GlockaDe writes: "FreeBSD is now a supported platform for the GNOME project. This means that now, new GNOME releases will not ship unless they successfully build and run on FreeBSD. The actual note is buried in these minutes."

KellyM writes "'I've spent the last three days fixing compile-time bugs with xMach, and I'm currently testing using a copy of VMware running FreeBSD. The code compiled so cleanly that a stable release was inevitable, allowing me to finally start doing some of the new innovative work I dreamed up years ago, when my SPARC (since dead due to a battery issue) glowed with warmth onto me, and inspired me to create. Who knows -- we might make something useful out of xMach yet. It's certainly come a long way from seed to sprout; as its stalk strengthens, I hope to help it blossom into the full beauty of the great scheme hatched years ago. '"

Rich Morin writes "The FreeBSD Browser, a "proof of concept" demonstration from the Meta Project, is also quite a useful tool. Given a path name, man page reference, or list of keywords, it can bring up a swath of relevant files and man pages. A recent article in FreeBSDzine discusses why the browser is useful, what it does, and (to a degree) how it works. Please give it a try..."

jmallett writes: "xMach, the microkernel BSD Operating System, first made an announcement on Daily DaemonNews stating that there were some new source and binary snapshots available. Also, OsOpinion has an article I wrote about my experiences so far, entitled 'Giving Birth to xMach'. Development of xMach currently is limited to the microkernel and its servers, but a userland (based on that from the good people at OpenBSD) will be worked on shortly. Some of the primary focuses on xMach are data storage, security, and non-bloat."

An unnamed reader writes "Daily DaemonNews is running a story about Chili!Soft doing a port of Chili!Soft ASP to FreeBSD. It seems they're trying to gather enough interest to make a port worth while. A phone number and link is mentioned in the article."

relya writes "Noticed here that Tripwire Open-source 2.3 now supports FreeBSD 4.2 as opposed to just GNU/Linux."

Diesel writes "We've been quietly building a user-supported, pro-BSD site over the last three months, and we'd like to gain additional exposure. The site is mainly oriented towards new users, but experienced users are definitely encouraged to check us out. We've recently upgraded our bulletin board so that it's more tightly integrated with the rest of the site. Anyone who'd like to help out by submitting stories, help tutorials and artwork is more than welcome. We have a fairly large collection of excellent links relating to BSD, with some in other categories as well. Most of our user base uses FreeBSD, as most of the tutorials reflect. We'd also like to see more NetBSD and OpenBSD users contributing by submitting tutorials and posting on the bulletin board. Check it out at BSDvault"

Gregory Sutter wanted to let us know that "Daemon News now has a get-it-in-your-snail-mail print publication that you'll actually receive. The Daemon News Magazine is about to ship issue #3 to subscribers, and due to all the hungry-mailman problems that we experienced with the last mailing, we're including issue #2 with all #3 subscriptions received within the next 24 hours. (After tomorrow, subscriptions will start with issue #3.) We've tamed the angry mailmen, so you'll actually get your mags on time. The DN Magazine has original BSD and Open Source content not found in the DN ezine."

The famous jim writes: "The March issue of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available. This month's topics include WINE, doscmd, FreeBSD vs Linux, The FreeBSD Browser, and BSD and Science. As always, feedback is welcome. Enjoy!"

Anonymous Coward writes "I have created an OpenBSD resource site that links to guides, tutorials, how-tos and other information for this great secure OS. Directed at new users, or those just after help on a particular topic. After searching the web I noticed there is not really a *complete* listing of OpenBSD resources anywhere. I also thought it would interest anyone wanting to learn a *BSD operating system - so why not OpenBSD? http://openbsd.sphosting.com/"

Emmanuel Dreyfus writes "The Linux compatibility feature has been enabled on NetBSD PowerPC ports (macppc, prep, bebox, ofppc, and amigappc). This means it is now possible to run Linux binaries such as Netscape Communicator on these ports. More information is available at the NetBSD web site."

pra9ma writes "Browsing through and found a nice article on setting up NetBSD and DSL connections as a gateway, the article gives an overview of ways to use your DSL machine as gateway for your home or office network, and goes through the basic steps to setup and maintain security to machines connected directly to the Internet." Nice reading material for those new to the BSD operating system."

So it's pewter rather than bronze, but that didn't alliterate as well. The folks over at Linux Jewellery have this amazing statue of the beastie available. Much kudos to Patryk Zadarnowski and the folks at Eliza Design Studio.

sparcv9 writes "The NetBSD Team announced today the offical start of the NetBSD/hpcarm port of their multi-platform OS. This port runs on StrongARM-based handheld PCs. So far, the HP Jornada 720 and the Compaq iPAQ H3600 are supported. With this port hot on the heels of the SH3/4-based hpcsh port and last year's MIPS-based hpcmips port, it looks like NetBSD could give Linux a run for its money in the handheld arena."

Prakash Shetty writes: "We are hereby proud to announce the Launch of FreeBSD Foundation India's official site www.freebsd.org.in. The site has news, articles, links, downloads, forums, etc. We request the *BSD community to help us promote this site for FreeBSD in and around India.

phraud16 asks: "I'm a 16-year-old student, and have been asked to bring in my BSD box, hook it up to the school network and teach my computer class about FreeBSD for the full 75 minutes. Every student is going to have his or her own login, and telnet into my box. I wanted to ask you Slashdot readers, what is the best way to teach BSD? Should I explain the history, then move on to commands? Should I leave out the history and go right to commands? Explain what servers are first? Ask the Class what an OS is? I could talk endlessly about FreeBSD and how good it is, but i'm stumped on where to begin teaching, and what areas of BSD the class should look at. I was thinking of just teaching stuff like: cp, mv, pico, mail, rm, df, and a few other commands? I don't want to bore them to death, and I don't want to only teach for 15 minutes of 75."

Chris Coleman writes "Apple has just announced their annual World Wide Developer Conference to be held May 21 - 25, 2001. If you find yourself wondering why you should attend, let me see if I can help. In addition to the regular Mac OS application development, this year Apple has added conference tracks for BSD UNIX and Darwin."

The Complete FreeBSD, The Design and Implementation of 4.4BSD, and The FreeBSD Handbook are among the most notable books available for BSD, but recently it was my pleasure to review a new book about FreeBSD, The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide by Ted Mittelstaedt.

An unnamed correspondent writes: "At least, that's the rumor on the street. Wonder what this will mean for Apple's Darwin project?" The rumor is confirmed, boys and girls, Wilfredo Sanchez has indeed left Apple. A statement is on his Advogato page; apparently he has gone to KnowNow. Sanchez says on that page too that he'll still be involved with Darwin maintaining Apache and Perl for that platform.

After a short downtime, the FreeBSD'zine is back up at a new home. One of the new articles is a How-To on using VMWare2 with FreeBSD. Check it out!