FreeBSD Real-Quick(TM) News Letter. Things Happening in FreeBSD. Presented by Daemon News ********************************************************************** Building a NetBSD kernel NetBSD for the FreeBSD user, continued: the trials and travails of building a NetBSD kernel. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1149 LINK: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/24/Big_Scary_Daemons.html ********************************************************************** Ex-Microsoft employees report Unix is all around For the most part, according to our ex-Microsoftie, the company's money-making Web properties are all based around Unix, with Hotmail 99 being 99 percent FreeBSD, MSN using some Apache on Solaris, bCentral ad servers on 100 percent FreeBSD, and WebTV pretty much entirely Solaris. "Internally when Windows 2000 was announced, people were told not to even think about using it for production because it was too unstable," says this ex-Microsoftie. So much for mature software written by professionals. It seems that, internally, Microsoft prefers the stuff "written by college kids in their basements." MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1153 LINK: http://www.InfoWorld.com/articles/op/xml/00/08/28/000828opcringe.xml ********************************************************************** Usenet Oldnews Archive Take a trip back through the mists of time. This site archives old Usenet postings from 1980-1981. Interesting to see how much has changed in 20 years, and how *little* has changed, as well. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1151 LINK: http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/index.html ********************************************************************** Free Veracity FreeVeracity is a general-purpose data integrity tool for free platforms (e.g. GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) that uses cryptographic hashes to detect changes in files. FreeVeracity can be deployed in a wide variety of applications including network intrusion detection and firewall monitoring. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1150 LINK: http://freeveracity.org/ ********************************************************************** Unified BSD Package Collection Just imagine what would happen if we could combine the efforts of all the people who maintain each of the existing 3rd party software compiling infrastructures into one project. MORE: http://www.daemonnews.org/200009/editorial.html *********************************************************************** RSA Security Releases RSA Encryption Algorithminto Public Domain RSA today announced it has released the RSA public key encryption algorithm into the public domain, allowing anyone to create products that incorporate their own implementation of the algorithm. Note:Only the algorithm is being released, not code. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1165 *********************************************************************** Using Postfix Alan Laudicina gives a basic guide on configuring and installing the Postfix mail server. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1164 *********************************************************************** BSD Support Forum on Daemon News Need help getting your BSD system working? Daemon News has expanded its news forum to accomodate the growing number of new BSD users who need quick answers to their questions. This is the first support forum to cover all BSD. Daemon News login accounts will work on both the News forum and the support forum. MORE: http://support.daemonnews.org *********************************************************************** Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com> Daemon News O'Reilly Networks -- Open Source Editor http://www.daemonnews.org http://www.oreillynet.com/ 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
FreeBSD Real-Quick(TM) News Letter.
Things Happening in FreeBSD.
Presented by Daemon News
Bayonne Milestone #5 released
September 16, 2000
Milestone #5 of Bayonne, the telephony server of the GNU project, has been
released and is available for fro ftp://www.voxilla.org/pub/bayonne. This
new milestone offers support for both GNU/Linux and FreeBSD systems.
Pre-build FreeBSD binaries may be found at
ftp://www.voxilla.org/pub/bayonne/freebsd.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1190
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So you like FreeBSD?
September 13, 2000
Just a little advocacy promotion piece I wrote tonight. It's important for
people to realise that contributing to a project does not mean you have to
be a coder, web guru, or ports hack. Anyone can make a difference. And it's
easy, simple, doesn't cost you a cent.
Bonus: you can do it in the privacy of your own home.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1186
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FreeBSD Installation and Package Tools
September 12, 2000
Jordan Hubbard wrote a draft describing the possible direction of FreeBSD's
installation and package tools. From the abstract: This document discusses
FreeBSD's installation, configuration and package management tools from the
perspective of where they are and where I think they need to go.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1185
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BSD Mall Upgrade
21 September 2000
Daemon News has upgraded the BSD Mall to the latest version of phpShop.
We are now geared up to ship BSD products internationally. We have
started to add books and BSD supported hardware.
If you know of good BSD supported hardware that we should have listed,
please tell us about it. We need your help to grow the BSD channel.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/add_comment.php3?story_id=1205
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Long-Term Monitoring with SNMP
21 September 2000
Michael Lucas, in his column Big Scary Daemons, shows us how to use
mrtg to turn long-term SNMP statistics into easy-to-read web pages.
It will even chart bar graphs.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1203
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Understanding Shell Prompts
September 19, 2000
Looking to change your default shell prompt? Dru Lavigne helps us
understand the four major shells and how to change their prompts. Her
column, FreeBSD Basics, at the O'Reilly Network is geared towards new
users and often contains information relevant to all BSD.
To help supplement this article, the BSD Support Forum is collecting user
contributed shell prompts. Dru will be compiling a list from that.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1196
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New BSD products at Think Geek
September 15, 2000
I've already enjoyed some of Think Geeks products. Most people still
can't
figure out what my perl tshirt is supposed to say :-)
Think Geek has now added two more BSD products to their catalog. There's a
BSD mug and a BSD Grand Pilsner, which is also available as a two pack.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1188
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BSD Businesses Recieving More Funds
September 15, 2000
Two BSD based companies have recently received some additional funding.
BSDi is getting $5 million from the Japan based ISP Livin' on the Edge, Ltd
(LOTE). The recently launched Wasabi Systems has closed it's first round of
financing raising over $500,000.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1187
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802.11 at BSDcon
September 11, 2000
For those of you with Orinocco (nee' WaveLan) cards, I plan on bringing
an Airport to BSDcon, and (so long as they will let me) hooking it up
to the terminal room LAN, like at the last Usenix conference. So, don't
leave it at home!
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1182
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Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com>
Daemon News O'Reilly Networks -- Open Source Editor
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