Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 13:30:30 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: freebsd-announce Message-ID: <199806122030.NAA07522@hub.freebsd.org>
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Subject: FreeBSD Really-Quick(TM) NewsLetter: Volume #1 Issue #1
FreeBSD Really-Quick(TM) NewsLetter.
Things Happening in FreeBSD.
Volume #1 Issue #1
June 1998
General News:
Jordan Hubbard, Poul-Henning Kamp, Justin Gibbs, Jonathan Bresler,
David Greenman and other members of the Core Team will be at the
USENIX technical conference.
Be Sure to Attend! Information at: http://www.usenix.org
June 15-19, New Orleans, Louisiana
Download the Published FreeBSD News Letter Volume #2:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/newsletter/issue2.pdf
Web Masters:
Check out this article on balancing Webserver traffic:
www.WebTechniques.com/features/1998/05/engelschall/engelschall.shtml
Filesystem Management:
An early version of vinum, a FreeBSD volume manager, is available.
It allows volumes to span disks and spread diskload across multiple disks.
Check out: http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html.
Alpha Porting Project:
There seems to be quite a bit of recent activity on this project.
Developers are being actively sought.
Join the alpha@freebsd.org mailing list.
PALCode and other Alpha Documentation can be found at:
ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/info/semiconductor/literature/dsc-library.html
X Window System:
Check out the Enlightenment Desktop:
/usr/ports/x11/enlightenment
Check out the Themes you can download for Enlightenment:
http://www.rasterman.com/themes/printthemes.cgi
Graphics/Design:
Check out the 'Blender' package from Neo-Geo
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.6-RELEASE/commerce/3D/Blender/
System Administration:
A Web Based FreeBSD System Administration Tool is available.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/berend/FreEasy.html
A X based FreeBSD System Administration Tool is also available.
http://cam.grad.kiev.ua/~rssh/admin/admin.html
Both are functional, yet still in developmental stages.
Installing FreeBSD:
Here is a newbie-oriented Install tutorial complete with screen shots.
Check out: http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/install.phtml
This is a monthly Newsletter, published only by E-mail.
If you have anything you would like to see in the next edition,
please send e-mail to fbsd-book@vmunix.com
-Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com>
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