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Février 2007

• Interview: The BSD Certification Group's Dru Lavigne
  The Jem Report, Jem Matzan
  BSD Certification Group member Dru Lavigne puts forth the idea that free/open source software provided an excellent opportunity to inexpensively change one's career path.

• Interview: Sam Leffler of the FreeBSD Foundation
  The Jem Report, Jem Matzan
  An interview with FreeBSD developer and FreeBSD Foundation Director Sam Leffler about the FreeBSD Foundation.

• Open source is the ticket for In Ticketing
  NewsForge, Tina Gasperson
  Ticket broking firm In Ticketing prefers FreeBSD on account of the security it provides.

Janvier 2007

• Inside PC-BSD 1.3
  Onlamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  An interview with Kris Moore, Andrei Kolu, and Charles Landemaine of the PC-BSD release engineering team.

• Interview with Matteo Riondato, FreeSBIE
  DistroWatch, Distrowatch staff
  An interview with Matteo Riondato, FreeBSD developer and release engineer for FreeSBIE, a FreeBSD-based ``Live CD''.

• FreeBSD 6.2: Polished, More Stable
  InternetNews.com, Sean Michael Kerner
  A brief look at FreeBSD 6.2.

• FreeSBIE 2.0-RELEASE is Now Available!
  OSnews, Thom Holwerda
  A new release of FreeSBIE, a FreeBSD Live-CD, has been released after two years of development.

• New Year, New Look For PC-BSD
  InternetNews.com, Sean Michael Kerner
  A look at the new features in PC-BSD 1.3.

• Project of the Month: January 2007 - FreeNAS
  SourceForge.Net, SF.Net Staff
  An interview with the developers of the FreeBSD-based FreeNAS project, on the occasion of it being selected as SourceForge's Project of the Month.

Décembre 2006

• Secure email servers from scratch with FreeBSD 6 (Part 2)
  Free Software Magazine, Yousef Ourabi
  All the bells and whistles of a high end-mail setup: web-mail, anti-virus filtering, spam filtering, and hosting unlimited domains with virtual domains and users stored in MySQL.

• Installing FreeBSD 6.1
  OpenAddict, Sharaz
  An article that guides the reader through an installation of FreeBSD 6.1.

• Quick and Dirty Guide to Deploying a FreeBSD 6.1 Server
  OpenAddict, Rich Morgan
  An article showing how to configure a FreeBSD 6.1 server with Apache, Webmin, PHP 5, MySQL 5.0, Sendmail with SMTP-AUTH, Bind DNS, SNMP, and synchronized local time.

• China Develops Server OS; Lenovo On Board
  Pacific Epoch, Zhengqian Zhou
  China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has announced that China has completed development of a server operating system based on FreeBSD.

Novembre 2006

• FreeBSD Security Event Auditing
  Security Focus, Federico Biancuzzi
  An interview with FreeBSD developer Robert Watson on the features of the new audit subsystem in FreeBSD 6.2.

• FreeBSD Puts Out 6.2 Beta 3 Release
  IT Jungle, Timothy Prickett Morgan
  News about the upcoming 6.2 release, and coverage of the new features in FreeBSD 7.

Octobre 2006

• Secure email servers from scratch with FreeBSD 6.1 (part 1)
  Free Software Magazine, Yousef Ourabi
  Build a secure email server with FreeBSD, Postifx, ClamAV, Spamassasin, and MySQL

• Enterprise Unix Roundup: PC-BSD May Be the Next Linux
  ServerWatch.com, Brian Proffitt
  Commentary in the trade press on the acquisition of FreeBSD-based PC-BSD by iXsystems.

• Why iXsystems Bought PC-BSD
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  An interview with Kris Moore and Matt Olander on the acquisition of PC-BSD by iXsystems Inc.

• Build a Nas device using virtualisation
  IT Week, Alan Stevens
  Create your own virtual network-attached storage appliance using FreeBSD-based FreeNAS in a VMWare virtual machine.

• Desktop FreeBSD: Fully Optimized 6.x Installation
  Open For Business, Ed Hurst
  This article describes the process of (re)building a FreeBSD system from source code with an aim to improve its performance.

• FreeBSD based PC-BSD Gets 'Acquired'
  InternetNews.com, Sean Michael Kerner
  iXsystems Inc. acquires the trademarks and intellectual property rights associated with PC-BSD, a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD.

• Turn an Old Laptop Into a Portable Network-Troubleshooting System
  TechBuilder, David S. Markowitz
  How to build a network monitoring system using an old laptop and FreeBSD.

• Desktop FreeBSD: 64-bit Future
  Open For Business, Ed Hurst
  The article's author reports excellent results after building a 64-bit FreeBSD-based desktop computer.

Septembre 2006

• Win4BSD has been released
  Win4BSD, Dan Perlman
  Virtual Bridges, a provider of enterprise and SMB solutions using virtualization for business, announced today the release of Win4BSD Pro Desktop™. Win4BSD Pro Desktop runs as a FreeBSD/PC-BSD application and allows users to run Windows Applications and Desktops with seamless ease on the BSD platform.

• POSIX Asynchronous I/O
  InformIT, David Chisnall
  A look at programming with asynchronous I/O in FreeBSD and other open-source OSes.

• DesktopBSD 1.0: FreeBSD for the desktop
  NewsForge, Stefan Vrabie
  A review of DesktopBSD 1.0.

• A (late) look at FreeBSD 6.1
  InfoWorld, Paul Venezia
  The author describes the setup of a FreeBSD 6.1 based mail server and web host using software RAID and PF.

Août 2006

• VMware's Virtual Appliance Challenge - and the Winner is?
  InfoWorld, David Marshall
  The FreeBSD based FreeNAS storage server project wins an award in VMWare Inc.'s virtualization contest.

• Advanced Installation Tasks in FreeBSD 6
  InformIT, Brian Tiemann
  An excerpt from the book "FreeBSD 6 Unleashed" covering the ins and outs of non-standard FreeBSD installations.

• PC-BSD: The Most Beginner Friendly OS
  OSWeekly.com, Matt Hartley
  A review of PC-BSD, covering installation and package management.

• The BSD Unix Projects Keep Humming Along
  ITJungle, Timothy Prickett Morgan
  This article covers the FreeBSD project's Sparc (T1) porting effort and mentions the scalability improvements in recent releases. New developments in the other BSD projects also get a mention.

• Working with gmirror on a Sun Fire X2100
  DaemonNews, Grzegorz Czaplinski
  The first of a two part series on building up and tearing down a gmirror system.

Juillet 2006

• CBC's web site using Open Source everywhere!
  InsideTheCBC.com, Blake Crosby
  An article by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation describes their use of FreeBSD in their IT infrastructure.

• Interview with Andy Ritger and Christian Zander from NVIDIA
  BSDTalk, Will Backman
  Will Backman speaks with Andy Ritger and Christian Zander from NVIDIA about the NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics driver. The interview gives an overview of the drivers current features, plans for future improvements, and a brief discussion about licensing and NVIDIA's open source efforts.

• Using DesktopBSD
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  This article explores DesktopBSD, a desktop oriented and easy-to-use version of FreeBSD 5.5.

• PC-BSD works for community center
  NewsForge, Henry Gillow-Wiles
  An IT director for a non-profit community center is happy with the speed, stability and hardware compatibility of the FreeBSD-based PC-BSD operating system on low-end hardware.

Juin 2006

• Build a Mail Server with Commodity Hardware and FreeBSD, Part 2
  TechBuilder, David S. Markowitz
  Part 2 of a TechBuilder recipe covers adding virus protection, spam detection and webmail access to a mail server built using FreeBSD and a PC.

• Six Hosting Companies Most Reliable Hoster in May
  Netcraft, Mandy
  A Netcraft survey for May 2006 indicates that FreeBSD is being used by four out of five most reliable Internet hosting companies in the world.

• Build a Mail Server with Commodity Hardware and FreeBSD, Part 1
  TechBuilder, David S. Markowitz
  How to use a PC and FreeBSD to build a mail server for a small or medium business.

Mai 2006

• A look at the FreeNAS server
  NewsForge, Gary Sims
  A review of FreeNAS, a FreeBSD-based network attached storage product.

• DTrace reaches prime time on FreeBSD
  ZDNet Australia, Renai LeMay
  ZDNet article about DTrace on FreeBSD.

• BSD Packaging Systems
  InformIT.com, David Chisnall
  An article on package management in the BSD family of operating systems.

• Interview with Karl Lehenbauer of FlightAware
  BSDTalk, Will Backman
  FlightAware uses FreeBSD/amd64 systems to track the locations of up to 70,000 flights per day. Will Backman speaks with Karl Lehenbauer about how FlightAware is successfully using FreeBSD with other open source technologies to drive their product.

• FreeBSD vows to compete with desktop Linux
  News.com, Ingrid Marson
  ZDNet article about FreeBSD's upcoming desktop features.

• FreeBSD 6.1 Review
  Software in review, Jem Matzan
  A review of FreeBSD 6.1 for the amd64 architecture.

• Stability in FreeBSD 6.1
  InternetNews.com, Sean Michael Kerner
  An article describing the FreeBSD project's focus on stability and quality for its 6.1 and 5.5 releases.

Avril 2006

• Interview: Deb Goodkin from the FreeBSD Foundation
  Blog: A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru, Dru Lavigne
  In this interview, Deb Goodkin provides some pieces of interesting information about the inner working of the FreeBSD Foundation.

• Interview: John Baldwin on FreeBSD
  Blog: A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru, Dru Lavigne
  In this interview, John Baldwin of the FreeBSD project gives some insight on what it is like to be a FreeBSD developer and some of the things that happen behind the scenes of a large Open Source project.

Mars 2006

• Setting up Linux compatibility on FreeBSD 6
  Newsforge, Gordon McEwen
  A guide to configuring and running Linux applications on a FreeBSD 6 system.

Février 2006

• Network Filtering by Operating System
  Onlamp.com, Avleen Vig
  Keep worms and malware from monopolizing your network connection using FreeBSD, pf, ALTQ, and squid.

• Opening the digital doorway for South African youth
  tectonic, Lunga Madlala
  An article mentioning the use of FreeBSD in so called "Digital Doorways" in South African provinces.

Janvier 2006

• BSD: The Other Free UNIX Family
  InformIT, David Chisnall
  An introduction to the open-source BSD operating systems.

• Interview: Dru Lavigne, BSD Certification Group
  Newsforge, Federico Biancuzzi
  An interview with the founder of the BSD Certification Group, a non-profit organization established to create certification standards for BSD-based operating systems.

• Running Commercial Linux Software on FreeBSD
  Onlamp.com, Michael W. Lucas
  The author shows how to use software built for a Linux-based OS on FreeBSD.

Décembre 2005

• FreeBSD Waters Are Easily Waded
  ServerWatch, Charlie Schluting
  According to this review, "FreeBSD is an enterprise-grade operating system that leaves little to be desired."

Novembre 2005

• Beyond The Big Three BSDs, BSD Alternatives
  Serverwatch, Martin Brown
  Covers a few FreeBSD-derived operating systems.

• Using Software RAID-1 with FreeBSD
  Onlamp, Dru Lavigne
  The author shows how to set up a RAID 1 using the gmirror facility available in FreeBSD 5 and 6.

• Return of The BSDs
  Internetnews.Com, Sean Michael Kerner
  Press about new releases from the *BSD projects.

• Desktop FreeBSD: Upgrading to 6.0
  Open For Business, Ed Hurst
  A reviewer recommends FreeBSD 6.0 for the desktop.

Octobre 2005

• Selecting a Secure Enterprise OS: Don't Make the First Step the Wrong Step
  Informit, Bruce Potter
  A comparison of the operational security of Windows(r), Linux and FreeBSD.

• A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels
  OpenSolaris, Max Bruning
  A technical article comparing scheduling, memory management, and file system architecture in these three open-source kernels.

• Destination FreeBSD: Interview with Release Engineer Scott Long
  BSDForums.org, BSDForums.org
  BSDForums interviews FreeBSD release engineer Scott Long about various aspects of FreeBSD, including FreeBSD 6.0, Apple G4 PowerMac support, AMD64 and wireless compatibility.

Septembre 2005

• Sun Cobalt Ported to FreeBSD
  eMediaWire, OffMyServer, Inc. Press Release
  The Sun Cobalt RaQ550 web hosting platform has been ported to FreeBSD.

• Developer aims for Dtrace on FreeBSD
  ZDNet Australia, Renai LeMay
  An article about work being done to port Sun's DTrace to FreeBSD.

Août 2005

• FreeBSD 6.0 will target wireless devices
  ZDNet UK, Ingrid Marson
  An interview with FreeBSD release engineer Scott Long about the upcoming 6.0 release.

Juillet 2005

• Information Security with Colin Percival
  Onlamp, Michael W. Lucas
  Colin Percival, FreeBSD developer and independent security researcher, describes his recent work on covert channels in hyperthreaded processors.

• Why FreeBSD
  developerWorks, Frank Pohlmann
  A brief introduction to the BSD family of OSes.

• Project Evil: Windows network drivers on FreeBSD
  Ping Wales, David Chisnall
  On using Windows(R) network drivers in FreeBSD.

Juin 2005

• Open-source projects get free checkup by automated tools
  SecurityFocus, Robert Lemos
  Code analysis software firm Coverity analyses FreeBSD's source base and finds a very low number of software flaws.

• Interview: Looking at FreeBSD 6 and Beyond
  OSnews, Eugenia Loli-Queru
  OSnews interviews FreeBSD developers Scott Long, Robert Watson and John Baldwin about the upcoming FreeBSD 6 release.

• Eric Raymond advocates BSD license over GPL
  MyFreeBSD Brazil, Luiz Gustavo Ramos
  "Freedom and choice are pretty cool. But we should talk about many other things. GPL is based on the belief that open source software is weak and needs to be protected. With it, we continue injuring ourselves, cutting ourselves from the economic benefits of BSD license".

Mai 2005

• First BitDefender for FreeBSD products launched
  MoneyWeb, BitDefender Press Release
  BitDefender announces their move into enterprise space with a FreeBSD version of their products.

• LSI MegaRAID(R) Adapters Now Feature FreeBSD 5.4 Support
  Yahoo News, LSI Logic Press Release
  LSI Logic MegaRAID(R) SCSI and SATA adapters now support the latest FreeBSD 5.4 release.

Avril 2005

• Desktop FreeBSD: New Life for Old Laptops
  Open for Business, Ed Hurst
  An article on using FreeBSD 5.4 on a laptop.

• Large Web Hosting Provider Switches to FreeBSD
  W3reports, Submission
  Offmyserver, a rackmount server provider, recently migrated 50 servers to FreeBSD, on account of its reliability and ability to handle large amounts of disk.

Mars 2005

• FreeBSD Process Management
  InformIT, George Neville-Neil, Marshall Kirk McKusick
  An excerpt from the book "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System".

Février 2005

• FreeBSD Tips and Tricks for 2005
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  Dru Lavigne describes the steps taken for maintaining up to date a FreeBSD system this year.

Janvier 2005

• FreeBSD's SMPng
  OnLamp.com, Federico Biancuzzi
  OnLamp.com's writer interviews FreeBSD's Core Team member Scott Long about FreeBSD's implementation on SMPng.

Novembre 2004

• Deep study: The world's safest computing environment
  mi2g, mi2g News Alert
  A study by a London-based computer security firm reveals that the open-source BSD operating systems and Apple's Mac OS X are the most secure popular operating systems on the Internet today.

Septembre 2004

• Building Diskless Clients with FreeBSD 5.2
  OnLamp.com, Mikhail Zakharov
  How to build diskless clients with FreeBSD Netboot server.

• Building a BSD Netboot Server
  OnLamp.com, Mikhail Zakharov
  How to configure a FreeBSD 5.2.1 server to support diskless clients.

Août 2004

• FreeBSD 5.3 beta is released
  ZDNet, Michael Parsons
  A story about the FreeBSD 5.3 release cycle

• Desktop FreeBSD Part 5: Internet Mail Setup
  Open For Business, Ed Hurst
  Part five of this series of introductory articles describes how to use FreeBSD for email purposes.

• Differentiating Among BSD Distros
  ServerWatch, Martin Brown
  An article that compares and contrasts the four main BSD variants.

• Desktop FreeBSD Part 4: Printing
  Open For Business, Ed Hurst
  Part four of this series of introductory articles covers the installation and the configuration of Apsfilter on FreeBSD.

• Building Systems to be Shared Securely
  ACM Queue, Poul-Henning Kamp, Robert Watson
  Robert Watson and Poul-Henning Kamp write an article for the ACM Queue magazine on FreeBSD's jail facility and on the general concept of sharing and security from an operating system architecture/design point of view.

Juillet 2004

• FreeBSD milestone nears release
  ZDNet, Matt Loney
  This article is about the upcoming FreeBSD 5.3 release.

• Local company develops FreeBSD-based radars
  Computerworld, Rodney Gedda
  Genesis Software builds FreeBSD-based radar systems.

• Linux servers stats reveal fall in Red Hat dominance
  Techworld, Matthew Broersma
  An article mentioning FreeBSD's growth in the hosting market.

• Unix Printing Basics
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  This article explains printing with Unix, using FreeBSD as an example.

• Building a Web Cluster with FreeSBIE
  OnLamp.com, Alexander Prohorenko
  How to build a web services cluster using the FreeBSD based FreeSBIE live CD image.

Juin 2004

• Preventing Denial of Service Attacks
  OnLamp.com, Avleen Vig
  This article shows how to defend against denial of service attacks with FreeBSD.

• Siberian coal mine digs out FreeBSD funding
  ZDNet, Matt Loney
  A story about Poul-Henning Kamp's recent appeal for funds.

• FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project
  Internetnews, Sean Michael Kerner
  This article tries to outline the reasons for FreeBSD's growth over the last years.

• Desktop FreeBSD Part 3: Adding Software
  Open For Business, Ed Hurst
  Part three of this series of introductory articles covers the installation of third party applications on FreeBSD.

• Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD
  Netcraft, mandy
  FreeBSD continues to grow in the web hosting market.

• IEEE and The Open Group Okay 'FreeBSD Project' to Incorporate Material from the POSIX Standard
  The Open Group, IEEE/Open Group press release
  The IEEE and the Open Group allow the FreeBSD project to incorporate material from a few of their published standards.

• Build Your Own FreeBSD-powered Motorcycle
  BikeOwns, Ben
  The description of a FreeBSD-powered motorcycle.

Mai 2004

• FreeBSD Networking Basics
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  Dru Lavigne explains how to connect a FreeBSD machine to an existing network.

• Intel Labs' Natural Born Killer Technologies
  EWeek, Rob Enderle
  An overview about the research projects in Intel's laboratories. Some of the research is done using the FreeBSD operating system.

• Open Source to the Core
  ACM Queue, Jordan Hubbard
  Jordan Hubbard talks about FreeBSD in an article on using open-source software in commercial products.

Avril 2004

• FreeBSD - The Power to Serve
  Distrowatch, Robert Storey
  A review of FreeBSD 5.2.1, including a short overview of the history of the BSDs and installation instructions.

• Mail Scanning With Exim And The Exiscan ACL
  Help Net Security, Michael Oliveri
  This article describes setting up Exim with the Exiscan-ACL patch on FreeBSD.

• Most Reliable Hosting Providers during March
  Netcraft, mandy
  Five of the ten most reliable hosting providers in March were running FreeBSD. Read on for more information.

Mars 2004

• FreeBSD 5.2.1 on SPARC64
  OS News, Tony Bourke
  An article reviewing FreeBSD 5.2.1 on SPARC64 machines. The author finds FreeBSD/SPARC64 to be a very complete, useful and flexible server.

• The 64-bit Question: AMD64 vs. i386
  The Jem Report, Valour
  A comparison between FreeBSD 5.2.1's performance on an AMD Athlon64 3200+ and on a Pentium4 3.2E.

• Experimental free Wi-Fi LAN gaining momentum in SF
  Newsforge, Chris Preimesberger
  An article about free wireless networks in San Francisco, mentioning FreeBSD as one of the operating systems of choice.

Janvier 2004

• Bacula: Cross-Platform Client-Server Backups
  OnLamp.com, Dan Langille
  A guide on setting up and running the backup program Bacula on FreeBSD

• Simple FreeBSD installation yields functional desktop system
  Newsforge, Terrell Prude, Jr.
  A review of FreeBSD 5.1 as a desktop system.

• Desktop FreeBSD Part 2: Initial Setup
  Open For Business, Ed Hurst
  This is the second part of a series of introductory articles. The author explains how to set up X and the postfix mail system.

• How is Open-Source affecting Software Development?
  IEEE Computer Society, Diomidis Spinellis, Clemens Sxyperski (Guest Editors)
  This IEEE journal article looks at how the availability of high-quality open-source software is affecting the way software is developed. FreeBSD is one of the open-source projects examined.

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