Articles on BSD and Open Source

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• Dæmon News Articles
• Post Dæmon News

Dæmon News Articles

Starting in mid-2000, I became involved in the Dæmon News community by posting BSD-related news items, which progressed to writing articles on my experiences with BSD operating systems and writing book reviews. By the autumn of 2003, I got a bad case of writer's block and stopped writing articles and doing book reviews.

Below are the articles that I wrote for Dæmon News, which have since been cleaned up and made HTML5 compliant. Due to several changes made to Dæmon News over the past year or so, the published articles are no longer available on their website.

• Setting up FreeBSD on an iPaq (August 2000)
• Review: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide (March 2001)
• Remote Administration with Webmin (May 2001)
• Book Review: FreeBSD: An Open Source Operating System for your Personal Computer, First Edition (September 2001)
• HOWTO - Backing up a Windows Machine from FreeBSD (October 2001)
• Book Review: FreeBSD Unleashed (January 2002)
• Book Review: The DOSSIER Series (March 2002)
• HOWTO - Limiting Access to TCP-Wrapped Services With hosts.allow (June 2002)
• Communicating With Users using ntalkd and ytalk (June 2002)
• HOWTO - Setting Up ISC-DHCP 3.x Under FreeBSD (July 2002)
• Book Review: Programming PHP (July 2002)
• Book Review: Absolute BSD (October 2002)
• Backing Up FreeBSD using tar (December 2002 – Dæmon News Print Magazine)
• Book Review: Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition (January 2003)
• Book Review: Essential System Administration Pocket Reference (January 2003)
• Replacing FreeBSD Base System's BIND with BIND 9 (March 2003)
• Book Review: FreeBSD: The Complete Reference (June 2003)
• O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2003 Coverage (August 2003)

Post-Dæmon News

Below are articles that I have written after moving on from Dæmon News.

• Installing Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS on a Dell OptiPlex 160 (December 2009)