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FreeBSD : Howtos : Compiling the FreeBSD kernel
By Posted: ( Tue 20th Mar 2001 05:19:49[AM] UTC )
As with the Linux kernel, compiling the FreeBSD kernel is something of an essential skill. The newly compiled kernel will give you access to your new hardware. It will be your custom configuration. And finally, it will elevate you a couple of points up the Guru scale. Read on for more on how you can achieve all of the above.
Rating [ 7.96 / 10 ]

xMach : News : xMach goes to Australia
By Posted: ( Tue 20th Mar 2001 04:20:19[AM] UTC )
"Myself, Joseph Mallett, and David Jorm have recently begun to take xMach in a slightly more specialised direction, concentrating on disk and i/o for mass storage, network fileserver, and (possibly) forensics applications. With improvements made to Disk I/O, a server setting could also be suitable. I've begun to squash some of the bugs that were left in by previous developers, because I didn't quite understand some workings of assembley constructs inside GCC. I'm taking a trip to Australia to stay with David Jorm and work out details of xMach and do some (hopefully) serious code hacking. Oh, and the wishlist is now publicly viewable (note: some of the 'wish'es are off topic AT BEST, and some are downright offensive)."
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xMach : News : Two new xMach releases.
By Posted: ( Tue 20th Mar 2001 04:20:19[AM] UTC )
"We have two new uploads. A binary tarball, and a source tarball. With the source... kernel and lites compile cleanly on FreeBSD, user and kernel compile cleanly on Linux 2.4.1 (Slackware). The binary should be extracted in / and will require a little hacking with symlinks, etc., on whoever's part, but they should work. I don't have a test box, all the fixes are compile-time related... But it IS a step in the right direction. By the way, I redid the website so it's a little cleaner."
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FreeBSD : Websites : OS comparison links
By Posted: ( Tue 20th Mar 2001 12:46:13[AM] UTC )
Interested in comparisons between the various operating systems? Check out this site. Its mostly FreeBSD-based though. Another interesting one is www.instinct.org
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FreeBSD : Howtos : How to Build a FreeBSD-STABLE Firewall with IPFILTER
By Posted: ( Tue 13th Mar 2001 05:03:19[AM] UTC )
HOWTO that walks you through building a FreeBSD-STABLE firewall with IPFILTER. This is a checklist that walks you through the entire process from beginning to end: installing FreeBSD-stable, recompiling the kernel, OpenSSH security, TCP-wrappers, VESA video modes, and special syslog logging for your firewall.
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FreeBSD : Howtos : Running Linux programs on FreeBSD
By Posted: ( Tue 27th Feb 2001 06:21:21[PM] UTC )
Even though many server admins prefer BSD Unix, there’s no denying that Linux is "where it’s at" for third-party software development. So, what’s a BSD admin to do?
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FreeBSD : News : Official site for FreeBSD/*BSD in India
By Posted: ( Sat 24th Feb 2001 12:09:09[AM] UTC )
"We are pleased to announce the launch of FreeBSD.org.in - The official site for FreeBSD/*BSD in India. The site has news, articles, downloads and links. We request the FreeBSD/*BSD community in India and around the world to contribute to make this site a success and help us promote FreeBSD/*BSD."
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FreeBSD : Howtos : Configure a NIS and NFS client on a FreeBSD box
By Posted: ( Mon 19th Feb 2001 06:43:41[AM] UTC )
Now that you have installed FreeBSD, would you like to use your FreeBSD box as a client on a network running NIS? Well, here is an article just for you.
Rating [ 6.2 / 10 ]

NetBSD : News : Wasabi Systems suite of popular applications for NetBSD 1.5
By Posted: ( Tue 13th Feb 2001 08:29:45[PM] UTC )
The Wasabi NetBSD 1.5 Package Release includes two supplemental CDs featuring over 1,600 precompiled, ready-to-run third party software for the x86-based PC platform.
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FreeBSD : Howtos : Armoring FreeBSD
By Posted: ( Tue 13th Feb 2001 08:26:23[PM] UTC )
"With more and more script kiddies being born, we all need to learn a few basic rules of protecting ourselves. This guide will outline the basics of FreeBSD security, and works best with FreeBSD version 4.x."
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NetBSD : Howtos : Internet gateway configuration and basic online security rules
By Posted: ( Tue 13th Feb 2001 08:14:45[PM] UTC )
The first part of this article was about setting up DSL on your NetBSD machine. This part looks at some considerations that should be made when going online, utilizing the connection and also preparing for the less friendly side of "The Net".
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FreeBSD : Articles : Modifying a Port
By Posted: ( Sat 27th Jan 2001 04:44:59[AM] UTC )
While the FreeBSD ports collection does a wonderful job of making thousands of software packages easy to install, it doesn't cover every possible situation. If you're unfamiliar with ports, please take a look at the earlier articles in this series; ports are one of FreeBSD's greatest contributions to open source.
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FreeBSD : Interviews : Robert Watson on FreeBSD and TrustedBSD
By Posted: ( Thu 18th Jan 2001 07:50:33[PM] UTC )
"TrustedBSD and SELinux are similar in many ways, and also differ in many ways. The similarities lie in overlapping functionality and architectural goals; the differences only begin with the choice of operating systems ... SELinux differs from TrustedBSD in that it is a more mature system, having been worked on for several years, that it addresses only mandatory access controls, and that it uses the Flask architecture rather than explicit hard-coded policies."
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xMach : News : New License
By Posted: ( Thu 11th Jan 2001 07:07:35[PM] UTC )
xMach is now released under the BSD license, with the understanding that certain portions of the code, which were taken from an outside source, which will be modified and incorporated into xMach at will, but all modifications to them must be made available under the terms of the original license. In other words, you can make a closed-source xMach derivative, but the GPL'd code has to be released publicly under the GPL.
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NetBSD : Interviews : How NetBSD 1.5 was born
By Posted: ( Mon 8th Jan 2001 10:16:04[PM] UTC )
"NetBSD's biggest release impediment is also its most important feature: we released 1.5 on 10 base CPU types comprising 20 groups of hardware architectures. Taking in to account I/O buses, MMUs, and system controllers that another OS would consider to be different platforms, the actual number of specific hardware platforms is somewhere closer to 40 ... NetBSD runs on more hardware platforms than any other full-featured OS in history."
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