December 1998

The story on FreeBSD
LinuxWorld, Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz
This issue has a good article on FreeBSD and why it's worth a look by Linux folks.

November 1998

The Open-Source Revolution
RELEASE 1.0, Tim O'Reilly, with an introduction by Esther Dyson
A brief, business oriented introduction to the open source community.
Report from Comdex--Walnut Creek CDROM, FreeBSD and Slackware
Linux Today, Dwight Johnson
There is a good report on the Walnut Creek booth and FreeBSD at the Linux Today website. The first half of the report is on Slackware Linux, the second half is on FreeBSD.
Ellison plans hardware, bashes Bill
CNET News.com, Tim Clark
Larry Ellison talking about their new dedicated Oracle servers, mentions FreeBSD as one of a list of candidate OSes for the platform.

Linux/etc, The other free Unixes, part 2 of 2
Computer Bits, Terry Griffin
Continuation of an earlier column reviewing freely available Unix like operating systems.
What Is FreeBSD?
Performance Computing, Jordan K. Hubbard
An introduction to FreeBSD, and where it stands with respect to the other free OSes.
Unix back in the fight with NT
Mercury Center, Miguel Helft
An article touting the stability and power of the Unix platform over NT.
A No-Cost NOS
ZDNet, Ryan Snedegar
Ryan Snedegar reviews FreeBSD 2.2.7 and finds its web-serving performance to be better than Windows NT.
Open Code Frees Up The Net
Inter@ctive Week, Charles Babcock
About why customers prefer open source software like Linux, FreeBSD, Perl and TCL to proprietary alternatives.
It's only free Unix - but I like it
The Irish Times, David Malone

Linux/etc, The other free Unixes, part 1 of 2
Computer Bits, Terry Griffin
Briefly reviews the BSD Unix heritage.
Communications & Networking: Asynchronous Communications Using select and poll
Dr. Dobb's Journal, Sean Eric Fagan
On how to use FreeBSD's select(2) and poll(2) system calls.
Quality Unix for FREE
Sm@rt Reseller Online, Brett Glass
A short introduction to FreeBSD 2.2.7.

Hack raises flags about small ISPs
News.com: Tech News First, Jim Hu, Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
Desire for better security has led some ISPs to deploy FreeBSD on their servers.

Walnut Creek CDROM, One of the Largest Public FTP Archives in the World, Sets Traffic Record Using FreeBSD and Colocating on CRL's High-Speed Internet Network
CRL Network Services, CRL Press Release
Pulling on one end of the rope
( freshmeat ), Jordan K. Hubbard
Jordan compares the past of Unix with the future of Linux, outlining possible similarities and describing faults that could be prevented.

Nader urges Windows probe
CNET News.com, Jeff Pelline
Consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader mentions FreeBSD by name.
Stone's Throw, Issue Fourteen: Home of the Brave, Land of the FreeBSD
RhapsodyOS, Andrew Stone

Load Balancing Your Web Site
Web Techniques Magazine, Ralf S.Engelschall
Practical approaches to distributing HTTP traffic at your site. Includes a section on performance tuning Apache under FreeBSD.
Is NT paranoid or is Unix out to get it?
NC World, Nicholas Petreley
Security Tools in FreeBSD
SysAdmin, Guy Helmer
Free Unix: Do You Get What You Pay For?
GartnerGroup, G. Weiss

The new Unix alters NT's orbit
NC World, Nicholas Petreley
Who's Serving Who?
DV Live Magazine, Nels Johnson
For smaller companies and web sites, a FreeBSD and Apache on an Intel (PC) architecture machine is more than sufficient.