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FreeBSD in the Press

December 1999

• Freei.Net Doubles Service Speed With Intel(R) Server Platforms
  Freei.Net, Freei.Net Press Release
  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.

• FreeBSD 3.3. Robust OS well suited for Internet/Intranet Deployment
  Data Communications Online, Juha Saarinen
  Linux administrator turns to FreeBSD and finds it impressive.

November 1999

• FreeBSD at COMDEX
  Slashdot, Brett Glass
  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.

• Who controls free software?
  Salon Magazine, Andrew Leonard
  Discusses RedHat's acquisition of Cygnus, quotes Jordan Hubbard at length, and mentions FreeBSD.

• The Darwinist: Darwin for x86?
  MacWeek, Stephan Somogyi
  A report on Wilfredo Sanchez's session on FreeBSD and the Apple Darwin project at the first FreeBSDCon.

• Bob Frankenberg's breaking Windows
  CBS MarketWatch, Michael Tarsala
  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.

• Applix and Walnut Creek Partner to Provide Applixware Office for the FreeBSD Operating System
  Applix Inc., Applix Inc. press release
  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.

• LinuxWorld report on FreeBSDCon 99
  LinuxWorld, Vicki Brown
  October 17, 1999 marked a milestone in the history of FreeBSD -- the first FreeBSD conference was held in the city where it all began.

• FreeBSDCon'99: Fans of Linux's lesser-known sibling gather for the first time
  CNN, Vicki Brown
  Repost of IDG article about FreeBSDCon '99.

October 1999

• ServerWatch's Review of FreeBSD
  ServerWatch, Kevin Reichard
  FreeBSD v3.2 is as close to the perfect Internet server operating system as it comes.

• Grass Roots Daemocracy
  Upside, Sam Williams
  A report from the first annual FreeBSDCon held in Berkeley, California.

• ENTERA DELIVERS FreeBSD STREAMING SERVER SUPPORTING QUICKTIME
  Entera, Entera Press Release
  Entera announces a free, standards-based RTSP/RTP server to stream QuickTime from a FreeBSD platform.

• Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research
  First Monday, Nikolai Bezroukov
  This paper tries to explore links between open source software development and academic research as a better paradigm for OSS development.

September 1999

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

• Beyond Linux, Free Systems Help Build The Web
  Wall Street Journal, Lee Gomes
  An introduction to the BSD family of free operating systems.

• Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs
  SysAdmin, Michael Lucas
  Focusses on the BSD development model and the ease of keeping upto-date with tools like sup and CVSup.

August 1999

• Out of Linux limelight, devil gets its due
  Boston Globe, Hiawatha Bray
  A short (but not very accurate) introduction to FreeBSD for people who have heard about Linux.

• Reporter's notebook: Hackers on holiday
  CNN, Ann Harrison
  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.

• More FreeBSD Comics
  User Friendly the Comic Strip, Illiad
  See also the comics for the 4th and the 5th.

• World's Biggest Internet Search Engine Goes Online
  Fast Search & Transfer, FAST Press Release
  Said to be the largest search engine on the Internet, FAST Web Search uses the FreeBSD operating system.

• Duke Computer Scientists Exceed "Gigabit" Data Processing Speeds With Internet Software
  Science Daily Magazine, Duke University press release
  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.

July 1999

• WORLDS LARGEST INDEPENDENT IPP HITS NEW MILESTONE
  Pair Networks, pair Networks press release
  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.

• Free OS? It' s as easy as BSD
  TechWeb UK, Peter McGarvey
  Network manager Peter McGarvey writes about his experience with a number of varieties of Unix. He sums up: FreeBSD is the greatest.

• BSD a better OS than Linux?
  ZD Net News, Bob Sullivan
  BSD is the software behind the world's most popular Web site and the world's most popular FTP site.

• The Net's stealth operating system
  MSNBC, Bob Sullivan
  BSD powers some of the biggest sites, and its users are among the most jealous of Linux.

• Embed Together: The Case For BSD In Network Appliances
  Performance Computing, Kevin Rose and Charles Davidson
  Underlines the advantages of BSD for the embedded device market. Mentions picoBSD.

June 1999

• Radio interview: Linux and FreeBSD
  GigABytes Radio Talk Show, Chris DiBona and Jordan Hubbard
  Chris DiBona of VA Research and Jordan Hubbard of the FreeBSD Project give their views on Linux and FreeBSD.

• Thin Servers
  Windows NT Systems, Ted Drude
  A survey of thin servers, featuring products using FreeBSD as their internal operating system.

• Information Technology and the Internet in Co-operation Ireland
  Public Communications Centre, Ireland, Interview with Michael Doyle
  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.

• GPL and BSD: explication and comparison
  32BitsOnline, Rob Bos
  An article comparing BSD and GPL style licenses.

• CmdrTaco on Slashdot Sale
  Wired Business News, Leander Kahney
  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.

• Server Platforms - FreeBSD Review
  ServerWatch, Kevin Reichard
  FreeBSD: Is it the perfect Internet server operating system? As close as it comes.

• Yes! There is intelligent life beyond Linux
  Network Week Online, David Cartwright
  It looks like Unix, it tastes like Unix but it isn't Unix. It's FreeBSD!

May 1999

• Silicon Carny: Why I run FreeBSD
  SunWorld, Rich Morin
  Rich Morin explains why FreeBSD is the superior OS for him.

• INTERNET'S BUSIEST SOFTWARE ARCHIVE REACHES NEW DOWNLOAD MILESTONE
  Walnut Creek CDROM, David Greenman
  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.

• Bye-Bye, Windows
  CNet, Christopher Lindquist
  Reviews alternative PC operating systems. Includes a review of FreeBSD 3.2.

• Gnome is no Windows dwarf
  BBC, Chris Nuttall
  Article on Gnome and the Open Source movement. Mentions FreeBSD.

• OS Also-Rans
  Pioneer Planet, JULIO OJEDA-ZAPATA
  A short article introducing a few alternative OSes, including FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Aimed at the general public.

• Micron Electronics NetFRAME chosen for Internet's busiest site
  Walnut Creek CDROM, David Greenman
  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.

• The other open-source OS: FreeBSD
  ZD Net, Anne Chen
  Examples of FreeBSD deployment in the real world and why some technology officers find it attractive.

April 1999

• Open-Source Software: Power to the People
  Data Communications, Lee Bruno
  Linux and BSD Unix are starting to show up on more and more corporate servers, running alongside or even replacing Netware and Windows NT.

• XML: Complete XML Development System Integrated with FreeBSD
  FreeBSD Advocacy, Jordan Hubbard
  Included with FreeBSD 3.1 is a complete, integrated SGML/XML development system that installs with a simple, easy to use command sequence.

• Inktomi Announces Traffic Server 3.0
  Inktomi, Inktomi press release
  FreeBSD is a supported operating system for a new version of Inktomi's carrier-class network cache platform.

• The Matrix: FreeBSD Used to Generate Special Effects
  FreeBSD Advocacy, Jordan Hubbard
  Dual-Processor FreeBSD systems were used to generate a large number of special effects in the cutting edge Warner Brothers film, The Matrix.

• Let's Get More Educated About FreeBSD
  osOpinion, Preston S. Wiley
  A system administrator shares his views on FreeBSD.

• The Oldest Free OS
  ZD Net, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
  What are the oldest free operating systems around? The answer is the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix variants.

• FreeBSD wants a place in the sun
  Upside, Sam Williams
  Introduces FreeBSD to Linux users.

• FreeBSD Offers a Sound Open Source Alternative
  Internet World, James C. Luh
  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).

• Serious FTP: Behind the scenes of Walnut Creek CDROM
  CNN, Rich Morin
  A description of the Walnut Creek CDROM setup. The article is also available from SunWorld.

• Thin Servers: Off-the-Shelf Internet Help
  TechWeb, Christine Zimmerman
  Discusses thin-servers, including six built using an embedded FreeBSD kernel.

March 1999

• A FreeBSD Comic Strip
  User Friendly the Comic Strip, Illiad
  See also the serial from the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th of March, 1999.

• Rising support for BSD
  Fairfax IT News, Nathan Cochrane
  Columnist Nathan Cochrane talks about the BSD family of open source operating systems.

• Whence the Source: Untangling the Open Source/Free Software Debate
  O'Reilly Open Source, Thomas Scoville
  An article on the open-source / free-software debate. Mentions Berkeley Unix as one of the early successes of shared source code collaboration.

February 1999

• LWN interviews Alan Cox
  Linux Weekly News,
  There is a small but interesting FreeBSD mention in LWN in an interview with Linux's Alan Cox.

• 
  The Economist,
  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.

January 1999

• Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix
  O'Reilly and Associates, Marshall Kirk McKusick
  A short history of Berkeley Unix.

• WWWsmith: Installation and Configuration of FreeBSD
  LINUX JOURNAL, Sean Eric Fagan
  Here is how to set up a web server using another freely available operating system, FreeBSD, a high performance, mature, Unix-like system.

• The return of BSD - What are the BSD flavors and why might you use them?
  SunWorld, Greg Lehey
  Introduces the modern BSD OSes to the general public.

• 
  GartnerGroup,
  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.

• Nature Web Matters: Internet tomography
  Nature, K.C. Claffy, Tracie Monk & Daniel McRobb, UCSD/CAIDA, USA.
  The article describes a network management tool built on FreeBSD that has even used network connections to www.FreeBSD.org for performing network research.

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