FreeBSD Real-Quick Newsletter

[Chris Coleman]

		 FreeBSD Real-Quick(TM) News Letter.
		    Things Happening in FreeBSD.
	      	      Presented by Daemon News

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Native FreeBSD Opera Port?
June 08, 2000

We may be seeing a native port of the Opera web browser for FreeBSD 
shortly. From Opera's Linux FAQ: 

"We've attempted to start releasing a FreeBSD version as of this 
release, however, we're experiencing complications with the compile 
environment as well. GCC is working wonderfully, however the ld is 
generating some interesting errors related to templates which aren't 
quite understandable. We'll hopefully have a functional version at 
the next release. For now, we understand that Opera for Linux works 
well under Linux emulation on the BSD platforms." 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=975

LINK: http://www.opera.com/linux/index.html#faq

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How to Implement a Firewall with a PPP Dialup Connection 
June 08, 2000

A new article is available, explaining how to use PPP, natd, and ipfw 
to implement a firewall with a PPP dialup connection. 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=970 
LINK: http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/dialup-firewall/index.html

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FreeBSD Conspectus 
June 08, 2000

The first FreeBSD Conspectus has been added, providing a summary of 
events  on the -stable mailing list over the past week. 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=969 
LINK: http://www.freebsd.org/conspectus/index.html

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Java 2 available now for BSD/OS 4.1; Java 2 for FreeBSD to Follow  
June 07, 2000

Here is some good news for the folks who have been pushing for better 
Java  support for BSD. It appears that Java
2 is now available for the BSDi  Internet Super Server and BSD/OS, 
with a FreeBSD version in the works. See  the link below for the 
complete press release on the BSDi site. 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=968 
LINK: http://www.bsdi.com/news/press/20000607

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Newbies: An Introduction to BSD Ports
by James Howard 

Find out the basics on using ports and what they're made of in this
month's Newbies column. 

LINK: http://www.daemonnews.org/200006/ports.html

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Blueprints: Writing a CAM SCSI controller driver
by Sergey Babkin 

This month's Blueprint gives an in-depth tutorial on SCSI driver
creation. 

LINK: http://www.daemonnews.org/200006/cam-driver.htm

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State of the Daemon
June 12, 2000

A fairly straightforward BSD article... what BSD is, where it is, and 
where it's going. 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=980
LINK: http://www.unixreview.com/open_source/articles/0006bsd.shtml

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Chris Coleman  <chrisc at vmunix.com>

Daemon News			 O'Reilly Networks -- Open Source Editor
http://www.daemonnews.org	 http://www.oreillynet.com/



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