Today's Headlines
- Linux Called Garbage By Open Source Rival
- If there's little love lost between fans of the Windows and Linux operating systems, there's none lost between Linux and another open-source OS, OpenBSD.
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- NetBSD, For When Portability And Stability Matter
- The BSD family tree is almost biblical in lineage. The original BSD begat 2BSD, which begat 4.3BSD, which begat 386BSD, which begat FreeBSD and NetBSD, which begat OpenBSD. Or something like that. The actual diagram of BSD history may look like a Rorschach test, but there are currently three major flavors of BSD actively developed and used: FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Technically, one could argue Apple's OS X is a fourth BSD family OS, but it is a special case.
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- OpenSSH Marks Its Fifth Birthday
- OpenSSH marks five years of its existence this week and a new round of internet SSH version mapping shows that it has over 88 percent of the SSH server market, Damien Miller, one of the developers, said today.
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- FreeBSD 5.3 Beta Is Released
- The first beta of FreeBSD 5.3 operating system has now been released, and the final release date has been set for the beginning of October.
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- Desktop FreeBSD Part 4: Internet Mail Setup
- The one thing that really fired up the develpment of the Internet as we know it today was e-mail. The protocols were designed back when the system itself was highly difficult to access, and security wasn't a significant issue. Since then, even your average household pet has heard of Internet security problems.
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- Differentiating Among BSD Distros
- Organizations that want to use a public Unix variant have two solutions from which to chose: Linux and BSD. The much talked about Linux camp contains a variety of distributions that include different utilities and tool sets. The same is true of the less frequently covered BSD camp. This article compares and contrasts the four main BSD variants and offers recommendations for both server- and desktop-based solutions.
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- DragonFlyBSD 1.0A: A Strong Start
- A year ago, when the DragonFlyBSD project was announced, I scoffed at it. "A FreeBSD fork, and they're not even using the new technology release!" I figured it was just a disgruntled developer's one-man crusade against the programmers he didn't get along with on the FreeBSD team. Imagine my surprise when I read the announcement of the first release. Yes, DragonFlyBSD has survived long enough to gain developer support and meet several of its stratospheric goals. That doesn't mean it works properly yet, but there's a promising future ahead for this operating system.
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- FreeBSD Milestone Nears Release
- The most significant update in years of the FreeBSD operating system is due to enter beta testing mid-August. It will boost performance on multi-processor systems and allow the use of Windows drivers for network cards, say the people behind it.
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- Local Company Develops FreeBSD-based Radars
- Being freely available, easy to develop for, secure, and stable made FreeBSD the operating system of choice for Adelaide company Genesis Software?s radar systems which are now being exported around the world.
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- Review: OpenBSD 3.5
- The OpenBSD Project released OpenBSD 3.5 exactly on schedule on May 1, adding support for new functions and devices in the kernel and updating the base system. While it may not be the most versatile operating system in the world, OpenBSD shines when it comes to security, providing a default installation that doesn't have to be locked down and partially disabled before using it.
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