Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 08:05:26 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 2nd Newsletter (finally!) due to go to press in 10 days. Message-ID: <20575.890064326@time.cdrom.com>
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I know, I know, I've been a real hoser about getting issue #2 ready
but I think you folks know how it is.
So anyway, here's the deal: I'd like to get the next edition finished
and off to the printers within the next 10 days, giving me enough time
to get copies back in time to ship along with the 2.2.6 CDROM, and if
you've got an article you'd like to have published in the next
newsletter or even if you sent me a previous submission and now want
to update it, please get it to me ASAP! I promise to be a better
editor this time and actually get back to you with feedback before we
both turn old and grey, honest! :)
Submissions should be in simple ASCII (we'll handle the formatting
details) and sent to me directly. Some possible topics ideas:
* An article comparing FreeBSD to other OS's, or unique features
A comparison of FreeBSD and Linux
A comparison of FreeBSD and Solaris
A comparison of FreeBSD and BSDI
A comparison of FreeBSD and NetBSD
A comparison of FreeBSD and Windows-NT
A comparison of FreeBSD and the Timex Sinclair (just checking to
see if you were paying attention).
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* An article about kernel internals
-- VM system
-- Filesytem -- Comparison of FFS vs LFS
-- How to write a device driver
-- ???
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* An article about application programming with some working code
-- Programming with POSIX threads
-- Programming with sockets
-- Programming with mapped files
-- How to use GDB to debug your program
-- How to use gprof to profile and optimize your program
-- Porting a program to FreeBSD. What are the most likely porting problems
and how to fix them
-- Using Gnu "Configure" to make your programs portable
-- About the ports collection
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* An article answering a common tech support problem
-- Installing FreeBSD -- common problems, and how to work around them
-- Setting up X Windows
-- Coping with media failures.
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* A corporate or individual profile or interview
An article about an organization using FreeBSD for an interesting or
innovative application. Or an interview of a FreeBSD developer and
the projects under development.
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* An article about System Administration
-- Using FreeBSD as a Webserver
-- Using FreeBSD as a Firewall
-- Using FreeBSD as a Database server
-- How to do reliable backups on FreeBSD
-- How to add a new user
-- How to set up a nameserver
-- How to add a new machine to your network
-- How to set up a newsserver
-- How to find security problems on your system
-- How to set up an ftp server
-- How to use mirror
-- How to find and fix your systems bottlenecks
-- Duties of a postmaster, how to configure sendmail
-- How to install and use Netscape
-- " " " Gcc
-- " " " Postgres
-- " " " Emacs
-- " " " Apache
-- " " " ????
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* A cheat sheet or tutorial
Each issue could contain a short "cheat sheet" similar to the
"quick reference guides" published by SSC. These would be something
that would make people keep old issues, and maybe cut out and laminate
or tape up on the wall next to their monitor.
-- sed/ed/vi/perl regular expressions
-- standard emacs key bindings
-- vi
-- shell programming
-- tcsh
-- perl regex, file flags and command line options
-- Standard C library, C operator precedence
-- gdb
-- standard Java classes
-- HTML tags
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* An article about freeware
-- features of the latest gcc
-- msql vs. postgres95
-- The latest cool new freeware package
-- Making a Rockridge CDROM using mkisofs
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* A review of a couple really useful websites
Other FreeBSD related websites
Websites with resources for programmers, and system administrators
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* A brief synopsis of a Unix utility or an interesting Shell script
-- perl one liners
-- shell programming
-- regular expressions
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* Reviews of new books, hardware or commercial software
Books:
-- The "4.4 BSD Internals" book
-- Greg Lehey's thick book
-- ???
Hardware:
-- New DVD drives that work with FreeBSD
-- List of vendors that supply FreeBSD capable hardware
-- ???
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