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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.

April 2012

• Why aren't you using FreeBSD?
  Infoworld, Paul Venezia
  This article writes about why Paul Venezia is using FreeBSD for his servers

• The story of BSD and open-source Linux
  Software Development Times, Alex Handy
  A brief history of the BSD family of operating systems.

March 2012

• Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in March 2012
  Netcraft Ltd., Netcraft
  FreeBSD the OS of 3 of the top 10 most reliable hosting company sites in March 202.

February 2012

• PC-BSD 9 review ? to FreeBSD what Ubuntu is to Debian
  Linux User & Developer, Koen Vervloesem
  PC-BSD offers you a fully functional desktop environment based on rock solid FreeBSD technology, which makes it the perfect operating system for your first steps with BSD?

January 2012

• [Review] FreeBSD 9.0
  linuxconfig.net, linuxconfig.net
  This article provides an overview of some of the new features available in FreeBSD 9.0.

September 2011

• FreeBSD: A Faster Platform For Linux Gaming Than Linux?
  Phoronix,
  Michael Larabel shows how FreeBSD runs some linux programs faster than linux does.

July 2011

• Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in June 2011
  Netcraft Ltd., Jennifer Cownie
  FreeBSD the OS of top 3 most reliable hosting company sites in June 2011.

March 2011

• PC-BSD 8.2 review
  LinuxBSDos.com, LinuxBSDos.com
  LinuxBSDos.com looks at the installation (especially at the disk encryption features), system configuration and system management (including the installation of third party software packages via PC-BSD's PBI system) of PC-BSD 8.2.

February 2011

• FreeBSD 8.2 expands ZFS support
  Datamation.com, Sean Michael Kerner
  The author looks at the status and the future of ZFS under FreeBSD. The information is based on interviews the website did with FreeBSD developer Josh Paetzel and Matt Olander from iXsystems.

August 2010

• PC-BSD 8.1 review
  LinuxBSDos.com, LinuxBSDos.com
  LinuxBSDos.com looks at the installation, system configuration and system management (including the installation of third party software packages via PC-BSD's PBI system) of PC-BSD 8.1.

February 2010

• Health Check: FreeBSD - The unknown giant
  The H, Richard Hillesley
  Richard Hillesley looks at the history of FreeBSD, the BSD license, Beastie and the new features in FreeBSD 8.0.

November 2009

• FreeNAS 0.7 adds ZFS support
  The H, crve
  A description of the new features in version 0.7 of the FreeBSD-based FreeNAS project.

• Update your FreeBSD software with care
  Tech Republic, Chad Perrin
  Chad Perrin describes how he keeps his FreeBSD system up to date.

August 2009

• FreeBSD 8 Getting New Routing Architecture
  InternetNews.com ‐ WebMediaBrands Inc., Sean Michael Kerner
  This article introduces recent work on FreeBSD network routing architecture done by senior network architect from Blue Coat ‐ Qing Li. Its main goal is to optimize FreeBSD routing code to better utilize parallel processing CPUs.

• FreeNAS: A Simple Data Storage Solution
  Radio World, Todd Dixon
  The author is impressed by the speed and low resource usage of FreeBSD-based FreeNAS.

July 2009

• Why FreeBSD 8 Won't Rewrite the Book
  InternetNews.com ‐ WebMediaBrands Inc., Sean Michael Kerner
  An article about the upcoming FreeBSD 8.0 release, which includes interviews with Michael Lucas, author of the Absolute FreeBSD book, Matt Olander of iXsystems, and Kris Moore of PC-BSD. The primary focus of the article is how FreeBSD, even across major releases, still keeps the disruption for users to a minimum, and introduces new features and improvements without forcing a paradigm shift on the users.

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.

• Securing Network Services with FreeBSD Jails
  Packt Publishing, Christer Edwards
  An article on using FreeBSD's jails to safely run network services.

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.

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