November 2004

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

September 2004

Building Diskless Clients with FreeBSD 5.2
OnLamp.com, Mikhail Zakharov
How to build diskless clients with FreeBSD Netboot server.
Building a BSD Netboot Server
OnLamp.com, Mikhail Zakharov
How to configure a FreeBSD 5.2.1 server to support diskless clients.

FreeBSD 5.3 beta is released
ZDNet, Michael Parsons
A story about the FreeBSD 5.3 release cycle
Desktop FreeBSD Part 5: Internet Mail Setup
Open For Business, Ed Hurst
Part five of this series of introductory articles describes how to use FreeBSD for email purposes.
Differentiating Among BSD Distros
ServerWatch, Martin Brown
An article that compares and contrasts the four main BSD variants.
Desktop FreeBSD Part 4: Printing
Open For Business, Ed Hurst
Part four of this series of introductory articles covers the installation and the configuration of Apsfilter on FreeBSD.
Building Systems to be Shared Securely
ACM Queue, Poul-Henning Kamp, Robert Watson
Robert Watson and Poul-Henning Kamp write an article for the ACM Queue magazine on FreeBSD's jail facility and on the general concept of sharing and security from an operating system architecture/design point of view.

FreeBSD milestone nears release
ZDNet, Matt Loney
This article is about the upcoming FreeBSD 5.3 release.
Local company develops FreeBSD-based radars
Computerworld, Rodney Gedda
Genesis Software builds FreeBSD-based radar systems.
Linux servers stats reveal fall in Red Hat dominance
Techworld, Matthew Broersma
An article mentioning FreeBSD's growth in the hosting market.
Unix Printing Basics
OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
This article explains printing with Unix, using FreeBSD as an example.
Building a Web Cluster with FreeSBIE
OnLamp.com, Alexander Prohorenko
How to build a web services cluster using the FreeBSD based FreeSBIE live CD image.

Preventing Denial of Service Attacks
OnLamp.com, Avleen Vig
This article shows how to defend against denial of service attacks with FreeBSD.
Siberian coal mine digs out FreeBSD funding
ZDNet, Matt Loney
A story about Poul-Henning Kamp's recent appeal for funds.
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project
Internetnews, Sean Michael Kerner
This article tries to outline the reasons for FreeBSD's growth over the last years.
Desktop FreeBSD Part 3: Adding Software
Open For Business, Ed Hurst
Part three of this series of introductory articles covers the installation of third party applications on FreeBSD.
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD
Netcraft, mandy
FreeBSD continues to grow in the web hosting market.
IEEE and The Open Group Okay 'FreeBSD Project' to Incorporate Material from the POSIX Standard
The Open Group, IEEE/Open Group press release
The IEEE and the Open Group allow the FreeBSD project to incorporate material from a few of their published standards.
Build Your Own FreeBSD-powered Motorcycle
BikeOwns, Ben
The description of a FreeBSD-powered motorcycle.

FreeBSD Networking Basics
OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
Dru Lavigne explains how to connect a FreeBSD machine to an existing network.
Intel Labs' Natural Born Killer Technologies
EWeek, Rob Enderle
An overview about the research projects in Intel's laboratories. Some of the research is done using the FreeBSD operating system.
Open Source to the Core
ACM Queue, Jordan Hubbard
Jordan Hubbard talks about FreeBSD in an article on using open-source software in commercial products.

FreeBSD - The Power to Serve
Distrowatch, Robert Storey
A review of FreeBSD 5.2.1, including a short overview of the history of the BSDs and installation instructions.
Mail Scanning With Exim And The Exiscan ACL
Help Net Security, Michael Oliveri
This article describes setting up Exim with the Exiscan-ACL patch on FreeBSD.
Most Reliable Hosting Providers during March
Netcraft, mandy
Five of the ten most reliable hosting providers in March were running FreeBSD. Read on for more information.

FreeBSD 5.2.1 on SPARC64
OS News, Tony Bourke
An article reviewing FreeBSD 5.2.1 on SPARC64 machines. The author finds FreeBSD/SPARC64 to be a very complete, useful and flexible server.
The 64-bit Question: AMD64 vs. i386
The Jem Report, Valour
A comparison between FreeBSD 5.2.1's performance on an AMD Athlon64 3200+ and on a Pentium4 3.2E.
Experimental free Wi-Fi LAN gaining momentum in SF
Newsforge, Chris Preimesberger
An article about free wireless networks in San Francisco, mentioning FreeBSD as one of the operating systems of choice.

Bacula: Cross-Platform Client-Server Backups
OnLamp.com, Dan Langille
A guide on setting up and running the backup program Bacula on FreeBSD
Simple FreeBSD installation yields functional desktop system
Newsforge, Terrell Prude, Jr.
A review of FreeBSD 5.1 as a desktop system.
Desktop FreeBSD Part 2: Initial Setup
Open For Business, Ed Hurst
This is the second part of a series of introductory articles. The author explains how to set up X and the postfix mail system.
How is Open-Source affecting Software Development?
IEEE Computer Society, Diomidis Spinellis, Clemens Sxyperski (Guest Editors)
This IEEE journal article looks at how the availability of high-quality open-source software is affecting the way software is developed. FreeBSD is one of the open-source projects examined.

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