Archive for the ‘BSDTalk’ Category

bsdtalk010 – BSD in School

Posted on January 27th, 2006 by "mr" from "bsdtalk"

News:

BSD in School:
  • Interview with Sam Ricchio

bsdtalk009 – Interview with Webmin Author Jamie Cameron

Posted on January 25th, 2006 by "mr" from "bsdtalk"

Who is the BSD Daemon?
  • Daemons are process that run in the background attending to various tasks without human intervention.
  • some call it "Beastie" or "Chuck", in fact the proper name is just "BSD Daemon"
  • There is no satanic connection.
  • Earliest images were created by John Lasseter.
  • Currently, the copyright of the BSD Daemon is held by Marshall Kirk McKusick

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bsdtalk008 – No Cost BSD Shell Accounts

Posted on January 23rd, 2006 by "mr" from "bsdtalk"

News:
PC-BSD 1.0RC2 Released with KDE 3.5.
  • Desktop-oriented OS with easy package manager.
  • Similar in concept to Darwin's application bundles.
No Cost BSD Shell Accounts:

bsdtalk007 – Live BSD CDs

Posted on January 18th, 2006 by "mr" from "bsdtalk"

News:
DragonFlyBSD 1.4 released on Jan 7, 2006. I'll try their live CD/installer.
Will GPLv3 push more companies to BSD licensed software?

Live BSD CDs:
Test them on a few systems - old laptop, modern desktop, home desktop, modern laptop.
    Closing - Comments, Email, Website

    bsdtalk006 – Three Headed Daemon

    Posted on January 18th, 2006 by "mr" from "bsdtalk"

    News:
    OpenBSD used for anonymous surfing live CD - released at shmoocon 2006.

    Three Headed Daemon:
    Creating a triple-boot system - FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.

    bsdtalk005 – Unique Utilities

    Posted on January 10th, 2006 by "mr" from "bsdtalk"

    News:

    FreeBSD-SA-06:04.ipfw - An attacker can cause the firewall to crash by sending ICMP IP fragments.

    Unique Utilities:
    • sushi - Part of the NetBSD 1.6 release. Has the same goals as sam on HP-UX, smit on AIX and other menu-driven configuration tools. How well does it work?
    • sysinstall - Part of FreeBSD 2.0. Menu driven installer that can later be

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    bsdtalk004 – Intro to Network Configuration

    Posted on January 6th, 2006 by "mr" from "bsdtalk"

    Intro to Network Configuration.

    13 minutes, 9.1MB

    bsdtalk003 – Intro to disks and filesystems

    Posted on December 31st, 2005 by "mr" from "bsdtalk"

    Intro to disks and filesystems.

    BSDTalk002 – Intro to Installing software

    Posted on December 24th, 2005 by "mr" from "bsdtalk"

    Good news - Netbsd 3.0 released today!

    General introduction to installing software on BSD systems
    • Packages and ports
    • Tracking -stable or -current

    BSDTalk001 – Intro to BSD

    Posted on December 21st, 2005 by "mr" from "bsdtalk"

    Brief introduction to BSD.
    13 minutes. 9.7MB