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FreeBSD in the Press

If you know of any news stories featuring FreeBSD that we have not listed here, please send details to www@FreeBSD.org so that we can include them.

June 2009

• Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in May 2009
  Netcraft Ltd., Paul Mutton
  Three of the top five hosting providers in Netcraft's list run FreeBSD.

May 2009

• FreeBSD 7.2 released, now with Superpages
  The H, djwm
  An brief article on FreeBSD 7.2.

• FreeBSD 7.2 Review: Improved Virtualization
  nixCraft, Vivek Gite
  Coverage of the new jail features in FreeBSD 7.2.

April 2009

• Great Bay Software Switches to BSD from Linux
  Great Bay Software, Bob Durkee
  Great Bay Software, the innovator of Endpoint Profiling for enterprise networks, has switched to FreeBSD from Linux for all of its appliances including the Beacon Endpoint Profiler 3.0.

• First look at PC-BSD 7.1
  Distro Watch,
  A reviewer takes PC-BSD 7.1 out for a spin.

• Combining Debian and FreeBSD; Pushing the Envelope of FOSS
  Linux Magazine, Nathan Willis
  Coverage of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, a GNU operating system that uses the FreeBSD kernel.

March 2009

• Tomahawk Desktop Switches to BSD from Linux
  Tomahawk Computers, Sagara Wijetunga
  Tomahawk Computers Pte Ltd. has switched to FreeBSD from Linux to make the next version of the Tomahawk Desktop operating system.

January 2009

• Coyote Point Builds on FreeBSD to Accelerate
  Internet News, Sean Michael Kerner
  FreeBSD is at the core of Coyote Point's appliance.

• FreeBSD 7.1 Gets a Little Help from Sun
  Internet News, Sean Michael Kerner
  An article covering technology sharing between Sun and the FreeBSD project and other new features in FreeBSD 7.1.

October 2008

• Review: PC-BSD 7
  OS News, Amjith Ramanujam
  A review of PC-BSD 7.

August 2008

• Network-Attached Storage on the Cheap
  Washington Post, Tom Mainelli
  FreeBSD based FreeNAS is recommended for turning an old PC into a storage appliance.

• How Do Open Source Installations Compare by Operating System?
  The Open-Source Census, Stormy Peters
  A recent census shows interesting data about FreeBSD use.

July 2008

• Book Review: Building a Server with FreeBSD 7
  Free Software Magazine, Ken Leyba
  A review of the book "Building a Server with FreeBSD 7" by Bryan J. Hong.

• Book Review: The Best of FreeBSD Basics
  OS News, Peter Hummers
  A review of the book "The Best of FreeBSD Basics".

June 2008

• How FreeBSD makes vulnerability auditing easy: portaudit
  Tech Republic, Chad Perrin
  An article that highlights the ease with which a FreeBSD system can be kept upto-date with respect to vulnerabilities.

• Writing a kernel module for FreeBSD 7
  Free Software Magazine, Yousef Ourabi
  A short introduction to building kernel modules on FreeBSD 7.

March 2008

• Review of FreeBSD 7
  Free Software Magazine, Yousef Ourabi
  A review of FreeBSD 7.0 Beta 3.

February 2008

• Faster Performance, Fewer Machines For FreeBSD?
  InternetNews.com, Sean Michael Kerner
  A brief look at FreeBSD 7.0.

• What's New in FreeBSD 7.0
  ONLamp.com, Federico Biancuzzi
  An interview with several FreeBSD developers about features in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE.

January 2008

• DesktopBSD 1.6 Released
  OSNews, Thom Holwerda
  Version 1.6 of DesktopBSD has been released. DesktopBSD is a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD.

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