Michael Lucas は, コーディング以外で BSD に貢献するのに 必要な素質について説明しています.

この記事はシステム管理者向けです. FreeBSD システムを極めて安全に設定し, 管理する方法を 説明しています.

Wind River Systems は FreeBSD に関する資産を FreeBSD Mall に移転することを発表しました.

Kerneltrap は FreeBSD の重要な開発者の一人である Matt Dillon にインタビューしました.

Microsoft に買収されてから 4 年近くたちますが, Windows と IIS に移行するという報道にも関わらず, Hotmail では 未だに一部は FreeBSD と Apache をベースとしています.

新しい Unix ユーザ向けの, FreeBSD をワークステーション OS として使うことに関する記事です.

portupgrade の入門記事です.

FreeBSD ワークステーションから Windows(R) 共有にアクセス するための短い記事です.

Byte 誌の Moshe Bar は FreeBSD 4.3 と Linux 2.4.10 上で sendmail, procmail, MySQL, Apache を動作させた際の ベンチマークを用いた比較を投稿しました. この記事は新しく書き直された Linux の VM システム の検証に重点を置いており, テストはたった 512MB の RAM でおこなわれています

FreeBSD 5.0 で登場する機能について, FreeBSD の主要な 開発者である Matt Dillon にインタビューしています.

FreeBSD で WINE を使って Windows(R) アプリケーションを実行 するための記事です.

A short article on dealing with the all too common full disk.

American Megatrends Inc. のプレスリリースによれば, 新しいストレージソリューション は FreeBSD をつかっているそうです.

FreeBSD で CD をリッピングする記事です.

FreeBSD CVS リポジトリをミラーする方法です.

FreeBSD のソースコードを世界中に配布している CVSup インフラに関する記事です.

FreeBSD プロジェクトの創始者の一人である Jordan Hubbard への短いインタビューです.

NAI Labs, a division of Network Associates, Inc., announced a $1.2 million contract awarded by the U.S. Navy's Space and Warfare Systems Command to develop security extensions to the Open Source FreeBSD operating system.

An article describing the ways to control user access to your FreeBSD system.

A report on Microsoft's venture to port its C# programming language to FreeBSD.

Apple (http://www.apple.com/) has recruited FreeBSD founder Jordan Hubbard to its team, in a bid to steer its Mac OS X BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) efforts.

An article which states that open-source software connected with the FreeBSD operating system is used in several places deep inside several versions of Microsoft's Windows software, and on numerous server computers that manage major functions at Microsoft's free e-mail service, Hotmail.

A report on the backfiring of the Microsoft effort to vilify open source software.

BYTE's Linux guru finds himself wondering why he isn't running FreeBSD --- a comparision (with informal benchmarks) of FreeBSD 4.1.1 and a Linux based distribution running the v2.4.0 Linux kernel.

A reviewer finds FreeBSD 4.1 to be better suited for web serving than a Red Hat Linux distribution.

A report from a roundtable at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000, involving several prominent developers in the BSD world.

Rich Morin shows a proof-of-concept demo for the Meta Project: a Web-based file tree browser for the FreeBSD distribution.

Rich Morin examines efforts that may make documentation on FreeBSD and other open-source OSes easier to locate and use.

A geek's appraisal of the Apple OS X from Jordan Hubbard, one of the lead developers on the FreeBSD project.

Rich Morin reports on the conference and gives a helpful overview of the five major variants of BSD.

This column gives an overview of the different versions of BSD, with links for more information.

TeraSolutions, Inc. and Lightning Internet Services announce that the OpenSource archive at ftp.freesoftware.com has surpassed the download milestone of two trillion bytes per day from a single server machine.

A short article on using the FreeBSD Memory Filesystem.

An interview with Robert Watson, one of the lead developers in the TrustedBSD project.

See also the comics for the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th.

A review of FreeBSD 4.0 with praise for its speed, new security features, firewall support, and ports collection.

A short introduction to FreeBSD.

An informative article on BSD, and where it is going.

An article evaluating various commercial OSes that contains a blurb about BSDI and FreeBSD.

With the recent hype surrounding open source software, an important project has gone unnoticed in the media. This project, FreeBSD, aims to create a rock-solid UNIX clone based on the 4BSD work from the University of California at Berkeley.

FreeBSD, a relatively unknown operating system is playing a big role on the Internet.

An interview with Jordan Hubbard on the history of FreeBSD.

How Berkeley hackers built the Net's most fabled free operating system on the ashes of the '60s---and then lost the lead to Linux.

A short guide to installing FreeBSD 4.0.

Compares the merged Walnut Creek/BSDI OS offering to Linux.

Open-source software sometimes provides a better solution than expensive commerical, closed software.

PolyServe, a provider of software-based, distributed server clustering technology, announced co-marketing agreement with FreeBSD, Inc. to ship PolyServe's Understudy (TM) software program with all new versions of FreeBSD 4.0 operating system software.

Talks of the lack of awareness in the market of the strengths of the BSD operating system and of the plans afoot to change this.

BSDi will be offering technical support contracts for FreeBSD beginning in May 2000.

Commentary on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger.

The second part of a review of FreeBSD v3.4.

An interview with three BSD veterans on the past and future of BSD.

An interview with BSD veteran Keith Bostic on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger. ``BSD has always had the best technology'', says Keith.

Michael Lucas presents a guide to customizing the FreeBSD kernel, written for the Linux oriented.

This article attempts to give a System V or Linux administrator a basic grounding in FreeBSD configuration and usage.

A good description of the FreeBSD Ports collection.

Praise for FreeBSD from this article: ``FreeBSD is the system of choice because it is fast, stable, and can handle large volumes of traffic.''

An article on the BSD License.

Promotes the BSD OSes as better alternatives to Linux in the areas of performance, reliability and security.

A Linux user writes about his experiences with the FreeBSD ports system.

A review of FreeBSD 3.4.

A Jordan Hubbard Interview on Improvements, New Platforms and What's to Come.

A Linux user writes about his experiences with FreeBSD.

A report that looks at and debunks some of the myths associated with Open Source development.

About 17 percent of enterprises plan to deploy FreeBSD or Linux as a primary platform for e-commerce within two years.

Steve Jobs' Macworld Expo keynote speech mentions FreeBSD as one of the components in the new Darwin OS from Apple.

In an article on the next generation Darwin OS, Apple Inc., refers to FreeBSD as one of the ``most acclaimed OS projects of the modern era.''

FreeBSD has several options for using software from other platforms such as Linux. This article examines Linux emulation under FreeBSD.

Freei.Net is purchasing hundreds of Intel's LB440GX 2U Rack Server Platforms as the Internet service provider continues to experience explosive growth in its subscriber base. ``The LB440GX flawlessly supports our FreeBSD operating system,'' said Steve Bourg, Freei.Net's Chief Technical Officer.

Linux administrator turns to FreeBSD and finds it impressive.

Brett Glass sent this message to the FreeBSD -chat mailing list, about his experiences and perceptions at COMDEX. Of particular interest are the problems he had trying to get vendors to support the BSDs and Linux.

Discusses RedHat's acquisition of Cygnus, quotes Jordan Hubbard at length, and mentions FreeBSD.

A report on Wilfredo Sanchez's session on FreeBSD and the Apple Darwin project at the first FreeBSDCon.

In an interview with CBS MarketWatch, Bob Frankenberg, ex-CEO of Novell, praises FreeBSD for doing ``an exceptionally good job''. FreeBSD is used in his current company, Encanto.

Walnut Creek will distribute Applixware Office v4.4.2 in their FreeBSD 3.3 Power Desktop product. In addition, Walnut Creek will bundle Applix'SHELF, a visual open-source application development toolset and runtime environment with FreeBSD.

October 17, 1999 marked a milestone in the history of FreeBSD -- the first FreeBSD conference was held in the city where it all began.

Repost of IDG article about FreeBSDCon '99.

FreeBSD v3.2 is as close to the perfect Internet server operating system as it comes.

A report from the first annual FreeBSDCon held in Berkeley, California.

Entera announces a free, standards-based RTSP/RTP server to stream QuickTime from a FreeBSD platform.

This paper tries to explore links between open source software development and academic research as a better paradigm for OSS development.

Claims that the operating systems based on BSD are more reliable and secure. (requires registration with The Boston Globe prior to viewing)

An introduction to the BSD family of free operating systems.

Focusses on the BSD development model and the ease of keeping upto-date with tools like sup and CVSup.

A short (but not very accurate) introduction to FreeBSD for people who have heard about Linux.

CNN reports that the winner during the "Linux Death Match" at the Chaos Computer Camp in Germany used FreeBSD tools to win out over Linux attackers. More details are available at http://www.42.org/~sec/Berichte/199908Camp/index.en.html#match.

See also the comics for the 4th and the 5th.

Said to be the largest search engine on the Internet, FAST Web Search uses the FreeBSD operating system.

Using FreeBSD, Duke University computer science researchers have developed a system for communication at speeds higher than one billion bits per second in a local area network of personal computers. More details can be found at the Trapeze project web site.

pair Networks, Inc., the World's largest independently owned and operated paid hosting service, today announced that it has surpassed the 60,000 Web site milestone. Their web servers in their state-of-the-art data center house more than 2 Terabytes of storage, and deliver up to 100 million hits per day to site visitors. pair uses FreeBSD in order to ensure maximum uptime and reliability.

Network manager Peter McGarvey writes about his experience with a number of varieties of Unix. He sums up: FreeBSD is the greatest.

BSD is the software behind the world's most popular Web site and the world's most popular FTP site.

BSD powers some of the biggest sites, and its users are among the most jealous of Linux.

Underlines the advantages of BSD for the embedded device market. Mentions picoBSD.

Chris DiBona of VA Research and Jordan Hubbard of the FreeBSD Project give their views on Linux and FreeBSD.

A survey of thin servers, featuring products using FreeBSD as their internal operating system.

Michael Doyle, system administrator for Co-operation Ireland roots for FreeBSD in this interview. Michael is using FreeBSD and PostgreSQL as a cost-effective and ultra-reliable solution for his organization's I.T. needs.

An article comparing BSD and GPL style licenses.

In an interview with Wired News, Rob Malda, founder of Slashdot, says that he would now like to spend some more time reporting on FreeBSD.

FreeBSD: Is it the perfect Internet server operating system? As close as it comes.

It looks like Unix, it tastes like Unix but it isn't Unix. It's FreeBSD!

Rich Morin explains why FreeBSD is the superior OS for him.

Walnut Creek CDROM, Inc. announces that their popular software archive at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com has surpassed the one trillion bytes (one terabyte) milestone of files downloaded per day from a single server machine.

Reviews alternative PC operating systems. Includes a review of FreeBSD 3.2.

Article on Gnome and the Open Source movement. Mentions FreeBSD.

A short article introducing a few alternative OSes, including FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Aimed at the general public.

During its first full day of operation, the new NetFRAME 9201 server set a new all-time one day download record of 969GB of files, surpassing the previous record set last year of 873GB/day.

Examples of FreeBSD deployment in the real world and why some technology officers find it attractive.

Linux and BSD Unix are starting to show up on more and more corporate servers, running alongside or even replacing Netware and Windows NT.

Included with FreeBSD 3.1 is a complete, integrated SGML/XML development system that installs with a simple, easy to use command sequence.

FreeBSD is a supported operating system for a new version of Inktomi's carrier-class network cache platform.

Dual-Processor FreeBSD systems were used to generate a large number of special effects in the cutting edge Warner Brothers film, The Matrix.

A system administrator shares his views on FreeBSD.

What are the oldest free operating systems around? The answer is the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix variants.

Introduces FreeBSD to Linux users.

Outside technical circles, many remain unaware of viable choices for internet servers---like the FreeBSD operating system that drives Web servers for such high-profile names as Yahoo and Best Internet Communications (now part of Verio).

A description of the Walnut Creek CDROM setup. The article is also available from SunWorld.

Discusses thin-servers, including six built using an embedded FreeBSD kernel.

See also the serial from the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th of March, 1999.

Columnist Nathan Cochrane talks about the BSD family of open source operating systems.

An article on the open-source / free-software debate. Mentions Berkeley Unix as one of the early successes of shared source code collaboration.

There is a small but interesting FreeBSD mention in LWN in an interview with Linux's Alan Cox.

Software that has been developed by thousands of volunteers and is given away is often better than the stuff for sale. Note: The article is no longer available online without registration.

A short history of Berkeley Unix.

Here is how to set up a web server using another freely available operating system, FreeBSD, a high performance, mature, Unix-like system.

Introduces the modern BSD OSes to the general public.

While finished thin servers should be optimized in both hardware and software for the task at hand, who says the software and hardware must come from the same developer? This Perspective examines the emerging trend in the OEM market of divorcing the software layer from the hardware layer. Many operating systems are vying to be the OS of choice for thin servers. This document examines this issue in detail, particularly the differences between Linux and FreeBSD, the current de facto leaders in the market. Note: The article is no longer available online without registration.

The article describes a network management tool built on FreeBSD that has even used network connections to www.FreeBSD.org for performing network research.

This issue has a good article on FreeBSD and why it's worth a look by Linux folks.

A brief, business oriented introduction to the open source community.

There is a good report on the Walnut Creek booth and FreeBSD at the Linux Today website. The first half of the report is on Slackware Linux, the second half is on FreeBSD.

Larry Ellison talking about their new dedicated Oracle servers, mentions FreeBSD as one of a list of candidate OSes for the platform.

Continuation of an earlier column reviewing freely available Unix like operating systems.

An introduction to FreeBSD, and where it stands with respect to the other free OSes.

An article touting the stability and power of the Unix platform over NT.

Ryan Snedegar reviews FreeBSD 2.2.7 and finds its web-serving performance to be better than Windows NT.

About why customers prefer open source software like Linux, FreeBSD, Perl and TCL to proprietary alternatives.

Briefly reviews the BSD Unix heritage.

On how to use FreeBSD's select(2) and poll(2) system calls.

A short introduction to FreeBSD 2.2.7.

Desire for better security has led some ISPs to deploy FreeBSD on their servers.

Jordan compares the past of Unix with the future of Linux, outlining possible similarities and describing faults that could be prevented.

Consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader mentions FreeBSD by name.

Practical approaches to distributing HTTP traffic at your site. Includes a section on performance tuning Apache under FreeBSD.

For smaller companies and web sites, a FreeBSD and Apache on an Intel (PC) architecture machine is more than sufficient.

Note: the article is not available online.

A description of the FreeBSD Ports collection.

A collection of tips and tricks to secure your internal network.