LiquidPC writes: "BSDtoday.com has an article on using OpenBSD for DNS and DHCP on a network. It gives examples of doing this with dhs.org. A good read if you ask me."

Lally Singh writes: "Getting bored with the latest distribution? Or getting tired of searching for drivers for your 8 bit soundblaster (in)compatible? Then listen to one BSD user's opinion of Mac OS X. And stop complaining about the hardware. Give a Powermac or one of the portables a chance before knocking on it."

Mycroft writes: "There's a new entrant into the open source DVD legal battle: Dolby Laboratories. The NetBSD Project received this letter demanding that links to the open source ac3dec package be removed. What's next?" Probably what's next are yet more letters sent to every other project which enables decoding of content on platforms unsupported by the format licensors. Remember, you don't buy anything anymore -- you license it.

questionlp writes: "The great writers and editors of Daemon News has just released the August issue of the Daemon News e-Zine. The topics covered this month include: the NetBSD rc.d system, two security guides aimed at FreeBSD, the monthly Answerman Q&A section, and tuning of a FreeBSD system for high-performance."

JunkMale writes: "The Diary face lift has been completed. Not only has the look/feel changed, but it is now running on a colocated server, giving me much more control than I had before. Also included are new features, such as user feedback on an article-by-article basis and newsfeeds from other sites. My thanks to Bean for her work on the graphics side. It is much appreciated."

ark_baby writes "Theres a BSD conference scheduled for 9-11 November 2001 in england. Paper & talk submissions as well as pre bookings are now available. More info at http://www.bsdconeurope.org/"

Kwantus writes: "It's not Earth-shattering news, but at least it's not about Microsoft. NetBSD 1.5.1 is out." Wow, with that kind of introduction who wouldn't want to run out and try NetBSD? :)

NAI Labs has been awarded a $1.2 million contract for FreeBSD security development. The main focus for this contract is to develop the TrustedBSD security extentions. The name of the project is CBOSS, (Community Based Open Source Initiative), led by Robert Watson and Lee Badger, and such developers as Kirk McKusick, Poul-Henning Kamp, Jonathan Lemon, and Eivind Eklund will work on it as subcontractors. I am excited over the news; the press release can be found at NAI Labs' CBOSS website.

ctg1701 noticed that daemonews was running "a story today about openpackages for *BSD," and says "I am a big fan of the freebsd and openbsd operating systems and having a seamless way of creating packages on these and other platforms would be great. It seems they are also working on porting this over to HPUX and Mac OSX. Very cool stuff. Check it out at http://www.openpackages.org."

BorrisYeltsin writes " Old news but Apple have released Darwin 1.3.1. You can get both PowerPC and i386 iso's (i386 gzipped iso) from their site. Installation notes are available for Intel also. Lets hope Darwin now supports my MVP motherboard :) " Dial-up users may prefer to order a CD from DaemonNews instead ;)

proclus writes: "The FreeBSD ports system has been ported to Mac OSX, GNU/Linux, LinuxPPC, and OpenBSD. Check out this descriptive paper and roll your own ports-based distribution." Besides an some informative description of the mechanics of the port system, the paper lays out the case for ports (free and readily available) as a good antidote for .Net and other subscription-based systems.

questionlp writes: "A new month, a new issue of Daemon News is now available on-line here. The July issue of the e-zine covers happenings at USENIX 2001, a very thorough overview of NetBSD 1.5.1, the horrors of script generated drivers, and the usual mix of BSD articles." It's a good read -- and if you primarily use some other OS, it's interesting to see how the others are doing once in a while. The various BSDs aren't really complaining at the moment;)

FreeBSD Services Ltd. has announced their intention to distribute FreeBSD on (bootable) DVD, including packages, ports distfiles, the CVS repository, and a technical documentation set. I managed to get one of the promotional DVD's here at USENIX and I can't wait to get home and check out what's on it. Ultimately it will be offered as a subscription based service and documentation will be kept up-to-date.

Anonymous Coward and many others wrote in to tell us that Jordan Hubbard is going to work for Apple. Here's his post to the FreeBSD-announce mail list.

Anon wrote: OpenBSD has started getting a new packet filter, pf, written largely by Daniel Hartmeier. The commits have been flying since then, but it looks like the new filter is going to be ipf-compatible as well as BSD licensed.