BSD

Using Memory File Systems In BSD 3

Posted by Nik from the NP:-Englishman-in-New-York dept.
by by writes "In O'Reillynet's Big Scary Daemons column, Michael Lucas explains how to effectively use memory file systems. MFSes are especially useful in diskless workstations. You can even create a MFS larger than physical memory and BSD will use swap space when needed."
BSD

NetBSD mipsco/mvme162 ports 6

Posted by Nik from the film-at-11 dept.
A quick glance at the NetBSD changes page will show that in the quest to get a login prompt on everything with a processor, the NetBSD team have done it again. NetBSD is now ported to the RC3230 platform from MIPS Computing, hence NetBSD/mipsco. At the same time, preliminary support for the LX200/300 variants of the MVME162 have been added to the NetBSD/mvme68k port. Has anyone ever had all the platforms that can run NetBSD up and running in the same place at the same time? Is it even feasible?
BSD

The BSD view of LinuxWorld 2000 3

Posted by Nik from the thanks-for-the-memories dept.
sirhan writes " I know it's been a while since LinuxWorld 2000 in San Jose, but DeamonNews had this piece about the big BSD presence and a recap of the events."
Links

Unified BSD packaging system? 108

Posted by Nik from the Must-get-around-to-playing-with-apt-get dept.
Chris Coleman is putting his money where his mouth is, after his recent suggestion that the BSDs need a unified package collection. The creation of www.openpackages.org was the next logical step, and Chris discusses this in his latest Daemon News editorial. With representatives from the three free BSD projects, as well as Apple (MacOS X) on board, this certainly has the potential to bring about closer ties between the BSD distributions at a level that will affect a lot of users.
The Internet

Setting Up IPv6 On BSD 5

Posted by Nik from the Now-what-was-that-gateway-address-again? dept.
by by writes "O'Reillynet's OpenBSD Explained column recently explained how to setup IPv6 on OpenBSD. Interesting glimpse into the future of the Internet." True enough. It was my impression that the BSDs all got IPv6 at the same time though, courtesy of the work carried out by the KAME group. On a very much related note, Jim O'Gorman has written an IPv6 Behind a NAT article for this month's Daemon News, which also makes getting involved in IPv6 easier.
BSD

Mac OS X Beta To Come Out Sept. 13 227

Posted by Hemos from the osx-finally-comes-forth dept.
A reader writes "At his keynote at Seybold today, Steve Jobs announced that Mac OS X beta will ship on September 13th. More details at MacNN's site." This is the beta - but the Sept. 13th beta launch is the first day of Paris Mac Expo, meaning that it probably will happen. He also confirmed that they are on target for an "early 2001" release of OSX.
Links

The World's Most Secure OS (?) 180

Posted by Nik from the Certainly-has-a-cool-mascot dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "Titled The World's Most Secure OS, this article in The Standard talks about what is needed to be "Secure by Default"" Probably the best OpenBSD article I've read in recent months. Theo doesn't pull his punches (then again, he never does), in particular, discounting the "more eyes means better security" philosophy. Then again, he's probably right. [ Update: noeld wrote in with a link to a similar article at rootprompt.org. Must be something in the water. ]
Announcements

FreeBSD zine Issue #7 is out 1

Posted by Nik from the insert-funny-dept.-here dept.
AntiBasic writes "An absolute "must read" for FreeBSD users out there. This month's issue includes VLAN interface configuration, installing FreeBSD on a Dell Inspiron 5000 and the founding of a BUG in Yucatan, Mexico. Check out Issue #7"
BSD

Configuration Tools for BSD? 12

Posted by Cliff from the useful-admin-tools dept.
david@ecsd.com asks: "I've been using Linux for quite some time now and I've been thinking about giving one of the BSD's a whirl on my box at home. I've come to really like Linuxconf and have been wondering if there's anything like that for the BSD's or even if anyone has ported it to BSD. I really, really hate having to delve through 100s configuration text files to find the right one to edit."
Compaq

Compaq Licensing BSD TCP/IP Stack 13

Posted by Nik from the just-call-me-Hillary dept.
As this release announces, BSDi have just licensed the BSD/OS Parallel TCP/IP stack to Compaq for use in their Himalaya range of servers. Which is great, but I'm still trying to work out why they called them "Himalaya."
BSD

The BSDs Need A Unified Package Collection 15

Posted by michael from the try-UPS-Blue dept.
qbasicprogrammer writes "Chris Coleman wrote to Daily Daemon News suggesting a unified package collection. Currently OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD maintain separate ports/package trees. Chris points out the various BSD package collections all carry different versions Mozilla; a common ports system would certainly benefit everyone."
BSD

Loki And BSDi Team Up For BSD Games 108

Posted by Hemos from the and-skin-tight-devil-suits dept.
I just got word from the fine folks at LokiSoft announcing that they are partnering with BSDi to produce games for BSD. Very cool -- my hat is off to all involved. Here's the press release.
BSD

BSD And Politics 129

Posted by emmett from the just-another-corporate-interest dept.
qbasicprogrammer writes: "At Daily Daemon News, Josh Pennell says the Reform Party's National Primary Online Election was constantly under attack during the 72-hour election window, however IOActive (the Reform Party's hosting service)'s OpenBSD server kept the kiddies and crackers away. According to the reader comments, Ralph Nader is using BSD/OS, as is the Libertarian Party Web site. It's nice to see political parties believe in freedom of software."
BSD

BSD Basics For The Newbie 9

Posted by michael from the where's-autoexec.bat? dept.
qbasicprogrammer writes: "FreeBSD Basics on The O'Reilly Network covers some of the more useful FreeBSD commands that make computer life easier, including commands for things like scrolling through virtual terminals and checking date, time, and current working directory. Good read for the BSD neophyte."
BSD

August 2000 Daemonnews e-zine is out 4

Posted by Nik from the lamb-pasanda-and-mushroom-rice-please dept.
AntiBasic writes "The August 2000 issue of the Daemon News ezine has been published. Content includes the last of the USENIX 2000 coverage (three articles), a Blueprints article on writing an ISA device driver, how to set up FreeBSD on a Compaq iPaq box, and more!"
Microsoft

Hotmail about to collapse under load 492

Posted by Nik from the well,-probably dept.
An AC submitted this interesting tidbit from those folks over at NetCraft. To quote from the page: "HotMail has commenced its much awaited migration to a Microsoft operating system. Some Windows 2000 machines have recently been moved into the load balancing pool, with currently between 90-95% of requests being served by the established FreeBSD/Apache platform, and 5-10% from Windows 2000." This is not the first time MS are believed to have attempted this (but I'd appreciate hard evidence confirming that, instead of the more normal rumours and whispers).
Announcements

FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE Now Available 6

Posted by Nik from the Damnit,-I-want-4.4 dept.
Cabal writes: "FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE is now available for the x86 and alpha architectures. There have been a few important changes in both the kernel and userland, plus several security fixes were included. Most important is the inclusion of the new kerberos security updates. 3.5.1 is the continuation and most likely final release of the 3.x branch. New development continues on 5.x. The release notes have the full details on what's changed, you can download 3.5.1 from here or the i386 ISO image from here." But why no CVS tag? Read on for the explanation. . .

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