FreeBSD in the Press

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July 2003

• Comparing Server OSes
  The Jem Report, Jem Matzan
  A comparative survey of a number of free and proprietary server OSes. The article strongly recommends the BSD family of OSes on account of their quality.

• Why Users Choose BSD Over Linux Or Commercial Software
  Internet Week, Ean Kingston
  The author recommends FreeBSD, highlighting its license, simplicity, stability, and the myriad of supported applications.

• Nearly 2 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD
  Netcraft, Mike Prettejohn
  The number of sites running FreeBSD is steadily growing. Netcraft provides statistics and reasons.

• Top providers running FreeBSD: Netcraft
  The Age, their online staff
  A report from Netcraft states that five of the top 10 hosting providers in the world are running the FreeBSD operating system.

• FreeBSD 5.1 Shows Handy New Features
  EWeek, Jason Brooks
  Summary of new features in the FreeBSD 5.X branch, including new jail management facilities.

June 2003

• Advanced FreeBSD Installation Issues
  InformIT.com, Brian Tiemann, Michael Urban
  An in-depth tutorial on installing FreeBSD.

• Is it time for BSD?
  EWeek, Jim Rapoza
  The author recommends the BSD family of operating systems for open-source IT projects.

• Basic Security Measures for FreeBSD
  Net Security, Szekely Ervin
  Describes the basic security measures that should be applied to a FreeBSD 4.X workstation.

• New distribution point for FreeBSD
  The Age, their online staff
  Three companies pool together to operate a new mirror of the FreeBSD website and CVSup services.

• FreeBSD Foundation Unleashes 5.1
  Internetnews, Thor Olavsrud
  An article briefly covering the FreeBSD 5.1 release.

May 2003

• FreeBSD support for AMD64 on the way
  The Inquirer, Arron Rouse
  A short article about upcoming support for the AMD64 platform in FreeBSD 5.x.

• Beyond Linux
  InfoWorld, Chad Dickerson
  The author recommends FreeBSD, praising its TCP/IP stack and its liberal license.

April 2003

• Focus on FreeBSD: Interview with the Core Team
  OS News, Eugenia Loli-Queru
  OS News features an in-depth interview with Wes Peters, Greg Lehey, Warner M. Losh of the FreeBSD core team and developer Scott Long. Topics include Java support, the Linux competition, and the FreeBSD 5.x branch.

March 2003

• FreeBSD featured on TechTV
  offmyserver.com, Offmyserver Press Release
  FreeBSD core-team member Murray Stokely appeared on TechTV with Matt Olander from Offmyserver to talk about FreeBSD and perform an installation on live television. The press release includes a link to a RealVideo stream of the episode.

February 2003

• FreeBSD 5.0 looks to the enterprise
  linuxworld.com.au, Howard Dahdah
  Linuxworld looks at the capabilities of FreeBSD 5.0 as an enterprise operating system and interviews FreeBSD developer Scott Long.

January 2003

• Odds and Ends
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  Dru Lavigne on easy ways for a new user to get familiar with FreeBSD.

• FreeBSD 5.0 Unleashed
  InternetNews, Michael Singer
  Internetnews.com reviews FreeBSD 5.0 and interviews FreeBSD's release engineering team member, Murray Stokely.

October 2002

• Opera Software Releases Version for FreeBSD
  Opera Software, Opera Software Press Release
  Opera Software proudly announces the first golden release of a new port of its software to FreeBSD.

• DVD Playback on FreeBSD
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  Dru Lavigne delves into the world of DVD playback on FreeBSD.

September 2002

• The BSDs: Sophisticated, Powerful and (Mostly) Free
  Extreme Tech, Brett Glass
  An article on the history and culture of the BSD projects.

• Using Sound on FreeBSD
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  Dru Lavigne describes the process of configuring sound on a FreeBSD multimedia workstation.

• BSD, An Enterprise OS? Well, Yes
  ITworld.com, UNIX in the Enterprise
  A short interview with committer Michael Lucas, on using BSD in enterprise environments.

• Turn FreeBSD into a Multimedia Workstation
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  Dru Lavigne explains how to create a multimedia workstation with FreeBSD.

August 2002

• Chasing Linux
  InfoWorld, Maggie Biggs
  Maggie Biggs takes a look at the upcoming FreeBSD 5.0, and discovers that this open-source OS shows significant gains in available applications and tools along with beefed-up security.

June 2002

• Interview with Jordan Hubbard
  Kerneltrap, Jeremy Andrews
  Kerneltrap speaks with Jordan Hubbard, one of the creators of FreeBSD, and currently manager of Apple's Darwin project.

May 2002

• Dual-Booting FreeBSD and FreeBSD
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  Michael Lucas explains how a machine can be made to dual-boot FreeBSD -CURRENT and -STABLE.

April 2002

• Jordan Hubbard resigns from FreeBSD core
  Daemon News, Gregory Sutter
  FreeBSD co-founder Jordan Hubbard leaves the core team.

• Technology a la Carte
  Byte, Bill Nicholls
  A review of FreeBSD 4.5 with mention of the FreeBSD 5.0 "Developer Preview" release.

• Testing FreeBSD-Current
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  Committer Michael Lucas takes a look at the FreeBSD 5.0 Developers' Preview 1.

• Connecting to IPv6 with FreeBSD
  Linux Orbit, David LeCount
  This tells how to use freenet6 from the ports collection to tunnel IPv6 over IPv4.

• System Panics, Part 2: Recovering and Debugging
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  Michael Lucas talks about what to do when a system panic does happen. This is the second part of a two part article; part 1 dealt with preparing a FreeBSD system to deal with panics.

• Configuring a FreeBSD Access Point for your Wireless Network
  Sys Admin Magazine, Michael S. DeGraw-Bertsch
  This has instructions for securely configuring a PC running FreeBSD as a gateway between an 802.11b network and a traditional wired network.

• Anti-Unix campaign falters
  InfoWorld, Matt Berger
  InfoWorld reports on the use of FreeBSD to power a website built for a prominent advertising campaign.

March 2002

• A Multimedia Tutorial For FreeBSD
  ExamNotes.net, Tracey J. Rosenblath
  This tells how to set up and use the audio support in FreeBSD.

• System Panics, Part 1: Preparing for the Worst
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  Preparing a FreeBSD system to handle a panic.

• Understanding CVSup, Mounting, Ports and Init on FreeBSD
  OS News, Nathan Mace
  An article on configuring and maintaining a FreeBSD install.

• Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD
  ZDNet, Stephan Somogyi
  This is a non-technical introduction to the BSD family (except BSD/OS).

• Find: Part Two
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  Looking for your files with find.

• Building a CD Bootable Firewall
  BSD Today, Etienne de Bruin
  This article has instructions for making a FreeBSD system which boots from CD-ROM. Its use as a firewall is mentioned.

February 2002

• IPv6, Meet FreeBSD
  OnLamp.com, Mike DeGraw-Bertsch
  A walk-through on configuring IPv6 on FreeBSD.

• Finding Things in Unix
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  Getting acquainted with find.

• Understanding NFS
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  Using NFS in FreeBSD.

January 2002

• How to Become a FreeBSD Committer
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  Michael documents the process of becoming a FreeBSD committer.

• FreeBSD Week: Migrating from Linux to FreeBSD
  OS News, Nathan Mace
  A guide for users migrating from Linux to FreeBSD.

• FreeBSD Week: Interview with Robert Watson
  OS News, Eugenia Loli-Queru
  An interview with Robert Watson, member of FreeBSD's core and security on the upcoming FreeBSD 4.5 and FreeBSD 5.0 releases.

• American Megatrends Inc. Releases Latest Version of StorTrends NAS Software
  Yahoo! Finance, AMI Press Release
  American Megatrends Inc. announced the release of StoreTrends(tm) NAS software version 1.1, which is based on FreeBSD.

• Contributing to BSD
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  Michael Lucas shows what it takes for non-coders to contribute to BSD.

• A basic guide to securing FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE
  draenor.org, Marc Silver
  This article is for system administrators. It explains how to configure and maintain a FreeBSD system for high security.

• FreeBSD to change hands
  Yahoo News, Stephen Shankland CNET
  Wind River Systems announces the transfer of its FreeBSD assets to the FreeBSD Mall.

• Kerneltrap Interview with Matt Dillon
  Kerneltrap, Jeremy Andrews
  Kerneltrap interviews Matt Dillon, one of FreeBSD's key developers.

December 2001

• Microsoft Hotmail still runs on U**x
  The Register, Andrew Orlowski
  Nearly four years after it was acquired by Microsoft, and in spite of a well-publicized effort to migrate it to Windows and IIS, Hotmail is still partly based on FreeBSD and Apache.

• Keeping Your Options Open: FreeBSD as a Workstation for UNIX Newbies
  OS News, Eugenia Loli-Queru
  An article discussing FreeBSD as an workstation OS for new Unix users.

November 2001

• Cleaning Up Ports
  OnLamp, Michael Lucas
  A brief introduction to portupgrade.

• Stable SMB
  OnLamp, Michael Lucas
  A short article on accessing a Windows(R) share from a FreeBSD workstation.

• FreeBSD Versus Linux Revisited
  Byte, Moshe Bar
  Byte's Moshe Bar does a comparison, through informal benchmarks, of FreeBSD 4.3 to Linux 2.4.10 running sendmail, procmail, MySQL, and Apache. The emphasis of the article is examination of the newly rewritten VM system in Linux, so the tests are conducted with only 512 MB of RAM.

October 2001

• The Big *BSD Interview
  OS News, Eugenia Loli-Queru
  An interview with Matt Dillon, a key developer in FreeBSD on the upcoming features in FreeBSD 5.0.

September 2001

• Running Windows applications on FreeBSD
  OnLamp, Dru Lavigne
  A short article on running Windows(R) applications under WINE in FreeBSD.

• Dealing with Full Disks
  OnLamp, Michael Lucas
  A short article on dealing with the all too common full disk.

• Ripping MP3s
  OnLamp, Michael Lucas
  A short article on ripping CDs on FreeBSD.

August 2001

• FreeBSD Anti-Virus Protection - A Commercial Alternative
  BSDatwork.com, Jeremiah Gowdy
  This is a review of Kaspersky Anti-Virus for FreeBSD, a product which can protect a network of Microsoft Windows hosts by scanning e-mail and SMB file shares.

• CVS Mirror
  Onlamp, Michael Lucas
  How to mirror the FreeBSD CVS repository.

• CVSup Infrastructure
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  An article on FreeBSD's CVSup infrastructure used to distribute its source code worldwide.

• An Interview with Jordan Hubbard
  Working Mac, pairNetworks
  An short interview with Jordan Hubbard, one of the founders of the FreeBSD project.

July 2001

• Controlling Bandwidth
  OnLamp, Michael Lucas
  Using DUMMYNET to control bandwidth allocation

• Which OS is Fastest for High-Performance Network Applications?
  Sys Admin, Jeffrey B. Rothman and John Buckman
  Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and Windows 2000 are benchmarked for network applications. This article has a sequel where the tests were redone after tuning FreeBSD.

• NAI Labs Announces DARPA-Funded FreeBSD Security Initiative
  NAI Labs, 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.

June 2001

• Controlling User Logins
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  An article describing the ways to control user access to your FreeBSD system.

• Rotating Log Files
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  Using the functionality of newsyslog in FreeBSD.

• Microsoft's FreeBSD Move Aimed At Next Generation Of Developers
  CRN, Paula Rooney
  A report on Microsoft's venture to port its C# programming language to FreeBSD.

• BSD guru to guide Apple on Unix
  Mac World, 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.

• Microsoft Uses Open-Source Code Despite Denying Use of Such Software
  Wall Street Journal, 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.

• In your face! MS open source attacks backfire
  ZDNet, Lee Gomes
  A report on the backfiring of the Microsoft effort to vilify open source software.

May 2001

• System Logging
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  System logging in FreeBSD using syslogd.

• BSD Tricks: CVS
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  Using CVS in client-mode.

April 2001

• Setting up Wireless Cards on FreeBSD
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  Configuring FreeBSD for wireless operation.

March 2001

• FreeBSD Gaming
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  A survey of the games available in the FreeBSD ports collection.

• Submitting Changes
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  Submitting change requests to the FreeBSD project using send-pr.

February 2001

• Changing FreeBSD Documentation
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  A mini tutorial on DocBook and its use by the FreeBSD Documentation Project.

• The FreeBSD Documentation Project
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  An introduction to the FreeBSD project.

• For Servers: Linux 2.4 vs. FreeBSD 4.1.1
  Byte, 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.

January 2001

• Modifying a Port
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  Howto modify a FreeBSD port.

• Fine Control of Ports
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  A system administrator's view of the Ports system.

• Is FreeBSD a Superior Server Platform to Linux?
  Web Techniques, Nathan Boeger
  A reviewer finds FreeBSD 4.1 to be better suited for web serving than a Red Hat Linux distribution.

• A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality
  Dr Dobbs Journal, Jack J. Woehr
  A report from a roundtable at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000, involving several prominent developers in the BSD world.

December 2000

• BSD Ports Collection Basics
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  How the FreeBSD Ports collection works.

• BSD Tricks: Unprepared Disaster Recovery
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  How to recover files off of FreeBSD system.

November 2000

• Open-sourcing the Apple
  Salon Magazine, Jordan Hubbard
  A geek's appraisal of the Apple OS X from Jordan Hubbard, one of the lead developers on the FreeBSD project.

• BSD Tricks: Linux Compatibility, the Hard Way
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  Using a Linux install under FreeBSD's Linux compatibility mode.

• Laptops, PC Cards and FreeBSD
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  Using FreeBSD on a laptop.

October 2000

• BSD Tricks: Introductory Revision Control
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  Using RCS for file revision control.

• BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux
  BYTE, Bill Nicholls
  This column gives an overview of the different versions of BSD, with links for more information.

September 2000

• INTERNET'S BUSIEST OPENSOURCE SOFTWARE ARCHIVE SETS NEW DOWNLOAD RECORD
  TeraSolutions, 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.

• BSD Tricks: MFS
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  A short article on using the FreeBSD Memory Filesystem.

• TRUSTING BSD - Ultra-High Security for FreeBSD
  ISPworld, Jeffrey Carl
  An interview with Robert Watson, one of the lead developers in the TrustedBSD project.

August 2000

• More FreeBSD Comics
  User Friendly the Comic Strip, Illiad
  See also the comics for the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th.

July 2000

• Experiments in SMB
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  An early review of FreeBSD's SMB support.

June 2000

• Installing OCSweb on FreeBSD
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  An article on a developers experience porting software from Linux to FreeBSD.

• The State of the Daemon
  Unix Review, Michael Lucas
  An informative article on BSD, and where it is going.

• Server Goliaths Turn to Appliance Servers
  Server/Workstation Expert, Adam Darby
  An article evaluating various commercial OSes that contains a blurb about BSDI and FreeBSD.

• FreeBSD: Serving the World
  osOpinion, 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.

May 2000

• Riding the Web Wave
  SFGate, Henry Norr
  FreeBSD, a relatively unknown operating system is playing a big role on the Internet.

• BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code
  Salon, 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.

• Install FreeBSD 4.0 in seven easy steps
  TechRepublic, Dru Lavigne
  A short guide to installing FreeBSD 4.0.

• Partial Reunification May Give BSD New Visibility
  ComputerWorld, Dominique Deckmyn
  Compares the merged Walnut Creek/BSDI OS offering to Linux.

• Developers using open-source software behind bosses' backs
  CNN, Peter Wayner
  Open-source software sometimes provides a better solution than expensive commerical, closed software.

• FreeBSD 4.0 Now Includes PolyServe's High Availability Clustering & Load Balancing Software
  PolyServe, 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.

• BSDI Getting the Word Out
  WebServer Online, 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.

April 2000

• The New BSDI to Offer Technical Support for the FreeBSD Operating System
  BSDi, BSDi Press Release
  BSDi will be offering technical support contracts for FreeBSD beginning in May 2000.

• Commentary: BSD sleight of hand
  ZD Net News, Stephan Somogyi
  Commentary on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger.

• FreeBSD 3.4 Review, Part 2: Adopting the Daemon
  32BitsOnline.com, Clifford Smith
  The second part of a review of FreeBSD v3.4.

March 2000

• The legend of BSD
  sf life, Annalee Newitz
  An interview with three BSD veterans on the past and future of BSD.

• Bostic on the BSD tradition
  O'Reilly Network, Dale Dougherty
  An interview with BSD veteran Keith Bostic on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger. ``BSD has always had the best technology'', says Keith.

• Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel
  LinuxWorld, Michael Lucas
  Michael Lucas presents a guide to customizing the FreeBSD kernel, written for the Linux oriented.

• FreeBSD for the SVR4/Linux Administrator
  SysAdmin, Michael Lucas
  This article attempts to give a System V or Linux administrator a basic grounding in FreeBSD configuration and usage.

• FreeBSD Ports and Packages System Explained
  32BitsOnline, Bill Swingle
  A good description of the FreeBSD Ports collection.

February 2000

• Business Lessons From Online Porn
  Upside, 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.''

• Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower
  Linux.com, Michael Lucas
  An article on the BSD License.

• Three Unixlike systems may be better than Linux
  ComputerWorld, Simson L. Garfinkel
  Promotes the BSD OSes as better alternatives to Linux in the areas of performance, reliability and security.

• Buddying up to BSD: Part Five - FreeBSD Continued
  Linux.com, Matt Michie
  A Linux user writes about his experiences with the FreeBSD ports system.

• Review of FreeBSD 3.4
  32BitsOnline.com, Clifford Smith
  A review of FreeBSD 3.4.

• FreeBSD 4.0 And Beyond
  Boardwatch, Jeffrey Carl
  A Jordan Hubbard Interview on Improvements, New Platforms and What's to Come.

January 2000

• Buddying up to BSD: Part Four - FreeBSD
  Linux.com, Matt Michie
  A Linux user writes about his experiences with FreeBSD.

• Debunking Open-Source Myths: Origins and Players
  Gartner Group, N. Drakos and M. Driver
  A report that looks at and debunks some of the myths associated with Open Source development.

• Linux Scales Enterprise Wall
  TechWeb, Mitch Wagner
  About 17 percent of enterprises plan to deploy FreeBSD or Linux as a primary platform for e-commerce within two years.

• Jobs announces new MacOS, becomes 'iCEO'
  CNN, CNN news article
  Steve Jobs' Macworld Expo keynote speech mentions FreeBSD as one of the components in the new Darwin OS from Apple.

• Mac OS X
  Apple Inc., 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.''

• Linux under FreeBSD
  SysAdmin, Michael Lucas
  FreeBSD has several options for using software from other platforms such as Linux. This article examines Linux emulation under FreeBSD.

December 1999

• Freei.Net Doubles Service Speed With Intel(R) Server Platforms
  Freei.Net, 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.

• FreeBSD 3.3. Robust OS well suited for Internet/Intranet Deployment
  Data Communications Online, Juha Saarinen
  Linux administrator turns to FreeBSD and finds it impressive.

November 1999

• FreeBSD at COMDEX
  Slashdot, 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.

• Who controls free software?
  Salon Magazine, Andrew Leonard
  Discusses RedHat's acquisition of Cygnus, quotes Jordan Hubbard at length, and mentions FreeBSD.

• The Darwinist: Darwin for x86?
  MacWeek, Stephan Somogyi
  A report on Wilfredo Sanchez's session on FreeBSD and the Apple Darwin project at the first FreeBSDCon.

• Bob Frankenberg's breaking Windows
  CBS MarketWatch, 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 and Walnut Creek Partner to Provide Applixware Office for the FreeBSD Operating System
  Applix Inc., 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 report on FreeBSDCon 99
  LinuxWorld, 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.

• FreeBSDCon'99: Fans of Linux's lesser-known sibling gather for the first time
  CNN, Vicki Brown
  Repost of IDG article about FreeBSDCon '99.

October 1999

• ServerWatch's Review of FreeBSD
  ServerWatch, Kevin Reichard
  FreeBSD v3.2 is as close to the perfect Internet server operating system as it comes.

• Grass Roots Daemocracy
  Upside, Sam Williams
  A report from the first annual FreeBSDCon held in Berkeley, California.

• ENTERA DELIVERS FreeBSD STREAMING SERVER SUPPORTING QUICKTIME
  Entera, Entera Press Release
  Entera announces a free, standards-based RTSP/RTP server to stream QuickTime from a FreeBSD platform.

• Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research
  First Monday, Nikolai Bezroukov
  This paper tries to explore links between open source software development and academic research as a better paradigm for OSS development.

September 1999

• 
  The Boston Globe,
  Claims that the operating systems based on BSD are more reliable and secure. (requires registration with The Boston Globe prior to viewing)

• Beyond Linux, Free Systems Help Build The Web
  Wall Street Journal, Lee Gomes
  An introduction to the BSD family of free operating systems.

• Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs
  SysAdmin, Michael Lucas
  Focusses on the BSD development model and the ease of keeping upto-date with tools like sup and CVSup.

August 1999

• Out of Linux limelight, devil gets its due
  Boston Globe, Hiawatha Bray
  A short (but not very accurate) introduction to FreeBSD for people who have heard about Linux.

• Reporter's notebook: Hackers on holiday
  CNN, 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.

• More FreeBSD Comics
  User Friendly the Comic Strip, Illiad
  See also the comics for the 4th and the 5th.

• World's Biggest Internet Search Engine Goes Online
  Fast Search & Transfer, FAST Press Release
  Said to be the largest search engine on the Internet, FAST Web Search uses the FreeBSD operating system.

• Duke Computer Scientists Exceed "Gigabit" Data Processing Speeds With Internet Software
  Science Daily Magazine, 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.

July 1999

• WORLDS LARGEST INDEPENDENT IPP HITS NEW MILESTONE
  Pair Networks, 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.

• Free OS? It' s as easy as BSD
  TechWeb UK, Peter McGarvey
  Network manager Peter McGarvey writes about his experience with a number of varieties of Unix. He sums up: FreeBSD is the greatest.

• BSD a better OS than Linux?
  ZD Net News, Bob Sullivan
  BSD is the software behind the world's most popular Web site and the world's most popular FTP site.

• The Net's stealth operating system
  MSNBC, Bob Sullivan
  BSD powers some of the biggest sites, and its users are among the most jealous of Linux.

• Embed Together: The Case For BSD In Network Appliances
  Performance Computing, Kevin Rose and Charles Davidson
  Underlines the advantages of BSD for the embedded device market. Mentions picoBSD.

June 1999

• Radio interview: Linux and FreeBSD
  GigABytes Radio Talk Show, Chris DiBona and Jordan Hubbard
  Chris DiBona of VA Research and Jordan Hubbard of the FreeBSD Project give their views on Linux and FreeBSD.

• Thin Servers
  Windows NT Systems, Ted Drude
  A survey of thin servers, featuring products using FreeBSD as their internal operating system.

• Information Technology and the Internet in Co-operation Ireland
  Public Communications Centre, 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.

• GPL and BSD: explication and comparison
  32BitsOnline, Rob Bos
  An article comparing BSD and GPL style licenses.

• CmdrTaco on Slashdot Sale
  Wired Business News, 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.

• Server Platforms - FreeBSD Review
  ServerWatch, Kevin Reichard
  FreeBSD: Is it the perfect Internet server operating system? As close as it comes.

• Yes! There is intelligent life beyond Linux
  Network Week Online, David Cartwright
  It looks like Unix, it tastes like Unix but it isn't Unix. It's FreeBSD!

May 1999

• Silicon Carny: Why I run FreeBSD
  SunWorld, Rich Morin
  Rich Morin explains why FreeBSD is the superior OS for him.

• INTERNET'S BUSIEST SOFTWARE ARCHIVE REACHES NEW DOWNLOAD MILESTONE
  Walnut Creek CDROM, 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.

• Bye-Bye, Windows
  CNet, Christopher Lindquist
  Reviews alternative PC operating systems. Includes a review of FreeBSD 3.2.

• Gnome is no Windows dwarf
  BBC, Chris Nuttall
  Article on Gnome and the Open Source movement. Mentions FreeBSD.

• OS Also-Rans
  Pioneer Planet, JULIO OJEDA-ZAPATA
  A short article introducing a few alternative OSes, including FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Aimed at the general public.

• Micron Electronics NetFRAME chosen for Internet's busiest site
  Walnut Creek CDROM, 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.

• The other open-source OS: FreeBSD
  ZD Net, Anne Chen
  Examples of FreeBSD deployment in the real world and why some technology officers find it attractive.

April 1999

• Open-Source Software: Power to the People
  Data Communications, 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.

• XML: Complete XML Development System Integrated with FreeBSD
  FreeBSD Advocacy, 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 Announces Traffic Server 3.0
  Inktomi, Inktomi press release
  FreeBSD is a supported operating system for a new version of Inktomi's carrier-class network cache platform.

• The Matrix: FreeBSD Used to Generate Special Effects
  FreeBSD Advocacy, 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.

• Let's Get More Educated About FreeBSD
  osOpinion, Preston S. Wiley
  A system administrator shares his views on FreeBSD.

• The Oldest Free OS
  ZD Net, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
  What are the oldest free operating systems around? The answer is the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix variants.

• FreeBSD wants a place in the sun
  Upside, Sam Williams
  Introduces FreeBSD to Linux users.

• FreeBSD Offers a Sound Open Source Alternative
  Internet World, 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).

• Serious FTP: Behind the scenes of Walnut Creek CDROM
  CNN, Rich Morin
  A description of the Walnut Creek CDROM setup. The article is also available from SunWorld.

• Thin Servers: Off-the-Shelf Internet Help
  TechWeb, Christine Zimmerman
  Discusses thin-servers, including six built using an embedded FreeBSD kernel.

March 1999

• A FreeBSD Comic Strip
  User Friendly the Comic Strip, Illiad
  See also the serial from the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th of March, 1999.

• Rising support for BSD
  Fairfax IT News, Nathan Cochrane
  Columnist Nathan Cochrane talks about the BSD family of open source operating systems.

• Whence the Source: Untangling the Open Source/Free Software Debate
  O'Reilly Open Source, 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.

February 1999

• LWN interviews Alan Cox
  Linux Weekly News,
  There is a small but interesting FreeBSD mention in LWN in an interview with Linux's Alan Cox.

• 
  The Economist,
  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.

January 1999

• Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix
  O'Reilly and Associates, Marshall Kirk McKusick
  A short history of Berkeley Unix.

• WWWsmith: Installation and Configuration of FreeBSD
  LINUX JOURNAL, 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.

• The return of BSD - What are the BSD flavors and why might you use them?
  SunWorld, Greg Lehey
  Introduces the modern BSD OSes to the general public.

• 
  GartnerGroup,
  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 Web Matters: Internet tomography
  Nature, 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.

December 1998

• The story on FreeBSD
  LinuxWorld, Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz
  This issue has a good article on FreeBSD and why it's worth a look by Linux folks.

November 1998

• The Open-Source Revolution
  RELEASE 1.0, Tim O'Reilly, with an introduction by Esther Dyson
  A brief, business oriented introduction to the open source community.

• Report from Comdex--Walnut Creek CDROM, FreeBSD and Slackware
  Linux Today, 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.

• Ellison plans hardware, bashes Bill
  CNET News.com, Tim Clark
  Larry Ellison talking about their new dedicated Oracle servers, mentions FreeBSD as one of a list of candidate OSes for the platform.

October 1998

• Linux/etc, The other free Unixes, part 2 of 2
  Computer Bits, Terry Griffin
  Continuation of an earlier column reviewing freely available Unix like operating systems.

• What Is FreeBSD?
  Performance Computing, Jordan K. Hubbard
  An introduction to FreeBSD, and where it stands with respect to the other free OSes.

• Unix back in the fight with NT
  Mercury Center, Miguel Helft
  An article touting the stability and power of the Unix platform over NT.

• A No-Cost NOS
  ZDNet, Ryan Snedegar
  Ryan Snedegar reviews FreeBSD 2.2.7 and finds its web-serving performance to be better than Windows NT.

• Open Code Frees Up The Net
  Inter@ctive Week, Charles Babcock
  About why customers prefer open source software like Linux, FreeBSD, Perl and TCL to proprietary alternatives.

• It's only free Unix - but I like it
  The Irish Times, David Malone
  

September 1998

• Linux/etc, The other free Unixes, part 1 of 2
  Computer Bits, Terry Griffin
  Briefly reviews the BSD Unix heritage.

• Communications & Networking: Asynchronous Communications Using select and poll
  Dr. Dobb's Journal, Sean Eric Fagan
  On how to use FreeBSD's select(2) and poll(2) system calls.

• Quality Unix for FREE
  Sm@rt Reseller Online, Brett Glass
  A short introduction to FreeBSD 2.2.7.

August 1998

• Hack raises flags about small ISPs
  News.com: Tech News First, Jim Hu, Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
  Desire for better security has led some ISPs to deploy FreeBSD on their servers.

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 Network Services, CRL Press Release
  

• Pulling on one end of the rope
  ( freshmeat ), Jordan K. Hubbard
  Jordan compares the past of Unix with the future of Linux, outlining possible similarities and describing faults that could be prevented.

June 1998

• Nader urges Windows probe
  CNET News.com, Jeff Pelline
  Consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader mentions FreeBSD by name.

• Stone's Throw, Issue Fourteen: Home of the Brave, Land of the FreeBSD
  RhapsodyOS, Andrew Stone
  

May 1998

• Load Balancing Your Web Site
  Web Techniques Magazine, Ralf S.Engelschall
  Practical approaches to distributing HTTP traffic at your site. Includes a section on performance tuning Apache under FreeBSD.

• Is NT paranoid or is Unix out to get it?
  NC World, Nicholas Petreley
  

• Security Tools in FreeBSD
  SysAdmin, Guy Helmer
  

• Free Unix: Do You Get What You Pay For?
  GartnerGroup, G. Weiss
  

April 1998

• The new Unix alters NT's orbit
  NC World, Nicholas Petreley
  

• Who's Serving Who?
  DV Live Magazine, Nels Johnson
  For smaller companies and web sites, a FreeBSD and Apache on an Intel (PC) architecture machine is more than sufficient.

March 1998

• Searching for the next Windows NT
  NC World, Nicholas Petreley
  

• Benchmarking and Software Testing: Tracing BSD System Calls
  Dr. Dobb's Journal, Sean Eric Fagan
  Note: the article is not available online.

• Five alternative operating systems reviewed
  CNET, Cormac Foster
  

February 1998

• Source code for the masses
  News.com, Alex Lash
  

August 1997

• The Network Community
  Computer Bits Online, Ted Mittelstaedt
  

May 1997

• The Politics of NC Computing According to Oracle
  NC World, Rawn Shaw
  

November 1996

• Assorted Security Tips for UNIX
  SysAdmin, Arthur Donkers
  A collection of tips and tricks to secure your internal network.