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FreeBSD in the Press

If you know of any news stories featuring FreeBSD that we have not listed here, please send details to www@FreeBSD.org so that we can include them.

March 2007

• Deploying a FreeBSD 6.2 Server
  OpenAddict, Sharaz
  The third article in a series covering the deployment of a FreeBSD based server with Apache 2.2, PHP 5, MySQL 5.0, Sendmail with SMTP-AUTH, Webmail, Bind DNS, SNMP, synchronized local time, Webmin and with graphing using rrdtool/cacti.

February 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.

January 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.

December 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.

November 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.

October 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.

September 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.

August 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.

July 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.

June 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.

May 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.

April 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.

March 2006

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

February 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.

January 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.

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