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FreeBSD in the Press

If you know of any news stories featuring FreeBSD that we have not listed here, please send details to www@FreeBSD.org so that we can include them.

April 2006

• Interview: Deb Goodkin from the FreeBSD Foundation
  Blog: A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru, Dru Lavigne
  In this interview, Deb Goodkin provides some pieces of interesting information about the inner working of the FreeBSD Foundation.

• Interview: John Baldwin on FreeBSD
  Blog: A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru, Dru Lavigne
  In this interview, John Baldwin of the FreeBSD project gives some insight on what it is like to be a FreeBSD developer and some of the things that happen behind the scenes of a large Open Source project.

March 2006

• Setting up Linux compatibility on FreeBSD 6
  Newsforge, Gordon McEwen
  A guide to configuring and running Linux applications on a FreeBSD 6 system.

February 2006

• Network Filtering by Operating System
  Onlamp.com, Avleen Vig
  Keep worms and malware from monopolizing your network connection using FreeBSD, pf, ALTQ, and squid.

• Opening the digital doorway for South African youth
  tectonic, Lunga Madlala
  An article mentioning the use of FreeBSD in so called "Digital Doorways" in South African provinces.

January 2006

• BSD: The Other Free UNIX Family
  InformIT, David Chisnall
  An introduction to the open-source BSD operating systems.

• Interview: Dru Lavigne, BSD Certification Group
  Newsforge, Federico Biancuzzi
  An interview with the founder of the BSD Certification Group, a non-profit organization established to create certification standards for BSD-based operating systems.

• Running Commercial Linux Software on FreeBSD
  Onlamp.com, Michael W. Lucas
  The author shows how to use software built for a Linux-based OS on FreeBSD.

December 2005

• FreeBSD Waters Are Easily Waded
  ServerWatch, Charlie Schluting
  According to this review, "FreeBSD is an enterprise-grade operating system that leaves little to be desired."

November 2005

• Beyond The Big Three BSDs, BSD Alternatives
  Serverwatch, Martin Brown
  Covers a few FreeBSD-derived operating systems.

• Using Software RAID-1 with FreeBSD
  Onlamp, Dru Lavigne
  The author shows how to set up a RAID 1 using the gmirror facility available in FreeBSD 5 and 6.

• Return of The BSDs
  Internetnews.Com, Sean Michael Kerner
  Press about new releases from the *BSD projects.

• Desktop FreeBSD: Upgrading to 6.0
  Open For Business, Ed Hurst
  A reviewer recommends FreeBSD 6.0 for the desktop.

October 2005

• Selecting a Secure Enterprise OS: Don't Make the First Step the Wrong Step
  Informit, Bruce Potter
  A comparision of the operational security of Windows(r), Linux and FreeBSD.

• A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels
  OpenSolaris, Max Bruning
  A technical article comparing scheduling, memory management, and file system architecture in these three open-source kernels.

• Destination FreeBSD: Interview with Release Engineer Scott Long
  BSDForums.org, BSDForums.org
  BSDForums interviews FreeBSD release engineer Scott Long about various aspects of FreeBSD, including FreeBSD 6.0, Apple G4 PowerMac support, AMD64 and wireless compatibility.

September 2005

• Sun Cobalt Ported to FreeBSD
  eMediaWire, OffMyServer, Inc. Press Release
  The Sun Cobalt RaQ550 web hosting platform has been ported to FreeBSD.

• Developer aims for Dtrace on FreeBSD
  ZDNet Australia, Renai LeMay
  An article about work being done to port Sun's DTrace to FreeBSD.

August 2005

• FreeBSD 6.0 will target wireless devices
  ZDNet UK, Ingrid Marson
  An interview with FreeBSD release engineer Scott Long about the upcoming 6.0 release.

July 2005

• Information Security with Colin Percival
  Onlamp, Michael W. Lucas
  Colin Percival, FreeBSD developer and independent security researcher, describes his recent work on covert channels in hyperthreaded processors.

• Why FreeBSD
  developerWorks, Frank Pohlmann
  A brief introduction to the BSD family of OSes.

• Project Evil: Windows network drivers on FreeBSD
  Ping Wales, David Chisnall
  On using Windows(R) network drivers in FreeBSD.

June 2005

• Open-source projects get free checkup by automated tools
  SecurityFocus, Robert Lemos
  Code analysis software firm Coverity analyses FreeBSD's source base and finds a very low number of software flaws.

• Interview: Looking at FreeBSD 6 and Beyond
  OSnews, Eugenia Loli-Queru
  OSnews interviews FreeBSD developers Scott Long, Robert Watson and John Baldwin about the upcoming FreeBSD 6 release.

• Eric Raymond advocates BSD license over GPL
  MyFreeBSD Brazil, Luiz Gustavo Ramos
  "Freedom and choice are pretty cool. But we should talk about many other things. GPL is based on the belief that open source software is weak and needs to be protected. With it, we continue injuring ourselves, cutting ourselves from the economic benefits of BSD license".

May 2005

• First BitDefender for FreeBSD products launched
  MoneyWeb, BitDefender Press Release
  BitDefender announces their move into enterprise space with a FreeBSD version of their products.

• LSI MegaRAID(R) Adapters Now Feature FreeBSD 5.4 Support
  Yahoo News, LSI Logic Press Release
  LSI Logic MegaRAID(R) SCSI and SATA adapters now support the latest FreeBSD 5.4 release.

April 2005

• Desktop FreeBSD: New Life for Old Laptops
  Open for Business, Ed Hurst
  An article on using FreeBSD 5.4 on a laptop.

• Large Web Hosting Provider Switches to FreeBSD
  W3reports, Submission
  Offmyserver, a rackmount server provider, recently migrated 50 servers to FreeBSD, on account of its reliability and ability to handle large amounts of disk.

March 2005

• FreeBSD Process Management
  InformIT, George Neville-Neil, Marshall Kirk McKusick
  An excerpt from the book "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System".

February 2005

• FreeBSD Tips and Tricks for 2005
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  Dru Lavigne describes the steps taken for maintaining up to date a FreeBSD system this year.

January 2005

• FreeBSD's SMPng
  OnLamp.com, Federico Biancuzzi
  OnLamp.com's writer interviews FreeBSD's Core Team member Scott Long about FreeBSD's implementation on SMPng.

November 2004

• Deep study: The world's safest computing environment
  mi2g, mi2g News Alert
  A study by a London-based computer security firm reveals that the open-source BSD operating systems and Apple's Mac OS X are the most secure popular operating systems on the Internet today.

September 2004

• Building Diskless Clients with FreeBSD 5.2
  OnLamp.com, Mikhail Zakharov
  How to build diskless clients with FreeBSD Netboot server.

• Building a BSD Netboot Server
  OnLamp.com, Mikhail Zakharov
  How to configure a FreeBSD 5.2.1 server to support diskless clients.

August 2004

• FreeBSD 5.3 beta is released
  ZDNet, Michael Parsons
  A story about the FreeBSD 5.3 release cycle

• Desktop FreeBSD Part 5: Internet Mail Setup
  Open For Business, Ed Hurst
  Part five of this series of introductory articles describes how to use FreeBSD for email purposes.

• Differentiating Among BSD Distros
  ServerWatch, Martin Brown
  An article that compares and contrasts the four main BSD variants.

• Desktop FreeBSD Part 4: Printing
  Open For Business, Ed Hurst
  Part four of this series of introductory articles covers the installation and the configuration of Apsfilter on FreeBSD.

• Building Systems to be Shared Securely
  ACM Queue, Poul-Henning Kamp, Robert Watson
  Robert Watson and Poul-Henning Kamp write an article for the ACM Queue magazine on FreeBSD's jail facility and on the general concept of sharing and security from an operating system architecture/design point of view.

July 2004

• FreeBSD milestone nears release
  ZDNet, Matt Loney
  This article is about the upcoming FreeBSD 5.3 release.

• Local company develops FreeBSD-based radars
  Computerworld, Rodney Gedda
  Genesis Software builds FreeBSD-based radar systems.

• Linux servers stats reveal fall in Red Hat dominance
  Techworld, Matthew Broersma
  An article mentioning FreeBSD's growth in the hosting market.

• Unix Printing Basics
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  This article explains printing with Unix, using FreeBSD as an example.

• Building a Web Cluster with FreeSBIE
  OnLamp.com, Alexander Prohorenko
  How to build a web services cluster using the FreeBSD based FreeSBIE live CD image.

June 2004

• Preventing Denial of Service Attacks
  OnLamp.com, Avleen Vig
  This article shows how to defend against denial of service attacks with FreeBSD.

• Siberian coal mine digs out FreeBSD funding
  ZDNet, Matt Loney
  A story about Poul-Henning Kamp's recent appeal for funds.

• FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project
  Internetnews, Sean Michael Kerner
  This article tries to outline the reasons for FreeBSD's growth over the last years.

• Desktop FreeBSD Part 3: Adding Software
  Open For Business, Ed Hurst
  Part three of this series of introductory articles covers the installation of third party applications on FreeBSD.

• Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD
  Netcraft, mandy
  FreeBSD continues to grow in the web hosting market.

• IEEE and The Open Group Okay 'FreeBSD Project' to Incorporate Material from the POSIX Standard
  The Open Group, IEEE/Open Group press release
  The IEEE and the Open Group allow the FreeBSD project to incorporate material from a few of their published standards.

• Build Your Own FreeBSD-powered Motorcycle
  BikeOwns, Ben
  The description of a FreeBSD-powered motorcycle.

May 2004

• FreeBSD Networking Basics
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  Dru Lavigne explains how to connect a FreeBSD machine to an existing network.

• Intel Labs' Natural Born Killer Technologies
  EWeek, Rob Enderle
  An overview about the research projects in Intel's laboratories. Some of the research is done using the FreeBSD operating system.

• Open Source to the Core
  ACM Queue, Jordan Hubbard
  Jordan Hubbard talks about FreeBSD in an article on using open-source software in commercial products.

April 2004

• FreeBSD - The Power to Serve
  Distrowatch, Robert Storey
  A review of FreeBSD 5.2.1, including a short overview of the history of the BSDs and installation intructions.

• Mail Scanning With Exim And The Exiscan ACL
  Help Net Security, Michael Oliveri
  This article describes setting up Exim with the Exiscan-ACL patch on FreeBSD.

• Most Reliable Hosting Providers during March
  Netcraft, mandy
  Five of the ten most reliable hosting providers in March were running FreeBSD. Read on for more information.

March 2004

• FreeBSD 5.2.1 on SPARC64
  OS News, Tony Bourke
  An article reviewing FreeBSD 5.2.1 on SPARC64 machines. The author finds FreeBSD/SPARC64 to be a very complete, useful and flexible server.

• The 64-bit Question: AMD64 vs. i386
  The Jem Report, Valour
  A comparision between FreeBSD 5.2.1's performance on an AMD Athlon64 3200+ and on a Pentium4 3.2E.

• Experimental free Wi-Fi LAN gaining momentum in SF
  Newsforge, Chris Preimesberger
  An article about free wireless networks in San Francisco, mentioning FreeBSD as one of the operating systems of choice.

January 2004

• Bacula: Cross-Platform Client-Server Backups
  OnLamp.com, Dan Langille
  A guide on setting up and running the backup program Bacula on FreeBSD

• Simple FreeBSD installation yields functional desktop system
  Newsforge, Terrell Prude, Jr.
  A review of FreeBSD 5.1 as a desktop system.

• Desktop FreeBSD Part 2: Initial Setup
  Open For Business, Ed Hurst
  This is the second part of a series of introductory articles. The author explains how to set up X and the postfix mail system.

• How is Open-Source affecting Software Development?
  IEEE Computer Society, Diomidis Spinellis, Clemens Sxyperski (Guest Editors)
  This IEEE journal article looks at how the availability of high-quality open-source software is affecting the way software is developed. FreeBSD is one of the open-source projects examined.