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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="http://hemos.net">Hemos</A> on Wednesday September 27, @09:24AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the lotsa-submissions-on-this-one dept.</B></FONT><BR>
Eladio McCormick writes: <I>"Yeah, I know point releases are not by themselves huge news, but FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE represents a major event, in that the base distribution now includes RSA. Info <a href="http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+0+current/freebsd-announce">on the release</a> is online."</I> We've had a number of submissions about this one -- good to see the patent come off, and encryption working its way into more things.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="http://hemos.net">Hemos</A> on Wednesday September 27, @08:03AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the you-little-devil dept.</B></FONT><BR>
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="http://hemos.net">Hemos</A> on Friday September 15, @01:34PM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the branching-it-out dept.</B></FONT><BR>
<A HREF="http://www.bjtuna.net/">bjtuna</A> writes <I>"According to <a href="http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1183">this article</a> at the <a href="http://daily.daemonnews.org">Daily Daemon News</a>, Apple's Darwin is booting on both Intel chips AND Connectix VirtualPC under MacOS."</I> The screenshots are <a href="http://www.psychicfriends.net/darwin-intel-on-vpc.gif">available</a> as is the original <A href="http://www.darwinfo.org">link</a>.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:nik@slashdot.org">nik</A> on Sunday September 10, @01:14PM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the NP:-Englishman-in-New-York dept.</B></FONT><BR>
by by writes <I>"In O'Reillynet's Big Scary Daemons column, Michael Lucas explains <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/09/07/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">how to effectively use memory file systems</a>. MFSes are especially useful in diskless workstations. You can even create a MFS larger than physical memory and BSD will use swap space when needed."</I>
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:nik@slashdot.org">nik</A> on Friday September 08, @02:43PM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the film-at-11 dept.</B></FONT><BR>
A quick glance at the <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/Changes/#mipsco">NetBSD changes page</a> will show that in the quest to get a login prompt on everything with a processor, the NetBSD team have done it again. NetBSD is now ported to the RC3230 platform from MIPS Computing, hence <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mipsco/">NetBSD/mipsco</a>. At the same time, preliminary support for the LX200/300 variants of the MVME162 have been added to the <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mvme68k/">NetBSD/mvme68k</a> port. Has anyone ever had all the platforms that can run NetBSD up and running in the same place at the same time? Is it even feasible?
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:nik@slashdot.org">nik</A> on Thursday September 07, @04:49AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the thanks-for-the-memories dept.</B></FONT><BR>
sirhan writes <I>" I know it's been a while since <a href=www.linuxworldexpo.com>LinuxWorld 2000</a> in San Jose, but DeamonNews had <a href=http://www.daemonnews.org/200009/linuxworld-2000.html>this piece</a> about the big BSD presence and a recap of the events."</I>
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:nik@slashdot.org">nik</A> on Sunday September 03, @12:20PM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the Must-get-around-to-playing-with-apt-get dept.</B></FONT><BR>
<a href="mailto:chrisc@daemonnews.org">Chris Coleman</a> is putting his money where his mouth is, after his recent <a href="http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1128">suggestion that the BSDs need a unified package collection</a>. The creation of <a href="http://www.openpackages.org/">www.openpackages.org</a> was the next logical step, and Chris discusses this in his <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200009/editorial.html">latest Daemon News editorial</a>. With representatives from the three free BSD projects, as well as Apple (MacOS X) on board, this certainly has the potential to bring about closer ties between the BSD distributions at a level that will affect a lot of users.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:nik@slashdot.org">nik</A> on Sunday September 03, @09:23AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the Now-what-was-that-gateway-address-again? dept.</B></FONT><BR>
by by writes <I>"<a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/">O'Reillynet</a>'s <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/OpenBSD_Explained">OpenBSD Explained</a> column recently explained how to <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">setup IPv6 on OpenBSD</a>. Interesting glimpse into the future of the Internet."</I> True enough. It was my impression that the BSDs all got IPv6 at the same time though, courtesy of the work carried out by the <a href="http://www.kame.net/">KAME</a> group. On a very much related note, Jim O'Gorman has written an <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200009/ipv6.html">IPv6 Behind a NAT</a> article for this month's <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, which also makes getting involved in IPv6 easier.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:nik@slashdot.org">nik</A> on Wednesday August 23, @04:57AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the Certainly-has-a-cool-mascot dept.</B></FONT><BR>
Anonymous Coward writes <I>"Titled <A HREF="http://www.thestandard.com/article/article_print/1,1153,17541,00.html">The World's Most Secure OS</A>, this article in <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/">The Standard</a> talks about what is needed to be "Secure by Default""</I> Probably the best OpenBSD article I've read in recent months. Theo doesn't pull his punches (then again, he never does), in particular, discounting the "more eyes means better security" philosophy. Then again, he's probably right.
[ Update: noeld wrote in with a link to a similar <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">article at rootprompt.org. Must be something in the water. ]
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<A HREF="mailto:kingjosh@hotbot.com">AntiBasic</A> writes <I>"<a href="http://www.diverge.org/outrider/">OutRider Computing Journal</a> has a nice, albeit short, <a href="http://www.diverge.org/outrider/200008sysctl.shtml">overview of both sysctl(8) and sysctl(3)</a> under BSD systems. It has some examples using the sysctl command as well as examples with sample code on using the sysctl subroutines."</i>
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