FreeBSD Real Quick Newsletter

[Chris Coleman]

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


Bayonne Milestone #5 released
September 16, 2000

Milestone #5 of Bayonne, the telephony server of the GNU project, has been 
released and is available for fro ftp://www.voxilla.org/pub/bayonne. This 
new milestone offers support for both GNU/Linux and FreeBSD systems. 
Pre-build FreeBSD binaries may be found at 
ftp://www.voxilla.org/pub/bayonne/freebsd. 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1190

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So you like FreeBSD?
September 13, 2000

Just a little advocacy promotion piece I wrote tonight. It's important for 
people to realise that contributing to a project does not mean you have to 
be a coder, web guru, or ports hack. Anyone can make a difference. And it's 
easy, simple, doesn't cost you a cent. 

Bonus: you can do it in the privacy of your own home. 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1186

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FreeBSD Installation and Package Tools
September 12, 2000

Jordan Hubbard wrote a draft describing the possible direction of FreeBSD's 
installation and package tools. From the abstract: This document discusses 
FreeBSD's installation, configuration and package management tools from the 
perspective of where they are and where I think they need to go. 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1185

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BSD Mall Upgrade 
21 September 2000 
                                                                          
Daemon News has upgraded the BSD Mall to the latest version of phpShop. 
We are now geared up to ship BSD products internationally. We have 
started to add books and BSD supported hardware. 

If you know of good BSD supported hardware that we should have listed, 
please tell us about it. We need your help to grow the BSD channel. 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/add_comment.php3?story_id=1205

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Long-Term Monitoring with SNMP 
21 September 2000

Michael Lucas, in his column Big Scary Daemons, shows us how to use 
mrtg to turn long-term SNMP statistics into easy-to-read web pages. 
It will even chart bar graphs.

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1203

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Understanding Shell Prompts
September 19, 2000

Looking to change your default shell prompt? Dru Lavigne helps us 
understand the four major shells and how to change their prompts. Her 
column, FreeBSD Basics, at the O'Reilly Network is geared towards new 
users and often contains information relevant to all BSD. 

To help supplement this article, the BSD Support Forum is collecting user 
contributed shell prompts. Dru will be compiling a list from that. 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1196

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New BSD products at Think Geek
September 15, 2000

I've already enjoyed some of Think Geeks products. Most people still can't 
figure out what my perl tshirt is supposed to say :-) 

Think Geek has now added two more BSD products to their catalog. There's a 
BSD mug and a BSD Grand Pilsner, which is also available as a two pack. 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1188

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BSD Businesses Recieving More Funds
September 15, 2000

Two BSD based companies have recently received some additional funding. 
BSDi is getting $5 million from the Japan based ISP Livin' on the Edge, Ltd 
(LOTE). The recently launched Wasabi Systems has closed it's first round of 
financing raising over $500,000. 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1187

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802.11 at BSDcon 
September 11, 2000 

For those of you with Orinocco (nee' WaveLan) cards, I plan on bringing 
an Airport to BSDcon, and (so long as they will let me) hooking it up 
to the terminal room LAN, like at the last Usenix conference. So, don't 
leave it at home! 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1182 

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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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