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Deploying a
FreeBSD 6.2 Server
OpenAddict, Sharaz
The third article in a series covering the deployment of a FreeBSD based server with
Apache 2.2, PHP 5, MySQL 5.0, Sendmail with SMTP-AUTH, Webmail, Bind DNS, SNMP,
synchronized local time, Webmin and with graphing using rrdtool/cacti.
Interview: The BSD
Certification Group's Dru Lavigne
The Jem Report, Jem Matzan
BSD Certification Group member Dru Lavigne puts forth the idea that free/open source
software provided an excellent opportunity to inexpensively change one's career path.
Interview: Sam Leffler of
the FreeBSD Foundation
The Jem Report, Jem Matzan
An interview with FreeBSD developer and FreeBSD Foundation Director Sam Leffler about the
FreeBSD Foundation.
Open
source is the ticket for In Ticketing
NewsForge, Tina Gasperson
Ticket broking firm In Ticketing prefers
FreeBSD on account of the security it provides.
Inside PC-BSD
1.3
Onlamp.com, Dru Lavigne
An interview with Kris Moore, Andrei Kolu, and Charles Landemaine of the PC-BSD release
engineering team.
Interview with
Matteo Riondato, FreeSBIE
DistroWatch, Distrowatch staff
An interview with Matteo Riondato, FreeBSD developer and release engineer for FreeSBIE, a
FreeBSD-based ``Live CD''.
FreeBSD 6.2: Polished,
More Stable
InternetNews.com, Sean Michael Kerner
A brief look at FreeBSD 6.2.
FreeSBIE 2.0-RELEASE is
Now Available!
OSnews, Thom Holwerda
A new release of FreeSBIE, a FreeBSD Live-CD, has been released after two years of
development.
New Year, New Look For
PC-BSD
InternetNews.com, Sean Michael Kerner
A look at the new features in PC-BSD 1.3.
Project of the Month: January 2007
- FreeNAS
SourceForge.Net, SF.Net Staff
An interview with the developers of the FreeBSD-based FreeNAS project, on the occasion of
it being selected as SourceForge's Project of the Month.
Secure email servers from scratch with FreeBSD 6 (Part 2)
Free Software Magazine, Yousef
Ourabi
All the bells and whistles of a high end-mail setup: web-mail, anti-virus filtering, spam
filtering, and hosting unlimited domains with virtual domains and users stored in
MySQL.
Installing FreeBSD
6.1
OpenAddict, Sharaz
An article that guides the reader through an installation of FreeBSD 6.1.
Quick and Dirty Guide to Deploying a FreeBSD 6.1 Server
OpenAddict, Rich Morgan
An article showing how to configure a FreeBSD 6.1 server with Apache, Webmin, PHP 5,
MySQL 5.0, Sendmail with SMTP-AUTH, Bind DNS, SNMP, and synchronized local time.
China Develops Server
OS; Lenovo On Board
Pacific Epoch, Zhengqian Zhou
China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has announced that China has completed
development of a server operating system based on FreeBSD.
FreeBSD Security Event
Auditing
Security Focus, Federico Biancuzzi
An interview with FreeBSD developer Robert Watson on the features of the new audit
subsystem in FreeBSD 6.2.
FreeBSD Puts Out 6.2 Beta 3
Release
IT Jungle, Timothy Prickett Morgan
News about the upcoming 6.2 release, and coverage of the new features in FreeBSD 7.
Secure
email servers from scratch with FreeBSD 6.1 (part 1)
Free Software Magazine, Yousef
Ourabi
Build a secure email server with FreeBSD, Postifx, ClamAV, Spamassasin, and MySQL
Enterprise Unix Roundup:
PC-BSD May Be the Next Linux
ServerWatch.com, Brian Proffitt
Commentary in the trade press on the acquisition of FreeBSD-based PC-BSD by
iXsystems.
Why iXsystems
Bought PC-BSD
OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
An interview with Kris Moore and Matt Olander on the acquisition of PC-BSD by iXsystems
Inc.
Build a Nas device using
virtualisation
IT Week, Alan Stevens
Create your own virtual network-attached storage appliance using FreeBSD-based FreeNAS in
a VMWare virtual machine.
Desktop FreeBSD: Fully Optimized 6.x
Installation
Open For Business, Ed Hurst
This article describes the process of (re)building a FreeBSD system from source code with
an aim to improve its performance.
FreeBSD based PC-BSD
Gets 'Acquired'
InternetNews.com, Sean Michael Kerner
iXsystems Inc. acquires the trademarks and intellectual property rights associated with
PC-BSD, a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD.
Turn an Old Laptop Into a Portable
Network-Troubleshooting System
TechBuilder, David S. Markowitz
How to build a network monitoring system using an old laptop and FreeBSD.
Desktop FreeBSD: 64-bit
Future
Open For Business, Ed Hurst
The article's author reports excellent results after building a 64-bit FreeBSD-based
desktop computer.
Win4BSD has been released
Win4BSD, Dan Perlman
Virtual Bridges, a provider of enterprise and SMB solutions using virtualization for
business, announced today the release of Win4BSD Pro Desktop™. Win4BSD Pro Desktop
runs as a FreeBSD/PC-BSD application and allows users to run Windows Applications and
Desktops with seamless ease on the BSD platform.
POSIX
Asynchronous I/O
InformIT, David Chisnall
A look at programming with asynchronous I/O in FreeBSD and other open-source OSes.
DesktopBSD 1.0: FreeBSD for
the desktop
NewsForge, Stefan Vrabie
A review of DesktopBSD 1.0.
A (late) look at
FreeBSD 6.1
InfoWorld, Paul Venezia
The author describes the setup of a FreeBSD 6.1 based mail server and web host using
software RAID and PF.
VMware's Virtual Appliance Challenge - and the Winner is?
InfoWorld, David Marshall
The FreeBSD based FreeNAS storage server project wins an award in VMWare Inc.'s
virtualization contest.
Advanced
Installation Tasks in FreeBSD 6
InformIT, Brian Tiemann
An excerpt from the book "FreeBSD 6 Unleashed" covering the ins and outs of non-standard
FreeBSD installations.
PC-BSD: The Most Beginner Friendly OS
OSWeekly.com, Matt Hartley
A review of PC-BSD, covering installation and package management.
The BSD Unix Projects
Keep Humming Along
ITJungle, Timothy Prickett Morgan
This article covers the FreeBSD project's Sparc (T1) porting effort and mentions the
scalability improvements in recent releases. New developments in the other BSD projects
also get a mention.
Working with gmirror on a Sun
Fire X2100
DaemonNews, Grzegorz Czaplinski
The first of a two part series on building up and tearing down a gmirror system.
CBC's
web site using Open Source everywhere!
InsideTheCBC.com, Blake Crosby
An article by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation describes their use of FreeBSD in
their IT infrastructure.
Interview
with Andy Ritger and Christian Zander from NVIDIA
BSDTalk, Will Backman
Will Backman speaks with Andy Ritger and Christian Zander from NVIDIA about the NVIDIA
FreeBSD graphics driver. The interview gives an overview of the drivers current features,
plans for future improvements, and a brief discussion about licensing and NVIDIA's open
source efforts.
Using
DesktopBSD
OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
This article explores DesktopBSD, a desktop oriented and easy-to-use version of FreeBSD
5.5.
PC-BSD works for
community center
NewsForge, Henry Gillow-Wiles
An IT director for a non-profit community center is happy with the speed, stability and
hardware compatibility of the FreeBSD-based PC-BSD operating system on low-end
hardware.
Build a Mail Server with Commodity
Hardware and FreeBSD, Part 2
TechBuilder, David S. Markowitz
Part 2 of a TechBuilder recipe covers adding virus protection, spam detection and webmail
access to a mail server built using FreeBSD and a PC.
Six Hosting Companies Most Reliable Hoster in May
Netcraft, Mandy
A Netcraft survey for May 2006 indicates that FreeBSD is being used by four out of five
most reliable Internet hosting companies in the world.
Build a Mail Server with Commodity
Hardware and FreeBSD, Part 1
TechBuilder, David S. Markowitz
How to use a PC and FreeBSD to build a mail server for a small or medium business.
A look at
the FreeNAS server
NewsForge, Gary Sims
A review of FreeNAS, a FreeBSD-based network attached storage product.
DTrace reaches prime time on FreeBSD
ZDNet Australia, Renai LeMay
ZDNet article about DTrace on FreeBSD.
BSD Packaging
Systems
InformIT.com, David Chisnall
An article on package management in the BSD family of operating systems.
Interview
with Karl Lehenbauer of FlightAware
BSDTalk, Will Backman
FlightAware
uses FreeBSD/amd64 systems to track the locations of up to 70,000 flights per day.
Will Backman speaks with Karl Lehenbauer about how FlightAware is successfully using
FreeBSD with other open source technologies to drive their product.
FreeBSD vows to compete with
desktop Linux
News.com, Ingrid Marson
ZDNet article about FreeBSD's upcoming desktop features.
FreeBSD 6.1
Review
Software in review, Jem Matzan
A review of FreeBSD 6.1 for the amd64 architecture.
Stability in FreeBSD
6.1
InternetNews.com, Sean Michael Kerner
An article describing the FreeBSD project's focus on stability and quality for its 6.1
and 5.5 releases.
Interview: Deb Goodkin
from the FreeBSD Foundation
Blog: A Year in the Life of a BSD
Guru, Dru Lavigne
In this interview, Deb Goodkin provides some pieces of interesting information about the
inner working of the FreeBSD Foundation.
Interview: John Baldwin
on FreeBSD
Blog: A Year in the Life of a BSD
Guru, Dru Lavigne
In this interview, John Baldwin of the FreeBSD project gives some insight on what it is
like to be a FreeBSD developer and some of the things that happen behind the scenes of a
large Open Source project.
Setting up
Linux compatibility on FreeBSD 6
Newsforge, Gordon McEwen
A guide to configuring and running Linux applications on a FreeBSD 6 system.
Network
Filtering by Operating System
Onlamp.com, Avleen Vig
Keep worms and malware from monopolizing your network connection using FreeBSD, pf, ALTQ,
and squid.
Opening the digital doorway for South
African youth
tectonic, Lunga Madlala
An article mentioning the use of FreeBSD in so called "Digital Doorways" in South African
provinces.
BSD: The Other
Free UNIX Family
InformIT, David Chisnall
An introduction to the open-source BSD operating systems.
Interview:
Dru Lavigne, BSD Certification Group
Newsforge, Federico Biancuzzi
An interview with the founder of the BSD Certification Group, a non-profit organization
established to create certification standards for BSD-based operating systems.
Running
Commercial Linux Software on FreeBSD
Onlamp.com, Michael W. Lucas
The author shows how to use software built for a Linux-based OS on FreeBSD.