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Installing BSD on IBM Netvista S40 - Part 1: FreeBSD Installation
by Micho Durdevich

Micho Durdevich presents several ways of installing BSD on the IBM Netvista S40, a so-called legacy free computer. Difficulties arise because the machine has no standard AT keyboard controller. He also deals with bad assumptions made by the subroutines controlling gate A20. Read More


Interview with Diego Petteno, Gentoo/*BSD developer
by David Stanford

Many people havn't heard of Gentoo/*BSD and so I thought I would try and interview with one of their devlopers and find out more about the project. Fortunately, I was able to. This is an interview with Diego Petteno, a lead Gentoo/*BSD developer, primarily working on Gentoo/FreeBSD. Read More


Installing BSD on IBM Netvista S40 - Part 2: FreeBSD Installation
by Micho Durdevich

We discuss a manual method for preparing a bootable installation CD, suitable for both Netvista and all standard configurations, is examined. Read More


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Interview with Jan Schaumann
by Emmanuel Dreyfus

Jan Schaumann has been an important contributor to the NetBSD project for several years. He spent a lot of time working on the NetBSD package system, known as pkgsrc, and he currently uses NetBSD as his desktop system. We will try to learn from his experience during this interview. Read More


Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security
by David Bogen

A review of the O'Reilly book Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security by Yanek Korff, Paco Hope, & Bruce Potter. Read More


 
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