The latest DaemonNews newsletter has so much that is FreeBSD related, I am sending it in place of the Real Quick Newsletter. -Chris ************************************************************************ This is the official DaemonNews newsletter. It contains the last 10=20 selected articles that appeared on the daily news site. It was sent out on=20 Tuesday, November 02, 1999.=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ricoh Embeds FreeBSD into Copiers November 02, 1999 I found this out today by way of a software company that=20 produced a tool for the Ricoh copiers. It looks like=20 they're using FreeBSD 2.2.6.=20 MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3D192 LINK: http://www.ricoh.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CNN frontpage reports: FreeBSDCon'99: Fans of Linux's lesser-known sibling gather for the first time=20 November 02, 1999 IDG's article covering FreeBSDCon makes CNN's=20 front page, and seems well written and very=20 positive.=20 MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3D191 LINK: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/01/freebsd.con99.idg/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNIX VS NT November 02, 1999 Quite well known in Linux world, but as valuable for=20 the BSD's crowd ... the site runs on FreeBSD=20 MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3D190 LINK: http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 128bit strong browser November 02, 1999 Spice up that Netscape Navigator/Communicator ...=20 MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3D189 LINK: http://www.fortify.net/versions_main.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amanda Backup Tool vulnerabilities November 02, 1999 Amanda vulnerable to attacks. Amanda is a popular file backup system used=20 by several free UNIX distributions.=20 MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3D188 LINK: http://securityfocus.com/level2/bottom.html?go=3Dvulnerabilities&id=3D752 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buddying up to BSD November 01, 1999 What happens when Linux' Penguin meets Darby Daemon ...=20 To be continued ...=20 MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3D187 LINK: http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991101/195/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boardwatch Series on Freenixes November 01, 1999 Jeffrey Carl of Boardwatch Magazine has been running a series of articles=20 on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD in his "Unix Flavor Country" column.=20 I just received my November issue in the mail, which has an interesting=20 comparative review of the four from an ISP's standpoint. (BSD/OS receives=20 short mention because it is a commercial product.) The October article was=20 a short lesson in Freenix history. October's issue is already on the=20 Web--hopefully Boardwatch will post November's soon.=20 MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3D186 LINK: http://boardwatch.internet.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boardwatch Series on Freenixes November 01, 1999 Jeffrey Carl of Boardwatch Magazine has been running a series of articles=20 on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD in his "Unix Flavor Country" column.=20 I just received my November issue in the mail, which has an interesting=20 comparative review of the four from an ISP's standpoint. (BSD/OS receives=20 short mention because it is a commercial product.) The October article was=20 a short lesson in Freenix history. October's issue is already on the=20 Web--hopefully Boardwatch will post November's soon.=20 MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3D186 LINK: http://boardwatch.internet.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- November issues of D=E6mon News is up! November 01, 1999 The November issue of D=E6mon News is available=20 at the usual web sites. The articles this month=20 include ``Setting Up a FreeBSD Lab'' by Oscar=20 Bonilla and ``It's not just for breakfast anymore,''=20 a report by Gary Kline on vendors shipping BSD and=20 Linux as their default operating systems. All this,=20 plus your usual monthly dose of <I>Newbies Corner,=20 Adventures in BSD, Answerman,</I> and <I>D=E6mon's=20 Advocate</I>, and the ongoing adventures of <I>Darby=20 D=E6mon</I>.=20 MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3D185 LINK: http://www.daemonnews.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSDCon 99 November 02, 1999 We have already posted the fact that Linux World ran an article on=20 FreeBSDCon.=20 Now they have added links to both the <a=20 href=3Dwww.daemonnews.org>Monthly</a> and <a=20 href=3Ddaily.daemonnews.org>Daily</a>=20 Daemon News sites.=20 MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3D184 LINK: http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-10/lw-10-bsd.html#resources ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GnatBox November 01, 1999 Pico/Free BSD commercial sibling ...=20 MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3D183 LINK: http://www.gnatbox.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Creative Labs going Open Source October 30, 1999 Creative Labs have decided to embrace the open source philosophy for their=20 Sound Blaster Live drivers.=20 MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3D182 LINK: http://www.ga-source.com/all/news/bits/09+29+1999/15:09:37.shml ------------------------------------------------------------------------- OpenBSD Diary October 29, 1999 "The OpenBSD Diary" spills it guts ... well, lays out its internal network=20 =2E..=20 MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3D181 LINK: http://www.deadly.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- NetBSD integrates DVD audio/video support October 29, 1999 Charles Hannum has commited some code to NetBSD=20 to emulate the Linux DVD ioctl(2)s, both for=20 native NetBSD code and for Linux executables.=20 With these changes, NetBSD can run the Linux=20 builds of the=20 <A HREF=3D"http://livid.on.openprojects.net/">LiViD=20 DVD toolset</A>, and the CSS tools can be built=20 natively.=20 MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3D180 LINK: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/1999/10/29/0010.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSDCon 99 October 29, 1999 LinuxWorld has a nice review of FreeBSDCon '99.=20 The author writes about her experiences at the con=20 and briefly discusses the highlights. She also says=20 she really enjoyed it. Good stuff.=20 MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3D179 LINK: http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-10/lw-10-bsd.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Check out your eGroup's private Chat room -- http://www.egroups.com/ChatPage?listName=3Ddaemon-news-announce&m=3D1 This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message