BSDCon will be hosted by the Usenix Association this year. The conference will run from February 11-14 in San Francisco. The FreeBSD Project will have a broad presence at this conference, and anyone interested in learning more about specific technologies or the FreeBSD Project in general is encouraged to attend.
New committer: Doug Ambrisko (Aironet)
New committer: Sergey Skvortsov (Ports)
The FreeBSD-stable branch of the source tree has now been frozen in preparation for the release of FreeBSD 4.5. This means that any new commits to the -stable source tree must be approved by the release engineering team first. Our expected "ship" date for 4.5 is January 20th, 2002.
The November 2001 status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
The FreeBSD Backports Collection is a new site created by D J Hawkey Jr. It contains patches that appeared in FreeBSD-stable that have not yet been merged in to older releases. Wider testing of these patches makes it more likely that they will be committed to earlier FreeBSD releases. So if your site relies on earlier releases of FreeBSD, and, for whatever reason, you do not wish to update to the most recent release, you are encouraged to visit this site frequently.
New committer: Martin Blapp (Ports)
BSDFreak is a new site that provides tutorials, articles, and journals covering BSD operating systems from a user's perspective.
New committer: Michael Lucas (Documentation Project)
New committer: Prafulla Deuskar (Intel gigabit device driver)
New committer: Yoichi NAKAYAMA (Ports)
Dag-Erling Smørgrav has written an article about writing FreeBSD problem reports.
New committer: Ernst de Haan (Ports)
The FreeBSD Core Team has appointed Dag-Erling Smørgrav as Bugmeister.
New committer: Patrick Li (Ports)
New committer: Cy Schubert (Ports)
New committer: Anders Nordby (Ports)
New committer: Christian Weisgerber (Ports)
Soren Schmidt, author of the ATA driver, tested a new 160 GB ATA harddisk provided kindly by Maxtor Corporation with the new ATA specification's 48-bit addressing mode support in FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. The results show that the code is stable and functions as it should and will be backported to STABLE.
New committer: MANTANI Nobutaka (Ports)
New committer: Andrew R. Reiter (SMPng, TrustedBSD)
"The FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd Edition" is now available in printed form! This is the primary source of documentation produced by the FreeBSD Documentation Project and is available now from, amongst other places, The FreeBSD Mall. For a complete list of changes in this edition, see the announce message from the editors. The ISBN for this book is 1571763031. 653 pages.
New committer: Makoto Matsushita (release building)
Bob Van Valzah has submitted an article introducing failure-resilient servers and step-by-step instructions for building one with Vinum.
Doug Rabson and Peter Wemm have been working non-stop on the FreeBSD/ia64 port in the past few weeks and said today that it boots into multi-user mode without any operator attendence. This is indeed a major milestone in continued FreeBSD porting efforts. Right now most work is concentrating on fixing any problems in the sourcetree which become exposed by this platform's porting effort.
Jake Burkholder and Thomas Moestl have been porting FreeBSD to the ultra sparc for the past few months and first booted a machine into single user mode on the 18th of October. The log from the serial console can be found at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jake/tip.single_user.
New committer: Akio Morita (PC98)
Benno Rice has committed a mega-patch which added support for OpenFirmware to the FreeBSD loader. The loader can now load a kernel over the network and execute it on an Apple iMac.
After a few months of development Doug Rabson and Peter Wemm have committed patches which extends the FreeBSD/ia64 port's functionality and adds the possibility to boot on real hardware.
New committer: Giorgos Keramidas (Docs)
The August 2001 Status Report is now available; see the Status Reports Web Page.
Many people, upon hearing of 5.0's untimely delay for a full year, have asked what they can do to help 5.0 get back on track. This email gives a list of outstanding projects for 5.0 and as much information as possible about how to get involved.
FreeBSD 5.0 has been delayed until November 2002. The complete announcement from Jordan is available here.
New committer: Robert Drehmel
New committer: Pete Fritchman (Ports)
Annelise Anderson, a frequent contributor to the FreeBSD mailing lists, has written "FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC", an introduction to FreeBSD aimed at the new user. Published by The Bit Tree Press, the ISBN is 0971204500, and it can be ordered from, amongst other places, the DaemonNews Mall.
The Installing FreeBSD section of the Handbook has been substantially improved and updated. The new documentation features "screenshots" of almost every stage of the installation process, and expanded text detailing what each stage of the install covers. The bulk of the work was carried out by Randy Pratt.
New committer: Max Khon
New committer: Randy Pratt (Docs)
The July 2001 status report is now available; see the Status Reports Web page.
An RDF file of the last 10 news headlines on the FreeBSD site is now available. The URL is http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/news.rdf. You can use this file to syndicate FreeBSD news headlines on to your own web site (as Daily DaemonNews and the FreeBSD Diary do), or on to your desktop, using applications such as KNewsTicker.
Pandaemonium, the BSD Users Group of Western Australia, has been added to the Support page.
New committer: Valentino Vaschetto (Docs)
A second edition of The FreeBSD Handbook will be in production shortly. A task list has been published for anyone who wants to help contribute to the state of available printed documentation about FreeBSD.
New committer: Mark Peek
New committer: Rob Braun
New committer: Dave Zarzycki
New committer: Mike Barcroft
New committer: Chern Lee (Docs)
New committer: Brooks Davis (Networking, Mobile Computing)
John Kozubik has submitted an article explaining How to use FreeBSD with solid state media.
Benno Rice has completed enough work to allow FreeBSD to reach the mountroot prompt on the PowerPC processor. Please see the PowerPC platform page and mailing list for more information.
New committer: Mike Silbersack (Networking)
New committer: Johann Visagie (Ports)
Robert Watson has compiled a status report for the FreeBSD Project. These reports are scheduled to continue on a monthly basis.
New committer: Anton Berezin (all things Perl)
New committer: David W. Chapman Jr.(Ports)
New committer: Mark Pulford (Ports)
New committer: Crist J. Clark (Networking, security)
The famous ftp site, ftp.FreeBSD.org, is now back in full operation. Many thanks to Tele Danmark, who are supplying the machine as well as the network connection.
New committer: Jim Pirzyk
The first May 2001 issue of the FreeBSD 'zine is now available. Starting this month, there will be two issues per month; one on the 1st, and one on the 15th.
FreeBSD now works with multiple processors on Alpha systems, thanks to the efforts of John Baldwin, Andrew Gallatin, and Doug Rabson.
New committer: Takuya SHIOZAKI (Internationalization)
New committer: Udo Erdelhoff (Docs)
The Developer's Handbook is now available on the web site. This is an evolving resource for people wanting to develop software for FreeBSD (and not just for the committers who are developing FreeBSD). Don't forget that a complete list of documentation available from this site is also available.
Addison Wesley have allowed us to republish Chapter 8 of the FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide. Chapter 8 provides an in-depth look at providing printing services to Windows, NT, and Novell clients using FreeBSD.
Yet another new committer: Jens Schweikhardt (Standards compliance)
The April issue of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available.
The Ports Collection now contains more than 5,000 individual entries!
New committer: George Reid (Sound support, ports)
Wind River to Acquire BSDi Software Assets. Please read the Wind River Press Release, the announcement from Jordan K. Hubbard, and the FreeBSD Core Team statement.
New committer: Yar Tikhiy (Networking)
New committer: Eric Melville (System tools)
The March issue of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available.
New committer: Dima Dorfman (Docs)
New committer: Michael C. Wu (Internationalization, porting efforts)
New committer: Thomas Möstl (POSIX.1e extensions)
New committer: Orion Hodson (Sound support)
New committer: Jesper Skriver
The February issue of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available.
New committer: Mike Heffner (Audit project)
New committer: Jimmy Olgeni (Ports)
New committer: Dirk Meyer (Ports)
New committer: Ying-chieh Liao (Ports)
The September-October status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
BSD Conference Japan 2002 was held in Tokyo on November 23rd, 2002. During the conference FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD folks in Japan got together to discuss various topics of mutual interest. In addition, Apple Computer, Inc. gave us excellent lectures about Mac OS X and Rendezvous. Matsui Securities Co.,Ltd, Yahoo Japan Corporation, and SRS SAKURA Internet Inc. gave case studies of how FreeBSD is used in their production environments. Brains Corporation gave a talk on mmEye, which is equipped with 32bit RISC CPU SH-3 and runs NetBSD.
The event report published by Mainichi Communications inc., can be found at MYCOM PCWEB (but sorry, Japanese only). There were 172 attendees at the conference. We are pleased with this turnout, considering that this was the first attempt to hold such an event in Japan.
The second developer preview snapshot of 5.0-CURRENT is now available. Please see the release notes, errata, and the new Early Adopter's Guide for more information.
nVidia releases Geforce drivers for FreeBSD! Check out the README for more information.
New committer: Stéphane Legrand (Documentation Project)
Opera is natively ported to FreeBSD! Read the official press release for more information.
New committer: Edwin Groothuis (Ports)
New committer: Tilman Linneweh (Ports)
New committer: Daichi GOTO (Ports)
New committer: Maho Nakata (Ports)
New committer: Adam Weinberger (Ports)
New committer: Olivier Houchard
FreeBSD 4.7-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 4.7.
New committer: Eric Moore
New committer: Martin Heinen (Documentation Project)
The July-August status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
New committer: Peter Grehan (PowerPC)
Notes from the USENIX ATC 2002 FreeBSD Developer Summit are now available.
The FreeBSD-STABLE branch of the source tree has now been frozen in preparation for the release of FreeBSD 4.7. This means that any new commits to the -stable source tree must be approved by the release engineering team first. Our expected "ship" date for 4.7 is October 1, 2002.
New committer: David Xu (KSE)
New committer: Oliver Braun (Ports)
New committer: Thomas Quinot
The May-June 2002 status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
FreeBSD 4.6.2-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 4.6.2.
New committer: Sean Chittenden (Ports)
New committer: Yen-Ming Lee (Ports)
New committer: Jennifer Jihui Yang
New committer: Nate Lawson
The Open Group has generously donated several copies of the Authorized Guide to The Single UNIX Specification, Version 3, books and CD-ROMs to the FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance Project. We are greatly appreciative of their gift.
New committer: Alexander Kabaev
New committer: Johan Karlsson
New committer: Hye-Shik Chang (Ports)
New committer: Ville Skyttä (projects/cvsweb)
New committer: Marc Fonvieille (Documentation Project)
FreeBSD 4.6-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 4.6.
New committer: Alan Eldridge (Ports)
The February-April status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
New committer: Gordon Tetlow
New committer: Tony Finch
The FreeBSD-STABLE branch of the source tree has now been frozen in preparation for the release of FreeBSD 4.6. This means that any new commits to the -stable source tree must be approved by the release engineering team first. Our expected "ship" date for 4.6 is June 1, 2002.
New committer: Katsushi Kobayashi
New committer: Eric Anholt
New committer: Jonathan Mini
New committer: Tim Robbins
New committer: Greg Lewis (Ports)
A developer preview snapshot of 5.0-CURRENT is now available. Please see the release notes for more information. Also be sure to check the release errata for a list of known problems.
New committer: Gerald Pfeifer (Ports)
New committer: Joe Marcus Clarke (Ports)
New committer: Norikatsu Shigemura (Ports)
Notes from the BSDCon 2002 FreeBSD Developer Summit are now available.
New committer: Tom Rhodes (Documentation Project)
New committer: SUZUKI Shinsuke (IPv6)
New committer: Alexander Leidinger (Ports)
New committer: Ceri Davies (Documentation)
A new area of the FreeBSD web site has been created dedicated to release engineering. This new section contains information about future releases of FreeBSD, a specific schedule for the upcoming releases of FreeBSD 4.6 and 5.0, and more.
FreeBSD now works with multiple processors on sparc64 systems, thanks to the efforts of Jake Burkholder, and Thomas Moestl.
New committer: Maxime Henrion (VFS, SMP, ...)
The December/January status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
New committer: J. Mallett
New committer: Bernd Walter (Alpha)
FreeBSD GNOME team is proud to announce new section of the FreeBSD.org site devoted to various aspects of the GNOME desktop and development environment on the FreeBSD. Check it out here.
New committer: Maxim Konovalov
The announcement and call for papers for BSDCon Europe 2002 has been released. This conference will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands some time in November 2002. Individuals interested in presenting a paper at the conference should submit an abstract by June 24, 2002.
FreeBSD 4.5 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 issues with 4.5 that may occur.
The FreeBSD 4.5 Release Engineering Team has submitted a testing guide for the upcoming FreeBSD 4.5 release. Please help us ensure that 4.5 is our most stable and highest performance release yet.
Aaron Kaplan has submitted a new article explaining how to adjust your system configuration to use the new Euro symbol on FreeBSD.
New committer: Vincent Tougait (Documentation Project)
New committer: Alex Dupre (Documentation Project)
New committer: Roman Kurakin (src)
New committer: Clement Laforet (ports)
Hifn announces official FreeBSD support for the 795x series of crypto accelerators.
New committer: Mathew Kanner (midi,sound)
New committer: Oliver Eikemeier (Ports)
New committer: Pav Lucistnik (ports)
New committer: Andre Oppermann (src)
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.
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.
New committer: Sergei Kolobov (Ports)
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.
The FreeBSD Events page is now available with information about past and upcoming FreeBSD related events.
New committer: Mark Linimon (Ports)
New committer: Scott Mitchell (if_xe)
New committer: Maksim Yevmenkin (Bluetooth)
New committer: Denis Peplin (Documentation Project)
The FreeBSD Foundation announces native support for JDK 1.3.1 on FreeBSD
FreeBSD 4.9 code freeze begins August 25
New committer: Ken Smith (Documentation Project)
New committer: Mathieu Arnold (Ports)
New committer: Alexander Nedotsukov (Ports)
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.
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.
New committer: Bruce M. Simpson
New committer: Michael Nottebrock (Ports)
New committer: Kirill Ponomarew (Ports)
New committer: Simon L. Nielsen
New committer: Sean Kelly
New committer: Diomidis D. Spinellis
Ten years ago on this day the name "FreeBSD" was coined by David Greenman in this email message. Viva FreeBSD!
New committer: Lev Serebryakov (Ports)
Returning committer: John-Mark Gurney
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.
New committer: Sergey A. Osokin (Ports)
New committer: Erwin Lansing (Ports)
New committer: Oliver Lehmann (Ports)
New committer: Michael L. Hostbaek
New committer: Hiten M. Pandya
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.
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.
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.
The January-February status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
New committer: Arun Sharma
New committer: David Schultz
New committer: Hartmut Brandt (Sparc and ATM)
The November-December status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
New committer: Hideyuki KURASHINA (Documentation Project)
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.
New committer: Christian Brüffer (Documentation Project)
New committer: Michael Telahun Makonnen
FreeBSD is a rapidly developing operating system. Keeping up on the latest developments can be a chore! To keep on top of things, be sure and check this page periodically. Also, you may wish to subscribe to the freebsd-announce mailing list.
The following projects have their own news pages, which should be checked for project specific updates.
For a detailed description of past, present, and future releases, see the Release Information page.
For FreeBSD Security Advisories, please refer to the Security Information page.
Older announcements: 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996
A guide on setting up and running the backup program Bacula on FreeBSD
A review of FreeBSD 5.1 as a desktop system.
This is the second part of a series of introductory articles. The author explains how to set up X and the postfix mail system.
Apple Computer recently announced the availability of its highly anticipated Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, based on FreeBSD 5.
The year 2003 in retrospect of various operating systems, including FreeBSD.
eRacks Open Source Systems announces a Centrino(TM) based laptop that features FreeBSD as a supported OS.
The offmyserver.com press release about the FreeBSD 10 year anniversary party.
In this first part of a series of introductory articles, the author shows how to use the FreeBSD installer.
A guide to generating server statistics for FreeBSD 4 and 5.
A quick report about the evening including some pictures.
An interview with FreeBSD developer Greg Lehey.
The author quickly reviews FreeBSD 4.8 and compares it with GNU/Linux.
The author gives detailed instructions on how to use Apsfilter for printing.
The author reviews FreeBSD 4.9, describes how to upgrade to the security and bug fixes branch, and how to build a custom kernel.
The author explains how to improve your password policy with auto-generated passwords.
Pawel Jakub Dawidek, one of the people behind FreeBSD jails, tells about jails from his point of view.
The author gives a short summary on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE.
The author reviews FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, and compares it with GNU/Linux.
The author describes his experience migrating from Linux to FreeBSD.
In his paper, the author describes an automated system for building and distributing binary security updates for FreeBSD.
Netcraft's latest survey reveals that seven out of the top thirteen most reliable web hosting company sites in september ran FreeBSD.
The author explains how to create and configure unique access permissions on files and directories using Access Control Lists (ACLs).
Trevor Blackwell has built his own FreeBSD powered Segway clone. Read on for a closer description.
The author describes how to clean the FreeBSD ports tree and how to customize the ports build options with portupgrade tools.
This article describes how FreeBSD stacked up against Linux on TechTV's latest The Screen Savers show.
In this article the author explains how to set up and configure Jails on FreeBSD.
The author describes how to install and use portupgrade to upgrade installed applications on a FreeBSD system.
The author talks about the benefits, native Java support has for FreeBSD.
The author describes how to use Access Control Lists, one of FreeBSD 5.X new functionalities.
In this edition of the FreeBSD Basics column, Dru Lavigne demonstrates her favourite ports tricks.
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.
The author recommends FreeBSD, highlighting its license, simplicity, stability, and the myriad of supported applications.
The number of sites running FreeBSD is steadily growing. Netcraft provides statistics and reasons.
A report from Netcraft states that five of the top 10 hosting providers in the world are running the FreeBSD operating system.
Summary of new features in the FreeBSD 5.X branch, including new jail management facilities.
An in-depth tutorial on installing FreeBSD.
The author recommends the BSD family of operating systems for open-source IT projects.
Describes the basic security measures that should be applied to a FreeBSD 4.X workstation.
Three companies pool together to operate a new mirror of the FreeBSD website and CVSup services.
An article briefly covering the FreeBSD 5.1 release.
A short article about upcoming support for the AMD64 platform in FreeBSD 5.x.
The author recommends FreeBSD, praising its TCP/IP stack and its liberal license.
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.
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.
Linuxworld looks at the capabilities of FreeBSD 5.0 as an enterprise operating system and interviews FreeBSD developer Scott Long.
Dru Lavigne on easy ways for a new user to get familiar with FreeBSD.
Internetnews.com reviews FreeBSD 5.0 and interviews FreeBSD's release engineering team member, Murray Stokely.
Opera Software proudly announces the first golden release of a new port of its software to FreeBSD.
Dru Lavigne delves into the world of DVD playback on FreeBSD.
An article on the history and culture of the BSD projects.
Dru Lavigne describes the process of configuring sound on a FreeBSD multimedia workstation.
A short interview with committer Michael Lucas, on using BSD in enterprise environments.
Dru Lavigne explains how to create a multimedia workstation with FreeBSD.
Maggie Biggs takes a look at the upcoming FreeBSD 5.0, and discovers that this open-source OS shows significant gains in available applications and tools along with beefed-up security.
Kerneltrap speaks with Jordan Hubbard, one of the creators of FreeBSD, and currently manager of Apple's Darwin project.
Michael Lucas explains how a machine can be made to dual-boot FreeBSD -CURRENT and -STABLE.
FreeBSD co-founder Jordan Hubbard leaves the core team.
A review of FreeBSD 4.5 with mention of the FreeBSD 5.0 "Developer Preview" release.
Committer Michael Lucas takes a look at the FreeBSD 5.0 Developers' Preview 1.
This tells how to use freenet6 from the ports collection to tunnel IPv6 over IPv4.
Michael Lucas talks about what to do when a system panic does happen. This is the second part of a two part article; part 1 dealt with preparing a FreeBSD system to deal with panics.
This has instructions for securely configuring a PC running FreeBSD as a gateway between an 802.11b network and a traditional wired network.
InfoWorld reports on the use of FreeBSD to power a website built for a prominent advertising campaign.
This tells how to set up and use the audio support in FreeBSD.
Preparing a FreeBSD system to handle a panic.
An article on configuring and maintaining a FreeBSD install.
This is a non-technical introduction to the BSD family (except BSD/OS).
Looking for your files with find.
This article has instructions for making a FreeBSD system which boots from CD-ROM. Its use as a firewall is mentioned.
A walk-through on configuring IPv6 on FreeBSD.
Getting acquainted with find.
Using NFS in FreeBSD.
Michael documents the process of becoming a FreeBSD committer.
A guide for users migrating from Linux to FreeBSD.
An interview with Robert Watson, member of FreeBSD's core and security on the upcoming FreeBSD 4.5 and FreeBSD 5.0 releases.
American Megatrends Inc. announced the release of StoreTrends(tm) NAS software version 1.1, which is based on FreeBSD.
Michael Lucas shows what it takes for non-coders to contribute to BSD.
This article is for system administrators. It explains how to configure and maintain a FreeBSD system for high security.
Wind River Systems announces the transfer of its FreeBSD assets to the FreeBSD Mall.
Kerneltrap interviews Matt Dillon, one of FreeBSD's key developers.
Nearly four years after it was acquired by Microsoft, and in spite of a well-publicized effort to migrate it to Windows and IIS, Hotmail is still partly based on FreeBSD and Apache.
An article discussing FreeBSD as an workstation OS for new Unix users.
A brief introduction to portupgrade.
A short article on accessing a Windows(R) share from a FreeBSD workstation.
Byte's Moshe Bar does a comparison, through informal benchmarks, of FreeBSD 4.3 to Linux 2.4.10 running sendmail, procmail, MySQL, and Apache. The emphasis of the article is examination of the newly rewritten VM system in Linux, so the tests are conducted with only 512 MB of RAM.
An interview with Matt Dillon, a key developer in FreeBSD on the upcoming features in FreeBSD 5.0.
A short article on running Windows(R) applications under WINE in FreeBSD.
A short article on dealing with the all too common full disk.
A short article on ripping CDs on FreeBSD.
This is a review of Kaspersky Anti-Virus for FreeBSD, a product which can protect a network of Microsoft Windows hosts by scanning e-mail and SMB file shares.
How to mirror the FreeBSD CVS repository.
An article on FreeBSD's CVSup infrastructure used to distribute its source code worldwide.
An short interview with Jordan Hubbard, one of the founders of the FreeBSD project.
Using DUMMYNET to control bandwidth allocation
Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and Windows 2000 are benchmarked for network applications. This article has a sequel where the tests were redone after tuning FreeBSD.
NAI Labs, a division of Network Associates, Inc., announced a $1.2 million contract awarded by the U.S. Navy's Space and Warfare Systems Command to develop security extensions to the Open Source FreeBSD operating system.
An article describing the ways to control user access to your FreeBSD system.
Using the functionality of newsyslog in FreeBSD.
A report on Microsoft's venture to port its C# programming language to FreeBSD.
Apple (http://www.apple.com/) has recruited FreeBSD founder Jordan Hubbard to its team, in a bid to steer its Mac OS X BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) efforts.
An article which states that open-source software connected with the FreeBSD operating system is used in several places deep inside several versions of Microsoft's Windows software, and on numerous server computers that manage major functions at Microsoft's free e-mail service, Hotmail.
A report on the backfiring of the Microsoft effort to vilify open source software.
System logging in FreeBSD using syslogd.
Using CVS in client-mode.
Configuring FreeBSD for wireless operation.
A survey of the games available in the FreeBSD ports collection.
Submitting change requests to the FreeBSD project using send-pr.
A mini tutorial on DocBook and its use by the FreeBSD Documentation Project.
An introduction to the FreeBSD project.
BYTE's Linux guru finds himself wondering why he isn't running FreeBSD --- a comparision (with informal benchmarks) of FreeBSD 4.1.1 and a Linux based distribution running the v2.4.0 Linux kernel.
Howto modify a FreeBSD port.
A system administrator's view of the Ports system.
A reviewer finds FreeBSD 4.1 to be better suited for web serving than a Red Hat Linux distribution.
A report from a roundtable at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000, involving several prominent developers in the BSD world.
How the FreeBSD Ports collection works.
How to recover files off of FreeBSD system.
A geek's appraisal of the Apple OS X from Jordan Hubbard, one of the lead developers on the FreeBSD project.
Using a Linux install under FreeBSD's Linux compatibility mode.
Using FreeBSD on a laptop.
Using RCS for file revision control.
This column gives an overview of the different versions of BSD, with links for more information.
TeraSolutions, Inc. and Lightning Internet Services announce that the OpenSource archive at ftp.freesoftware.com has surpassed the download milestone of two trillion bytes per day from a single server machine.
A short article on using the FreeBSD Memory Filesystem.
An interview with Robert Watson, one of the lead developers in the TrustedBSD project.
An early review of FreeBSD's SMB support.
An article on a developers experience porting software from Linux to FreeBSD.
An informative article on BSD, and where it is going.
An article evaluating various commercial OSes that contains a blurb about BSDI and FreeBSD.
With the recent hype surrounding open source software, an important project has gone unnoticed in the media. This project, FreeBSD, aims to create a rock-solid UNIX clone based on the 4BSD work from the University of California at Berkeley.
FreeBSD, a relatively unknown operating system is playing a big role on the Internet.
How Berkeley hackers built the Net's most fabled free operating system on the ashes of the '60s---and then lost the lead to Linux.
A short guide to installing FreeBSD 4.0.
Compares the merged Walnut Creek/BSDI OS offering to Linux.
Open-source software sometimes provides a better solution than expensive commerical, closed software.
PolyServe, a provider of software-based, distributed server clustering technology, announced co-marketing agreement with FreeBSD, Inc. to ship PolyServe's Understudy (TM) software program with all new versions of FreeBSD 4.0 operating system software.
Talks of the lack of awareness in the market of the strengths of the BSD operating system and of the plans afoot to change this.
BSDi will be offering technical support contracts for FreeBSD beginning in May 2000.
Commentary on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger.
The second part of a review of FreeBSD v3.4.
An interview with three BSD veterans on the past and future of BSD.
An interview with BSD veteran Keith Bostic on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger. ``BSD has always had the best technology'', says Keith.
Michael Lucas presents a guide to customizing the FreeBSD kernel, written for the Linux oriented.
This article attempts to give a System V or Linux administrator a basic grounding in FreeBSD configuration and usage.
A good description of the FreeBSD Ports collection.
Praise for FreeBSD from this article: ``FreeBSD is the system of choice because it is fast, stable, and can handle large volumes of traffic.''
An article on the BSD License.
Promotes the BSD OSes as better alternatives to Linux in the areas of performance, reliability and security.
A Linux user writes about his experiences with the FreeBSD ports system.
A review of FreeBSD 3.4.
A Jordan Hubbard Interview on Improvements, New Platforms and What's to Come.
A Linux user writes about his experiences with FreeBSD.
A report that looks at and debunks some of the myths associated with Open Source development.
About 17 percent of enterprises plan to deploy FreeBSD or Linux as a primary platform for e-commerce within two years.
Steve Jobs' Macworld Expo keynote speech mentions FreeBSD as one of the components in the new Darwin OS from Apple.
In an article on the next generation Darwin OS, Apple Inc., refers to FreeBSD as one of the ``most acclaimed OS projects of the modern era.''
FreeBSD has several options for using software from other platforms such as Linux. This article examines Linux emulation under FreeBSD.
Freei.Net is purchasing hundreds of Intel's LB440GX 2U Rack Server Platforms as the Internet service provider continues to experience explosive growth in its subscriber base. ``The LB440GX flawlessly supports our FreeBSD operating system,'' said Steve Bourg, Freei.Net's Chief Technical Officer.
Linux administrator turns to FreeBSD and finds it impressive.
Brett Glass sent this message to the FreeBSD -chat mailing list, about his experiences and perceptions at COMDEX. Of particular interest are the problems he had trying to get vendors to support the BSDs and Linux.
Discusses RedHat's acquisition of Cygnus, quotes Jordan Hubbard at length, and mentions FreeBSD.
A report on Wilfredo Sanchez's session on FreeBSD and the Apple Darwin project at the first FreeBSDCon.
In an interview with CBS MarketWatch, Bob Frankenberg, ex-CEO of Novell, praises FreeBSD for doing ``an exceptionally good job''. FreeBSD is used in his current company, Encanto.
Walnut Creek will distribute Applixware Office v4.4.2 in their FreeBSD 3.3 Power Desktop product. In addition, Walnut Creek will bundle Applix'SHELF, a visual open-source application development toolset and runtime environment with FreeBSD.
October 17, 1999 marked a milestone in the history of FreeBSD -- the first FreeBSD conference was held in the city where it all began.
Repost of IDG article about FreeBSDCon '99.
FreeBSD v3.2 is as close to the perfect Internet server operating system as it comes.
A report from the first annual FreeBSDCon held in Berkeley, California.
Entera announces a free, standards-based RTSP/RTP server to stream QuickTime from a FreeBSD platform.
This paper tries to explore links between open source software development and academic research as a better paradigm for OSS development.
Claims that the operating systems based on BSD are more reliable and secure. (requires registration with The Boston Globe prior to viewing)
An introduction to the BSD family of free operating systems.
Focusses on the BSD development model and the ease of keeping upto-date with tools like sup and CVSup.
A short (but not very accurate) introduction to FreeBSD for people who have heard about Linux.
CNN reports that the winner during the "Linux Death Match" at the Chaos Computer Camp in Germany used FreeBSD tools to win out over Linux attackers. More details are available at http://www.42.org/~sec/Berichte/199908Camp/index.en.html#match.
Said to be the largest search engine on the Internet, FAST Web Search uses the FreeBSD operating system.
Using FreeBSD, Duke University computer science researchers have developed a system for communication at speeds higher than one billion bits per second in a local area network of personal computers. More details can be found at the Trapeze project web site.
pair Networks, Inc., the World's largest independently owned and operated paid hosting service, today announced that it has surpassed the 60,000 Web site milestone. Their web servers in their state-of-the-art data center house more than 2 Terabytes of storage, and deliver up to 100 million hits per day to site visitors. pair uses FreeBSD in order to ensure maximum uptime and reliability.
Network manager Peter McGarvey writes about his experience with a number of varieties of Unix. He sums up: FreeBSD is the greatest.
BSD is the software behind the world's most popular Web site and the world's most popular FTP site.
BSD powers some of the biggest sites, and its users are among the most jealous of Linux.
Underlines the advantages of BSD for the embedded device market. Mentions picoBSD.
Chris DiBona of VA Research and Jordan Hubbard of the FreeBSD Project give their views on Linux and FreeBSD.
A survey of thin servers, featuring products using FreeBSD as their internal operating system.
Michael Doyle, system administrator for Co-operation Ireland roots for FreeBSD in this interview. Michael is using FreeBSD and PostgreSQL as a cost-effective and ultra-reliable solution for his organization's I.T. needs.
An article comparing BSD and GPL style licenses.
In an interview with Wired News, Rob Malda, founder of Slashdot, says that he would now like to spend some more time reporting on FreeBSD.
FreeBSD: Is it the perfect Internet server operating system? As close as it comes.
It looks like Unix, it tastes like Unix but it isn't Unix. It's FreeBSD!
Rich Morin explains why FreeBSD is the superior OS for him.
Walnut Creek CDROM, Inc. announces that their popular software archive at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com has surpassed the one trillion bytes (one terabyte) milestone of files downloaded per day from a single server machine.
Reviews alternative PC operating systems. Includes a review of FreeBSD 3.2.
Article on Gnome and the Open Source movement. Mentions FreeBSD.
A short article introducing a few alternative OSes, including FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Aimed at the general public.
During its first full day of operation, the new NetFRAME 9201 server set a new all-time one day download record of 969GB of files, surpassing the previous record set last year of 873GB/day.
Examples of FreeBSD deployment in the real world and why some technology officers find it attractive.
Linux and BSD Unix are starting to show up on more and more corporate servers, running alongside or even replacing Netware and Windows NT.
Included with FreeBSD 3.1 is a complete, integrated SGML/XML development system that installs with a simple, easy to use command sequence.
FreeBSD is a supported operating system for a new version of Inktomi's carrier-class network cache platform.
Dual-Processor FreeBSD systems were used to generate a large number of special effects in the cutting edge Warner Brothers film, The Matrix.
A system administrator shares his views on FreeBSD.
What are the oldest free operating systems around? The answer is the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix variants.
Introduces FreeBSD to Linux users.
Outside technical circles, many remain unaware of viable choices for internet servers---like the FreeBSD operating system that drives Web servers for such high-profile names as Yahoo and Best Internet Communications (now part of Verio).
A description of the Walnut Creek CDROM setup. The article is also available from SunWorld.
Discusses thin-servers, including six built using an embedded FreeBSD kernel.
See also the serial from the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th of March, 1999.
Columnist Nathan Cochrane talks about the BSD family of open source operating systems.
An article on the open-source / free-software debate. Mentions Berkeley Unix as one of the early successes of shared source code collaboration.
There is a small but interesting FreeBSD mention in LWN in an interview with Linux's Alan Cox.
Software that has been developed by thousands of volunteers and is given away is often better than the stuff for sale. Note: The article is no longer available online without registration.
A short history of Berkeley Unix.
Here is how to set up a web server using another freely available operating system, FreeBSD, a high performance, mature, Unix-like system.
Introduces the modern BSD OSes to the general public.
While finished thin servers should be optimized in both hardware and software for the task at hand, who says the software and hardware must come from the same developer? This Perspective examines the emerging trend in the OEM market of divorcing the software layer from the hardware layer. Many operating systems are vying to be the OS of choice for thin servers. This document examines this issue in detail, particularly the differences between Linux and FreeBSD, the current de facto leaders in the market. Note: The article is no longer available online without registration.
The article describes a network management tool built on FreeBSD that has even used network connections to www.FreeBSD.org for performing network research.
This issue has a good article on FreeBSD and why it's worth a look by Linux folks.
A brief, business oriented introduction to the open source community.
There is a good report on the Walnut Creek booth and FreeBSD at the Linux Today website. The first half of the report is on Slackware Linux, the second half is on FreeBSD.
Larry Ellison talking about their new dedicated Oracle servers, mentions FreeBSD as one of a list of candidate OSes for the platform.
Continuation of an earlier column reviewing freely available Unix like operating systems.
An introduction to FreeBSD, and where it stands with respect to the other free OSes.
An article touting the stability and power of the Unix platform over NT.
Ryan Snedegar reviews FreeBSD 2.2.7 and finds its web-serving performance to be better than Windows NT.
About why customers prefer open source software like Linux, FreeBSD, Perl and TCL to proprietary alternatives.
Briefly reviews the BSD Unix heritage.
A short introduction to FreeBSD 2.2.7.
Desire for better security has led some ISPs to deploy FreeBSD on their servers.
Jordan compares the past of Unix with the future of Linux, outlining possible similarities and describing faults that could be prevented.
Consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader mentions FreeBSD by name.
Practical approaches to distributing HTTP traffic at your site. Includes a section on performance tuning Apache under FreeBSD.
For smaller companies and web sites, a FreeBSD and Apache on an Intel (PC) architecture machine is more than sufficient.
Note: the article is not available online.
A collection of tips and tricks to secure your internal network.
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.
You also can visit FreeBSD/Java Press page for information about FreeBSD Java Project's Press News.
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