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FreeBSD in the Press

December 2003

• Apple unveils Panther OS
  ComputerWorld, Malaysia, Blake Hoo
  Apple Computer recently announced the availability of its highly anticipated Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, based on FreeBSD 5.

• Year in Review: Turbulence, troubles and triumph in OS market
  Computerworld, Matthew Cooney
  The year 2003 in retrospect of various operating systems, including FreeBSD.

• eRacks announces Linux/FreeBSD Centrino(TM) Laptop
  e-consultancy, eRacks Press Release
  eRacks Open Source Systems announces a Centrino(TM) based laptop that features FreeBSD as a supported OS.

• Computing Clusters
  G4TechTV, Leo Laporte and Roman Loyola
  Matt Olander shows how to build a FreeBSD-based cluster.

• The FreeBSD Operating System 10 Year Anniversary Celebration: Silicon Valley is Alive and Kicking!
  eMediaWire, Matt Olander
  The offmyserver.com press release about the FreeBSD 10 year anniversary party.

• Desktop FreeBSD Part 1: Installation
  Open For Business, Ed Hurst
  In this first part of a series of introductory articles, the author shows how to use the FreeBSD installer.

• Using SNMP and RRDTool on FreeBSD
  Silverwraith.com, Avleen Vig
  A guide to generating server statistics for FreeBSD 4 and 5.

November 2003

• Ten Years of FreeBSD: Anniversary Party a Success
  OSNews, Eugenia Loli-Queru
  A quick report about the evening including some pictures.

• Interview: AUUG's Greg Lehey
  linuxworld.com.au, Howard Dahdah
  An interview with FreeBSD developer Greg Lehey.

• From Linux to FreeBSD: A FreeBSD Review
  OSNews, Gabe Yoder
  The author quickly reviews FreeBSD 4.8 and compares it with GNU/Linux.

• Printing for the Impatient
  OnLamp.com, Michael Lucas
  The author gives detailed instructions on how to use Apsfilter for printing.

• One User's Thoughts on FreeBSD 4.9
  OSNews, Corey Holcomb-Hockin
  The author reviews FreeBSD 4.9, describes how to upgrade to the security and bug fixes branch, and how to build a custom kernel.

• Improving User Passwords with apg
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  The author explains how to improve your password policy with auto-generated passwords.

October 2003

• FreeBSD Fills In The Blanks With v4.9
  siliconvalley.internet.com, Michael Singer
  The author gives a short summary on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE.

• FreeBSD 5.1
  The Jem Report, Jem Matzan
  The author reviews FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, and compares it with GNU/Linux.

• Build a Dynamic Web Serving Platform with FreeBSD
  DevX.com, Gregory L. Magnusson
  A description on how to build Apache with MySQL and PHP support on FreeBSD.

• Babe in the Woods: A Linux User Migrates to FreeBSD
  Open For Business, Ed Hurst
  The author describes his experience migrating from Linux to FreeBSD.

• An Automated Binary Security Update System for FreeBSD
  Daemonology.net, Colin Percival
  In his paper, the author describes an automated system for building and distributing binary security updates for FreeBSD.

• Netcraft: BT Most Reliable Hosting Site in September
  theWHIR, theWHIR Web Team
  Netcraft's latest survey reveals that seven out of the top thirteen most reliable web hosting company sites in september ran FreeBSD.

• Working With ACLs in FreeBSD 5.X
  DaemonNews, Grzegorz Czaplinski
  The author explains how to create and configure unique access permissions on files and directories using Access Control Lists (ACLs).

• Build your own FreeBSD Segway clone
  The Inquirer, Adamson Rust
  Trevor Blackwell has built his own FreeBSD powered Segway clone. Read on for a closer description.

September 2003

• Cleaning and Customizing Your Ports
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  The author describes how to clean the FreeBSD ports tree and how to customize the ports build options with portupgrade tools.

• FreeBSD vs. Linux on TechTV! The OffMyServer OS Shootout
  eMediaWire, Matt Olander
  This article describes how FreeBSD stacked up against Linux on TechTV's latest The Screen Savers show.

• FreeBSD Jails
  OnLamp.com, Mike DeGraw-Bertsch
  In this article the author explains how to set up and configure Jails on FreeBSD.

August 2003

• Portupgrade
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  The author describes how to install and use portupgrade to upgrade installed applications on a FreeBSD system.

• FreeBSD Serves Up Java JDK
  siliconvalley.internet.com, Michael Singer
  The author talks about the benefits, native Java support has for FreeBSD.

• FreeBSD Access Control Lists
  OnLamp.com, Daniel Harris
  The author describes how to use Access Control Lists, one of FreeBSD 5.X new functionalities.

• Ports Tricks
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  In this edition of the FreeBSD Basics column, Dru Lavigne demonstrates her favourite ports tricks.

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.

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