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- -NAI Labs
- 09 July 2001
-
- NAI Labs Announces DARPA-Funded FreeBSD Security Initiative
- NAI Labs Press Release
- NAI Labs, a division of Network Associates, Inc., announced a $1.2
- million contract awarded by the U.S. Navy's Space and Warfare Systems
- Command to develop security extensions to the Open Source FreeBSD
- operating system.
CRN
- 27 June 2001
-
- Microsoft's FreeBSD Move Aimed At Next Generation Of Developers
- by Paula Rooney
- A report on Microsoft's venture to port its C# programming language
- to FreeBSD.
-
Mac World
- 26 June 2001
-
- BSD guru to guide Apple on Unix
- by Macworld (UK) staff
- Apple (http://www.apple.com/)
- has recruited FreeBSD founder Jordan Hubbard to its team, in a bid
- to steer its Mac OS X BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) efforts.
-
Wall Street Journal
- 18 June 2001
-
- Microsoft Uses Open-Source Code Despite Denying Use of Such Software
- by Lee Gomes
- An article which states that open-source software connected with the
- FreeBSD operating system is used in several places deep inside
- several versions of Microsoft's Windows software, and on numerous
- server computers that manage major functions at Microsoft's free
- e-mail service, Hotmail.
Byte
- 05 February 2001
-
- For Servers: Linux 2.4 vs. FreeBSD 4.1.1
- by Moshe Bar
- BYTE's Linux guru finds himself wondering why he isn't running
- FreeBSD --- a comparision (with informal benchmarks) of FreeBSD 4.1.1
- and a Linux based distribution running the v2.4.0 Linux kernel.
Web Techniques
- January 2001
-
- Is FreeBSD a Superior Server Platform to Linux?
- by Nathan Boeger
- A reviewer finds FreeBSD 4.1 to be better suited for web
- serving than a Red Hat Linux distribution.
Dr Dobbs Journal
- January 2001
-
- A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality
- by Jack J. Woehr
- A report from a roundtable at the recent USENIX Security Symposium
- 2000, involving several prominent developers in the BSD world.
Unix Insider
- January 2001
-
- Building a browser for the FreeBSD file tree
- by Rich Morin
- Rich Morin shows a proof-of-concept demo for the Meta Project: a Web-based
- file tree browser for the FreeBSD distribution.
-
Unix Insider
- December 2000
-
- Documentation for eclectic systems
- by Rich Morin
- Rich Morin examines efforts that may make documentation on FreeBSD
- and other open-source OSes easier to locate and use.
-
Salon Magazine
- 17 November 2000
-
- Open-sourcing the Apple
- by Jordan Hubbard
- A geek's appraisal of the Apple OS X from Jordan Hubbard, one of
- the lead developers on the FreeBSD project.
-
Unix Insider
- November 2000
-
- BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference
- by Rich Morin
- Rich Morin reports on the conference and gives a helpful overview of
- the five major variants of BSD.
-
BYTE
- 02 October 2000
-
- BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux
- by Bill Nicholls
- This column gives an overview of the different versions of BSD, with
- links for more information.
-
TeraSolutions
- 29 September 2000
- INTERNET'S BUSIEST
- OPENSOURCE SOFTWARE ARCHIVE SETS NEW DOWNLOAD RECORD
- TeraSolutions Press Release
- TeraSolutions, Inc. and Lightning Internet Services announce that
- the OpenSource archive at
- ftp.freesoftware.com has surpassed the download milestone of
- two trillion bytes per day from a single server machine.
-
O'Reilly Network
- 07 September 2000
-
- BSD Tricks: MFS
- by Michael Lucas
- A short article on using the FreeBSD Memory Filesystem.
-
ISPworld
- September 2000
-
- TRUSTING BSD - Ultra-High Security for FreeBSD
- by Jeffrey Carl
- An interview with Robert Watson, one of the lead developers in the
- TrustedBSD project.
-
User Friendly the
- Comic Strip
- 7 August 2000
-
- More FreeBSD Comics
- by Illiad
- See also the comics for the
- 8th,
- 9th,
- 10th,
- 11th,
- and 12th.
-
32BitsOnline
- 11 July 2000
-
- FreeBSD4: The little deamon's got me!!
- by Clifford Smith
- A review of FreeBSD 4.0 with praise for its speed, new security
- features, firewall support, and ports collection.
-
Chapters
- July 2000
-
- An Industrial Strength OS
- by Marty Poulin
- A short introduction to FreeBSD.
-
Unix Review
- 07 June 2000
-
- The State of the Daemon
- by Michael Lucas
- An informative article on BSD, and where it is going.
-
Server/Workstation Expert
- June 2000
-
- Server Goliaths Turn to Appliance Servers
- by Adam Darby
- An article evaluating various commercial OSes that contains a blurb
- about BSDI and FreeBSD.
-
osOpinion
- June 2000
-
- FreeBSD: Serving the World
- by James Howard
- 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.
-
SFGate
- 29 May 2000
-
- Riding the Web Wave
- by Henry Norr
- FreeBSD, a relatively unknown operating system is playing a big
- role on the Internet.
-
GnuLinux
- 18 May 2000
-
- BeOpen Interview with Jordan Hubbard of FreeBSD, Inc.
- by Sam Williams
- An interview with Jordan Hubbard on the history of FreeBSD.
-
Salon
- 16 May 2000
-
- BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code
- by Andrew Leonard
- 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.
-
TechRepublic
- 16 May 2000
-
- Install FreeBSD 4.0 in seven easy steps
- by Dru Lavigne
- A short guide to installing FreeBSD 4.0.
-
ComputerWorld
- 8 May 2000
-
- Partial Reunification May Give BSD New Visibility
- by Dominique Deckmyn
- Compares the merged Walnut Creek/BSDI OS offering to Linux.
-
CNN
- 5 May 2000
-
- Developers using open-source software behind bosses' backs
- by Peter Wayner
- Open-source software sometimes provides a better solution than
- expensive commerical, closed software.
-
PolyServe
- 1 May 2000
-
- FreeBSD 4.0 Now Includes PolyServe's High Availability Clustering &
- Load Balancing Software
- PolyServe Press Release
- PolyServe, a provider of software-based, distributed server clustering
- technology, announced co-marketing agreement with FreeBSD, Inc. to ship
- PolyServe's Understudy (TM) software program with all new versions of
- FreeBSD 4.0 operating system software.
-
WebServer Online
- May 2000
-
- BSDI Getting the Word Out
- by Alexandra Barrett
- Talks of the lack of awareness in the market of the strengths of
- the BSD operating system and of the plans afoot to change this.
-
BSDi
- 18 April 2000
-
- The New BSDI to Offer Technical Support for the FreeBSD Operating System
- BSDi Press Release
- BSDi will be offering technical support contracts for FreeBSD
- beginning in May 2000.
-
ZD Net News
- 4 April 2000
-
- Commentary: BSD sleight of hand
- by Stephan Somogyi
- Commentary on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger.
-
32BitsOnline.com
- April 2000
-
- FreeBSD 3.4 Review, Part 2: Adopting the Daemon
- by Clifford Smith
- The second part of a review of FreeBSD v3.4.
-
sf life
- 29 March 2000
-
- The legend of BSD
- by Annalee Newitz
- An interview with three BSD veterans on the past and future of
- BSD.
-
O'Reilly Network
- 24 March 2000
-
- Bostic on the BSD tradition
- by Dale Dougherty
- An interview with BSD veteran Keith Bostic on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger.
- ``BSD has always had the best technology'', says Keith.
-
LinuxWorld
- March 2000
-
- Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel
- by Michael Lucas
- Michael Lucas presents a guide to customizing the FreeBSD kernel,
- written for the Linux oriented.
-
SysAdmin
- March 2000
-
- FreeBSD for the SVR4/Linux Administrator
- by Michael Lucas
- This article attempts to give a System V or Linux administrator
- a basic grounding in FreeBSD configuration and usage.
-
32BitsOnline
- March 2000
-
- FreeBSD Ports and Packages System Explained
- by Bill Swingle
- A good description of the FreeBSD Ports collection.
-
Upside
- 21 February 2000
-
- Business Lessons From Online Porn
- by Richard A. Glidewell
- Praise for FreeBSD from this article: ``FreeBSD is the system of choice
- because it is fast, stable, and can handle large volumes of traffic.''
-
Linux.com
- 10 February 2000
-
- Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower
- by Michael Lucas
- An article on the BSD License.
-
ComputerWorld
- 7 February 2000
-
- Three Unixlike systems may be better than Linux
- by Simson L. Garfinkel
- Promotes the BSD OSes as better alternatives to Linux
- in the areas of performance, reliability and security.
-
Linux.com
- 8 February 2000
-
- Buddying up to BSD: Part Five - FreeBSD Continued
- by Matt Michie
- A Linux user writes about his experiences with the FreeBSD ports
- system.
-
32BitsOnline.com
- February 2000
-
- Review of FreeBSD 3.4
- by Clifford Smith
- A review of FreeBSD 3.4.
-
Boardwatch
- February 2000
-
- FreeBSD 4.0 And Beyond
- by Jeffrey Carl
- A Jordan Hubbard Interview on Improvements, New Platforms and What's
- to Come.
-
Linux.com
- 26 January 2000
-
- Buddying up to BSD: Part Four - FreeBSD
- by Matt Michie
- A Linux user writes about his experiences with FreeBSD.
-
Gartner Group
- 18 January 2000
-
- Debunking Open-Source Myths: Origins and Players
- by N. Drakos and M. Driver
- A report that looks at and debunks some of the myths associated with
- Open Source development.
-
TechWeb
- 14 January 2000
-
- Linux Scales Enterprise Wall
- by Mitch Wagner
- About 17 percent of enterprises plan to deploy FreeBSD or Linux
- as a primary platform for e-commerce within two years.
-
CNN
- 5 January 2000
-
- Jobs announces new MacOS, becomes 'iCEO'
- CNN news article
- Steve Jobs' Macworld Expo keynote speech mentions FreeBSD as one of
- the components in the new Darwin OS from Apple.
-
Apple Inc.
- January 2000
-
- Mac OS X
- Apple communication
- In an article on the next generation Darwin OS, Apple Inc., refers
- to FreeBSD as one of the ``most acclaimed OS projects of the modern
- era.''
-
SysAdmin
- January 2000
-
- Linux under FreeBSD
- Michael Lucas
- FreeBSD has several options for using software from other platforms
- such as Linux. This article examines Linux emulation under FreeBSD.
-
Freei.Net
- 15 December 1999
-
- Freei.Net Doubles Service Speed With Intel(R) Server Platforms
- Freei.Net Press Release
- Freei.Net is purchasing hundreds of Intel's LB440GX 2U Rack Server
- Platforms as the Internet service provider continues to experience
- explosive growth in its subscriber base. ``The LB440GX flawlessly
- supports our FreeBSD operating system,'' said Steve Bourg, Freei.Net's
- Chief Technical Officer.
-
Data Communications Online
- December 1999
-
- FreeBSD 3.3. Robust OS well suited for Internet/Intranet Deployment
- by Juha Saarinen
- Linux administrator turns to FreeBSD and finds it impressive.
-
Slashdot
- 21 November 1999
-
- FreeBSD at COMDEX
- by Brett Glass
- Brett Glass sent this message to
- the FreeBSD -chat mailing list, about his experiences and perceptions
- at COMDEX. Of particular interest are the problems he had trying to
- get vendors to support the BSDs and Linux.
-
Salon Magazine
- 18 November 1999
-
- Who controls free software?
- by Andrew Leonard
- Discusses RedHat's acquisition of
- Cygnus, quotes
- Jordan Hubbard at length, and
- mentions FreeBSD.
-
MacWeek
- 15 November 1999
-
- The Darwinist: Darwin for x86?
- by Stephan Somogyi
- A report on Wilfredo Sanchez's session on FreeBSD and the Apple Darwin
- project at the first FreeBSDCon.
-
CBS MarketWatch
- 8 November 1999
-
- Bob Frankenberg's breaking Windows
- by Michael Tarsala
- In an interview with CBS MarketWatch, Bob Frankenberg, ex-CEO of
- Novell, praises
- FreeBSD for doing ``an exceptionally good job''. FreeBSD is
- used in his current company,
- Encanto.
-
Applix Inc.
- 3 November 1999
-
- Applix and Walnut Creek Partner to Provide Applixware Office for the
- FreeBSD Operating System
- Applix Inc. press release
- Walnut Creek will distribute Applixware Office v4.4.2 in their FreeBSD
- 3.3 Power Desktop product. In addition, Walnut Creek will bundle
- Applix'SHELF, a visual open-source
- application development toolset and runtime environment with FreeBSD.
-
LinuxWorld
- 1 November 1999
-
- LinuxWorld report on FreeBSDCon 99
- by Vicki Brown
- October 17, 1999 marked a milestone in the history of FreeBSD -- the
- first FreeBSD conference was held in the city where it all began.
-
CNN
- 1 November 1999
-
- FreeBSDCon'99: Fans of Linux's lesser-known sibling gather for the
- first time
- by Vicki Brown
- Repost of IDG article about FreeBSDCon '99.
-
ServerWatch
- 25 October 1999
-
- ServerWatch's Review of FreeBSD
- by Kevin Reichard
- FreeBSD v3.2 is as close to the perfect Internet server operating system
- as it comes.
-
Upside
- 20 October 1999
-
- Grass Roots Daemocracy
- by Sam Williams
- A report from the first annual FreeBSDCon held in Berkeley, California.
-
Entera
- 04 October 1999
-
- ENTERA DELIVERS FreeBSD STREAMING SERVER SUPPORTING QUICKTIME
- Entera Press Release
- Entera announces a free,
- standards-based RTSP/RTP server to stream QuickTime from a
- FreeBSD platform.
-
First Monday
- October 1999
-
- Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research
-
- by Nikolai Bezroukov
- This paper tries to explore links between open source software
- development and academic research as a better paradigm for OSS
- development.
-
The Boston Globe
- 16 September 1999
- Even better than Linux
- by Simson L. Garfinkel
- Claims that the operating systems based on BSD are more reliable and
- secure.
- (requires registration with The Boston Globe prior to viewing)
-
Wall Street Journal
- 10 September 1999
-
- Beyond Linux, Free Systems Help Build The Web
- by Lee Gomes
- An introduction to the BSD family of free operating systems.
-
SysAdmin
- September 1999
-
- Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs
- by Michael Lucas
- Focusses on the BSD development model and the ease of keeping
- upto-date with tools like sup and CVSup.
-
Boston Globe
- 12 August 1999
-
- Out of Linux limelight, devil gets its due
- by Hiawatha Bray
- A short (but not very accurate) introduction to FreeBSD for people who
- have heard about Linux.
-
CNN
- 11 August 1999
-
- Reporter's notebook: Hackers on holiday
- by Ann Harrison
- CNN reports that the winner during the "Linux Death Match" at the Chaos
- Computer Camp in Germany used FreeBSD tools to win out over Linux
- attackers. More details are available at
-
- http://www.42.org/~sec/Berichte/199908Camp/index.en.html#match.
-
User Friendly the
- Comic Strip
- 3 August 1999
-
- More FreeBSD Comics
- by Illiad
- See also the comics for the
-
- 4th and the
-
- 5th.
-
Fast Search & Transfer
- 02 August 1999
-
- World's Biggest Internet Search Engine Goes Online
- FAST Press Release
- Said to be the largest search engine on the Internet, FAST Web Search
-
- uses the FreeBSD operating system.
-
Science Daily Magazine
- 02 August 1999
-
- Duke Computer Scientists Exceed "Gigabit" Data Processing Speeds With
- Internet Software
- Duke University press release
- Using FreeBSD, Duke University computer science researchers have
- developed a system for communication at speeds higher than one
- billion bits per second in a local area network of personal computers.
- More details can be found at the
- Trapeze project web
- site.
-
Pair Networks
- 27 July 1999
-
- WORLDS LARGEST INDEPENDENT IPP HITS NEW MILESTONE
- pair Networks press release
- pair Networks, Inc., the World's largest independently owned and
- operated paid hosting service, today announced that it has surpassed the
- 60,000 Web site milestone. Their web servers in their state-of-the-art
- data center house more than 2 Terabytes of storage, and deliver up to
- 100 million hits per day to site visitors. pair uses FreeBSD in order
- to ensure maximum uptime and reliability.
-
TechWeb UK
- 26 July 1999
-
- Free OS? It' s as easy as BSD
- by Peter McGarvey
- Network manager Peter McGarvey writes about his experience with
- a number of varieties of Unix. He sums up: FreeBSD is the
- greatest.
-
ZD Net News
- 22 July 1999
-
- BSD a better OS than Linux?
- by Bob Sullivan
- BSD is the software behind the world's most popular Web site and the
- world's most popular FTP site.
-
MSNBC
- 21 July 1999
-
- The Net's stealth operating system
- by Bob Sullivan
- BSD powers some of the biggest sites, and its users are among
- the most jealous of Linux.
-
- Performance Computing
- 2 July 1999
-
- Embed Together: The Case For BSD In Network Appliances
- by Kevin Rose and Charles Davidson
- Underlines the advantages of BSD for the embedded device market.
- Mentions picoBSD.
-
GigABytes Radio Talk Show
- June 1999
-
- Radio interview: Linux and FreeBSD
- by Chris DiBona and Jordan Hubbard
- Chris DiBona of VA Research and Jordan Hubbard of the FreeBSD Project
- give their views on Linux and FreeBSD.
-
Windows NT Systems
- June 1999
-
- Thin Servers
- by Ted Drude
- A survey of thin servers, featuring products using FreeBSD as
- their internal operating system.
-
Public Communications Centre,
- Ireland
- June 1999
-
- Information Technology and the Internet in Co-operation Ireland
- Interview with Michael Doyle
- Michael Doyle, system administrator for
- Co-operation Ireland roots
- for FreeBSD in this interview. Michael is using FreeBSD and
- PostgreSQL as a cost-effective
- and ultra-reliable solution for his organization's I.T. needs.
-
32BitsOnline
- June 1999
-
- GPL and BSD: explication and comparison
- by Rob Bos
- An article comparing BSD and GPL style licenses.
-
Wired Business News
- 29 June 1999
-
- CmdrTaco on Slashdot Sale
- by Leander Kahney
- In an interview with Wired News, Rob Malda, founder of
- Slashdot, says that he would now
- like to spend some more time reporting on FreeBSD.
-
ServerWatch
- 17 June 1999
-
- Server Platforms - FreeBSD Review
- by Kevin Reichard
- FreeBSD: Is it the perfect Internet server operating system? As close
- as it comes.
-
Network Week Online
- 16 June 1999
-
- Yes! There is intelligent life beyond Linux
- by David Cartwright
- It looks like Unix, it tastes like Unix but it isn't Unix. It's FreeBSD!
-
SunWorld
- May 1999
-
- Silicon Carny: Why I run FreeBSD
- by Rich Morin
- Rich Morin explains why FreeBSD is the superior OS for him.
-
Walnut Creek CDROM
- 26 May 1999
-
- INTERNET'S BUSIEST SOFTWARE ARCHIVE REACHES NEW DOWNLOAD MILESTONE
- by David Greenman
- Walnut Creek CDROM, Inc. announces that their popular software
- archive at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com has surpassed the one trillion bytes
- (one terabyte) milestone of files downloaded per day from a single
- server machine.
-
CNet
- 24 May 1999
-
- Bye-Bye, Windows
- by Christopher Lindquist
- Reviews alternative PC operating systems. Includes a
- review of FreeBSD 3.2.
-
BBC
- 20 May 1999
-
- Gnome is no Windows dwarf
- by Chris Nuttall
- Article on Gnome and the Open Source movement. Mentions FreeBSD.
-
Pioneer Planet
- 17 May 1999
-
- OS Also-Rans
- by JULIO OJEDA-ZAPATA
- A short article introducing a few alternative OSes, including FreeBSD
- and OpenBSD. Aimed at the general public.
-
Walnut Creek CDROM
- 4 May 1999
-
- Micron Electronics NetFRAME chosen for Internet's busiest site
- by David Greenman
- During its first full day of operation, the new NetFRAME 9201 server
- set a new all-time one day download record of 969GB
- of files, surpassing the previous record set last year of 873GB/day.
-
ZD Net
- 3 May 1999
-
- The other open-source OS: FreeBSD
- by Anne Chen
- Examples of FreeBSD deployment in the real world and why some
- technology officers find it attractive.
-
Data Communications
- April 1999
-
- Open-Source Software: Power to the People
- by Lee Bruno
- Linux and BSD Unix are starting to show up on more and more
- corporate servers, running alongside or even replacing Netware
- and Windows NT.
-
FreeBSD Advocacy
- 29 April 1999
-
- XML: Complete XML Development System Integrated with FreeBSD
- by Jordan Hubbard
- Included with FreeBSD 3.1 is a complete, integrated SGML/XML
- development system that installs with a simple, easy to use
- command sequence.
-
Inktomi
- 26 April 1999
-
- Inktomi Announces Traffic Server 3.0
- Inktomi press release
- FreeBSD is a supported operating system for a new version of
- Inktomi's carrier-class network cache platform.
-
FreeBSD Advocacy
- 22 April 1999
-
- The Matrix: FreeBSD Used to Generate Special Effects
- by Jordan Hubbard
- Dual-Processor FreeBSD systems were used to generate a large
- number of special effects in the cutting edge Warner Brothers film,
- The Matrix.
-
osOpinion
- 20 April 1999
-
- Let's Get More Educated About FreeBSD
- by Preston S. Wiley
- A system administrator shares his views on FreeBSD.
-
ZD Net
- 15 April 1999
-
- The Oldest Free OS
- by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
- What are the oldest free operating systems around? The answer is the
- Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix variants.
-
Upside
- 13 April 1999
-
- FreeBSD wants a place in the sun
- by Sam Williams
- Introduces FreeBSD to Linux users.
-
Internet World
- 12 April 1999
-
- FreeBSD Offers a Sound Open Source Alternative
- by James C. Luh
- Outside technical circles, many remain unaware of viable choices for
- internet servers---like the FreeBSD operating system that drives Web
- servers for such high-profile names as Yahoo and Best Internet
- Communications (now part of Verio).
-
CNN
- 8 April 1999
-
- Serious FTP: Behind the scenes of Walnut Creek CDROM
- by Rich Morin
- A description of the Walnut Creek CDROM setup.
- The article is also available from
-
- SunWorld.
-
TechWeb
- 7 April 1999
-
- Thin Servers: Off-the-Shelf Internet Help
- by Christine Zimmerman
- Discusses thin-servers, including six built using an embedded FreeBSD
- kernel.
-
User Friendly the
- Comic Strip
- 20 March 1999
-
- A FreeBSD Comic Strip
- by Illiad
- See also the serial from the
- 22nd,
- 23rd,
- 24th,
- 25th,
- 26th, and
- 27th of March, 1999.
-
Fairfax IT News
- 16 March 1999
-
- Rising support for BSD
- by Nathan Cochrane
- Columnist Nathan Cochrane talks about the BSD family of open
- source operating systems.
-
O'Reilly Open Source
- 5 March 1999
-
- Whence the Source: Untangling the Open Source/Free Software Debate
- by Thomas Scoville
- An article on the open-source / free-software debate. Mentions
- Berkeley Unix as one of the early successes of shared source code
- collaboration.
-
Linux Weekly News
- February 1999
-
- LWN interviews Alan Cox
- There is a small but interesting FreeBSD mention in LWN in an interview
- with Linux's Alan Cox.
-
The Economist
- 20 February 1999
- Hackers rule
- Software that has been developed by thousands of volunteers and is
- given away is often better than the stuff for sale.
- Note: The article is no longer available online without
- registration.
-
O'Reilly and Associates
- January 1999
-
- Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix
- From AT&T-Owned to Freely Re-distributable
- by Marshall Kirk McKusick
- A short history of Berkeley Unix.
-
LINUX JOURNAL
- January 1999
-
- WWWsmith: Installation and Configuration of FreeBSD
- by Sean Eric Fagan
- Here is how to set up a web server using another freely available
- operating system, FreeBSD, a high performance, mature, Unix-like
- system.
-
SunWorld
- January 1999
-
- The return of BSD - What are the BSD flavors and why might you use them?
- by Greg Lehey
- Introduces the modern BSD OSes to the general public.
-
GartnerGroup
- 18 January 1999
- Divorcing Thin Server Software from the Hardware
- by J. Staten
- While finished thin servers should be optimized in both hardware and
- software for the task at hand, who says the software and hardware must
- come from the same developer? This Perspective examines the emerging
- trend in the OEM market of divorcing the software layer from the
- hardware layer. Many operating systems are vying to be the OS of
- choice for thin servers. This document examines this issue in detail,
- particularly the differences between Linux and FreeBSD, the current de
- facto leaders in the market.
- Note: The article is no longer available online without
- registration.
-
Nature
- 7 January 1999
-
- Nature Web Matters: Internet tomography
- by K.C. Claffy, Tracie Monk & Daniel McRobb, UCSD/CAIDA, USA.
- The article describes a network management tool built on FreeBSD
- that has even used network connections to www.FreeBSD.org for
- performing network research.
-
LinuxWorld
- December 1998
-
- The story on FreeBSD
- by Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz
- This issue has a good article on FreeBSD and why it's worth a look
- by Linux folks.
-
RELEASE 1.0
- November 1998
-
- The Open-Source Revolution
- by Tim O'Reilly, with an introduction by Esther Dyson
- A brief, business oriented introduction to the open source community.
-
Linux Today
- 20 November 1998
-
- Report from Comdex--Walnut Creek CDROM, FreeBSD and Slackware
- by Dwight Johnson
- There is a good report on the Walnut Creek booth and FreeBSD at
- the Linux Today website. The first half of the report is on
- Slackware Linux, the second half is on FreeBSD.
-
CNET News.com
- 16 November 1998
-
- Ellison plans hardware, bashes Bill
- by Tim Clark
- Larry Ellison talking about their new dedicated Oracle servers,
- mentions FreeBSD as one of a list of candidate OSes for the
- platform.
-
Computer Bits
- October 1998
-
- Linux/etc, The other free Unixes, part 2 of 2
- by Terry Griffin
- Continuation of an earlier column reviewing freely available
- Unix like operating systems.
-
- Performance Computing
- October 1998
-
- What Is FreeBSD?
- by Jordan K. Hubbard
- An introduction to FreeBSD, and where it stands with respect to
- the other free OSes.
-
Mercury Center
- 26 October 1998
-
- Unix back in the fight with NT
- by Miguel Helft
- An article touting the stability and power of the Unix platform
- over NT.
-
ZDNet
- 20 October 1998
-
- A No-Cost NOS
- by Ryan Snedegar
- Ryan Snedegar reviews FreeBSD 2.2.7 and finds its web-serving performance
- to be better than Windows NT.
-
Inter@ctive Week
- 19 October 1998
-
- Open Code Frees Up The Net
- by Charles Babcock
- About why customers prefer open source software like Linux, FreeBSD,
- Perl and TCL to proprietary alternatives.
-
The Irish Times
- 12 October 1998
-
- It's only free Unix - but I like it
- by David Malone
-
Computer Bits
- September 1998
-
- Linux/etc, The other free Unixes, part 1 of 2
- by Terry Griffin
- Briefly reviews the BSD Unix heritage.
-
Dr. Dobb's Journal
- September 1998
-
- Communications & Networking: Asynchronous Communications Using
- select and poll
- by Sean Eric Fagan
- On how to use FreeBSD's
- select(2)
- and
- poll(2)
- system calls.
-
Sm@rt Reseller Online
- 7 September 1998
-
- Quality Unix for FREE
- by Brett Glass
- A short introduction to FreeBSD 2.2.7.
-
News.com: Tech News First
- 21 August 1998
-
- Hack raises flags about small ISPs
- by Jim Hu, Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
- Desire for better security has led some ISPs to deploy FreeBSD on
- their servers.
-
CRL Network Services
- 30 July 1998
-
- Walnut Creek CDROM, One of the Largest Public FTP Archives in the
- World, Sets Traffic Record Using FreeBSD and Colocating on CRL's
- High-Speed Internet Network
- CRL Press Release
-
( freshmeat )
- 13 July 1998
-
- Pulling on one end of the rope(the past and future of the
- Unix community)
- by Jordan K. Hubbard
- Jordan compares the past of Unix with the future of Linux, outlining
- possible similarities and describing faults that could be prevented.
-
CNET News.com
- 14 June 1998
-
- Nader urges Windows probe
- by Jeff Pelline
- Consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader mentions FreeBSD by name.
-
RhapsodyOS
- 10 June 1998
-
- Stone's Throw, Issue Fourteen: Home of the Brave, Land of the
- FreeBSD
- by Andrew Stone
-
- Web Techniques Magazine
- May 1998
-
- Load Balancing Your Web Site
- by Ralf S.Engelschall
- Practical approaches to distributing HTTP traffic at your site.
- Includes a section on performance tuning Apache under FreeBSD.
-
NC World
- May 1998
-
- Is NT paranoid or is Unix out to get it?
- by Nicholas Petreley
-
SysAdmin
- May 1998
-
- Security Tools in FreeBSD
- by Guy Helmer
-
GartnerGroup
- 4 May 1998
-
- Free Unix: Do You Get What You Pay For?
- by G. Weiss
-
NC World
- April 1998
-
- The new Unix alters NT's orbit
- by Nicholas Petreley
-
- DV Live Magazine
- April 98
-
- Who's Serving Who?
- by Nels Johnson
- For smaller companies and web sites, a FreeBSD and Apache on an
- Intel (PC) architecture machine is more than sufficient.
-
NC World
- March 1998
-
- Searching for the next Windows NT
- by Nicholas Petreley
-
Dr. Dobb's Journal
- March 1998
-
- Benchmarking and Software Testing: Tracing BSD System Calls
- by Sean Eric Fagan
- Note: the article is not available online.
-
CNET
- 25 March 1998
-
- Five alternative operating systems reviewed
- by Cormac Foster
-
News.com
- 2 February 1998
-
- Source code for the masses
- by Alex Lash
-
- Computer Bits Online
- August 1997
-
- The Network Community
- by Ted Mittelstaedt
-
- UNIX Review
- June 1997
-
- The Internet Notebook / The Ports Collection
- by Richard Morin
- A description of the FreeBSD Ports collection.
-
NC World
- May 1997
-
- The Politics of NC Computing According to Oracle
- by Rawn Shaw
-
SysAdmin
- November 1996
-
- Assorted Security Tips for UNIX
- by Arthur Donkers
- A collection of tips and tricks to secure your internal network.
-