The Month in BSD: February 2005

by Sam Smith
03/03/2005

Welcome to another column. This month's column is brought to you by the word "backups," the number 0, and the computer shop across the road.

Misc.

BSDCan 2005

• Presentations and papers list

Beastie flag

• Impressive

Blog design

• Retro

Misc. reading

• "Running Name-Based SSL Virtual Hosts in Apache"
• "FreeBSD Tips and Tricks for 2005"

Cross-BSD

• "NetBSD Annual Report and the Case for NetBSD"
• "The Case for FreeBSD (1)"
• "The Case for FreeBSD (2)"

Comparing MySQL performance across OSes
(Covers methodology in the first article, then publishes results a few days later. People who don't like the results already accepted the methods. This is how all tests and results should be announced.)

• "Comparing MySQL Performance Across OSes, Part 1"
• "Comparing MySQL Performance Across OSes, Part 2"

First look at Solaris 10

• "A First Look at Solaris 10"

Related Reading The Complete FreeBSD Documentation from the Source By Greg Lehey

*BSD

NetBSD

• "Interview: Roadmap, Improvements, and Features"
• systat df

Theo wins 2004 Free Software Award
(For firmware activism)

• FSF press release
• Undeadly.org article and video link

OpenBSD on Zaurus update

• With a new picture, next to an orange

FreeBSD logo contest
(Not to replace the daemon)

• Announcement
• Web site

Interview with Matt Dillon

• Very informative overview with detail
• Matt talks about porting to FreeBSD

Apple

Jeff Raskin Dies
(Human-computer interface expert, best known for starting the Macintosh project)

• Jef Raskin Wikipedia entry

Misc.

• "How to build XEmacs running with Carbon"
• iPod Shuffle RAID Array
• Comedy comparison of the Mac mini and a PC

Refreshed lines

• New photo iPods, 6GB iPod Mini
• New PowerBooks, now with two-finger scrolling and orientation detection
• Two-finger scrolling for older PowerBooks

Sam Smith lives in Manchester, England, and works on interfaces to data. When he's not in front of a computer, he's usually in a theater, probably with MUGSS.

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