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BSD : Opinions : Is BSD the tortoise?
Posted: ( Sun 1st Jul 2001 06:49:23[PM] UTC )
"I have to wonder whether all the leaps that Linux has made in recent history will wind up being compared against the slow, steady progress of the BSDs. The BSD-based OSes all look to be doing better and better at the moment, even without Linux's marketing fury behind them."

FreeBSD : Links : dnsupdate - create/update (dynamic) DNS tables
Posted: ( Sat 2nd Jun 2001 09:06:08[AM] UTC )
dnsupdate can create the DNS tables from a hosts file and its own configuration file. It can maintain them too. One can use dnsupdate to add or delete hosts, aliases, nameservers, forward and reverse zone. MX records are also added. Tested for Solaris and FreeBSD. Freeware under GPL.

FreeBSD : Websites : OS comparison links
Posted: ( Tue 20th Mar 2001 12:46:13[AM] UTC )
Interested in comparisons between the various operating systems? Check out this site. Its mostly FreeBSD-based though. Another interesting one is www.instinct.org

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".

FreeBSD : Articles : Modifying a Port
Posted: ( Sat 27th Jan 2001 04:44:59[AM] UTC )
While the FreeBSD ports collection does a wonderful job of making thousands of software packages easy to install, it doesn't cover every possible situation. If you're unfamiliar with ports, please take a look at the earlier articles in this series; ports are one of FreeBSD's greatest contributions to open source.

FreeBSD : Interviews : Robert Watson on FreeBSD and TrustedBSD
Posted: ( Thu 18th Jan 2001 07:50:33[PM] UTC )
"TrustedBSD and SELinux are similar in many ways, and also differ in many ways. The similarities lie in overlapping functionality and architectural goals; the differences only begin with the choice of operating systems ... SELinux differs from TrustedBSD in that it is a more mature system, having been worked on for several years, that it addresses only mandatory access controls, and that it uses the Flask architecture rather than explicit hard-coded policies."

NetBSD : Interviews : How NetBSD 1.5 was born
Posted: ( Mon 8th Jan 2001 10:16:04[PM] UTC )
"NetBSD's biggest release impediment is also its most important feature: we released 1.5 on 10 base CPU types comprising 20 groups of hardware architectures. Taking in to account I/O buses, MMUs, and system controllers that another OS would consider to be different platforms, the actual number of specific hardware platforms is somewhere closer to 40 ... NetBSD runs on more hardware platforms than any other full-featured OS in history."

FreeBSD : Articles : A look through the ports collection
Posted: ( Mon 8th Jan 2001 10:11:57[PM] UTC )
This article takes a tour through FreeBSD's ports collection on the hunt for the obscure, the amusing, and the useful.

BSD : Interviews : A roundtable on BSD, security, and quality
Posted: ( Sun 7th Jan 2001 07:00:31[PM] UTC )
Theo deRaadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, and Werner Losh, discuss several topics, including the evolving distinction between Linux and BSD and the notion that reliability and security are achieved through simplicity.

FreeBSD : Reviews : Is FreeBSD a superior server platform?
Posted: ( Thu 21st Dec 2000 01:11:40[AM] UTC )
"For speed and security, FreeBSD is the way to go. In no way am I trying to say that Red Hat, or Linux, is inferior. Linux has very good desktop uses, and works well in some server situations. But, the FreeBSD 4.x tree is by far the fastest OS running on Intel hardware that I've ever seen."

BSD : Interviews : Paul Anderson, the BSD/OS product manager
Posted: ( Wed 13th Dec 2000 06:48:39[PM] UTC )
As a small company, Anderson said, BSDi's engineers handled the security aspects of the software, but as the company became bigger, it often became assumed that someone else did it. Nevertheless, the security tradition continues: "In general, what we ship with our products contain the newest security patches."

NetBSD : Articles : What's new and exciting in NetBSD 1.5?
Posted: ( Mon 11th Dec 2000 05:20:48[AM] UTC )
See if this article tempts you to try upgrading to NetBSD 1.5. The author lists the newly supported platforms and other update information, such as the over 1600 available packages, the latest changes and improvements to the filesystem, and much more!