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<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1999-06-09 04:52:20 $">
<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1999-06-15 07:38:51 $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD in the Press">
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<!ENTITY % newsincludes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %newsincludes;
]>
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&header;
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<a href="http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/990316/openline1.html">
Rising support for BSD</a><br>
by Nathan Cochrane<br>
Columnist Nathan Cochrane talks about the BSD family of open
source operating systems.
</p></li>
<li><p><b><a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com">O'Reilly Open Source</a>
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<a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/news/scoville_0399.html">
Whence the Source: Untangling the Open Source/Free Software Debate</a><br>
by Thomas Scoville<br>
An article on the open-source / free-software debate. Mentions
Berkeley Unix as one of the early successes of shared source code
collaboration.
</p></li>
</ul>
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Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix</a><br>
From AT&amp;T-Owned to Freely Re-distributable<br>
by Marshall Kirk McKusick<br>
A short history of Berkeley Unix.
</p></li>
<li><p><b><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/">LINUX JOURNAL</a>
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<a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd.html">
The return of BSD - What are the BSD flavors and why might you use them?</a><br>
by Greg Lehey<br>
Introduces the modern BSD OSes to the general public.
</p></li>
<li><p><b><a href="http://www.gartner.com/">GartnerGroup</a>
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<a href="http://www.edventure.com/release1/1198.html">
The Open-Source Revolution</a><br>
by Tim O'Reilly, with an introduction by Esther Dyson<br>
A brief, business oriented introduction to the open source community.
</p></li>
<li><p><b><a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com/">Linux Today</a>
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<a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19981000/lnx9810.htm">
Linux/etc, The other free Unixes, part 2 of 2</a><br>
by Terry Griffin<br>
Continuation of an earlier column reviewing freely available
Unix like operating systems.
</p></li>
<li><p><b><a href="http://www.performance-computing.com/">
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<a href="http://www.performance-computing.com/features/9810of1.shtml">
What Is FreeBSD?</a><br>
by Jordan K. Hubbard<br>
An introduction to FreeBSD, and where it stands with respect to
the other free OSes.
</p></li>
<li><p><b><a href="http://www.mercurycenter.com/">Mercury Center</a>
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<a href="http://www.mercurycenter.com/business/center/unix102798.htm">
Unix back in the fight with NT</a><br>
by Miguel Helft<br>
An article touting the stability and power of the Unix platform
over NT.
</p></li>
<li><p><b><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/">ZDNet</a>
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<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pclabs/nettools/1718/bench1.html">
A No-Cost NOS</a><br>
by Ryan Snedegar<br>
Ryan Snedegar reviews FreeBSD 2.2.7 and finds its web-serving performance
to be better than Windows NT.
</p></li>
<li><p><b><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/">Inter@ctive Week</a>
19 October 1998</b><br>
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/prtarchivestory/0,4356,361668,00.html">
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/prtarchivestory/0,4356,361668,00.HTML">
Open Code Frees Up The Net</a><br>
by Charles Babcock<br>
About why customers prefer open source software like Linux, FreeBSD,
Perl and TCL to proprietary alternatives.
</p></li>
<li><p><b><a href="http://www.irish-times.com/">The Irish Times</a>
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<a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19980900/lnx9809.htm">
Linux/etc, The other free Unixes, part 1 of 2</a><br>
by Terry Griffin<br>
</p></li>
Briefly reviews the BSD Unix heritage.
</P></li>
<li><p><b><a href="http://www.ddj.com/">Dr. Dobb's Journal</a>
September 1998</b><br>
<a href="http://www.ddj.com/ddj/1998/1998_09/faga/faga.htm">
<a href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/1998/9809/9809e/9809e.htm">
Communications &amp; Networking: Asynchronous Communications Using
select and poll</a><br>
by Sean Eric Fagan<br>
On how to use FreeBSD's
<tt><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?select">select(2)</a></tt>
and
<tt><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?poll">poll(2)</a></tt>
system calls.
</p></li>
<li><p><b><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/">Sm@rt Reseller Online</a>
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<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,349576,00.html">
Quality Unix for FREE</a><br>
by Brett Glass<br>
A short introduction to FreeBSD 2.2.7.
</p></li>
</ul>
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21 August 1998</b><br>
<a href="http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,25526,00.html">
Hack raises flags about small ISPs</a><br>
Jim Hu, Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM<br>
by Jim Hu, Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM<br>
Desire for better security has led some ISPs to deploy FreeBSD on
their servers.
</p></li>
</ul>
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CRL Press Release<br>
</p></li>
<li><p><b><a href="http://editorials.freshmeat.net/">( freshmeat ) - ( editorials )</a>
<li><p><b><a href="http://www.freshmeat.net/">( freshmeat )</a>
13 July 1998</b><br>
<a HREF="http://editorials.freshmeat.net/jordan980713/">
Pulling on one end of the rope</a> (the past and future of the
<a HREF="http://www.freshmeat.net/news/1998/07/13/900364444.html">
Pulling on one end of the rope</a>(the past and future of the
Unix community)<br>
by Jordan K. Hubbard
</li>
by Jordan K. Hubbard<br>
Jordan compares the past of Unix with the future of Linux, outlining
possible similarities and describing faults that could be prevented.
</p></li>
</ul>
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<a href="http://www.WebTechniques.com/features/1998/05/engelschall/engelschall.shtml">
Load Balancing Your Web Site</a><br>
by Ralf S.Engelschall<br>
Practical approaches to distributing HTTP traffic at your site.
Includes a section on performance tuning Apache under FreeBSD.
</p></li>
<li><p><b><a href="http://www.ncworldmag.com/">NC World</a>
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<a href="http://www.dv.com/magazine/1998/0498/johnson0498.html">
Who's Serving Who?</a><br>
by Nels Johnson<br>
For smaller companies and web sites, a FreeBSD and Apache on an
Intel (PC) architecture machine is more than sufficient.
</p></li>
</ul>