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NetBSD : Links : GPRS with NetBSD and SonyEricsson P910i
Posted: ( Wed 14th Jun 2006 04:30:27[PM] UTC )
I have just connected by laptop to the Internet via GPRS using my SonyEricsson P910i mobile phone and thought I would make some quick notes regarding this.

NetBSD : Links : Recording CDs and DVDs with NetBSD
Posted: ( Wed 14th Jun 2006 04:30:27[PM] UTC )
I have made some notes regarding NetBSD and CD/DVD-recording that I thought I would share with the world. Not that there is anything terribly complicated or advanced involved, it's all quite straight forward. But since I've already made notes on how to do some of the more common things, I thought I would share them.

NetBSD : Interviews : Interview with NetBSD's Luke Mewburn
Posted: ( Sat 6th Mar 2004 02:30:36[AM] UTC )
The NetBSD Project announced Monday that release 1.6.2 of the NetBSD operating system is now available, with binary distributions for 40 architectures. Newsforge interviewed Luke Mewburn of the NetBSD Core Group and asked him about the NetBSD project in general, the long awaiting release 2.0, and a lot of technical and organizational issues.

NetBSD : Articles : A daemon-writer's guide to NetBSD's rc.d system
Posted: ( Thu 22nd Jan 2004 06:17:42[AM] UTC )
The NetBSD startup process is extensible, flexible, and a little daunting at first. This article looks at the configuration mechanisms used to enable or disable features, and compares NetBSD's startup procedures to those of other systems.

NetBSD : Articles : Getting and installing NetBSD-current
Posted: ( Thu 15th Jan 2004 10:00:08[AM] UTC )
The BSD family of Unix-like operating systems evolved from the last release of 4.4BSD, released by the University of California some years ago. As with Linux, they have full releases and a live CVS tree. This article discusses why you might want to run the -current branch of NetBSD, how you would go about it, and a bit of what could go wrong.

NetBSD : Howtos : NetBSD PPTP Server Guide
Posted: ( Fri 9th Jan 2004 06:54:32[AM] UTC )
A guide on how to configure NetBSD to act as a VPN server for PPTP Clients.

NetBSD : Howtos : NetBSD PPTP Client
Posted: ( Thu 11th Dec 2003 05:27:24[PM] UTC )
Short guide on how to get started with NetBSD as a client in PPTP networks.

NetBSD : Links : Ola Eriksson's NetBSD FAQ
Posted: ( Sun 27th Jul 2003 10:35:43[AM] UTC )
A set of questions and answers related to NetBSD.

NetBSD : Articles : Getting into NetBSD - How to Help
Posted: ( Sat 4th Jan 2003 07:21:36[AM] UTC )
This article discusses the different groups within the NetBSD Project and the variety of ways virtually any user can help the project.

NetBSD : Howtos : Internet gateway configuration and basic online security rules
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".

NetBSD : Interviews : How NetBSD 1.5 was born
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."

NetBSD : Articles : What's new and exciting in NetBSD 1.5?
Posted: ( Mon 11th Dec 2000 05:20:48[AM] UTC )
See if this article tempts you to try upgrading to NetBSD 1.5. The author lists the newly supported platforms and other update information, such as the over 1600 available packages, the latest changes and improvements to the filesystem, and much more!

NetBSD : Articles : BSD on Virtual PC
Posted: ( Wed 8th Nov 2000 04:35:00[PM] UTC )
Virtual PC is a PC emulator. It emulates the behavior of a fairly standard PC, including text mode video, graphics, and sound. It's totally software based, but it acts like a computer similar to a PC. This article's author shares his experiences with using the Virtual PC to run NetBSD.

NetBSD : Links : Configuring RAID on NetBSD
Posted: ( Wed 23rd Aug 2000 06:17:37[PM] UTC )
Setting up software-based RAID for the root partition using RAIDframe, with explanations of RAID terminology and usage.

NetBSD : Links : NetBSD ported to MIPS based Cobalt machines
Posted: ( Mon 3rd Apr 2000 06:47:48[AM] UTC )
Soren Jorvang has done a NetBSD port to the Cobalt Networks MIPS-based Qube and RaQ Microservers, which is now available. The machines are originally shipped with a custom version of Linux and now everyone can run his favourite Open Source operating system.