From owner-freebsd-announce Wed Nov 17 21:12:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C73CF15099 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:12:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chrisc@vmunix.com) Received: from localhost (chrisc@localhost) by vnode.vmunix.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA04492 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:12:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:12:33 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Coleman To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Real Quick News Letter Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Real-Quick(TM) NewsLetter. Things Happening in FreeBSD. November 1999 Release Information: FreeBSD 3.3 is available from http://www.FreeBSDMall.com FreeBSD 4.0 is still in the Development Version with no release scheduled until early 2000. Daemon News: Brett wrote a really good editorial about Y2K. Find out why BSD might be vulnerable to some Y2K problems! http://www.daemonnews.org/199911/editorial.html Next month will be the last issue in this episode of Darby. http://www.daemonnews.org/199911/darby.html Let the artist know what you thought of the cartoon, how you want it to end, and if you want it to continue. mailto:suz@daemonnews.org --- A Request for Enhancement (RFE) has been posted on Sun's Java Developer Connection. Sign up for a free membership on the JDC, and vote for this particular request MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=238 LINK: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4288745.html --- Buddying up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping November 15, 1999 The next installment in "Buddying up to BSD" to BSD has been posted. Matt Michie fought the urge to throw in the towel after recieving so much heat for going out on a limb to get BSD exposure at linux.com. I'm glad to see that he was able to see beyond that and has plans for reviews of both FreeBSD and NetBSD in addition to OpenBSD. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=233 LINK: http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/ --- FunnelWeb for FreeBSD November 15, 1999 Active Concepts announced Funnel Web for UNIX, a Web site traffic analysis package available for high-volume UNIX servers, with added proxy analysis and a choice of commandline or graphical interface. The package is available for Linux and FreeBSD... MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=230 LINK: http://microtimes.com/197/webanp197a.html --- speed ranking for various business web servers November 14, 1999 Yahoo is the fastest web service on Earth (and it is also the only one using FreeBSD) - there is also Dun & Bradstreet on BSD/OS, but they don't seem as fast in the test. TfH MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=229 LINK: http://www.keynote.com/measures/business/business40.html --- iServer moves to FreeBSD November 12, 1999 Looks like iServer has made it official, they are moving to FreeBSD for their servers. They have high praise for FreeBSD in their announcement. One that I thought was interesting was "Over 15% of the Internet is currently powered by FreeBSD including such popular sites as Hotmail, mp3.com, and Yahoo!." MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=226 LINK: http://www.iserver.com/aboutus/announcements/ --- -Chris Coleman Daemon News Editor in Chief 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