08 2002

Outside: August 01, 2002 22:57:50
Business2: The Best Things in Tech Are Free
This article that shares a few thoughts and links aboout the need-to-know basics of open source software. It includes some advocacy for BSD.

News: August 07, 2002 23:26:57
Image indexing and pattern recognition software development kit for NetBSD and FreeBSD
Convera recently announced support for NetBSD, FreeBSD and Darwin for its image indexing and pattern recognition software development kit.

News: August 08, 2002 10:09:18
Trolltech to release distributed compilation software for FreeBSD
Trolltech has network-based, distributed compilation software that supports cross-compilation.

Outside: August 10, 2002 16:05:07
ONLAMP: IRIX Binary Compatibility
The first paper of a series on IRIX binary compatibility on NetBSD has been published by ONLamp.com.

Outside: August 14, 2002 13:32:51
InfoWorld: Chasing Linux
This article briefly reviews some of the new and upcoming features and improvements and discusses a few issues with the FreeBSD OS.

News: August 17, 2002 23:02:36
DVD+RW software for (Open)BSD
Maarten Hofman ported the Linux DVD+RW tools (from Andy Polyakov) to OpenBSD and tested with a Philips DVD+RW player.

Outside: August 17, 2002 23:22:38
Wired: Open Source vs. Microsoft vs. al Qaeda
A short interview with Theo de Raadt about security and open source: "We can't expect people to secure their machines before hooking them up to the Internet."

News: August 19, 2002 12:39:13
Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in July 2002
There were 3037 packages in the packages collection at the end of July (71 added, 4 removed). The Package of the Month award goes to swill (pkgsrc/www/swill), a web server library that makes it easy to add a web interface capability to existing programs.

News: August 19, 2002 12:39:26
Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in July 2002
There were 3037 packages in the packages collection at the end of July (71 added, 4 removed). The Package of the Month award goes to swill (pkgsrc/www/swill), a web server library that makes it easy to add a web interface capability to existing programs.

Features: August 19, 2002 13:35:59
Upgrading to FreeBSD 4.6.2 using sysinstall
This article quickly reviews some steps using sysintall to upgrade to FreeBSD's maintenance release, 4.6.2-RELEASE.

News: August 26, 2002 16:16:03
NetBSD to have dynamic /bin and /sbin
NetBSD-current will have a fully dynamic-linked base system. Static built rescue executables still available.

Outside: August 29, 2002 08:57:46
XFree86 Version 4.2.0 (for OpenBSD) anti-aliased font tips & tricks
This article briefly explains Freetype, xfs, Xft, how to configure Xft to anti-alias and optimize your fontsets.

Outside: August 29, 2002 09:10:13
Daemon News: Backing up FreeBSD with SMBFS
This article explains how to configure a FreeBSD kernel for SMB support, using smbutil to establish a connection, mounting a remote share, and archiving data.

News: August 29, 2002 10:29:28
Sangoma pioneers WANPIPE ADSL card to support FreeBSD
According to Sangoma, they offer the only useable internal ADSL support for FreeBSD. The PCI 2.2 card and software supports PPP over Ethernet and ATM, Ethernet over ATM, and IP over ATM.