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Stories and comments across the archive that link to freebsddiary.org.

Stories · 11

  1. NetBSD - Live Network Backup

    Bsd · Software · · posted by Zonk · from the de-backup-mouse dept. · 156 comments
    dvl writes "It is possible but inconvenient to manually clone a hard disk drive remotely, using dd and netcat. der Mouse, a Montreal-based NetBSD developer, has developed tools that allow for automated, remote partition-level cloning to occur automatically on an opportunistic basis. A high-level description of the system has been posted at KernelTrap. This facility can be used to maintain complete duplicates of remote client laptop drives to a server system. This network mirroring facility will be presented at BSDCAN 2005 in Ottawa, ON on May 13-15."

  2. May Issue of Daemon News' EZine Released

    Bsd · Security · · posted by timothy · from the itojun-knows-his-food-groups dept. · 22 comments
    GMan00 writes "Daemon News' latest May EZine has been released online. This issue covers BSDCan which was held last weekend in Ottawa, Canada. As you'll see from the DN EZine, the conference was a great success, with some 170 developers, sysadmins and end-users from around the world. Some travelled as far away as Japan, the Ukraine and the Netherlands. Speakers included Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino of the IETF and a lead authority on IPv6 besides being the NetBSD Security Officer, Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD, Poul-Henning Kamp, the creator of the FreeBSD GEOM Disk i/o subsystem, and Robert Watson, the founder of the TrustedBSD Project. Dan Langille, the brain behind FreeBSDDiary and FreshPorts, organized the conference and is planning a repeat performance next May."

  3. BSDs to be Merged

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the its-about-time dept. · 214 comments
    A dæmon writes "According to Daily Daemon News and The FreeBSD Diary, NetBSD, FreeBSD and GNU/OpenBSD are to be merged. Read the full story here." This is a good thing since one of the two BSDs clearly sucked, and the other was clearly superior.

  4. BSDs to be Merged

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the its-about-time dept. · 214 comments
    A dæmon writes "According to Daily Daemon News and The FreeBSD Diary, NetBSD, FreeBSD and GNU/OpenBSD are to be merged. Read the full story here." This is a good thing since one of the two BSDs clearly sucked, and the other was clearly superior.

  5. Setting Up NetSaint On FreeBSD

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by timothy · from the be-a-saint dept. · 6 comments
    questionlp writes: "Dan Langille (of FreeBSD Diary has just posted a very nicely detailed article on setting up NetSaint on a FreeBSD machine (via the Ports collection, of course) to do extensive network monitoring." I wish more documentation was this lucid.

  6. Setting Up NetSaint On FreeBSD

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by timothy · from the be-a-saint dept. · 6 comments
    questionlp writes: "Dan Langille (of FreeBSD Diary has just posted a very nicely detailed article on setting up NetSaint on a FreeBSD machine (via the Ports collection, of course) to do extensive network monitoring." I wish more documentation was this lucid.

  7. The FreeBSD Diary Gets A Facelift

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by timothy · from the intimate-daily-thoughts dept. · 7 comments
    JunkMale writes: "The Diary face lift has been completed. Not only has the look/feel changed, but it is now running on a colocated server, giving me much more control than I had before. Also included are new features, such as user feedback on an article-by-article basis and newsfeeds from other sites. My thanks to Bean for her work on the graphics side. It is much appreciated."

  8. The FreeBSD Diary Gets A Facelift

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by timothy · from the intimate-daily-thoughts dept. · 7 comments
    JunkMale writes: "The Diary face lift has been completed. Not only has the look/feel changed, but it is now running on a colocated server, giving me much more control than I had before. Also included are new features, such as user feedback on an article-by-article basis and newsfeeds from other sites. My thanks to Bean for her work on the graphics side. It is much appreciated."

  9. Cisco Patents NAT RFC?

    Yro · Patents · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the say-wait-a-minute dept. · 158 comments
    rageout noted that Cisco seems to have filed patent US5793763, which looks remarkably like RFC 1631 (the RFC that defines NAT). This came from this story on freebsddiary.

  10. FreshPorts

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by Nik · from the I-love-the-smell-of-fresh-ports-in-the-morning dept. · 29 comments
    Dan Langille, creator and maintainer of the FreeBSD Diary, has just unleashed FreshPorts on the world. In a nutshell, this is a changing list of new and updated ports in the FreeBSD ports tree, making it easy to keep bang up to date with new software as it's ported. It's a natural companion to Wolfram Schneider's fortnightly port update messages.

  11. FreeBSD Diary Launches New Look

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by Nik · from the top-site-great-guy dept. · 3 comments
    JunkMale writes "The FreeBSD Diary, a chronicle of what one guy is doing with FreeBSD, has been around for almost two years. Until today, it was tucked away in a corner of his site. Following significant growth, a new-look site was launched today. The site contains a huge number of how-to guides and the readership includes NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux users."