conio writes "MSNBC has an excellent article about BSD titled "The Net's stealth operating system." It gives a brief history of BSD and discusses why it's not as mainstream as Linux. It also delves into the BSDL vs. GPL holy war, and talks about how BSD will soon work its way into the workstation market. It's both accurate and well-written. "

The monkey flying around in my butt writes " In what has got to be one of the better pieces on the Linux vs. BSD debate Wes Peters talks about both OS's, the strengths and weakness of each, and how they live together to form a symbiotic circle. "

Josef Grosch writes "Walnut Creek's FTP machine, wcarchive, running FreeBSD transfered 1.39 Terabyte in a single 24 hour period. "

Chris Frost writes "As found on OpenBSD's website today (www.openbsd.org), "The current release of OpenBSD is 2.5 which started shipping May 19, 1999." Not sure what calendering method was used to calculate this and then post, but nonetheless OpenBSD 2.5 has been released. "

Kenny_Dope writes "FreeBSD 3.2-Release is now available at the usual FTPs (ftp.freebsd.org , and mirrors) with lots of cool new features. go get it now! ( taken from freebsdrocks.com " You BSDies know what to do.

Woody writes "There is tons of stuff happening on the BSD front. The NetBSD Foundation is scheduled to release version 1.4 of their multi-platform OS tomorrow, May 12. The OpenBSD group is scheduled to release version 2.5 of their super-secure multi-platform OS on May 19. Finally, those boys over at FreeBSD are scheduled to release version 3.2 of their i386 optimized OS on or around May 15. Lots of rumblings in the BSD world! "

chris sent in a link to this story which reports on FreeBSD being used on 32 dual-processor machines to render special effects for The Matrix. With 32 dual-processor machines, I doubt there's much that they couldn't render.

An anonymous reader sent us an article about FreeBSD, and life in Linux's Shadow. Interesting article about the culture difference between Linux and FreeBSD users. Its a good one for you FreeBSD fans and you curious Linux users alike. I wish more BSD stuff came down the pipe here, but Linux just has the vast majority of the submissions here too.

Jason C. Wells writes "FreeBSD, Inc. has released FreeBSD 3.1. Please read the release notes. You can install FreeBSD 3.1 by following the instructions. Have fun with it! "

Herb Peyerl contributed this earlier in the week, but the NetBSD site did not confirm it for some time. "NetBSD now runs on Sun Ultrasparc hardware. NetBSD/sparc64 is the product of a 2-year effort. Currently, UltraSPARC I and II CPUs, esp SCSI controllers, le ethernet controllers, zs serial ports, cgsix graphics controllers are supported. Any of the other drivers from the NetBSD/sparc port might also work. The 32-bit kernel runs most NetBSD/sparc binaries. A 64-bit version of the system currently exists and runs on some hardware, but requires further development to be fully functional.". The latest snapshot is available.

Elwood writes "Well, the time has finally come. The 3.0 tree was branched to 3.1-stable (RELENG_3) and 4.0-current (HEAD) today. Whoo-Hoo! Time to make those FTP server do that thing they do... " Update: 01/21 09:28 by CT : clarification from Jesse FreeBSD 3.0 has become the FreeBSD-STABLE tree, a new tree in the CVS has just been made for development. 3.1-RELEASE will come in 1 month (Feb 15th).

ehovland writes "There is an interesting article about the BSD variants in the latest SunWorld. Nothing new for the experienced reader but lots of good info on what makes them different for those with no experience with them. What is especially scathing is the paragraph which compares the cdrom archive with Microsoft's suggestions for a good ftp server cluster:" In contrast to Microsoft's 6 GB of downloads per day, however, it routinely transfers more than 700 GB of data a day for to up to 3,600 concurrent users." " I think we need a generic BSD icon.

Woody wrote in to tell us that NetBSD 1.3.3. was released on December 23rd. Full list of changes here.

nikc writes "The December 17th issue of LinuxWorld features an excellent article about FreeBSD. It's refreshingly free from hype and unsubstantiated claims often made by supporters of both systems, and well worth reading. "

bghandhi was the first to let us know that OpenBSD 2.4 has been released. The new release contains lots of new ethernet drivers (esp. for SBUS cards), security improvements, and a lot more integrated crypto: a shared SSL library, IPSEC improvements, and more. You can find a summary of the most important changes here. If you would like to support the project, please order the US$30 CD set (which includes stickers!)