diff --git a/en/news/press.xml b/en/news/press.xml index 68f5ed57da..9e10c960fd 100644 --- a/en/news/press.xml +++ b/en/news/press.xml @@ -1,2850 +1,2867 @@ - $FreeBSD: www/en/news/press.xml,v 1.63 2003/02/01 03:23:20 keramida Exp $ + $FreeBSD: www/en/news/press.xml,v 1.64 2003/02/05 07:18:46 jkoshy Exp $ 2003 + + February + + + FreeBSD 5.0 looks to the enterprise + http://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.

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+ January FreeBSD 5.0 Unleashed http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1571431 internetnews.com 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.

2002 October Opera Software Releases Version for FreeBSD http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2002/10/31/b/ Opera Software http://www.opera.com/ 31 October 2002 Opera Software Press Release

Opera Software proudly announces the first golden release of a new port of its software to FreeBSD.

DVD Playback on FreeBSD http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/03/FreeBSD_Basics.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 03 October 2002 Dru Lavigne

Dru Lavigne delves into the world of DVD playback on FreeBSD.

September The BSDs: Sophisticated, Powerful and (Mostly) Free http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,555451,00.asp Extreme Tech http://www.extremetech.com/ 26 September 2002 Brett Glass

A article on the history and culture of the BSD projects.

Using Sound on FreeBSD http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/09/19/FreeBSD_Basics.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 19 September 2002 Dru Lavigne

Dru Lavigne describes the process of configuring sound on a FreeBSD multimedia workstation.

BSD, An Enterprise OS? Well, Yes http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/09172002/ ITworld.com http://www.itworld.com/ 17 September 2002 UNIX in the Enterprise

A short interview with committer Michael Lucas, on using BSD in enterprise environments.

Turn FreeBSD into a Multimedia Workstation http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/09/05/FreeBSD_Basics.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 5 September 2002 Dru Lavigne

Dru Lavigne explains how to create a multimedia workstation with FreeBSD.

August Chasing Linux http://www.infoworld.com/articles/fe/xml/02/08/12/020812fefreebsd.xml InfoWorld http://www.infoworld.com/ 9 August 2002 Maggie Biggs

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.

June Interview with Jordan Hubbard http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=278 Kerneltrap http://kerneltrap.org/ 20 June 2002 Jeremy Andrews

Kerneltrap speaks with Jordan Hubbard, one of the creators of FreeBSD, and currently manager of Apple's Darwin project.

May Dual-Booting FreeBSD and FreeBSD http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/05/09/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 16 May 2002 Michael Lucas

Michael Lucas explains how a machine can be made to dual-boot FreeBSD -CURRENT and -STABLE.

April Jordan Hubbard resigns from FreeBSD core http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=2837 Daemon News http://www.daemonnews.org/ 29 April 2002 Gregory Sutter

FreeBSD co-founder Jordan Hubbard leaves the core team.

Technology a la Carte http://www.byte.com/documents/s=7145/byt1019082849618/ Byte http://www.byte.com/ 22 April 2002 Bill Nicholls

A review of FreeBSD 4.5 with mention of the FreeBSD 5.0 "Developer Preview" release.

Testing FreeBSD-Current http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/18/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 18 April 2002 Michael Lucas

Committer Michael Lucas takes a look at the FreeBSD 5.0 Developers' Preview 1.

Connecting to IPv6 with FreeBSD http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=524 Linux Orbit http://www.linuxorbit.com/ 18 April 2002 David LeCount

This tells how to use freenet6 from the ports collection to tunnel IPv6 over IPv4.

System Panics, Part 2: Recovering and Debugging http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 04 April 2002 Michael Lucas

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.

Configuring a FreeBSD Access Point for your Wireless Network http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7121/sam0205a/sam0205a.htm Sys Admin Magazine http://www.samag.com/ April 2002 Michael S. DeGraw-Bertsch

This has instructions for securely configuring a PC running FreeBSD as a gateway between an 802.11b network and a traditional wired network.

Anti-Unix campaign falters http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/01/020401hnunixcamp.xml InfoWorld http://www.infoworld.com/ 01 April 2002 Matt Berger

InfoWorld reports on the use of FreeBSD to power a website built for a prominent advertising campaign.

March A Multimedia Tutorial For FreeBSD http://www.examnotes.net/forums/default.php?ind=122 ExamNotes.net http://www.examnotes.net/ 30 March 2002 Tracey J. Rosenblath

This tells how to set up and use the audio support in FreeBSD.

System Panics, Part 1: Preparing for the Worst http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 21 March 2002 Michael Lucas

Preparing a FreeBSD system to handle a panic.

Understanding CVSup, Mounting, Ports and Init on FreeBSD http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=818 OS News http://www.osnews.com/ 19 March 2002 Nathan Mace

An article on configuring and maintaining a FreeBSD install.

Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/ 19 March 2002 Stephan Somogyi

This is a non-technical introduction to the BSD family (except BSD/OS).

Find: Part Two http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/14/FreeBSD_Basics.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 14 March 2002 Dru Lavigne

Looking for your files with find.

Building a CD Bootable Firewall http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/March/Features646.html BSD Today http://www.bsdtoday.com/ 8 March 2002 Etienne de Bruin

This article has instructions for making a FreeBSD system which boots from CD-ROM. Its use as a firewall is mentioned.

February IPv6, Meet FreeBSD http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/22/ipv6.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 22 February 2002 Mike DeGraw-Bertsch

A walk-through on configuring IPv6 on FreeBSD.

Finding Things in Unix http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/21/FreeBSD_Basics.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 21 February 2002 Dru Lavigne

Getting acquainted with find.

Understanding NFS http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/14/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 14 February 2002 Michael Lucas

Using NFS in FreeBSD.

January How to Become a FreeBSD Committer http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/01/31/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 31 January 2002 Michael Lucas

Michael documents the process of becoming a FreeBSD committer.

FreeBSD Week: Migrating from Linux to FreeBSD http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=580 OS News http://www.osnews.com/ 31 January 2002 Nathan Mace

A guide for users migrating from Linux to FreeBSD.

FreeBSD Week: Interview with Robert Watson http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=572 OS News http://www.osnews.com/ 29 January 2002 Eugenia Loli-Queru

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. Releases Latest Version of StorTrends NAS Software http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020123/232287_1.html Yahoo! Finance http://biz.yahoo.com/ 23 January 2002 AMI Press Release

American Megatrends Inc. announced the release of StoreTrends(tm) NAS software version 1.1, which is based on FreeBSD.

Contributing to BSD http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/01/17/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 17 January 2002 Michael Lucas

Michael Lucas shows what it takes for non-coders to contribute to BSD.

A basic guide to securing FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE http://draenor.org/securebsd/secure.txt draenor.org http://draenor.org/ 17 January 2002 Marc Silver

This article is for system administrators. It explains how to configure and maintain a FreeBSD system for high security.

FreeBSD to change hands http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20020114/tc/freebsd_to_change_hands_1.html Yahoo News http://dailynews.yahoo.com/ 14 January 2002 Stephen Shankland CNET

Wind River Systems announces the transfer of its FreeBSD assets to the FreeBSD Mall.

Kerneltrap Interview with Matt Dillon http://kerneltrap.com/article.php?sid=459 Kerneltrap http://kerneltrap.com/ 02 January 2002 Jeremy Andrews

Kerneltrap interviews Matt Dillon, one of FreeBSD's key developers.

2001 December Microsoft Hotmail still runs on U**x http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/23348.html The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/ 12 December 2001 Andrew Orlowski

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.

Keeping Your Options Open: FreeBSD as a Workstation for UNIX Newbies http://www.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=392 OS News http://www.osnews.com/ 12 December 2001 Eugenia Loli-Queru

An article discussing FreeBSD as an workstation OS for new Unix users.

November Cleaning Up Ports http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp http://www.onlamp.com/ 29 November 2001 Michael Lucas

A brief introduction to portupgrade.

Stable SMB http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/15/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp http://www.onlamp.com/ 15 November 2001 Michael Lucas

A short article on accessing a Windows(R) share from a FreeBSD workstation.

FreeBSD Versus Linux Revisited http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1794/byt20011107s0001/1112_moshe.html Byte http://www.byte.com/ 12 November 2001 Moshe Bar

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.

October The Big *BSD Interview http://www.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=153 OS News http://www.osnews.com/ 08 October 2001 Eugenia Loli-Queru

An interview with Matt Dillon, a key developer in FreeBSD on the upcoming features in FreeBSD 5.0.

September Running Windows applications on FreeBSD http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/09/21/FreeBSD_Basics.html OnLamp http://www.onlamp.com/ 21 September 2001 Dru Lavigne

A short article on running Windows(R) applications under WINE in FreeBSD.

Dealing with Full Disks http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/09/27/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp http://www.onlamp.com/ 27 September 2001 Michael Lucas

A short article on dealing with the all too common full disk.

Ripping MP3s http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/09/13/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp http://www.onlamp.com/ 13 September 2001 Michael Lucas

A short article on ripping CDs on FreeBSD.

August FreeBSD Anti-Virus Protection - A Commercial Alternative http://bsdatwork.com/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=1 BSDatwork.com http://www.bsdatwork.com/ 21 August 2001 Jeremiah Gowdy

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.

CVS Mirror http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/08/30/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Onlamp http://www.onlamp.com/ 30 August 2001 Michael Lucas

How to mirror the FreeBSD CVS repository.

CVSup Infrastructure http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/08/16/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 16 August 2001 Michael Lucas

An article on FreeBSD's CVSup infrastructure used to distribute its source code worldwide.

An Interview with Jordan Hubbard http://www.workingmac.com/article/32.wm Working Mac http://www.workingmac.com/ 16 August 2001 pairNetworks

An short interview with Jordan Hubbard, one of the founders of the FreeBSD project.

July Controlling Bandwidth http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/07/26/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp http://www.onlamp.com/ 26 July 2001 Michael Lucas

Using DUMMYNET to control bandwidth allocation

Which OS is Fastest for High-Performance Network Applications? http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1148/sam0107a/0107a.htm Sys Admin http://www.samag.com July 2001 Jeffrey B. Rothman and John Buckman

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 Announces DARPA-Funded FreeBSD Security Initiative http://opensource.nailabs.com/news/20010709-cboss.html NAI Labs http://www.nailabs.com/ NAI Labs Press Release

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.

June Controlling User Logins http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/06/28/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 28 June 2001 Michael Lucas

An article describing the ways to control user access to your FreeBSD system.

Rotating Log Files http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/06/14/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 14 June 2001 Michael Lucas

Using the functionality of newsyslog in FreeBSD.

Microsoft's FreeBSD Move Aimed At Next Generation Of Developers http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=27727 CRN http://www.crn.com/ 27 June 2001 Paula Rooney

A report on Microsoft's venture to port its C# programming language to FreeBSD.

BSD guru to guide Apple on Unix http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=3092 Mac World http://www.macworld.co.uk/ 26 June 2001 Macworld (UK) staff

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.

Microsoft Uses Open-Source Code Despite Denying Use of Such Software Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com/ 18 June 2001 Lee Gomes

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.

In your face! MS open source attacks backfire http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530056.html ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/ 14 June 2001 Lee Gomes

A report on the backfiring of the Microsoft effort to vilify open source software.

May System Logging http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/05/17/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 17 May 2001 Michael Lucas

System logging in FreeBSD using syslogd.

BSD Tricks: CVS http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/05/03/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 3 May 2001 Michael Lucas

Using CVS in client-mode.

April Setting up Wireless Cards on FreeBSD http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/04/19/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 19 April 2001 Michael Lucas

Configuring FreeBSD for wireless operation.

March FreeBSD Gaming http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/03/22/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 22 March 2001 Michael Lucas

A survey of the games available in the FreeBSD ports collection.

Submitting Changes http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/03/08/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 8 March 2001 Michael Lucas

Submitting change requests to the FreeBSD project using send-pr.

February Changing FreeBSD Documentation http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/02/22/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 22 February 2001 Michael Lucas

A mini tutorial on DocBook and its use by the FreeBSD Documentation Project.

The FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/02/08/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 8 February 2001 Michael Lucas

An introduction to the FreeBSD project.

For Servers: Linux 2.4 vs. FreeBSD 4.1.1 http://www.byte.com/documents/s=558/BYT20010130S0010/ Byte http://www.byte.com/ 05 February 2001 Moshe Bar

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.

January Modifying a Port http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/01/25/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 25 January 2001 Michael Lucas

Howto modify a FreeBSD port.

Fine Control of Ports http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/01/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 4 January 2001 Michael Lucas

A system administrator's view of the Ports system.

Is FreeBSD a Superior Server Platform to Linux? http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/01/infrrevu/ Web Techniques http://www.webtechniques.com/ January 2001 Nathan Boeger

A reviewer finds FreeBSD 4.1 to be better suited for web serving than a Red Hat Linux distribution.

A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/ Dr Dobbs Journal http://www.ddj.com/ January 2001 Jack J. Woehr

A report from a roundtable at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000, involving several prominent developers in the BSD world.

2000 December BSD Ports Collection Basics http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/12/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 21 December 2000 Michael Lucas

How the FreeBSD Ports collection works.

BSD Tricks: Unprepared Disaster Recovery http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/12/07/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 7 December 2000 Michael Lucas

How to recover files off of FreeBSD system.

November Open-sourcing the Apple http://www.salon.com/tech/review/2000/11/17/hubbard_osx/index.html Salon Magazine http://www.salon.com/ 17 November 2000 Jordan Hubbard

A geek's appraisal of the Apple OS X from Jordan Hubbard, one of the lead developers on the FreeBSD project.

BSD Tricks: Linux Compatibility, the Hard Way http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/11/16/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 16 November 2000 Michael Lucas

Using a Linux install under FreeBSD's Linux compatibility mode.

Laptops, PC Cards and FreeBSD http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/11/02/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 2 November 2000 Michael Lucas

Using FreeBSD on a laptop.

October BSD Tricks: Introductory Revision Control http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/10/19/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 19 October 2000 Michael Lucas

Using RCS for file revision control.

BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux http://www.byte.com/documents/BYT20000927S0001/ BYTE http://www.byte.com/ 02 October 2000 Bill Nicholls

This column gives an overview of the different versions of BSD, with links for more information.

September INTERNET'S BUSIEST OPENSOURCE SOFTWARE ARCHIVE SETS NEW DOWNLOAD RECORD http://www.terasolutions.com/pr092900.html TeraSolutions http://www.terasolutions.com/ 29 September 2000 TeraSolutions Press Release

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.

BSD Tricks: MFS http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/09/07/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 07 September 2000 Michael Lucas

A short article on using the FreeBSD Memory Filesystem.

TRUSTING BSD - Ultra-High Security for FreeBSD http://www.ispworld.com/bw/sep/Unix_Flavor.htm ISPworld http://www.ispworld.com/ September 2000 Jeffrey Carl

An interview with Robert Watson, one of the lead developers in the TrustedBSD project.

August More FreeBSD Comics http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20000807&mode=classic User Friendly the Comic Strip http://www.userfriendly.org/ 7 August 2000 Illiad

See also the comics for the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th.

July Experiments in SMB http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/07/13/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 13 July 2000 Michael Lucas

An early review of FreeBSD's SMB support.

June Installing OCSweb on FreeBSD http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/15/Big_Scary_Daemons.html OnLamp.com http://www.onlamp.com/ 15 June 2000 Michael Lucas

An article on a developers experience porting software from Linux to FreeBSD.

The State of the Daemon http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/ Unix Review http://www.unixreview.com/ 07 June 2000 Michael Lucas

An informative article on BSD, and where it is going.

Server Goliaths Turn to Appliance Servers http://sw.expert.com/news/SE.N1.JUN.00.pdf Server/Workstation Expert http://sw.expert.com/ June 2000 Adam Darby

An article evaluating various commercial OSes that contains a blurb about BSDI and FreeBSD.

FreeBSD: Serving the World http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/JamesHoward/JamesHoward1.html osOpinion http://www.osopinion.com/ June 2000 James Howard

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.

May Riding the Web Wave http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/05/29/BU20648.DTL SFGate http://www.sfgate.com/ 29 May 2000 Henry Norr

FreeBSD, a relatively unknown operating system is playing a big role on the Internet.

BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code http://www.salon.com/tech/fsp/2000/05/16/chapter_2_part_one/index.html Salon http://www.salon.com/ 16 May 2000 Andrew Leonard

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.

Install FreeBSD 4.0 in seven easy steps http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220000516eje01.htm TechRepublic http://www.techrepublic.com/ 16 May 2000 Dru Lavigne

A short guide to installing FreeBSD 4.0.

Partial Reunification May Give BSD New Visibility http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000508DC8A ComputerWorld http://www.computerworld.com/ 8 May 2000 Dominique Deckmyn

Compares the merged Walnut Creek/BSDI OS offering to Linux.

Developers using open-source software behind bosses' backs http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/05/open.source.smugglers.idg/index.html CNN http://www.cnn.com/ 5 May 2000 Peter Wayner

Open-source software sometimes provides a better solution than expensive commerical, closed software.

FreeBSD 4.0 Now Includes PolyServe's High Availability Clustering & Load Balancing Software http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000501/ca_polyser_1.html PolyServe http://www.polyserve.com/ 1 May 2000 PolyServe Press Release

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.

BSDI Getting the Word Out http://webserver.expert.com/news/5.5/n5.shtml WebServer Online http://webserver.expert.com/ May 2000 Alexandra Barrett

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.

April The New BSDI to Offer Technical Support for the FreeBSD Operating System http://www.bsdi.com/press/20000418.mhtml BSDi http://www.bsdi.com/ 18 April 2000 BSDi Press Release

BSDi will be offering technical support contracts for FreeBSD beginning in May 2000.

Commentary: BSD sleight of hand http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2507538,00.html ZD Net News http://www.zdnet.com/ 4 April 2000 Stephan Somogyi

Commentary on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger.

FreeBSD 3.4 Review, Part 2: Adopting the Daemon http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/freebsd2e&page=1 32BitsOnline.com http://www.32bitsonline.com/ April 2000 Clifford Smith

The second part of a review of FreeBSD v3.4.

March The legend of BSD http://www.sfbg.com/SFLife/34/26/tech.html sf life http://www.sfbg.com/ 29 March 2000 Annalee Newitz

An interview with three BSD veterans on the past and future of BSD.

Bostic on the BSD tradition http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/03/24/bostic.html O'Reilly Network http://www.oreillynet.com/ 24 March 2000 Dale Dougherty

An interview with BSD veteran Keith Bostic on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger. ``BSD has always had the best technology'', says Keith.

Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-03/lw-03-freebsd_p.html LinuxWorld http://www.linuxworld.com/ March 2000 Michael Lucas

Michael Lucas presents a guide to customizing the FreeBSD kernel, written for the Linux oriented.

FreeBSD for the SVR4/Linux Administrator http://www.samag.com/archive/0903/feature.shtml SysAdmin http://www.samag.com/ March 2000 Michael Lucas

This article attempts to give a System V or Linux administrator a basic grounding in FreeBSD configuration and usage.

FreeBSD Ports and Packages System Explained http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200003/bsdports&page=1 32BitsOnline http://www.32bitsonline.com/ March 2000 Bill Swingle

A good description of the FreeBSD Ports collection.

February Business Lessons From Online Porn http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/print-it?id=38adbbff0&t=/texis/mvm/news/news Upside http://www.upside.com/ 21 February 2000 Richard A. Glidewell

Praise for FreeBSD from this article: ``FreeBSD is the system of choice because it is fast, stable, and can handle large volumes of traffic.''

Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower http://www.linux.com/articles.phtml?aid=7125 Linux.com http://www.linux.com/ 10 February 2000 Michael Lucas

An article on the BSD License.

Three Unixlike systems may be better than Linux http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html ComputerWorld http://www.computerworld.com/ 7 February 2000 Simson L. Garfinkel

Promotes the BSD OSes as better alternatives to Linux in the areas of performance, reliability and security.

Buddying up to BSD: Part Five - FreeBSD Continued http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/20000208/275/ Linux.com http://www.linux.com/ 8 February 2000 Matt Michie

A Linux user writes about his experiences with the FreeBSD ports system.

Review of FreeBSD 3.4 http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1 32BitsOnline.com http://www.32bitsonline.com/ February 2000 Clifford Smith

A review of FreeBSD 3.4.

FreeBSD 4.0 And Beyond http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/2000/feb/bwm79.html Boardwatch http://www.boardwatch.com/ February 2000 Jeffrey Carl

A Jordan Hubbard Interview on Improvements, New Platforms and What's to Come.

January Buddying up to BSD: Part Four - FreeBSD http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/20000126/270/ Linux.com http://www.linux.com/ 26 January 2000 Matt Michie

A Linux user writes about his experiences with FreeBSD.

Debunking Open-Source Myths: Origins and Players http://www.gartnerweb.com/public/static/hotc/hc00085832.html Gartner Group http://www.gartnerweb.com/ 18 January 2000 N. Drakos and M. Driver

A report that looks at and debunks some of the myths associated with Open Source development.

Linux Scales Enterprise Wall http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000114S0013 TechWeb http://www.techweb.com/ 14 January 2000 Mitch Wagner

About 17 percent of enterprises plan to deploy FreeBSD or Linux as a primary platform for e-commerce within two years.

Jobs announces new MacOS, becomes 'iCEO' http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/01/05/macworld.keynote/index.html CNN http://cnn.com/ 5 January 2000 CNN news article

Steve Jobs' Macworld Expo keynote speech mentions FreeBSD as one of the components in the new Darwin OS from Apple.

Mac OS X http://www.apple.com/macosx/inside.html Apple Inc. http://www.apple.com/ January 2000 Apple communication

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.''

Linux under FreeBSD http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1169/sam0001b/ SysAdmin http://www.samag.com/ January 2000 Michael Lucas

FreeBSD has several options for using software from other platforms such as Linux. This article examines Linux emulation under FreeBSD.

1999 December Freei.Net Doubles Service Speed With Intel(R) Server Platforms http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/991215/wa_freei_d_1.html Freei.Net http://www.freei.net 15 December 1999 Freei.Net Press Release

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.

FreeBSD 3.3. Robust OS well suited for Internet/Intranet Deployment http://www.data.com/features/1206a.html Data Communications Online http://www.data.com/ December 1999 Juha Saarinen

Linux administrator turns to FreeBSD and finds it impressive.

November FreeBSD at COMDEX http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/21/1430208&mode=nocomment Slashdot http://slashdot.org/ 21 November 1999 Brett Glass

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.

Who controls free software? http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/11/18/red_hat/index.html Salon Magazine http://www.salon.com/ 18 November 1999 Andrew Leonard

Discusses RedHat's acquisition of Cygnus, quotes Jordan Hubbard at length, and mentions FreeBSD.

The Darwinist: Darwin for x86? http://macweek.zdnet.com/1999/11/14/darwinist.html MacWeek http://macweek.zdnet.com/ 15 November 1999 Stephan Somogyi

A report on Wilfredo Sanchez's session on FreeBSD and the Apple Darwin project at the first FreeBSDCon.

Bob Frankenberg's breaking Windows http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/19991108/news/current/soapbox.htx?source=blq/yhoo&dist=yhoo CBS MarketWatch http://cbs.marketwatch.com/ 8 November 1999 Michael Tarsala

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.

Applix and Walnut Creek Partner to Provide Applixware Office for the FreeBSD Operating System http://www.applix.com/releases/99-11-03_applixware_office_for_freebsd_os.cfm Applix Inc. http://www.applix.com/ 3 November 1999 Applix Inc. press release

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.

LinuxWorld report on FreeBSDCon 99 http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-10/lw-10-bsd_p.html LinuxWorld http://www.linuxworld.com/ 1 November 1999 Vicki Brown

October 17, 1999 marked a milestone in the history of FreeBSD -- the first FreeBSD conference was held in the city where it all began.

FreeBSDCon'99: Fans of Linux's lesser-known sibling gather for the first time http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/01/freebsd.con99.idg/index.html CNN http://cnn.com/ 1 November 1999 Vicki Brown

Repost of IDG article about FreeBSDCon '99.

October ServerWatch's Review of FreeBSD http://serverwatch.internet.com/reviews/platform-freebsd.html ServerWatch http://serverwatch.internet.com/ 25 October 1999 Kevin Reichard

FreeBSD v3.2 is as close to the perfect Internet server operating system as it comes.

Grass Roots Daemocracy http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=380d3cf90&src=yahoo Upside http://www.upside.com/ 20 October 1999 Sam Williams

A report from the first annual FreeBSDCon held in Berkeley, California.

ENTERA DELIVERS FreeBSD STREAMING SERVER SUPPORTING QUICKTIME http://www.entera.com/news/pressreleases/1004elsabsd.html Entera http://www.entera.com/ 04 October 1999 Entera Press Release

Entera announces a free, standards-based RTSP/RTP server to stream QuickTime from a FreeBSD platform.

Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_10/bezroukov/index.html First Monday http://www.firstmonday.dk/ October 1999 Nikolai Bezroukov

This paper tries to explore links between open source software development and academic research as a better paradigm for OSS development.

September The Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/ 16 September 1999

Claims that the operating systems based on BSD are more reliable and secure. (requires registration with The Boston Globe prior to viewing)

Beyond Linux, Free Systems Help Build The Web http://dowjones.wsj.com/n/SB936961814325017645-d-main-c1.html Wall Street Journal http://dowjones.wsj.com/ 10 September 1999 Lee Gomes

An introduction to the BSD family of free operating systems.

Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml SysAdmin http://www.samag.com/ September 1999 Michael Lucas

Focusses on the BSD development model and the ease of keeping upto-date with tools like sup and CVSup.

August Out of Linux limelight, devil gets its due http://web.boston.com/technology/packages/opensource/linux_limelight.shtml Boston Globe http://web.boston.com/ 12 August 1999 Hiawatha Bray

A short (but not very accurate) introduction to FreeBSD for people who have heard about Linux.

Reporter's notebook: Hackers on holiday http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/11/hacker.hols.idg/index.html CNN http://www.cnn.com/ 11 August 1999 Ann Harrison

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.

More FreeBSD Comics http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/99aug/19990803.html User Friendly the Comic Strip http://www.userfriendly.org/ 3 August 1999 Illiad

See also the comics for the 4th and the 5th.

World's Biggest Internet Search Engine Goes Online http://www.fast.no/company/press/twbs02081999.html Fast Search & Transfer http://web.fast.no/ 02 August 1999 FAST Press Release

Said to be the largest search engine on the Internet, FAST Web Search uses the FreeBSD operating system.

Duke Computer Scientists Exceed "Gigabit" Data Processing Speeds With Internet Software http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm Science Daily Magazine http://www.sciencedaily.com/ 02 August 1999 Duke University press release

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.

July WORLDS LARGEST INDEPENDENT IPP HITS NEW MILESTONE http://www.pair.com/pair/press/19990727.html Pair Networks http://www.pair.com/ 27 July 1999 pair Networks press release

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.

Free OS? It' s as easy as BSD http://www.techwebuk.com/story/TUK19990726S0029 TechWeb UK http://www.techwebuk.com/ 26 July 1999 Peter McGarvey

Network manager Peter McGarvey writes about his experience with a number of varieties of Unix. He sums up: FreeBSD is the greatest.

BSD a better OS than Linux? http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2299366,00.html ZD Net News http://www.zdnet.com/ 22 July 1999 Bob Sullivan

BSD is the software behind the world's most popular Web site and the world's most popular FTP site.

The Net's stealth operating system http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp MSNBC http://www.msnbc.com/ 21 July 1999 Bob Sullivan

BSD powers some of the biggest sites, and its users are among the most jealous of Linux.

Embed Together: The Case For BSD In Network Appliances http://www.performancecomputing.com/features/9906of2.shtml Performance Computing http://www.performancecomputing.com/ 2 July 1999 Kevin Rose and Charles Davidson

Underlines the advantages of BSD for the embedded device market. Mentions picoBSD.

June Radio interview: Linux and FreeBSD http://ebs.tamu.edu/kamu-fm/gig-24jun99.ram GigABytes Radio Talk Show http://cis.tamu.edu/news/gigabytes/index.html June 1999 Chris DiBona and Jordan Hubbard

Chris DiBona of VA Research and Jordan Hubbard of the FreeBSD Project give their views on Linux and FreeBSD.

Thin Servers http://www.ntsystems.com/db_area/archive/1999/9906/306r1.shtml Windows NT Systems http://www.ntsystems.com/ June 1999 Ted Drude

A survey of thin servers, featuring products using FreeBSD as their internal operating system.

Information Technology and the Internet in Co-operation Ireland http://www.pcc.ie/net/ci.html Public Communications Centre, Ireland http://www.pcc.ie/ June 1999 Interview with Michael Doyle

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.

GPL and BSD: explication and comparison http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/199906/gplbsd&page=1 32BitsOnline http://www.32bitsonline.com/ June 1999 Rob Bos

An article comparing BSD and GPL style licenses.

CmdrTaco on Slashdot Sale http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/20483.html Wired Business News http://www.wired.com/ 29 June 1999 Leander Kahney

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.

Server Platforms - FreeBSD Review http://serverwatch.internet.com/reviews/platform-freebsd.html ServerWatch http://serverwatch.internet.com/ 17 June 1999 Kevin Reichard

FreeBSD: Is it the perfect Internet server operating system? As close as it comes.

Yes! There is intelligent life beyond Linux http://www.networkweek.com/openwindow/story/NWW19990611S0005 Network Week Online http://www.networkweek.com/ 16 June 1999 David Cartwright

It looks like Unix, it tastes like Unix but it isn't Unix. It's FreeBSD!

May Silicon Carny: Why I run FreeBSD http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-05-1999/swol-05-silicon.html SunWorld http://www.sunworld.com/ May 1999 Rich Morin

Rich Morin explains why FreeBSD is the superior OS for him.

INTERNET'S BUSIEST SOFTWARE ARCHIVE REACHES NEW DOWNLOAD MILESTONE http://www.wccdrom.com/press/wcarchive_milestone.phtml Walnut Creek CDROM http://www.wccdrom.com/ 26 May 1999 David Greenman

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.

Bye-Bye, Windows http://home.cnet.com/category/0-3709-7-284910.html CNet http://home.cnet.com 24 May 1999 Christopher Lindquist

Reviews alternative PC operating systems. Includes a review of FreeBSD 3.2.

Gnome is no Windows dwarf http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_321000/321433.stm BBC http://bbc.co.uk/ 20 May 1999 Chris Nuttall

Article on Gnome and the Open Source movement. Mentions FreeBSD.

OS Also-Rans http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm Pioneer Planet http://www.pioneerplanet.com 17 May 1999 JULIO OJEDA-ZAPATA

A short article introducing a few alternative OSes, including FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Aimed at the general public.

Micron Electronics NetFRAME chosen for Internet's busiest site http://www.wccdrom.com/press/micron.phtml Walnut Creek CDROM http://www.wccdrom.com/ 4 May 1999 David Greenman

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.

The other open-source OS: FreeBSD http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,400844,00.html ZD Net http://www.zdnet.com/ 3 May 1999 Anne Chen

Examples of FreeBSD deployment in the real world and why some technology officers find it attractive.

April Open-Source Software: Power to the People http://www.data.com/issue/990407/open.html Data Communications http://www.data.com April 1999 Lee Bruno

Linux and BSD Unix are starting to show up on more and more corporate servers, running alongside or even replacing Netware and Windows NT.

XML: Complete XML Development System Integrated with FreeBSD http://advocacy.FreeBSD.org/stories/pr_xml.html FreeBSD Advocacy http://advocacy.FreeBSD.org/ 29 April 1999 Jordan Hubbard

Included with FreeBSD 3.1 is a complete, integrated SGML/XML development system that installs with a simple, easy to use command sequence.

Inktomi Announces Traffic Server 3.0 http://www.inktomi.com/new/press/ts3.html Inktomi http://www.inktomi.com 26 April 1999 Inktomi press release

FreeBSD is a supported operating system for a new version of Inktomi's carrier-class network cache platform.

The Matrix: FreeBSD Used to Generate Special Effects http://advocacy.FreeBSD.org/stories/pr_matrix.html FreeBSD Advocacy http://advocacy.FreeBSD.org/ 22 April 1999 Jordan Hubbard

Dual-Processor FreeBSD systems were used to generate a large number of special effects in the cutting edge Warner Brothers film, The Matrix.

Let's Get More Educated About FreeBSD http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/PrestonWiley/PrestonWiley1.html osOpinion http://www.osopinion.com/ 20 April 1999 Preston S. Wiley

A system administrator shares his views on FreeBSD.

The Oldest Free OS http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/column/0,4712,398025,00.html ZD Net http://www.zdnet.com 15 April 1999 Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

What are the oldest free operating systems around? The answer is the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix variants.

FreeBSD wants a place in the sun http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/down_the_toilet?id=3714d4820 Upside http://www.upside.com 13 April 1999 Sam Williams

Introduces FreeBSD to Linux users.

FreeBSD Offers a Sound Open Source Alternative http://www.internetworld.com/print/current/webdev/19990412-freebsd.html Internet World http://www.internetworld.com 12 April 1999 James C. Luh

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).

Serious FTP: Behind the scenes of Walnut Creek CDROM http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/08/cdrom.idg/index.html CNN http://cnn.com 8 April 1999 Rich Morin

A description of the Walnut Creek CDROM setup. The article is also available from SunWorld.

Thin Servers: Off-the-Shelf Internet Help http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?DAT19990407S0024 TechWeb http://www.techweb.com/ 7 April 1999 Christine Zimmerman

Discusses thin-servers, including six built using an embedded FreeBSD kernel.

March A FreeBSD Comic Strip http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/99mar/19990320.html User Friendly the Comic Strip http://www.userfriendly.org/ 20 March 1999 Illiad

See also the serial from the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th of March, 1999.

Rising support for BSD http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/990316/openline1.html Fairfax IT News http://www.it.fairfax.com.au 16 March 1999 Nathan Cochrane

Columnist Nathan Cochrane talks about the BSD family of open source operating systems.

Whence the Source: Untangling the Open Source/Free Software Debate http://opensource.oreilly.com/news/scoville_0399.html O'Reilly Open Source http://opensource.oreilly.com 5 March 1999 Thomas Scoville

An article on the open-source / free-software debate. Mentions Berkeley Unix as one of the early successes of shared source code collaboration.

February LWN interviews Alan Cox http://lwn.net/1999/features/ACInterview/ Linux Weekly News http://lwn.net/ February 1999

There is a small but interesting FreeBSD mention in LWN in an interview with Linux's Alan Cox.

The Economist http://www.economist.com 20 February 1999

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.

January Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html O'Reilly and Associates http://www.oreilly.com January 1999 Marshall Kirk McKusick

A short history of Berkeley Unix.

WWWsmith: Installation and Configuration of FreeBSD http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue57/2515.html LINUX JOURNAL http://www.linuxjournal.com/ January 1999 Sean Eric Fagan

Here is how to set up a web server using another freely available operating system, FreeBSD, a high performance, mature, Unix-like system.

The return of BSD - What are the BSD flavors and why might you use them? http://www.sunworld.com/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd.html SunWorld http://www.sunworld.com/ January 1999 Greg Lehey

Introduces the modern BSD OSes to the general public.

GartnerGroup http://www.gartner.com/ 18 January 1999

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.

Nature Web Matters: Internet tomography http://helix.nature.com/webmatters/tomog/tomog.html Nature http://www.nature.com/ 7 January 1999 K.C. Claffy, Tracie Monk & Daniel McRobb, UCSD/CAIDA, USA.

The article describes a network management tool built on FreeBSD that has even used network connections to www.FreeBSD.org for performing network research.

1998 December The story on FreeBSD http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1998-12/lw-12-freebsd.html LinuxWorld http://www.linuxworld.com/ December 1998 Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz

This issue has a good article on FreeBSD and why it's worth a look by Linux folks.

November The Open-Source Revolution http://www.edventure.com/release1/1198.html RELEASE 1.0 http://www.edventure.com/release1/ November 1998 Tim O'Reilly, with an introduction by Esther Dyson

A brief, business oriented introduction to the open source community.

Report from Comdex--Walnut Creek CDROM, FreeBSD and Slackware http://www.linuxtoday.com/stories/1005.html Linux Today http://www.linuxtoday.com/ 20 November 1998 Dwight Johnson

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.

Ellison plans hardware, bashes Bill http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28816,00.html CNET News.com http://www.news.com/ 16 November 1998 Tim Clark

Larry Ellison talking about their new dedicated Oracle servers, mentions FreeBSD as one of a list of candidate OSes for the platform.

October Linux/etc, The other free Unixes, part 2 of 2 http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19981000/lnx9810.htm Computer Bits http://www.computerbits.com/ October 1998 Terry Griffin

Continuation of an earlier column reviewing freely available Unix like operating systems.

What Is FreeBSD? http://www.performance-computing.com/features/9810of1.shtml Performance Computing http://www.performance-computing.com/ October 1998 Jordan K. Hubbard

An introduction to FreeBSD, and where it stands with respect to the other free OSes.

Unix back in the fight with NT http://www.mercurycenter.com/business/center/unix102798.htm Mercury Center http://www.mercurycenter.com/ 26 October 1998 Miguel Helft

An article touting the stability and power of the Unix platform over NT.

A No-Cost NOS http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pclabs/nettools/1718/bench1.html ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/ 20 October 1998 Ryan Snedegar

Ryan Snedegar reviews FreeBSD 2.2.7 and finds its web-serving performance to be better than Windows NT.

Open Code Frees Up The Net http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/prtarchivestory/0,4356,361668,00.HTML Inter@ctive Week http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/ 19 October 1998 Charles Babcock

About why customers prefer open source software like Linux, FreeBSD, Perl and TCL to proprietary alternatives.

It's only free Unix - but I like it http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/computimes/1998/1012/cmp2.htm The Irish Times http://www.irish-times.com/ 12 October 1998 David Malone
September Linux/etc, The other free Unixes, part 1 of 2 http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19980900/lnx9809.htm Computer Bits http://www.computerbits.com/ September 1998 Terry Griffin

Briefly reviews the BSD Unix heritage.

Communications & Networking: Asynchronous Communications Using select and poll http://www.ddj.com/articles/1998/9809/9809e/9809e.htm Dr. Dobb's Journal http://www.ddj.com/ September 1998 Sean Eric Fagan

On how to use FreeBSD's select(2) and poll(2) system calls.

Quality Unix for FREE http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,349576,00.html Sm@rt Reseller Online http://www.zdnet.com/sr/ 7 September 1998 Brett Glass

A short introduction to FreeBSD 2.2.7.

August Hack raises flags about small ISPs http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,25526,00.html News.com: Tech News First http://www.news.com/ 21 August 1998 Jim Hu, Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM

Desire for better security has led some ISPs to deploy FreeBSD on their servers.

July Walnut Creek CDROM, One of the Largest Public FTP Archives in the World, Sets Traffic Record Using FreeBSD and Colocating on CRL's High-Speed Internet Network http://www.crl.com/wccdromrcd.html CRL Network Services http://www.crl.com/ 30 July 1998 CRL Press Release Pulling on one end of the rope ( freshmeat ) http://www.freshmeat.net/ 13 July 1998 Jordan K. Hubbard

Jordan compares the past of Unix with the future of Linux, outlining possible similarities and describing faults that could be prevented.

June Nader urges Windows probe http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,23145,00.html CNET News.com http://www.news.com/ 14 June 1998 Jeff Pelline

Consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader mentions FreeBSD by name.

Stone's Throw, Issue Fourteen: Home of the Brave, Land of the FreeBSD http://RhapsodyOS.com/editorial/stone/ST00014.html RhapsodyOS http://RhapsodyOS.com/ 10 June 1998 Andrew Stone
May Load Balancing Your Web Site http://www.WebTechniques.com/features/1998/05/engelschall/engelschall.shtml Web Techniques Magazine http://www.WebTechniques.com/ May 1998 Ralf S.Engelschall

Practical approaches to distributing HTTP traffic at your site. Includes a section on performance tuning Apache under FreeBSD.

Is NT paranoid or is Unix out to get it? http://www.ncworldmag.com/ncworld/ncw-05-1998/ncw-05-nextten.html NC World http://www.ncworldmag.com/ May 1998 Nicholas Petreley Security Tools in FreeBSD http://www.samag.com/archive/0705/feature.shtml SysAdmin http://www.samag.com/ May 1998 Guy Helmer Free Unix: Do You Get What You Pay For? http://advisor.gartner.com/inbox/articles/ihl2_6398.html GartnerGroup http://www.gartner.com/ 4 May 1998 G. Weiss
April The new Unix alters NT's orbit http://www.ncworldmag.com/ncworld/ncw-04-1998/ncw-04-nextten.html NC World http://www.ncworldmag.com/ April 1998 Nicholas Petreley Who's Serving Who? http://www.dv.com/magazine/1998/0498/johnson0498.html DV Live Magazine http://www.dv.com/ April 98 Nels Johnson

For smaller companies and web sites, a FreeBSD and Apache on an Intel (PC) architecture machine is more than sufficient.

March Searching for the next Windows NT http://www.ncworldmag.com/ncworld/ncw-03-1998/ncw-03-nextten.html NC World http://www.ncworldmag.com/ March 1998 Nicholas Petreley Benchmarking and Software Testing: Tracing BSD System Calls http://www.ddj.com/ddj/1998/1998_03/index.htm Dr. Dobb's Journal http://www.ddj.com/ March 1998 Sean Eric Fagan

Note: the article is not available online.

Five alternative operating systems reviewed http://www.cnet.com/Content/Reviews/Compare/AltOS/ CNET http://www.cnet.com/ 25 March 1998 Cormac Foster
February Source code for the masses http://www.news.com/SpecialFeatures/0,5,18652,00.html News.com http://www.news.com 2 February 1998 Alex Lash
1997 August The Network Community http://www.computerbits.com/archive/9708/lan9708.htm Computer Bits Online http://www.computerbits.com/ August 1997 Ted Mittelstaedt May The Politics of NC Computing According to Oracle http://www.ncworldmag.com/ncworld/ncw-05-1997/ncw-05-analysis.html NC World http://www.ncworldmag.com/ May 1997 Rawn Shaw 1996 November Assorted Security Tips for UNIX http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1211/sam9611d/ SysAdmin http://www.samag.com/ November 1996 Arthur Donkers

A collection of tips and tricks to secure your internal network.