The March 2010 issue of BSD Magazine, a free, online magazine for the BSD community, is now available for download. The theme for this edition is “BSD as a Desktop.” The following are some of the articles you’ll find inside:
- Build Your Own FreeBSD Update Server – Experienced users or administrators responsible for several machines or environments, know the difficult demands and challenges of maintaining such an infrastructure. The article outlines the steps involved in creating an internal FreeBSD Update Server.
- Using OpenBSD and PF as a Virtual Firewall for Windows – The Windows firewall, by default, has many open ports to the local network, like the file and print sharing service ports, which are the source of many security holes. How to protect a Windows host with a basic configuration of an OpenBSD virtual machine with PF as a NAT router and firewall?
The FreeNAS project (http://freenas.org/freenas), founded by Olivier Cochard-Labbé in 2005, is an open source network attached storage distribution. The project offers a simple, elegant way for home users and network administrators to host data on a small, stable platform at very low cost. Back in December there was talk of the FreeNAS project moving away from its FreeBSD roots and using Debian as the base for future releases. A short time later, iXsystems offered to the take the FreeNAS project under the company’s wing and continue development using the FreeBSD platform. M. Cochard-Labbé was kind enough to take a few minutes from his busy schedule to talk about the project.
BSD Mag: Monsieur Cochard-Labbé, thank you for taking the time to answer some questions. To start, would you please tell us a little about yourself? Where you are from and how you became interested in open source?
The first online edition of BSD Magazine, a magazine for BSD users, enthusiasts and communities, has been released. This edition is titled “BSDs as Servers.” Inside you’ll find the following list of articles:
- A first look at PC-BSD 8
- Installing and securing an Apache Jail with SSL on FreeBSD
- The gemstones for FreeBSD
- OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD as file sharing servers – Part 1 – NFS
New issue of BSD Magazine, Infinity, Freedom, FreeBSD, is now in stores. Inside you will find:
- Keeping FreeBSD Up-To-Date: OS Essentials – An important system administration task, and a principle of running a defensible network, is keeping operating systems and applications up-to-date. Richard Bejtlich presents multiple ways to do that.
- Is NetBSD ready for a desktop? – In this article Petr Topiarz is focusing on the usability of the NetBSD as a desktop. He shows what NetBSD can do today and whether it is mature enough to challenge PC-BSD or Linux. If you want to know, start reading!
- Tips and Tricks from BSD guru Dru Lavigne
- The column from Brian D’Arcangelo – Year 40 of the Unix epoch begins
FreeNAS 0.69 Release Candidate 2 has been made available for testing by the FreeNAS dev team. FreeNAS is a BSD-based, free and open source NAS/SAN software solution. Code named Kralizec, this release comes with several new features and the usual set of bug fixes.
The FreeNAS development team has announced the availability of FreeNAS 0.69 Release Candidate 1. FreeNAS is an open source, m0n0Wall-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) cum Storage Area Network (SAN) server.
The NetBSD Foundation (TNF) has formerly made the 2-clause BSD license the default license that covers most of the source code contributed to TNF. The NetBSD Foundation produces NetBSD, which is a UNIX-like, server-oriented operating system used across a wide variety of platforms.
