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December 2005

• FreeBSD Waters Are Easily Waded
  ServerWatch, Charlie Schluting
  According to this review, "FreeBSD is an enterprise-grade operating system that leaves little to be desired."

November 2005

• Beyond The Big Three BSDs, BSD Alternatives
  Serverwatch, Martin Brown
  Covers a few FreeBSD-derived operating systems.

• Using Software RAID-1 with FreeBSD
  Onlamp, Dru Lavigne
  The author shows how to set up a RAID 1 using the gmirror facility available in FreeBSD 5 and 6.

• Return of The BSDs
  Internetnews.Com, Sean Michael Kerner
  Press about new releases from the *BSD projects.

• Desktop FreeBSD: Upgrading to 6.0
  Open For Business, Ed Hurst
  A reviewer recommends FreeBSD 6.0 for the desktop.

October 2005

• Selecting a Secure Enterprise OS: Don't Make the First Step the Wrong Step
  Informit, Bruce Potter
  A comparison of the operational security of Windows(r), Linux and FreeBSD.

• A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels
  OpenSolaris, Max Bruning
  A technical article comparing scheduling, memory management, and file system architecture in these three open-source kernels.

• Destination FreeBSD: Interview with Release Engineer Scott Long
  BSDForums.org, BSDForums.org
  BSDForums interviews FreeBSD release engineer Scott Long about various aspects of FreeBSD, including FreeBSD 6.0, Apple G4 PowerMac support, AMD64 and wireless compatibility.

September 2005

• Sun Cobalt Ported to FreeBSD
  eMediaWire, OffMyServer, Inc. Press Release
  The Sun Cobalt RaQ550 web hosting platform has been ported to FreeBSD.

• Developer aims for Dtrace on FreeBSD
  ZDNet Australia, Renai LeMay
  An article about work being done to port Sun's DTrace to FreeBSD.

August 2005

• FreeBSD 6.0 will target wireless devices
  ZDNet UK, Ingrid Marson
  An interview with FreeBSD release engineer Scott Long about the upcoming 6.0 release.

July 2005

• Information Security with Colin Percival
  Onlamp, Michael W. Lucas
  Colin Percival, FreeBSD developer and independent security researcher, describes his recent work on covert channels in hyperthreaded processors.

• Why FreeBSD
  developerWorks, Frank Pohlmann
  A brief introduction to the BSD family of OSes.

• Project Evil: Windows network drivers on FreeBSD
  Ping Wales, David Chisnall
  On using Windows(R) network drivers in FreeBSD.

June 2005

• Open-source projects get free checkup by automated tools
  SecurityFocus, Robert Lemos
  Code analysis software firm Coverity analyses FreeBSD's source base and finds a very low number of software flaws.

• Interview: Looking at FreeBSD 6 and Beyond
  OSnews, Eugenia Loli-Queru
  OSnews interviews FreeBSD developers Scott Long, Robert Watson and John Baldwin about the upcoming FreeBSD 6 release.

• Eric Raymond advocates BSD license over GPL
  MyFreeBSD Brazil, Luiz Gustavo Ramos
  "Freedom and choice are pretty cool. But we should talk about many other things. GPL is based on the belief that open source software is weak and needs to be protected. With it, we continue injuring ourselves, cutting ourselves from the economic benefits of BSD license".

May 2005

• First BitDefender for FreeBSD products launched
  MoneyWeb, BitDefender Press Release
  BitDefender announces their move into enterprise space with a FreeBSD version of their products.

• LSI MegaRAID(R) Adapters Now Feature FreeBSD 5.4 Support
  Yahoo News, LSI Logic Press Release
  LSI Logic MegaRAID(R) SCSI and SATA adapters now support the latest FreeBSD 5.4 release.

April 2005

• Desktop FreeBSD: New Life for Old Laptops
  Open for Business, Ed Hurst
  An article on using FreeBSD 5.4 on a laptop.

• Large Web Hosting Provider Switches to FreeBSD
  W3reports, Submission
  Offmyserver, a rackmount server provider, recently migrated 50 servers to FreeBSD, on account of its reliability and ability to handle large amounts of disk.

March 2005

• FreeBSD Process Management
  InformIT, George Neville-Neil, Marshall Kirk McKusick
  An excerpt from the book "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System".

February 2005

• FreeBSD Tips and Tricks for 2005
  OnLamp.com, Dru Lavigne
  Dru Lavigne describes the steps taken for maintaining up to date a FreeBSD system this year.

January 2005

• FreeBSD's SMPng
  OnLamp.com, Federico Biancuzzi
  OnLamp.com's writer interviews FreeBSD's Core Team member Scott Long about FreeBSD's implementation on SMPng.

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