FreeBSD News

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....

FreeBSD : News : What Can Linux Learn From FreeBSD?
Posted: ( Wed 2nd Feb 2000 09:38:18[AM] UTC )
As a network consultant, my clients often ask me which operating system they should run on their servers. I start by telling them why NT should be avoided. The big decision lies in choosing which Unix to use.

FreeBSD : News : Buddying up to BSD: Part Four - FreeBSD
Posted: ( Thu 27th Jan 2000 03:28:57[AM] UTC )
After a brief break from BSD, I had to return for more. This week I will be continuing the series with FreeBSD. FreeBSD is certainly one of the more popular BSDs. Many testimonials talk of extremely fast networking, combined with super uptimes. Internet power-houses such as Yahoo, Walnut Creek CDROM and even Microsoft's Hotmail swear by FreeBSD.

FreeBSD : News : Linux under FreeBSD
Posted: ( Sun 2nd Jan 2000 01:17:04[PM] UTC )
FreeBSD has several options for using software from other platforms, such as Wine for Win32 and dosemu for DOS. BSDI, NetBSD, and OpenBSD binaries will run unmodified, and source code from many UNIX or Linux programs can be compiled without modification on FreeBSD.

FreeBSD : News : Why BSD is more free than GPL is
Posted: ( Tue 28th Dec 1999 01:21:54[PM] UTC )
I've thought about the BSD License and GPL, and I've concluded that BSD is the most free intellectual license around. BSD allows anyone the freedom of doing whatever one wishes with BSD code. BSD allows reward through money from proprietary work or the zero cost to great software. I also like the GPL because I can get good stuff for free, but BSD also does the same.

FreeBSD : News : Applixware for FreeBSD
Posted: ( Sun 26th Dec 1999 04:19:17[PM] UTC )
For years, BSDers have been looking for ways to help their favorite OS penetrate the office and home marketplace. They have been ignored mainly because of the lack of an office suite with word processor and spreadsheet and presentation package. Given the ubiquitous popularity of a certain other OS and office productivity product, compatibility with the existing document base is also a big factor.

FreeBSD : News : FreeBSD 3.4 Announcement
Posted: ( Sun 26th Dec 1999 04:14:13[PM] UTC )
FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE is available at ftp.FreeBSD.org and various FTP mirror sites throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD from The FreeBSD Mall.

FreeBSD : News : FreeBSD 3.4 Announcement
Posted: ( Mon 20th Dec 1999 01:03:31[PM] UTC )
Just in under the wire for the current millenium, Jordan K. Hubbard is happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, the very latest in 3.x-STABLE branch technology.

FreeBSD : News : Audio Interview with Mike Smith
Posted: ( Sat 4th Dec 1999 04:47:27[PM] UTC )
Mike Smith is an engineer in the FreeBSD test labs. Emmett Plant and Paul Ferris interview Mike about the new and exciting developments in FreeBSD, as well as the differences between FreeBSD's license and the GPL used by Linux.