Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 11:30:10 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com> To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Real Quick News Letter Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002091128370.51970-100000@vnode.vmunix.com>
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FreeBSD Real-Quick(TM) NewsLetter. Things Happening in FreeBSD. Release Information: FreeBSD 3.4 is available from http://mall.daemonnews.org FreeBSD 4.0 is scheduled to be released about the end of the month. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buddying up to FreeBSD, Part Five February 08, 2000 This is a nice article on the FreeBSD ports collection on a linux site, aimed at linux users. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=599 LINK: http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/20000208/275/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The story on FreeBSD February 04, 2000 "FreeBSD's effectiveness depends on who you are and what you need. Whether you're a Linux hobbyist, a system administrator responsible for a building chock full of heterogeneous systems, a Web administrator, an application developer focused on Linux customers, an open source advocate, or even a department manager looking to stay on the peak of cost efficiency, this article explains what FreeBSD is and how it might contribute to your specific situation." -- LinuxWorld MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=576 LINK: http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1998-12/lw-12-freebsd.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- VTun 2.0 package for FreeBSD and OpenBSD February 03, 2000 Released VTun 2.0 package for FreeBSD and OpenBSD. VTun is the easiest way to create Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks with traffic shaping, compression, and encryption. It is a user space implementation and doesn't need modification of any kernel parts. VTun supports IP, PPP, SLIP, Ethernet and other tunnel types. VTun is easily and highly configurable, it can be used for various network tasks like VPN, Mobil IP, Shaped Internet access, IP address saving, etc. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=572 LINK: http://vtun.netpedia.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blueprints: Software RAID for BSD: Vinum by Greg Lehey Many BSD systems have storage needs which current generation disks can't fulfill by themselves: they may want more storage, more performance or more reliability than an individual disk can provide... Read More URL: http://www.daemonnews.org/200002/vinum.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contributing to BSD. I started Daemon News almost two years ago because I wasn't a programmer and I still wanted to contribute to BSD. I did make a good effort at becoming a programmer so I could contribute back to BSD. I even wrote a small PERL utility and tried to get it committed. No Luck. After much struggling, I realized that I just wasn't a programmer. When I started DN, the huge response I got told me that there are a lot of non-programmer types out there that would like to contribute to BSD also. At DN, we have a lot of not-so-techy type volunteer positions available. URL: http://staff.daemonnews.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD for the SVR4/Linux Administrator February 02, 2000 Michael Lucas has written another FreeBSD article for Sys Admin, this one about some basics of administration, finding FreeBSD resources and getting help from the community. Although the author has ostensibly written it for SVR4 or Linux admins, it only mentions a few minor differences between those and BSD. Overall, it's a great introductory article for _any_ sysadmin new to FreeBSD. Michael's articles keep getting better and better. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=569 LINK: http://www.samag.com/current/feature.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daemon News Mall We are trying to position ourselves as the main reseller for all BSD related items. We are off to a good start, and I think we have the basics listed. Now we need your help. We need to contact EVERYONE selling BSD merchandise and talk them into listing it with us. If everyone on this list would fire up a couple of e-mail to their favorite vendors and tell them that DN would like to resell their products, it would be great. URL: http://mall.daemonnews.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com> Daemon News Editor in Chief <http://www.daemonnews.org>; 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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