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BSD  Howtos NetBSD : Howtos : NetBSD PPTP Server Guide
Posted: ( Fri 9th Jan 2004 06:54:32[AM] UTC )
A guide on how to configure NetBSD to act as a VPN server for PPTP Clients.
FreeBSD : Howtos : Simple FreeBSD installation yields functional desktop system
Posted: ( Fri 9th Jan 2004 06:53:18[AM] UTC )
Many near-religious-level debates revolve around which GNU/Linux distribution is "best." However, we are blessed with two free platforms for desktop usage, the other being BSD. If you can deal with text-based installation and a few post-install commands at the command line, you can install and use FreeBSD 5.1. I got FreeBSD fully installed on a 450MHz AMD K6-III+ system with 512MB of SDRAM and a 36GB 10Krpm SCSI hard disk in just under an hour.
NetBSD : Howtos : NetBSD PPTP Client
Posted: ( Thu 11th Dec 2003 05:27:24[PM] UTC )
Short guide on how to get started with NetBSD as a client in PPTP networks.
FreeBSD : Howtos : How to Build a FreeBSD-STABLE Firewall with IPFILTER
Posted: ( Tue 13th Mar 2001 05:03:19[AM] UTC )
HOWTO that walks you through building a FreeBSD-STABLE firewall with IPFILTER. This is a checklist that walks you through the entire process from beginning to end: installing FreeBSD-stable, recompiling the kernel, OpenSSH security, TCP-wrappers, VESA video modes, and special syslog logging for your firewall.
FreeBSD : Howtos : Running Linux programs on FreeBSD
Posted: ( Tue 27th Feb 2001 06:21:21[PM] UTC )
Even though many server admins prefer BSD Unix, there’s no denying that Linux is "where it’s at" for third-party software development. So, what’s a BSD admin to do?
FreeBSD : Howtos : Armoring FreeBSD
Posted: ( Tue 13th Feb 2001 08:26:23[PM] UTC )
"With more and more script kiddies being born, we all need to learn a few basic rules of protecting ourselves. This guide will outline
the basics of FreeBSD security, and works best with FreeBSD version 4.x."
NetBSD : Howtos : Internet gateway configuration and basic online security rules
Posted: ( Tue 13th Feb 2001 08:14:45[PM] UTC )
The first part of this article was about setting up DSL on your NetBSD machine. This part looks at some considerations that should be made when going online, utilizing the connection and also preparing for the less friendly side of "The Net".
BSD : Howtos : Linux compatibility, the hard way
Posted: ( Sat 18th Nov 2000 05:50:30[PM] UTC )
It's always irritated me to have two Linux installs on my system, however: one under /linux, and one under /usr/compat/linux. It seems it would be possible to run programs in Linux mode using the existing Linux partition, rather than installing linux_base.
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BSD
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Description
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BSD is a direct descendant of the Unix operating system. BSD stands for
Berkeley Software design and dates back to work done by Sun Microsystems
co-founder Bill Joy to create the first free version of Unix when he was at
Berkeley in the late 1970s. Later a group of Berkeley computer scientists
added to his work, eventually beginning a project called 386BSD designed
to rewrite Unix so it could be used on a PC with Intel chips. After Berkeley
stopped funding the effort, BSD split off in several directions. AT&T also
caused a lot of problems for BSD in 1993 when they hit BSD with a copyright
lawsuit. BSD recovered and runs most of the high traffic sites on the Internet.
Unlike Linux, BSD is targeted more towards the server.
FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system for the Intel compatible
(x86), DEC Alpha, and PC-98 architectures. FreeBSD's claim to fame is
robust networking which makes it ideal Internet or Intranet server.
The NetBSD project has been to make the base OS extremely portable. This
has resulted in NetBSD being ported to a large number of hardware platforms.
Another derivative, OpenBSD, is supposed to be the most secure operating
system in the world.
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See OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD for development status.
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