http://www.BSDWorld.NET/rss/ FreeBSD News, Tutorials, Reviews and Chat en-us @BSDWorld.NET 2008-09-08T06:20:03+01:00 Benjamin D Adams BSDWorld: Join In Search http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=25 Pre-orders are now being accepted (also in Switzerland) for OpenBSD 4.4, which is scheduled for release on November 1st, 2008. Again, the developers bring us an amazing amount of cool new stuff (WPA, DSR, OpenSSH 5.1, a new malloc and lots more). There's also lots of third party softwar http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=25 http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=24 This is going to be a fast way to test your install stalled ports for problems.First you need to install Portaudit: Desktop# cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portaudit Desktop# make install clean Now we need to run portaudit to see any problems that have: Desktop# portaudit -Fda auditfile.tbz http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=24 http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=23 I have a need to setup an access point. Many of the discussions on the web include all kinds of extra goodies that one normally sets up with the access point. But I just needed an access point: no dhcp, bridging, etc. Here's how I did it. Recently, some really cool stuff when into the kernel fo http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=23 http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=21 The NetBSD Foundation Moves to a Two Clause BSD License ======================================================= Following on from a vote amongst the membership of the NetBSD Foundation, and in recognition of the changing face of software licensing, the Foundation has changed its recommended http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=21 http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=20 NetBSD 5.0 preview: User visible changes in NetBSD-current I've found a bit of spare time upgrade a NetBSD 4.0 system to NetBSD-current (4.99.69), and during the usual update procedure (boot new kernel; build.sh install=/; etcupdate) I found a number of user-visible changes over NetBSD 4.0 th http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=20 http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=19 This is an user contributed article. The following 10 items are guidelines more than rules, that I have learned over the years doing intensive work on the IT infrastructure. These guidelines are mostly common sense and can be helpful for anybody who administers an IT system, including Linux/Window http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=19 http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=18 We're about to start the release cycle for FreeBSD-7.1 and FreeBSD-6.4. The proposed schedule for the "major events" of the cycle is: Freeze: August 29 BETA: September 1 Branch: September 6 6.4-RC1: September 8 7.1-RC1: September 15 6.4-R http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=18 http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=17 I looked at one of the sites I collect news from: Something looks wrong here?? http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=17 http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=16 I'm looking for some designers to create a Logo for the site. The current one was taken from my old site FreeBSD-World.com It's time to update the logo so it will work with BSDWorld.NET There is a money prize that I will send out to the winners. To submit your logo please email them to FreeBSD http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=16 http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=15 25)host host is a simple utility for performing DNS lookups. It is normally used to convert names to IP addresses and vice versa. When no arguments or options are given, host prints a short summary of its command line arguments and options. Example: $ host mail.yahoo. http://www.BSDWorld.net/story.php?id=15