Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 17:06:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com> To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Real Quick Newsletter Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009081706030.758-100000@vnode.vmunix.com>
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FreeBSD Real-Quick(TM) News Letter. Things Happening in FreeBSD. Presented by Daemon News ********************************************************************** Building a NetBSD kernel NetBSD for the FreeBSD user, continued: the trials and travails of building a NetBSD kernel. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1149 LINK: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/24/Big_Scary_Daemons.html ********************************************************************** Ex-Microsoft employees report Unix is all around For the most part, according to our ex-Microsoftie, the company's money-making Web properties are all based around Unix, with Hotmail 99 being 99 percent FreeBSD, MSN using some Apache on Solaris, bCentral ad servers on 100 percent FreeBSD, and WebTV pretty much entirely Solaris. "Internally when Windows 2000 was announced, people were told not to even think about using it for production because it was too unstable," says this ex-Microsoftie. So much for mature software written by professionals. It seems that, internally, Microsoft prefers the stuff "written by college kids in their basements." MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1153 LINK: http://www.InfoWorld.com/articles/op/xml/00/08/28/000828opcringe.xml ********************************************************************** Usenet Oldnews Archive Take a trip back through the mists of time. This site archives old Usenet postings from 1980-1981. Interesting to see how much has changed in 20 years, and how *little* has changed, as well. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1151 LINK: http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/index.html ********************************************************************** Free Veracity FreeVeracity is a general-purpose data integrity tool for free platforms (e.g. GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) that uses cryptographic hashes to detect changes in files. FreeVeracity can be deployed in a wide variety of applications including network intrusion detection and firewall monitoring. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1150 LINK: http://freeveracity.org/ ********************************************************************** Unified BSD Package Collection Just imagine what would happen if we could combine the efforts of all the people who maintain each of the existing 3rd party software compiling infrastructures into one project. MORE: http://www.daemonnews.org/200009/editorial.html *********************************************************************** RSA Security Releases RSA Encryption Algorithminto Public Domain RSA today announced it has released the RSA public key encryption algorithm into the public domain, allowing anyone to create products that incorporate their own implementation of the algorithm. Note:Only the algorithm is being released, not code. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1165 *********************************************************************** Using Postfix Alan Laudicina gives a basic guide on configuring and installing the Postfix mail server. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1164 *********************************************************************** BSD Support Forum on Daemon News Need help getting your BSD system working? Daemon News has expanded its news forum to accomodate the growing number of new BSD users who need quick answers to their questions. This is the first support forum to cover all BSD. Daemon News login accounts will work on both the News forum and the support forum. MORE: http://support.daemonnews.org *********************************************************************** Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com> Daemon News O'Reilly Networks -- Open Source Editor http://www.daemonnews.org http://www.oreillynet.com/ This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message
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