BSD News

FreeBSD : News : FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE is now available
Posted: ( Thu 28th Sep 2000 07:51:12[PM] UTC )
The 4.1.1-RELEASE has been enhanced with cryptographic code and other new features like IDE ATA100 support, drivers for additional Gigabit ethernet cards and hardware watchpoints in gdb.

FreeBSD : News : The little deamon's got me!!
Posted: ( Wed 12th Jul 2000 02:06:06[AM] UTC )
Can a previously devout Penguinista find true happiness in the guise of a little red daemon??

FreeBSD : News : Power to the people, from the code
Posted: ( Wed 24th May 2000 04:27:44[PM] UTC )
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.

FreeBSD : News : Serving the World
Posted: ( Mon 22nd May 2000 07:08:54[PM] UTC )
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 : News : Interview with Jordan Hubbard of FreeBSD, Inc.
Posted: ( Thu 18th May 2000 02:27:21[PM] UTC )
For Jordan Hubbard, President and CEO of FreeBSD Inc., the non-profit company behind the Open Source FreeBSD operating system, the only problem with having a David vs. Goliath mystique is that the Goliath in the FreeBSD storyline is another Open Source operating system: Linux.

FreeBSD : News : Fresh Ports
Posted: ( Thu 11th May 2000 05:33:47[AM] UTC )
Freshports lists the change made to the FreeBSD ports tree. If you wish, freshports can email you when your favourite port has been updated.

FreeBSD : News : BSDCon 2000 Announcement
Posted: ( Tue 9th May 2000 02:03:20[PM] UTC )
Cdrom.com is pleased to announce BSDCon 2000, the second annual BSD Conference and Expo! If you are a BSD user, this is the event you don't want to miss. There will be BSD-related tutorials, talks, demos, discussions, and exhibitor booths.

FreeBSD : News : There's no BS in BSD
Posted: ( Wed 12th Apr 2000 10:19:19[PM] UTC )
The merger of Walnut Creek with BSDI offers the possibility of a BSD-based packaging and services company capable of operating on a par with mainstream Linux distribution vendors. If the new BSDi gets its way, the friendly rivalry between Linux and BSD is about to heat up.

FreeBSD : News : BSD sleight of hand
Posted: ( Wed 5th Apr 2000 02:22:50[AM] UTC )
When companies like Yahoo! and Microsoft Hotmail proclaim their FreeBSD allegiance publicly, it's worth paying attention.

FreeBSD : News : BSDI/Walnut Creek merger interview
Posted: ( Mon 3rd Apr 2000 06:49:33[AM] UTC )
The BSDI / Walnut Creek merger has raised quite a few questions from people within the BSD community wondering how it will affect them and their favorite operating system developers. We decided to ask them.

FreeBSD : News : The Daemon's Advocate
Posted: ( Wed 29th Mar 2000 05:48:23[PM] UTC )
So why exactly is BSD, or any other open source project, better than competing commercial developments? The answer to this, as to all of the important questions in life, is so complicated it's simple.

FreeBSD : News : FreeBSD 4.0 released
Posted: ( Wed 15th Mar 2000 12:30:45[PM] UTC )
In this release, NFS has been immensely improved with bug fixes and performance tuning, Numerous security enhancements and fixes have been applied during the course of development of FreeBSD 4.0 and many more important changes have been made.

FreeBSD : News : BSD and FreeBSD: When two become one
Posted: ( Fri 10th Mar 2000 04:31:09[AM] UTC )
Two of the largest developers and suppliers of the Unix-like Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) operating system have merged. Berkeley Software Design Inc. (BSDI), distributor of the BSD/OS operating system announced Friday that it has merged with Walnut Creek CDROM, distributor of the FreeBSD operating system.

FreeBSD : News : Why BSD Matters
Posted: ( Thu 9th Mar 2000 01:16:12[PM] UTC )
The biggest news concerned BSDi (Berkeley Systems Design, Inc.) and Walnut Creek CD-ROM, which is the primary backer of FreeBSD. The two entities will merge, forming a company called BSD Inc. The end result will be a combination of FreeBSD and BSD/OS, available in both commercial and freely available versions.

FreeBSD : News : Review of FreeBSD 3.4
Posted: ( Fri 18th Feb 2000 02:54:16[PM] UTC )
I recieved a copy of FreeBSD 3.2 a couple of months back for review and in a small conspiracy of idiocies, errors and emergencies wound up putting off the review until after the release of 3.4. Since it has taken me a month to get around to ordering a copy of 3.4 from Walnut Creek, I thought the fair thing would be to write an extended review of two or three installments and report on what I see as the "big picture", if you will. But first a little history....