diff --git a/en/news/2003/Makefile b/en/news/2003/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d3ecc18d63 --- /dev/null +++ b/en/news/2003/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +# $FreeBSD$ + +.if exists(../Makefile.conf) +.include "../Makefile.conf" +.endif +.if exists(../Makefile.inc) +.include "../Makefile.inc" +.endif + +DATA= index.html press.html +CLEANFILES+= index.html press.html + +index.html: ../oldnewsflash.xsl news.xml \ + ${XML_INCLUDES} ${XML_TRANSTABLE} + ${XSLTPROC} ${XSLTPROCOPTS} -o ${.TARGET} \ + --param transtable.xml "'${XML_TRANSTABLE}'" \ + ${.CURDIR}/../oldnewsflash.xsl ${.CURDIR}/news.xml +.if !defined(NO_TIDY) + -${TIDY} ${TIDYOPTS} ${.TARGET} +.endif + +press.html: ../oldpress.xsl press.xml \ + ${XML_INCLUDES} ${XML_TRANSTABLE} + ${XSLTPROC} ${XSLTPROCOPTS} -o ${.TARGET} \ + --param transtable.xml "'${XML_TRANSTABLE}'" \ + ${.CURDIR}/../oldpress.xsl ${.CURDIR}/press.xml +.if !defined(NO_TIDY) + -${TIDY} ${TIDYOPTS} ${.TARGET} +.endif + +.include "${WEB_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk" diff --git a/en/news/2003/news.xml b/en/news/2003/news.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ad5e5e8d9a --- /dev/null +++ b/en/news/2003/news.xml @@ -0,0 +1,608 @@ + + + + + + + + $FreeBSD$ + + + + + 2003 + + + 12 + + + 28 + +

New committer: Alex Dupre + (Documentation Project)

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+ + + 21 + +

New committer: Roman Kurakin + (src)

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+ + + 17 + +

New committer: Clement Laforet + (ports)

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+ + + 16 + +

Hifn + announces official FreeBSD support for the 795x series + of crypto accelerators.

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+ + + 11 + + + + 21 + +

New committer: Mathew Kanner + (midi,sound)

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+ + + 12 + +

New committer: Oliver Eikemeier + (Ports)

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+ + +

New committer: Pav Lucistnik + (ports)

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+ + +

New committer: Andre Oppermann + (src)

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+ + + 10 + + + + 28 + + + FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE is Now Available + +

FreeBSD + 4.9-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information + page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata + after installation for any late-breaking news and/or + issues with 4.9.

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+ + + 22 + + + FreeBSD 10 year anniversary party in San Francisco 11/24/03 + +

Join us Monday November 24th to celebrate 10 years of + FreeBSD at the DNA + Lounge in San Francisco. The name 'FreeBSD' was coined in + June 1993, and FreeBSD 1.0 was released on CDROM in + December 1993. Click here + for more information or to be put on the guest list.

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+ + + 21 + +

New committer: Sergei Kolobov + (Ports)

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+ + + 18 + + + BSD Conference Japan 2003 + +

BSD Conference Japan 2003 + (in Japanese), the second conference concerning + *BSD in Japan, was held in Tokyo on October 18th, 2003. + There were about 170 attendees. It had two parallel + sessions (general and technical), and + four technical papers and twelve work-in-progress style talks + were presented during the conference.

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+ + + 17 + + The FreeBSD Events page is now available +

The FreeBSD Events + page is now available with information about past and + upcoming FreeBSD related events.

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+ + + 14 + +

New committer: Mark Linimon + (Ports)

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+ + + 11 + +

New committer: Scott Mitchell + (if_xe)

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+ + + 9 + +

New committer: Maksim Yevmenkin + (Bluetooth)

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+ + + 9 + + + 15 + +

New committer: Denis Peplin + (Documentation Project)

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+ + + 8 + + + 25 + +

The FreeBSD Foundation announces + native support for JDK 1.3.1 on FreeBSD

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+ + + 18 + +

FreeBSD 4.9 code freeze begins August 25

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+ + + 15 + +

New committer: Ken Smith + (Documentation Project)

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+ + +

New committer: Mathieu Arnold + (Ports)

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+ + + 14 + +

New committer: Alexander Nedotsukov + (Ports)

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+ + + 11 + + FreeBSD Architecture Handbook now available + +

The nascent FreeBSD + Architecture Handbook is now available online for + users who would like to know more about FreeBSD kernel + internals. Much of the material has been split out from + the Developers' + Handbook, which now focuses exclusively on userland + programming in FreeBSD. Both volumes are works in + progress.

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+ + + 9 + + + PAE support merged for upcoming FreeBSD 4.9 + +

Luoqi Chen has begun the process of merging PAE support + from FreeBSD 5 to FreeBSD 4-STABLE. The PAE support + allows FreeBSD machines to make use of more than 4 + gigabytes of RAM. This functionality was originally + written by Jake Burkholder under contract with DARPA and + Network Associates Laboratories. Additional changes for + individual device drivers will follow in the coming + weeks.

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+ + +

New committer: Bruce M. Simpson

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+ + + 7 + + + 24 + +

New committer: Michael Nottebrock + (Ports)

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+ + + 21 + +

New committer: Kirill Ponomarew + (Ports)

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+ + + 20 + + +

New committer: Simon L. Nielsen

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+ + + 6 + + + 24 + +

New committer: Sean Kelly

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+ + + 23 + +

New committer: Diomidis D. Spinellis

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+ + + 19 + + Happy 10th Birthday, FreeBSD Project! + +

Ten years ago on this day the name "FreeBSD" was coined + by David Greenman in this + email message. Viva FreeBSD!

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+ + + 17 + +

New committer: Lev Serebryakov + (Ports)

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+ + + 13 + +

Returning committer: John-Mark Gurney

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+ + + 9 + + FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE is Now Available + +

FreeBSD + 5.1-RELEASE is now available. Please see the Release Information + page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata + for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.1.

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+ + + 6 + +

New committer: Sergey A. Osokin + (Ports)

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+ + + 4 + +

New committer: Erwin Lansing + (Ports)

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+ + + 5 + + + 6 + +

New committer: Oliver Lehmann + (Ports)

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+ + + 5 + +

New committer: Michael L. Hostbaek

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+ + + 4 + + + 14 + +

New committer: Hiten M. Pandya

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+ + + 9 + + New performance@ mailing list + +

The performance@ mailing list exists to provide a place + for hackers, administrators, and/or concerned parties to + discuss performance related topics pertaining to FreeBSD. + Acceptable topics includes talking about FreeBSD + installations that are either under high load, are + experiencing performance problems, or are pushing the + limits of FreeBSD. Concerned parties that are willing to + work toward improving the performance of FreeBSD are + highly encouraged to subscribe to this list. This is a + highly technical list ideally suited for experienced + FreeBSD users, hackers, or administrators interested in + keeping FreeBSD fast, robust, and scalable. To subscribe, + please visit the freebsd-performance@ + web interface.

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+ + + 8 + + FreeBSD.org mailing lists use Mailman + +

Majordomo served its purpose well, but has been retired + in favor of Mailman. + It is now possible to browse through the authoritative + list of mailing lists by heading over to http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo + or by browsing through the handbook's + section on mailing lists. A big thanks to Peter Wemm + is in order for spending the time to seamlessly convert + the various lists over to Mailman, thank you.

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+ + + 3 + + FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE is Now Available + +

FreeBSD + 4.8-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information + page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata + after installation for any late-breaking news and/or + issues with 4.8.

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+ + + 3 + + + 15 + + January 2003 - February 2003 Status Report + +

The January-February status report is now available; see the + status reports Web page + for more information.

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+ + + 6 + +

New committer: Arun Sharma

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+ + + 2 + + + 21 + +

New committer: David Schultz

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+ + + 1 + + + 30 + +

New committer: Hartmut Brandt + (Sparc and ATM)

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+ + + 23 + + November 2002 - December 2002 Status Report + +

The November-December status report is now available; see the + status reports Web page + for more information.

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+ +

New committer: Hideyuki KURASHINA + (Documentation Project)

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+ + + 19 + + + FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE is now available + +

FreeBSD + 5.0-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information + page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata + after installation for any late-breaking news and/or + issues with 5.0.

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+ + + 13 + +

New committer: Christian Brüffer + (Documentation Project)

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+ + + 6 + +

New committer: Michael Telahun Makonnen

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+ diff --git a/en/news/press.xml b/en/news/2003/press.xml similarity index 54% copy from en/news/press.xml copy to en/news/2003/press.xml index 7df057233f..54a36c47d7 100644 --- a/en/news/press.xml +++ b/en/news/2003/press.xml @@ -1,1033 +1,568 @@ - - - $FreeBSD: www/en/news/press.xml,v 1.156 2005/03/02 22:18:52 jcamou Exp $ + $FreeBSD$ - - 2005 - - - 3 - - FreeBSD Process Management - http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=366888&rl=1 - InformIT - http://www.informit.com/ - 03 March 2005 - George Neville-Neil, Marshall Kirk McKusick -

An excerpt from the book "The Design and Implementation of the - FreeBSD Operating System".

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- - - 2 - - - FreeBSD Tips and Tricks for 2005 - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/02/17/FreeBSD_Basics.html - OnLamp.com - http://www.onlamp.com - 17 February 2005 - Dru Lavigne -

Dru Lavigne describes the steps taken for maintaining up to date - a FreeBSD system this year.

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- - - 1 - - - FreeBSD's SMPng - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/01/20/smpng.html - OnLamp.com - http://www.onlamp.com/ - 20 January 2005 - Federico Biancuzzi -

OnLamp.com's writer interviews FreeBSD's Core Team member - Scott Long about FreeBSD's implementation on SMPng.

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- - - 2004 - - - 11 - - - Deep study: The world's safest computing - environment - http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/frameset.php?pageid=http%3A//www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/press/021104.php - mi2g - http://www.mi2g.com/ - 2 November 2004 - 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.

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- - - 9 - - - Building Diskless Clients with FreeBSD 5.2 - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/09/30/diskless_clients.html - OnLamp.com - http://www.onlamp.com/ - 30 September 2004 - Mikhail Zakharov -

How to build diskless clients with FreeBSD Netboot server.

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- - - Building a BSD Netboot Server - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/09/09/diskless_server.html - OnLamp.com - http://www.onlamp.com/ - 09 September 2004 - Mikhail Zakharov -

How to configure a FreeBSD 5.2.1 server to support - diskless clients.

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- - - 8 - - - FreeBSD 5.3 beta is released - http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39164597,00.htm - ZDNet - http://www.zdnet.co.uk/ - 25 August 2004 - Michael Parsons -

A story about the FreeBSD 5.3 release cycle

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- - - Desktop FreeBSD Part 5: Internet Mail Setup - http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=326 - Open For Business - http://www.ofb.biz/ - 17 August 2004 - Ed Hurst -

Part five of this series of introductory articles describes - how to use FreeBSD for email purposes.

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- - - Differentiating Among BSD Distros - http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3393051 - ServerWatch - http://www.serverwatch.com/ - 10 August 2004 - Martin Brown -

An article that compares and contrasts the four main BSD - variants.

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- - - Desktop FreeBSD Part 4: Printing - http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=321 - Open For Business - http://www.ofb.biz/ - 06 August 2004 - Ed Hurst -

Part four of this series of introductory articles covers the - installation and the configuration of Apsfilter on FreeBSD.

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- - - Building Systems to be Shared Securely - http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=170 - ACM Queue - http://www.acmqueue.org/ - August 2004 - 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.

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- - - 7 - - - FreeBSD milestone nears release - http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39162245,00.htm - ZDNet - http://www.zdnet.co.uk/ - 30 July 2004 - Matt Loney -

This article is about the upcoming FreeBSD 5.3 release.

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- - - Local company develops FreeBSD-based radars - http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1357495171;fp;16;fpid;0 - Computerworld - http://www.computerworld.com.au/ - 26 July 2004 - Rodney Gedda -

Genesis Software builds FreeBSD-based radar systems.

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- - - Linux servers stats reveal fall in Red Hat dominance - http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=1908 - Techworld - http://www.techworld.com/ - 13 July 2004 - Matthew Broersma -

An article mentioning FreeBSD's growth in the hosting market.

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- - - Unix Printing Basics - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/07/08/FreeBSD_Basics.html - OnLamp.com - http://www.onlamp.com/ - 08 July 2004 - Dru Lavigne -

This article explains printing with Unix, using FreeBSD as - an example.

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- - - Building a Web Cluster with FreeSBIE - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/07/01/freesbie.html - OnLamp.com - http://www.onlamp.com/ - 01 July 2004 - Alexander Prohorenko -

How to build a web services cluster using the FreeBSD based - FreeSBIE live CD image.

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- - - 6 - - - Preventing Denial of Service Attacks - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/06/24/anti_dos.html - OnLamp.com - http://www.onlamp.com/ - 24 June 2004 - Avleen Vig -

This article shows how to defend against denial of service attacks with - FreeBSD.

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- - - Siberian coal mine digs out FreeBSD funding - http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39158017,00.htm - ZDNet - http://www.zdnet.co.uk - 18 June 2004 - Matt Loney -

A story about Poul-Henning Kamp's recent appeal for funds.

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- - - FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project - http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3367381 - Internetnews - http://www.internetnews.com/ - 11 June 2004 - Sean Michael Kerner -

This article tries to outline the reasons for FreeBSD's - growth over the last years.

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- - - Desktop FreeBSD Part 3: Adding Software - http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=306 - Open For Business - http://www.ofb.biz/ - 07 June 2004 - Ed Hurst -

Part three of this series of introductory articles covers the - installation of third party applications on FreeBSD.

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- - - Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD - http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearly_25_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html - Netcraft - http://www.netcraft.com/ - 07 June 2004 - mandy -

FreeBSD continues to grow in the web hosting market.

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- - - IEEE and The Open Group Okay 'FreeBSD Project' to - Incorporate Material from the POSIX Standard - http://www.opengroup.org/press/01jun04.htm - The Open Group - http://www.opengroup.org/ - 01 June 2004 - 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.

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- - - Build Your Own FreeBSD-powered Motorcycle - http://bike.owns.com/ - BikeOwns - http://bike.owns.com/ - June 2004 - Ben -

The description of a FreeBSD-powered motorcycle.

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- - - 5 - - - FreeBSD Networking Basics - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/13/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=2 - OnLamp.com - http://www.onlamp.com/ - 13 May 2004 - Dru Lavigne -

Dru Lavigne explains how to connect a FreeBSD machine to - an existing network.

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- - - Intel Labs' Natural Born Killer Technologies - http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1586655,00.asp - EWeek - http://www.eweek.com/ - 06 May 2004 - Rob Enderle -

An overview about the research projects in Intel's laboratories. - Some of the research is done using the FreeBSD operating system.

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- - - Open Source to the Core - http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=151 - ACM Queue - http://www.acmqueue.org/ - May 2004 - Jordan Hubbard -

Jordan Hubbard talks about FreeBSD in an article on using - open-source software in commercial products.

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- - - 4 - - - FreeBSD - The Power to Serve - http://www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-freebsd - Distrowatch - http://www.distrowatch.com/ - 27 April 2004 - Robert Storey -

A review of FreeBSD 5.2.1, including a short overview of the history - of the BSDs and installation intructions.

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- - - Mail Scanning With Exim And The Exiscan ACL - http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=676 - Help Net Security - http://www.net-security.org/ - 13 April 2004 - Michael Oliveri -

This article describes setting up Exim with the Exiscan-ACL - patch on FreeBSD.

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- - - Most Reliable Hosting Providers during March - http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/04/04/most_reliable_hosting_providers_during_march.html - Netcraft - http://www.netcraft.com/ - 04 April 2004 - mandy -

Five of the ten most reliable hosting providers in March - were running FreeBSD. Read on for more information.

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- - - 3 - - - FreeBSD 5.2.1 on SPARC64 - http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6552 - OS News - http://www.osnews.com/ - 31 March 2004 - 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.

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- - - The 64-bit Question: AMD64 vs. i386 - http://www.thejemreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=117&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 - The Jem Report - http://www.thejemreport.com/ - 15 March 2004 - Valour -

A comparision between FreeBSD 5.2.1's performance on - an AMD Athlon64 3200+ and on a Pentium4 3.2E.

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- - - Experimental free Wi-Fi LAN gaining momentum in SF - http://www.newsforge.com/mobility/04/03/02/0023236.shtml - Newsforge - http://www.newsforge.com/ - 02 March 2004 - Chris Preimesberger -

An article about free wireless networks in San Francisco, - mentioning FreeBSD as one of the operating systems of choice.

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- - - 1 - - - Bacula: Cross-Platform Client-Server Backups - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/09/bacula.html - OnLamp.com - http://www.onlamp.com/ - 08 January 2004 - Dan Langille -

A guide on setting up and running the backup program Bacula on FreeBSD

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- - - Simple FreeBSD installation yields functional desktop system - http://www.newsforge.com/os/04/01/05/211225.shtml?tid=8&tid=82&tid=94 - Newsforge - http://www.newsforge.com/ - 07 January 2004 - Terrell Prude, Jr. -

A review of FreeBSD 5.1 as a desktop system.

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- - - Desktop FreeBSD Part 2: Initial Setup - http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=282 - Open For Business - http://www.ofb.biz/ - 03 January 2004 - 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.

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- - - How is Open-Source affecting Software - Development? - http://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/so/2004/01/s1028.pdf - IEEE Computer Society - http://www.computer.org/ - January 2004 - 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.

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- 2003 12 Apple unveils Panther OS http://computerworld.com.my/pcwmy.nsf/unidlookup/3E918524EABCF22A48256E04001F413F?OpenDocument ComputerWorld, Malaysia http://computerworld.com.my/ 31 December 2003 Blake Hoo

Apple Computer recently announced the availability of its highly anticipated Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, based on FreeBSD 5.

Year in Review: Turbulence, troubles and triumph in OS market http://www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/PrintDoc/C20DECA717B0D5D5CC256DF1006B7A8E?OpenDocument&pub=Computerworld Computerworld http://www.computerworld.co.nz/ 30 December 2003 Matthew Cooney

The year 2003 in retrospect of various operating systems, including FreeBSD.

eRacks announces Linux/FreeBSD Centrino(TM) Laptop http://www.e-consultancy.com/newsfeatures/153803/eracks-announces-linux-centrino-tm-laptop.html e-consultancy http://www.e-consultancy.com/ 30 December 2003 eRacks Press Release

eRacks Open Source Systems announces a Centrino(TM) based laptop that features FreeBSD as a supported OS.

Computing Clusters http://www.g4techtv.com/feature.aspx?article_key=15807 G4TechTV http://www.g4techtv.com/ 17 December 2003 Leo Laporte and Roman Loyola

Matt Olander shows how to build a FreeBSD-based cluster.

The FreeBSD Operating System 10 Year Anniversary Celebration: Silicon Valley is Alive and Kicking! http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2003/12/emw93099.htm eMediaWire http://www.emediawire.com/ 08 December 2003 Matt Olander

The offmyserver.com press release about the FreeBSD 10 year anniversary party.

Desktop FreeBSD Part 1: Installation http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=272 Open For Business http://www.ofb.biz/ 02 December 2003 Ed Hurst

In this first part of a series of introductory articles, the author shows how to use the FreeBSD installer.

Using SNMP and RRDTool on FreeBSD http://silverwraith.com/papers/freebsd-snmp.php Silverwraith.com http://silverwraith.com/ December 2003 Avleen Vig

A guide to generating server statistics for FreeBSD 4 and 5.

11 Ten Years of FreeBSD: Anniversary Party a Success http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5224 OSNews http://www.osnews.com 25 November 2003 Eugenia Loli-Queru

A quick report about the evening including some pictures.

Interview: AUUG's Greg Lehey http://www.linuxworld.com.au/pp.php?id=337297289&fp=2&fpid=1 linuxworld.com.au http://linuxworld.com.au/ 24 November 2003 Howard Dahdah

An interview with FreeBSD developer Greg Lehey.

From Linux to FreeBSD: A FreeBSD Review http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5106 OSNews http://www.osnews.com 11 November 2003 Gabe Yoder

The author quickly reviews FreeBSD 4.8 and compares it with GNU/Linux.

Printing for the Impatient http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/4303 OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com 06 November 2003 Michael Lucas

The author gives detailed instructions on how to use Apsfilter for printing.

One User's Thoughts on FreeBSD 4.9 http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5046 OSNews http://www.osnews.com/ 05 November 2003 Corey Holcomb-Hockin

The author reviews FreeBSD 4.9, describes how to upgrade to the security and bug fixes branch, and how to build a custom kernel.

Improving User Passwords with apg http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/4298 OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 01 November 2003 Dru Lavigne

The author explains how to improve your password policy with auto-generated passwords.

10 FreeBSD Fills In The Blanks With v4.9 http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/print.php/3101631 siliconvalley.internet.com http://siliconvalley.internet.com/ 30 October 2003 Michael Singer

The author gives a short summary on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE.

FreeBSD 5.1 http://www.thejemreport.com/software/freebsd51.php The Jem Report http://www.thejemreport.com/ 17 October 2003 Jem Matzan

The author reviews FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, and compares it with GNU/Linux.

Build a Dynamic Web Serving Platform with FreeBSD http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/17534/1763/page/1 DevX.com http://www.devx.com/ 16 October 2003 Gregory L. Magnusson

A description on how to build Apache with MySQL and PHP support on FreeBSD.

Babe in the Woods: A Linux User Migrates to FreeBSD http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=267 Open For Business http://www.ofb.biz/ 09 October 2003 Ed Hurst

The author describes his experience migrating from Linux to FreeBSD.

An Automated Binary Security Update System for FreeBSD http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ Daemonology.net http://www.daemonology.net/ 09 October 2003 Colin Percival

In his paper, the author describes an automated system for building and distributing binary security updates for FreeBSD.

Netcraft: BT Most Reliable Hosting Site in September http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/net100703.cfm theWHIR http://thewhir.com/ 07 October 2003 theWHIR Web Team

Netcraft's latest survey reveals that seven out of the top thirteen most reliable web hosting company sites in september ran FreeBSD.

Working With ACLs in FreeBSD 5.X http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200310/acl.html DaemonNews http://www.daemonnews.org/ 06 October 2003 Grzegorz Czaplinski

The author explains how to create and configure unique access permissions on files and directories using Access Control Lists (ACLs).

Build your own FreeBSD Segway clone http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=11891 The Inquirer http://www.theinquirer.net 02 October 2003 Adamson Rust

Trevor Blackwell has built his own FreeBSD powered Segway clone. Read on for a closer description.

9 Cleaning and Customizing Your Ports http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/4165 OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 18 September 2003 Dru Lavigne

The author describes how to clean the FreeBSD ports tree and how to customize the ports build options with portupgrade tools.

FreeBSD vs. Linux on TechTV! The OffMyServer OS Shootout http://www.offmyserver.com/cgi-bin/store/news/techtv_090303.html eMediaWire http://www.emediawire.com/ 05 September 2003 Matt Olander

This article describes how FreeBSD stacked up against Linux on TechTV's latest The Screen Savers show.

FreeBSD Jails http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/4139 OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 04 September 2003 Mike DeGraw-Bertsch

In this article the author explains how to set up and configure Jails on FreeBSD.

8 Portupgrade http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/4111 OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 28 August 2003 Dru Lavigne

The author describes how to install and use portupgrade to upgrade installed applications on a FreeBSD system.

FreeBSD Serves Up Java JDK http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/3068481 siliconvalley.internet.com http://siliconvalley.internet.com 26 August 2003 Michael Singer

The author talks about the benefits, native Java support has for FreeBSD.

FreeBSD Access Control Lists http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/4053 OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 14 August 2003 Daniel Harris

The author describes how to use Access Control Lists, one of FreeBSD 5.X new functionalities.

Ports Tricks http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/4057 OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 07 August 2003 Dru Lavigne

In this edition of the FreeBSD Basics column, Dru Lavigne demonstrates her favourite ports tricks.

7 Comparing Server OSes http://www.thejemreport.com/articles/sco.htm The Jem Report http://www.thejemreport.com/ 25 July 2003 Jem Matzan

A comparative survey of a number of free and proprietary server OSes. The article strongly recommends the BSD family of OSes on account of their quality.

Why Users Choose BSD Over Linux Or Commercial Software http://www.internetweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12800936 Internet Week http://www.internetweek.com/ 18 July 2003 Ean Kingston

The author recommends FreeBSD, highlighting its license, simplicity, stability, and the myriad of supported applications.

Nearly 2 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/07/12/nearly_2_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html Netcraft http://www.netcraft.com/ 12 July 2003 Mike Prettejohn

The number of sites running FreeBSD is steadily growing. Netcraft provides statistics and reasons.

Top providers running FreeBSD: Netcraft http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/10/1057783256883.html The Age http://www.theage.com.au/ 10 July 2003 their online staff

A report from Netcraft states that five of the top 10 hosting providers in the world are running the FreeBSD operating system.

FreeBSD 5.1 Shows Handy New Features http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1185897,00.asp EWeek http://www.eweek.com/ 07 July 2003 Jason Brooks

Summary of new features in the FreeBSD 5.X branch, including new jail management facilities.

6 Advanced FreeBSD Installation Issues http://www.informit.com/content/index.asp?product_id=%7B7309E848-0A1E-475A-A1CD-17B5462B1564%7D&062903 InformIT.com http://www.informit.com 27 June 2003 Brian Tiemann, Michael Urban

An in-depth tutorial on installing FreeBSD.

Is it time for BSD? http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp EWeek http://www.eweek.com/ 23 June 2003 Jim Rapoza

The author recommends the BSD family of operating systems for open-source IT projects.

Basic Security Measures for FreeBSD http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=511 Net Security http://www.net-security.org/ 19 June 2003 Szekely Ervin

Describes the basic security measures that should be applied to a FreeBSD 4.X workstation.

New distribution point for FreeBSD http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/19/1055828413910.html The Age http://www.theage.com.au/ 18 June 2003 their online staff

Three companies pool together to operate a new mirror of the FreeBSD website and CVSup services.

FreeBSD Foundation Unleashes 5.1 http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/2218991 Internetnews http://www.internetnews.com/ 09 June 2003 Thor Olavsrud

An article briefly covering the FreeBSD 5.1 release.

5 FreeBSD support for AMD64 on the way http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9383 The Inquirer http://www.theinquirer.net 08 May 2003 Arron Rouse

A short article about upcoming support for the AMD64 platform in FreeBSD 5.x.

Beyond Linux http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html InfoWorld http://www.infoworld.com 03 May 2003 Chad Dickerson

The author recommends FreeBSD, praising its TCP/IP stack and its liberal license.

4 Focus on FreeBSD: Interview with the Core Team http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3415 OS News http://www.osnews.com/ 28 April 2003 Eugenia Loli-Queru

OS News features an in-depth interview with Wes Peters, Greg Lehey, Warner M. Losh of the FreeBSD core team and developer Scott Long. Topics include Java support, the Linux competition, and the FreeBSD 5.x branch.

3 FreeBSD featured on TechTV http://www.offmyserver.com/cgi-bin/oms/news/techtv_031403.html offmyserver.com http://www.techtv.com/ 14 March 2003 Offmyserver Press Release

FreeBSD core-team member Murray Stokely appeared on TechTV with Matt Olander from Offmyserver to talk about FreeBSD and perform an installation on live television. The press release includes a link to a RealVideo stream of the episode.

2 FreeBSD 5.0 looks to the enterprise http://www.linuxworld.com.au/news.php3?nid=2187&tid=1 linuxworld.com.au http://linuxworld.com.au/ 04 February 2003 Howard Dahdah

Linuxworld looks at the capabilities of FreeBSD 5.0 as an enterprise operating system and interviews FreeBSD developer Scott Long.

1 Odds and Ends http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/01/23/FreeBSD_Basics.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 23 January 2003 Dru Lavigne

Dru Lavigne on easy ways for a new user to get familiar with FreeBSD.

FreeBSD 5.0 Unleashed http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1571431 InternetNews http://www.internetnews.com/ 17 January 2003 Michael Singer

Internetnews.com reviews FreeBSD 5.0 and interviews FreeBSD's release engineering team member, Murray Stokely.

diff --git a/en/news/Makefile b/en/news/Makefile index e3f18d010f..4fadb307b0 100644 --- a/en/news/Makefile +++ b/en/news/Makefile @@ -1,68 +1,69 @@ -# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/Makefile,v 1.39 2004/01/12 21:26:59 hrs Exp $ +# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/Makefile,v 1.40 2004/12/30 17:53:43 hrs Exp $ .if exists(../Makefile.conf) .include "../Makefile.conf" .endif .if exists(../Makefile.inc) .include "../Makefile.inc" .endif DOCS+= news.sgml # press releases DOCS+= pressreleases.sgml DOCS+= press-rel-1.sgml DOCS+= press-rel-2.sgml DOCS+= press-rel-3.sgml DOCS+= press-rel-4.sgml DOCS+= press-rel-5.sgml DOCS+= press-rel-6.sgml DOCS+= press-rel-7.sgml # The yearly State of the Union address DOCS+= sou1999.sgml INDEXLINK= news.html SUBDIR= 1993 SUBDIR+= 1996 SUBDIR+= 1997 SUBDIR+= 1998 SUBDIR+= 1999 SUBDIR+= 2000 SUBDIR+= 2001 SUBDIR+= 2002 +SUBDIR+= 2003 SUBDIR+= status DATA= newsflash.html news.rdf press.html CLEANFILES+= newsflash.html news.rdf press.html .include "${WEB_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk" newsflash.html: newsflash.xsl news.xml\ includes.xsl ${XML_INCLUDES} ${XSLTPROC} ${XSLTPROCOPTS} -o ${.TARGET} \ --param "news.project.xml-master" "'${XML_NEWS_NEWS_MASTER}'" \ --param "news.project.xml" "'${XML_NEWS_NEWS}'" \ --param transtable.xml "'${XML_TRANSTABLE}'" \ ${.CURDIR}/newsflash.xsl ${.CURDIR}/news.xml .if !defined(NO_TIDY) -${TIDY} ${TIDYOPTS} ${.TARGET} .endif news.rdf: news-rdf.xsl news.xml\ includes.xsl ${XML_INCLUDES} ${XSLTPROC} ${XSLTPROCOPTS} -o ${.TARGET} \ --param transtable.xml "'${XML_TRANSTABLE}'" \ ${.CURDIR}/news-rdf.xsl ${.CURDIR}/news.xml press.html: press.xsl press.xml\ includes.xsl ${XML_INCLUDES} ${XSLTPROC} ${XSLTPROCOPTS} -o ${.TARGET} \ --param "news.press.xml-master" "'${XML_NEWS_PRESS_MASTER}'" \ --param "news.press.xml" "'${XML_NEWS_PRESS}'" \ --param "transtable.xml" "'${XML_TRANSTABLE}'" \ ${.CURDIR}/press.xsl ${.CURDIR}/press.xml .if !defined(NO_TIDY) -${TIDY} ${TIDYOPTS} ${.TARGET} .endif diff --git a/en/news/news.xml b/en/news/news.xml index f9f2c57ed3..e621f95409 100644 --- a/en/news/news.xml +++ b/en/news/news.xml @@ -1,1582 +1,1002 @@ - $FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.289 2005/04/13 16:59:50 qingli Exp $ + $FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.290 2005/04/19 09:12:21 hrs Exp $ 2005 4 18 FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 Release Available

The FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 release is now available. The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC3, the third Release Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. The RC3 ISO images and FTP based install support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites.

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11 FreeBSD 5.4-RC2 Release Available

The FreeBSD 5.4-RC2 release is now available. The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC2, the second Release Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. We encourage people to help with testing so that any final bugs can be identified and worked out before the actual release. The RC2 ISO images and FTP based install support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites.

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5 FreeBSD 5.4-RC1 Release Available

The FreeBSD 5.4-RC1 release is now available. The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC1, the first Release Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. We encourage people to help with testing so that any final bugs can be identified and worked out before the actual release. The RC1 ISO images and FTP based install support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites.

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20 FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1 Release Available

The FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1 release is now available. This is the first BETA release for the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle and the Release Engineering Team encourages people to help with testing so that any final bugs can be identified and worked out before the actual release. The BETA1 ISO images and FTP based install support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites.

17 Snapshot Release in March 2005 Available

The FreeBSD 6-CURRENT snapshot releases in March 2005 are now available. Note that 5-STABLE snapshots are not available in this month because 5.4-PRERELEASE builds will be available soon. The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has released snapshot releases of 5-STABLE and 6-CURRENT on a monthly basis to encourage people to test new features and improve the reliability. For more details, please visit the snapshots page.

12 GNOME 2.10.0 available for FreeBSD

GNOME 2.10.0 has been released and merged into the ports tree in time for 5.4-RELEASE. Be sure to checkout our upgrade FAQ for all the changes, upgrade instructions, and known issues. Additional resources can be found at the FreeBSD GNOME homepage.

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1 25 FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE is Now Available

FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.11. The Release Information page has more information about FreeBSD releases.

17 July-December 2004 Status Report

The July-December, 2004 status report is now available with 44 entries.

FreeBSD 4.11 RC3 Available

The third Release Candidate for FreeBSD 4.11 has been made available. Please see the full announcement on the FreeBSD-STABLE mailing list here. The full 4.11 release schedule is here.

2 FreeBSD 4.11 RC2 Available

The second Release Candidate for FreeBSD 4.11 has been made available. Please see the full announcement on the FreeBSD-STABLE mailing list here. The full 4.11 release schedule is here.

2004 12 28 Mozilla approves FreeBSD's thunderbird and firefox ports

The Mozilla License Team has granted permission to the FreeBSD Gnome Team for use of the Firefox and Thunderbird names, official icons, and permission to do officially branded builds.

New committer: Sam Hopkins (src)

23 FreeBSD Foundation Quarterly Newsletter Published

The FreeBSD Foundation has published its Quarterly Newsletter, which includes a call for donations so the Foundation can keep its non-profit public charity 501(c)3 status.

18 FreeBSD 4.11 RC1 Available

The first Release Candidate for FreeBSD 4.11 has been made available. Please see the full announcement on the FreeBSD-STABLE mailing list here. The full 4.11 release schedule is here.

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2 FreeBSD 4.11 release schedule announced

The schedule for the FreeBSD 4.11 Release has been announced, with a target release date of January 24th, 2005. The full schedule is here.

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11 27 FreeBSD trademark transferred to Foundation

The 'FreeBSD' trademark, which was originally granted to Walnut Creek CDROM (now FreeBSD Mall, Inc.) in 1996, has been transferred to the FreeBSD Foundation.

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7 GNOME 2.8.1 released for FreeBSD

GNOME 2.8.1 was merged into the ports tree following the release of FreeBSD 5.3. See the FreeBSD GNOME Homepage for more details as well as upgrade instructions.

6 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE is Now Available

FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.3. The Release Information page has more information about FreeBSD releases.

10 31 FreeBSD 5.3-RC2 released

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-RC2. Two critical issues came up during RC1 testing and it is felt the fixes warrant one more RC so they receive widespread testing. If no more show-stopper problems are found this will be the last test release done before 5.3-RELEASE. Please see the full announcement on FreeBSD-CURRENT here.

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26 May 2004 - June 2004 Status Report

The May-June status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.

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23 FreeBSD switches to X.Org

FreeBSD-CURRENT now ships with X.Org's X Window System per default, though XFree86 is still supported. For more information on how to upgrade for -CURRENT and -STABLE, take a look at this HEADS UP.

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27 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE is Now Available

FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.10. The Release Information page has more information about FreeBSD releases.

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15 March 2004 - April 2004 Status Report

The March-April status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.

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25 Removal of Gallery

Because of the hard maintenance and low benefit the gallery pages bring to the Project and the listed websites, it has been decided to spend the time working on other stuff related to FreeBSD than these pages. The gallery will be removed in two weeks, no further submissions will be processed. However, this has no influence on the Commercial Gallery.

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17 January 2004 - February 2004 Status Report

The January-February status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.

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25 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE is Now Available

FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.2.1. The Release Information page has more information about FreeBSD releases.

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1 28 October 2003 - December 2003 Status Report

The October-December status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.

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12 FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE is Now Available

FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.2. The Release Information page has more information about FreeBSD releases.

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Join us Monday November 24th to celebrate 10 years of - FreeBSD at the DNA - Lounge in San Francisco. The name 'FreeBSD' was coined in - June 1993, and FreeBSD 1.0 was released on CDROM in - December 1993. Click here - for more information or to be put on the guest list.

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BSD Conference Japan 2003 - (in Japanese), the second conference concerning - *BSD in Japan, was held in Tokyo on October 18th, 2003. - There were about 170 attendees. It had two parallel - sessions (general and technical), and - four technical papers and twelve work-in-progress style talks - were presented during the conference.

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The nascent FreeBSD - Architecture Handbook is now available online for - users who would like to know more about FreeBSD kernel - internals. Much of the material has been split out from - the Developers' - Handbook, which now focuses exclusively on userland - programming in FreeBSD. Both volumes are works in - progress.

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Luoqi Chen has begun the process of merging PAE support - from FreeBSD 5 to FreeBSD 4-STABLE. The PAE support - allows FreeBSD machines to make use of more than 4 - gigabytes of RAM. This functionality was originally - written by Jake Burkholder under contract with DARPA and - Network Associates Laboratories. Additional changes for - individual device drivers will follow in the coming - weeks.

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Ten years ago on this day the name "FreeBSD" was coined - by David Greenman in this - email message. Viva FreeBSD!

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The performance@ mailing list exists to provide a place - for hackers, administrators, and/or concerned parties to - discuss performance related topics pertaining to FreeBSD. - Acceptable topics includes talking about FreeBSD - installations that are either under high load, are - experiencing performance problems, or are pushing the - limits of FreeBSD. Concerned parties that are willing to - work toward improving the performance of FreeBSD are - highly encouraged to subscribe to this list. This is a - highly technical list ideally suited for experienced - FreeBSD users, hackers, or administrators interested in - keeping FreeBSD fast, robust, and scalable. To subscribe, - please visit the freebsd-performance@ - web interface.

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Majordomo served its purpose well, but has been retired - in favor of Mailman. - It is now possible to browse through the authoritative - list of mailing lists by heading over to http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo - or by browsing through the handbook's - section on mailing lists. A big thanks to Peter Wemm - is in order for spending the time to seamlessly convert - the various lists over to Mailman, thank you.

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FreeBSD - 4.8-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information - page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata - after installation for any late-breaking news and/or - issues with 4.8.

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An excerpt from the book "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System".

2 FreeBSD Tips and Tricks for 2005 http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/02/17/FreeBSD_Basics.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com 17 February 2005 Dru Lavigne

Dru Lavigne describes the steps taken for maintaining up to date a FreeBSD system this year.

1 FreeBSD's SMPng http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/01/20/smpng.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 20 January 2005 Federico Biancuzzi

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

2004 11 Deep study: The world's safest computing environment http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/frameset.php?pageid=http%3A//www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/press/021104.php mi2g http://www.mi2g.com/ 2 November 2004 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.

9 Building Diskless Clients with FreeBSD 5.2 http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/09/30/diskless_clients.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 30 September 2004 Mikhail Zakharov

How to build diskless clients with FreeBSD Netboot server.

Building a BSD Netboot Server http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/09/09/diskless_server.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 09 September 2004 Mikhail Zakharov

How to configure a FreeBSD 5.2.1 server to support diskless clients.

8 FreeBSD 5.3 beta is released http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39164597,00.htm ZDNet http://www.zdnet.co.uk/ 25 August 2004 Michael Parsons

A story about the FreeBSD 5.3 release cycle

Desktop FreeBSD Part 5: Internet Mail Setup http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=326 Open For Business http://www.ofb.biz/ 17 August 2004 Ed Hurst

Part five of this series of introductory articles describes how to use FreeBSD for email purposes.

Differentiating Among BSD Distros http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3393051 ServerWatch http://www.serverwatch.com/ 10 August 2004 Martin Brown

An article that compares and contrasts the four main BSD variants.

Desktop FreeBSD Part 4: Printing http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=321 Open For Business http://www.ofb.biz/ 06 August 2004 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 http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=170 ACM Queue http://www.acmqueue.org/ August 2004 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.

7 FreeBSD milestone nears release http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39162245,00.htm ZDNet http://www.zdnet.co.uk/ 30 July 2004 Matt Loney

This article is about the upcoming FreeBSD 5.3 release.

Local company develops FreeBSD-based radars http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1357495171;fp;16;fpid;0 Computerworld http://www.computerworld.com.au/ 26 July 2004 Rodney Gedda

Genesis Software builds FreeBSD-based radar systems.

Linux servers stats reveal fall in Red Hat dominance http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=1908 Techworld http://www.techworld.com/ 13 July 2004 Matthew Broersma

An article mentioning FreeBSD's growth in the hosting market.

Unix Printing Basics http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/07/08/FreeBSD_Basics.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 08 July 2004 Dru Lavigne

This article explains printing with Unix, using FreeBSD as an example.

Building a Web Cluster with FreeSBIE http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/07/01/freesbie.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 01 July 2004 Alexander Prohorenko

How to build a web services cluster using the FreeBSD based FreeSBIE live CD image.

6 Preventing Denial of Service Attacks http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/06/24/anti_dos.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 24 June 2004 Avleen Vig

This article shows how to defend against denial of service attacks with FreeBSD.

Siberian coal mine digs out FreeBSD funding http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39158017,00.htm ZDNet http://www.zdnet.co.uk 18 June 2004 Matt Loney

A story about Poul-Henning Kamp's recent appeal for funds.

FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3367381 Internetnews http://www.internetnews.com/ 11 June 2004 Sean Michael Kerner

This article tries to outline the reasons for FreeBSD's growth over the last years.

Desktop FreeBSD Part 3: Adding Software http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=306 Open For Business http://www.ofb.biz/ 07 June 2004 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 http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearly_25_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html Netcraft http://www.netcraft.com/ 07 June 2004 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 http://www.opengroup.org/press/01jun04.htm The Open Group http://www.opengroup.org/ 01 June 2004 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 http://bike.owns.com/ BikeOwns http://bike.owns.com/ June 2004 Ben

The description of a FreeBSD-powered motorcycle.

5 FreeBSD Networking Basics http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/13/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=2 OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 13 May 2004 Dru Lavigne

Dru Lavigne explains how to connect a FreeBSD machine to an existing network.

Intel Labs' Natural Born Killer Technologies http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1586655,00.asp EWeek http://www.eweek.com/ 06 May 2004 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 http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=151 ACM Queue http://www.acmqueue.org/ May 2004 Jordan Hubbard

Jordan Hubbard talks about FreeBSD in an article on using open-source software in commercial products.

4 FreeBSD - The Power to Serve http://www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-freebsd Distrowatch http://www.distrowatch.com/ 27 April 2004 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 http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=676 Help Net Security http://www.net-security.org/ 13 April 2004 Michael Oliveri

This article describes setting up Exim with the Exiscan-ACL patch on FreeBSD.

Most Reliable Hosting Providers during March http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/04/04/most_reliable_hosting_providers_during_march.html Netcraft http://www.netcraft.com/ 04 April 2004 mandy

Five of the ten most reliable hosting providers in March were running FreeBSD. Read on for more information.

3 FreeBSD 5.2.1 on SPARC64 http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6552 OS News http://www.osnews.com/ 31 March 2004 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 http://www.thejemreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=117&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 The Jem Report http://www.thejemreport.com/ 15 March 2004 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 http://www.newsforge.com/mobility/04/03/02/0023236.shtml Newsforge http://www.newsforge.com/ 02 March 2004 Chris Preimesberger

An article about free wireless networks in San Francisco, mentioning FreeBSD as one of the operating systems of choice.

1 Bacula: Cross-Platform Client-Server Backups http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/09/bacula.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 08 January 2004 Dan Langille

A guide on setting up and running the backup program Bacula on FreeBSD

Simple FreeBSD installation yields functional desktop system http://www.newsforge.com/os/04/01/05/211225.shtml?tid=8&tid=82&tid=94 Newsforge http://www.newsforge.com/ 07 January 2004 Terrell Prude, Jr.

A review of FreeBSD 5.1 as a desktop system.

Desktop FreeBSD Part 2: Initial Setup http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=282 Open For Business http://www.ofb.biz/ 03 January 2004 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? http://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/so/2004/01/s1028.pdf IEEE Computer Society http://www.computer.org/ January 2004 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.

- - - 2003 - - - 12 - - - Apple unveils Panther OS - http://computerworld.com.my/pcwmy.nsf/unidlookup/3E918524EABCF22A48256E04001F413F?OpenDocument - ComputerWorld, Malaysia - http://computerworld.com.my/ - 31 December 2003 - Blake Hoo -

Apple Computer recently announced the availability of its - highly anticipated Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, based on - FreeBSD 5.

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The year 2003 in retrospect of various operating systems, including FreeBSD.

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eRacks Open Source Systems announces a Centrino(TM) based - laptop that features FreeBSD as a supported OS.

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Matt Olander shows how to build a FreeBSD-based cluster.

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The offmyserver.com press release about the FreeBSD 10 year - anniversary party.

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In this first part of a series of introductory articles, - the author shows how to use the FreeBSD installer.

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A guide to generating server statistics for FreeBSD 4 and - 5.

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A quick report about the evening including some pictures.

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An interview with FreeBSD developer Greg Lehey.

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The author quickly reviews FreeBSD 4.8 and compares it with - GNU/Linux.

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- - - Printing for the Impatient - http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/4303 - OnLamp.com - http://www.onlamp.com - 06 November 2003 - Michael Lucas -

The author gives detailed instructions on how to - use Apsfilter for printing.

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The author reviews FreeBSD 4.9, describes how to upgrade - to the security and bug fixes branch, and how to build a - custom kernel.

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The author explains how to improve your password policy with - auto-generated passwords.

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The author gives a short summary on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE.

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The author reviews FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, and compares it with GNU/Linux.

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A description on how to build Apache with MySQL and PHP support on - FreeBSD.

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The author describes his experience migrating from Linux to - FreeBSD.

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In his paper, the author describes an automated system for building - and distributing binary security updates for FreeBSD.

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Netcraft's latest survey reveals that seven out of the top thirteen - most reliable web hosting company sites in september ran FreeBSD.

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The author explains how to create and configure unique access - permissions on files and directories using Access Control Lists (ACLs).

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Trevor Blackwell has built his own FreeBSD powered Segway clone. - Read on for a closer description.

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The author describes how to clean the FreeBSD ports tree - and how to customize the ports build options with - portupgrade tools.

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This article describes how FreeBSD stacked up against Linux on TechTV's - latest The Screen Savers show.

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In this article the author explains how to set up and configure - Jails on FreeBSD.

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The author describes how to install and use portupgrade to - upgrade installed applications on a FreeBSD system.

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The author talks about the benefits, native Java support has for FreeBSD.

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The author describes how to use Access Control Lists, one of - FreeBSD 5.X new functionalities.

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In this edition of the FreeBSD Basics column, Dru Lavigne demonstrates - her favourite ports tricks.

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A comparative survey of a number of free and proprietary server OSes. The - article strongly recommends the BSD family of OSes on account of their quality.

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The author recommends FreeBSD, highlighting its license, - simplicity, stability, and the myriad of supported - applications.

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The number of sites running FreeBSD is steadily growing. Netcraft - provides statistics and reasons.

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A report from Netcraft states that five of the top 10 hosting providers - in the world are running the FreeBSD operating system.

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Summary of new features in the FreeBSD 5.X branch, including - new jail management facilities.

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An in-depth tutorial on installing FreeBSD.

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The author recommends the BSD family of operating systems - for open-source IT projects.

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Describes the basic security measures that should be - applied to a FreeBSD 4.X workstation.

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Three companies pool together to operate a new mirror - of the FreeBSD website and CVSup services.

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An article briefly covering the FreeBSD 5.1 release.

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A short article about upcoming support for the AMD64 - platform in FreeBSD 5.x.

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- - - Beyond Linux - http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html - InfoWorld - http://www.infoworld.com - 03 May 2003 - Chad Dickerson - -

The author recommends FreeBSD, praising its TCP/IP stack and - its liberal license.

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OS News features an in-depth interview with Wes Peters, - Greg Lehey, Warner M. Losh of the FreeBSD core team - and developer Scott Long. Topics include Java support, - the Linux competition, and the FreeBSD 5.x branch.

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FreeBSD core-team member Murray Stokely appeared on TechTV - with Matt Olander from Offmyserver to talk about FreeBSD and - perform an installation on live television. The press - release includes a link to a RealVideo stream of the - episode.

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Linuxworld looks at the capabilities of FreeBSD 5.0 as an - enterprise operating system and interviews FreeBSD developer - Scott Long.

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Dru Lavigne on easy ways for a new user to get familiar with FreeBSD. -

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Internetnews.com reviews FreeBSD 5.0 and interviews - FreeBSD's release engineering team member, Murray Stokely.

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