Articles about BSD

FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE is now available from ftp.freebsd.org and various FTP
mirror sites. You can download the hefty 660MB ISOs (once ready) from FileForum.

The ISO files allow you to install the base system and all of its most important add-ons from a single bootable image. The ISO can be written
as a raw ISO 9660 image by most CD creator software.

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Twenty-one days from the official release, FreeBSD 4.0 Release Candidate is now on FreeBSD’s FTP servers. The Release Candidate is complete with ISO images for Alpha and x86, which are bootable for easy installing. Full XFree86 3.3.6 support is included, as well a barrage of new services and packages.

FreeBSD is an Opensource, free implementation of BSD UNIX. FreeBSD powers many popular websites including Yahoo, and eFront Networks.

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Debian Release Manager, Richard Braakman, announced yesterday that the code freeze for Debian 2.2, code-named potato, had begun. The freeze process is expected to last approximately two months and a new unstable distribution, 'woody,' will be created as potato is prepped for release. Following the Debian announcement came word that FreeBSD 4.0 had also entered code freeze, expected to last 15 days. During the freeze, daily snapshots of FreeBSD 4.0 will be posted until it is deemed suitable for release.

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The FreeBSD Team announced today (12/20/99) that version 3.4-RELEASE of their BSD-UNIX is now available
for download. On the heels of 3.3-RELEASE which was shipped in October, 3.4 seeks to fix up some
bugs and improve the overall OS.

Support has been added for many new hardware components, including ISDN modems, and support for Adaptec 152x/151x/AIC-6360 SCSI controllers (previously removed).

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One of the major obstacles preventing broader adoption of FreeBSD, a flavor of UNIX, is the lack of software readily available for systems running the Linux Kernel. Sun Microsystems has created a program called LxRun that will allow Linux applications to run unmodified on Sun’s Solaris OS, but now some developers of the Linux distribution Debian hope to take things a step further and allow the Debian OS to work with the FreeBSD Kernel. The developers are using the FreeBSD Kernel with libc, and recompiling Debian packages to work on it. This means a user will be able to run Linux applications on the more stable, more secure, FreeBSD Kernel.

According to the documentation, "The Debian GNU/FreeBSD is a new operating system with recompiled…packages and [a number of] new [packages]. For administrators, this distribution should be very similar to Debian GNU/Linux, but [with a] changed kernel and libc package."

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