Permissive License. For many in the open source software community, it was Microsoft’s release of .NET in 2014 under an open source license that may fave first caught their attention. Microsoft has increasingly participated in open source projects and communities as users, contributors, and creators, and has released even more open source products like Visual Studio Code and Typescript.

The company is a leading contributor to open source software projects on GitHub (also an OSI Corporate Sponsor); brought Bash/Linux to Windows 10; expanded its support for Linux and open source workloads on Azure; worked with OSI Affiliate Member FreeBSD Foundation to support the operating system on Azure; joined OSI Affiliate Member Linux Foundation and many of its foundations and projects. In addition, Microsoft works with companies like Canonical, Red Hat, SUSE, and open source can now be found throughout Microsoft products.

#Microsoft #Logiciel_libre #Open_source

DinoBSD | Indiegogo
▻https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dinobsd--2#

DinoBSD
Is an new operating system for Mobile users. Combining the stability of FreeBSD.

Mondo Rescue - GPL disaster recovery solution
▻http://www.mondorescue.org

Mondo Rescue is a GPL disaster recovery solution. It supports Linux (i386, x86_64, ia64) and FreeBSD (i386). It’s packaged for multiple distributions (Fedora, RHEL, openSuSE, SLES, Mandriva, Mageia, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo).
It supports tapes, disks, network and CD/DVD as backup media, multiple filesystems, LVM, software and hardware Raid, BIOS and UEFI.
You need it to be safe.

#linux #sauvegarde #systeme #secours #clonage

Unicode Font Guide For Free/Libre Open Source Operating Systems
▻http://www.unifont.org/fontguide

http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/images/GNUUnifont.png

This is a selective guide to Unicode-based fonts and script projects that are ideal for free/libre/open source (FLOSS) operating systems like GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. As a general policy, I include here only fonts that:

Contain Unicode CMAPs for mapping Unicode values to glyphs.
Can be downloaded and used legally for free.

Preference is given to high-quality vector fonts that have been released under SIL International’s Open Font License (OFL), the Free Software Foundation’s GNU General Public License (GPL), and similarly open licenses. I also include other important Unicode fonts, including a few notable shareware fonts where the authors request payment of a fee after an initial free evaluation. Although this document focuses on vector fonts that work well on free operating systems, these fonts will also work well on Unicode-capable Windows operating systems (Windows 2000 and XP) and on Apple OSX.

#UTF-8

Comparing BSD and Linux
▻https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/comparing-bsd-and-linux.html

So what is really the difference between, say, Debian Linux and FreeBSD? For the average user, the difference is surprisingly small: Both are UNIX® like operating systems. Both are developed by non-commercial projects (this does not apply to many other Linux distributions, of course). In the following section, we will look at BSD and compare it to Linux. The description applies most closely to FreeBSD, which accounts for an estimated 80% of the BSD installations, but the differences from NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD are small.

“Encrypted virtual servers and web hosting based in #Iceland \ Locating in Reykjavík, Iceland, is an easy way to reduce your carbon footprint — the Icelandic grid is powered by 99% green electricity. Ecological and Dissident Hosting, a service provided by Webarchitects, in partnership with 1984.is, offers green encrypted GNU/Linux Virtual Servers and Website Hosting.”

▻http://ecodissident.net

#cloud #encryption #VPS #server_hosting #green_something

“Has #Linux lost its way ?” comments prompt a #Debian developer to revisit #FreeBSD after 20 years
▻http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9317-has-linux-lost-its-way-comments-prompt-a-debian-developer-t

#bsd Guides - Doing Stuff with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and MacOSX
▻http://www.bsdguides.org

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#info

Lennart #Poettering: “#Systemd is about choice” - #FreeBSD & #Amiga ports coming ?

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OpenLayers : Home
►http://openlayers.org

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. OpenLayers has been developed to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. OpenLayers is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under the 2-clause BSD License (also known as the FreeBSD).

#opensource #opendata #cartographie #cartes #territoire

Sphinx : ►http://sphinxsearch.com

“Sphinx is an open source full text search server, designed from the ground up with performance, relevance (aka search quality), and integration simplicity in mind. It’s written in C++ and works on Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu, etc), Windows, MacOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, and a few other systems.

Sphinx lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily — or index and search data on the fly, working with Sphinx pretty much as with a database server.”