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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.
Setting up
Linux compatibility on FreeBSD 6
Newsforge, Gordon McEwen
A guide to configuring and running Linux applications on a FreeBSD 6 system.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
FreeBSD Process
Management
InformIT, George Neville-Neil, Marshall Kirk
McKusick
An excerpt from the book "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating
System".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.