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    <cvs:keyword xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS">
      $FreeBSD$
    </cvs:keyword>

  <year>
    <name>2006</name>

    <month>
      <name>12</name>

      <story>
	<name>Secure email servers from scratch with FreeBSD 6 (Part 2)</name>
	<url>http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/secure_email_servers_from_scratch_with_freebsd_6_part_2</url>
	<site-name>Free Software Magazine</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/</site-url>
	<date>13 December 2006</date>
	<author>Yousef Ourabi</author>
	<p>All the bells and whistles of a high end-mail setup: web-mail,
	  anti-virus filtering, spam filtering, and hosting unlimited domains
	  with virtual domains and users stored in MySQL.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Installing FreeBSD 6.1</name>
	<url>http://www.openaddict.com/installing_freebsd_6_1.html</url>
	<site-name>OpenAddict</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.openaddict.com/</site-url>
	<date>11 December 2006</date>
	<author>Sharaz</author>
	<p>An article that guides the reader through an installation of
	  FreeBSD 6.1.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Quick and Dirty Guide to Deploying a FreeBSD 6.1 Server</name>
	<url>http://www.openaddict.com/quick_and_dirty_guide_to_deploying_a_freebsd_6_1_server.html</url>
	<site-name>OpenAddict</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.openaddict.com/</site-url>
	<date>08 December 2006</date>
	<author>Rich Morgan</author>
	<p>An article showing how to configure a FreeBSD 6.1 server with
	  Apache, Webmin, PHP 5, MySQL 5.0, Sendmail with SMTP-AUTH, Bind
	  DNS, SNMP, and synchronized local time.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>China Develops Server OS; Lenovo On Board</name>
	<url>http://www.pacificepoch.com/newsstories/82819_0_5_0_M/</url>
	<site-name>Pacific Epoch</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.pacificepoch.com/</site-url>
	<date>04 December 2006</date>
	<author>Zhengqian Zhou</author>
	<p>China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has announced
	  that China has completed development of a server operating
	  system based on FreeBSD.</p>
      </story>
    </month>

    <month>
      <name>11</name>

      <story>
	<name>FreeBSD Security Event Auditing</name>
	<url>http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/422</url>
	<site-name>Security Focus</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.securityfocus.com/</site-url>
	<date>10 November 2006</date>
	<author>Federico Biancuzzi</author>
	<p>An interview with FreeBSD developer Robert Watson on the features of
	  the new audit subsystem in FreeBSD 6.2.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>FreeBSD Puts Out 6.2 Beta 3 Release</name>
	<url>http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug110906-story06.html</url>
	<site-name>IT Jungle</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.itjungle.com/</site-url>
	<date>9 November 2006</date>
	<author>Timothy Prickett Morgan</author>
	<p>News about the upcoming 6.2 release, and coverage of the new
	  features in FreeBSD 7.</p>
      </story>
    </month>

    <month>
      <name>10</name>

      <story>
	<name>Secure email servers from scratch with FreeBSD 6.1 (part 1)</name>
	<url>http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/secure_email_server_bsd_part_1</url>
	<site-name>Free Software Magazine</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/</site-url>
	<date>25 October 2006</date>
	<author>Yousef Ourabi</author>
	<p>Build a secure email server with FreeBSD, Postifx, ClamAV,
	  Spamassasin, and MySQL</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Enterprise Unix Roundup: PC-BSD May Be the Next Linux</name>
	<url>http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3640151</url>
	<site-name>ServerWatch.com</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.serverwatch.com/</site-url>
	<date>25 October 2006</date>
	<author>Brian Proffitt</author>
	<p>Commentary in the trade press on the acquisition of FreeBSD-based
	  PC-BSD by iXsystems.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Why iXsystems Bought PC-BSD</name>
	<url>http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/10/23/ixsystems-pc-bsd.html</url>
	<site-name>OnLamp.com</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.onlamp.com/</site-url>
	<date>23 October 2006</date>
	<author>Dru Lavigne</author>
	<p>An interview with Kris Moore and Matt Olander on the
	  acquisition of PC-BSD by iXsystems Inc.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Build a Nas device using virtualisation</name>
	<url>http://www.itweek.co.uk/2166671</url>
	<site-name>IT Week</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.itweek.co.uk/</site-url>
	<date>18 October 2006</date>
	<author>Alan Stevens</author>
	<p>Create your own virtual network-attached storage appliance using
	  FreeBSD-based FreeNAS in a VMWare virtual machine.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Desktop FreeBSD: Fully Optimized 6.x Installation</name>
	<url>http://www.ofb.biz/safari/article/402.html</url>
	<site-name>Open For Business</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.ofb.biz/</site-url>
	<date>12 October 2006</date>
	<author>Ed Hurst</author>
	<p>This article describes the process of (re)building a FreeBSD
	  system from source code with an aim to improve its performance.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>FreeBSD based PC-BSD Gets 'Acquired'</name>
	<url>http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3637341</url>
	<site-name>InternetNews.com</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.internetnews.com/</site-url>
	<date>12 October 2006</date>
	<author>Sean Michael Kerner</author>
	<p>iXsystems Inc. acquires the trademarks and intellectual property
	  rights associated with PC-BSD, a desktop operating system based
	  on FreeBSD.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Turn an Old Laptop Into a Portable Network-Troubleshooting
	  System</name>
	<url>http://www.techbuilder.org/recipes/193105146</url>
	<site-name>TechBuilder</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.techbuilder.org/</site-url>
	<date>09 October 2006</date>
	<author>David S. Markowitz</author>
	<p>How to build a network monitoring system using an old laptop and
	  FreeBSD.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Desktop FreeBSD: 64-bit Future</name>
	<url>http://www.ofb.biz/safari/article/400.html</url>
	<site-name>Open For Business</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.ofb.biz/</site-url>
	<date>04 October 2006</date>
	<author>Ed Hurst</author>
	<p>The article's author reports excellent results after building a
	  64-bit FreeBSD-based desktop computer.</p>
      </story>
    </month>

    <month>
      <name>9</name>

      <story>
	<name>Win4BSD has been released</name>
	<url>http://win4bsd.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=20&amp;Itemid=2</url>
	<site-name>Win4BSD</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.win4bsd.com/</site-url>
	<date>25 September 2006</date>
	<author>Dan Perlman</author>
	<p>Virtual Bridges, a provider of enterprise and SMB solutions
	  using virtualization for business, announced today the release
	  of Win4BSD Pro Desktop&trade;.  Win4BSD Pro Desktop runs as a
	  &os;/PC-BSD application and allows users to run Windows
	  Applications and Desktops with seamless ease on the BSD
	  platform.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>POSIX Asynchronous I/O</name>
	<url>http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=607373&amp;seqNum=1&amp;rl=1</url>
	<site-name>InformIT</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.informit.com/</site-url>
	<date>22 September 2006</date>
	<author>David Chisnall</author>
	<p>A look at programming with asynchronous I/O in FreeBSD and other
	  open-source OSes.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>DesktopBSD 1.0: FreeBSD for the desktop</name>
	<url>http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/09/01/2053249.shtml</url>
	<site-name>NewsForge</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.newsforge.com/</site-url>
	<date>11 September 2006</date>
	<author>Stefan Vrabie</author>
	<p>A review of DesktopBSD 1.0.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>A (late) look at FreeBSD 6.1</name>
	<url>http://weblog.infoworld.com/venezia/archives/007779.html</url>
	<site-name>InfoWorld</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.infoworld.com/</site-url>
	<date>06 September 2006</date>
	<author>Paul Venezia</author>
	<p>The author describes the setup of a FreeBSD 6.1 based mail server
	  and web host using software RAID and PF.</p>
      </story>
    </month>

    <month>
      <name>8</name>

      <story>
	<name>VMware's Virtual Appliance Challenge - and the Winner is?</name>
	<url>http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2006/08/vmwares_virtual_1.html</url>
	<site-name>InfoWorld</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.infoworld.com/</site-url>
	<date>15 August 2006</date>
	<author>David Marshall</author>
	<p>The FreeBSD based FreeNAS storage server project wins an award in VMWare Inc.'s
	  virtualization contest.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Advanced Installation Tasks in FreeBSD 6</name>
	<url>http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=597694&amp;rl=1</url>
	<site-name>InformIT</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.informit.com</site-url>
	<date>11 August 2006</date>
	<author>Brian Tiemann</author>
	<p>An excerpt from the book "FreeBSD 6 Unleashed" covering the ins and
	  outs of non-standard FreeBSD installations.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>PC-BSD: The Most Beginner Friendly OS</name>
	<url>http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=2287&amp;Itemid=449</url>
	<site-name>OSWeekly.com</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.osweekly.com/</site-url>
	<date>10 August 2006</date>
	<author>Matt Hartley</author>
	<p>A review of PC-BSD, covering installation and package management.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>The BSD Unix Projects Keep Humming Along</name>
	<url>http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn080206-story01.html</url>
	<site-name>ITJungle</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.itjungle.com/</site-url>
	<date>2 August 2006</date>
	<author>Timothy Prickett Morgan</author>
	<p>This article covers the FreeBSD project's Sparc (T1) porting
	  effort and mentions the scalability improvements in
	  recent releases.  New developments in the other BSD projects
	  also get a mention.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Working with gmirror on a Sun Fire X2100</name>
	<url>http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200608/gmirror_1.html</url>
	<site-name>DaemonNews</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.daemonnews.org/</site-url>
	<date>August 2006</date>
	<author>Grzegorz Czaplinski</author>
	<p>The first of a two part series on building up and tearing down
	  a gmirror system.</p>
      </story>
    </month>

    <month>
      <name>7</name>

      <story>
	<name>CBC's web site using Open Source everywhere!</name>
	<url>http://www.insidethecbc.com/2006/07/15/under-the-hood-at-cbcca-open-source</url>
	<site-name>InsideTheCBC.com</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.insidethecbc.com/</site-url>
	<date>15 July 2006</date>
	<author>Blake Crosby</author>
	<p>An article by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation describes their use
	  of FreeBSD in their IT infrastructure.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Interview with Andy Ritger and Christian Zander from NVIDIA</name>
	<url>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/07/bsdtalk054-interview-with-andy-ritger.html</url>
	<site-name>BSDTalk</site-name>
	<site-url>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/</site-url>
	<date>14 July 2006</date>
	<author>Will Backman</author>
	<p>Will Backman speaks with Andy Ritger and Christian Zander from NVIDIA
	  about the NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics driver.  The interview gives an
	  overview of the drivers current features, plans for future
	  improvements, and a brief discussion about licensing and NVIDIA's
	  open source efforts.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Using DesktopBSD</name>
	<url>http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/07/13/FreeBSDBasics.html</url>
	<site-name>OnLamp.com</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.onlamp.com/</site-url>
	<date>13 July 2006</date>
	<author>Dru Lavigne</author>
	<p>This article explores DesktopBSD, a desktop oriented and easy-to-use
	  version of FreeBSD 5.5.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>PC-BSD works for community center</name>
	<url>http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/06/23/1442207.shtml?tid=8</url>
	<site-name>NewsForge</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.newsforge.com/</site-url>
	<date>03 July 2006</date>
	<author>Henry Gillow-Wiles</author>
	<p>An IT director for a non-profit community center is happy with the
	  speed, stability and hardware compatibility of the FreeBSD-based
	  PC-BSD operating system on low-end hardware.</p>
      </story>
    </month>

    <month>
      <name>6</name>

      <story>
	<name>Build a Mail Server with Commodity Hardware and FreeBSD,
	  Part 2</name>
	<url>http://www.techbuilder.org/article/189400686</url>
	<site-name>TechBuilder</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.techbuilder.org/</site-url>
	<date>12 June 2006</date>
	<author>David S. Markowitz</author>
	<p>Part 2 of a TechBuilder recipe covers adding virus protection, spam detection
	  and webmail access to a mail server built using FreeBSD and a PC.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Six Hosting Companies Most Reliable Hoster in May</name>
	<url>http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/06/06/six_hosting_companies_most_reliable_hoster_in_may.html</url>
	<site-name>Netcraft</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.netcraft.com/</site-url>
	<date>06 June 2006</date>
	<author>Mandy</author>
	<p>A Netcraft survey for May 2006 indicates that FreeBSD is being
	  used by four out of five most reliable Internet hosting companies
	  in the world.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Build a Mail Server with Commodity Hardware and FreeBSD,
	  Part 1</name>
	<url>http://www.techbuilder.org/article/188701471</url>
	<site-name>TechBuilder</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.techbuilder.org/</site-url>
	<date>05 June 2006</date>
	<author>David S. Markowitz</author>
	<p>How to use a PC and FreeBSD to build a mail server for a small
	  or medium business.</p>
      </story>
    </month>

    <month>
      <name>5</name>

      <story>
	<name>A look at the FreeNAS server</name>
	<url>http://hardware.newsforge.com/hardware/06/05/19/1349206.shtml?tid=69</url>
	<site-name>NewsForge</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.newsforge.com/</site-url>
	<date>30 May 2006</date>
	<author>Gary Sims</author>
	<p>A review of FreeNAS, a FreeBSD-based network attached storage product.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>DTrace reaches prime time on FreeBSD</name>
	<url>http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/DTrace_reaches_prime_time_on_FreeBSD/0,2000061733,39257452,00.htm</url>
	<site-name>ZDNet Australia</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.zdnet.com.au/</site-url>
	<date>29 May 2006</date>
	<author>Renai LeMay</author>
	<p>ZDNet article about DTrace on FreeBSD.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>BSD Packaging Systems</name>
	<url>http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=471098&amp;rl=1</url>
	<site-name>InformIT.com</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.informit.com/</site-url>
	<date>26 May 2006</date>
	<author>David Chisnall</author>
	<p>An article on package management in the BSD family of operating systems.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Interview with Karl Lehenbauer of FlightAware</name>
	<url>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/05/bsdtalk042-interview-with-karl.html</url>
	<site-name>BSDTalk</site-name>
	<site-url>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/</site-url>
	<date>15 May 2006</date>
	<author>Will Backman</author>
	<p><a href="http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_566~107687,00.html">FlightAware
	  uses FreeBSD/amd64 systems</a> to track the locations of
	  up to 70,000 flights per day.  Will Backman speaks with Karl Lehenbauer
	  about how FlightAware is successfully using FreeBSD with other
	  open source technologies to drive their product.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>FreeBSD vows to compete with desktop Linux</name>
	<url>http://news.com.com/2100-1011_3-6071598.html</url>
	<site-name>News.com</site-name>
	<site-url>http://news.com.com/</site-url>
	<date>12 May 2006</date>
	<author>Ingrid Marson</author>
	<p>ZDNet article about FreeBSD's upcoming desktop features.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>FreeBSD 6.1 Review</name>
	<url>http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/37/1/</url>
	<site-name>Software in review</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.softwareinreview.com/</site-url>
	<date>12 May 2006</date>
	<author>Jem Matzan</author>
	<p>A review of FreeBSD 6.1 for the amd64 architecture.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Stability in FreeBSD 6.1</name>
	<url>http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3605211</url>
	<site-name>InternetNews.com</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.internetnews.com/</site-url>
	<date>10 May 2006</date>
	<author>Sean Michael Kerner</author>
	<p>An article describing the FreeBSD project's focus on stability
	  and quality for its 6.1 and 5.5 releases.</p>
      </story>

    </month>

    <month>
      <name>4</name>

      <story>
	<name>Interview: Deb Goodkin from the FreeBSD Foundation</name>
	<url>http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/008670.asp</url>
	<site-name>Blog: A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru</site-name>
	<site-url>http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/</site-url>
	<date>11 April 2006</date>
	<author>Dru Lavigne</author>
	<p>In this interview, Deb Goodkin provides some pieces of interesting
	  information about the inner working of the FreeBSD Foundation.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Interview: John Baldwin on FreeBSD</name>
	<url>http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/008672.asp</url>
	<site-name>Blog: A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru</site-name>
	<site-url>http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/</site-url>
	<date>10 April 2006</date>
	<author>Dru Lavigne</author>
	<p>In this interview, John Baldwin of the FreeBSD project gives
	  some insight on what it is like to be a FreeBSD developer and
	  some of the things that happen behind the scenes of a large Open
	  Source project.</p>
      </story>
    </month>

    <month>
      <name>3</name>

      <story>
	<name>Setting up Linux compatibility on FreeBSD 6</name>
	<url>http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/22/1531252.shtml?tid=8&amp;tid=2</url>
	<site-name>Newsforge</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.newsforge.com/</site-url>
	<date>31 March 2006</date>
	<author>Gordon McEwen</author>
	<p>A guide to configuring and running Linux applications on a FreeBSD 6
	  system.</p>
      </story>
    </month>

    <month>
      <name>2</name>

      <story>
	<name>Network Filtering by Operating System</name>
	<url>http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/02/16/os_fingerprint_filtering.html</url>
	<site-name>Onlamp.com</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.onlamp.com/</site-url>
	<date>16 February 2006</date>
	<author>Avleen Vig</author>
	<p>Keep worms and malware from monopolizing your network
	  connection using FreeBSD, pf, ALTQ, and squid.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Opening the digital doorway for South African youth</name>
	<url>http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=859</url>
	<site-name>tectonic</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.tectonic.co.za/</site-url>
	<date>08 February 2006</date>
	<author>Lunga Madlala</author>
	<p>An article mentioning the use of FreeBSD in so called
	    "Digital Doorways" in South African provinces.</p>
      </story>
    </month>

    <month>
      <name>1</name>

      <story>
	<name>BSD: The Other Free UNIX Family</name>
	<url>http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=439601&amp;rl=1</url>
	<site-name>InformIT</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.informit.com/</site-url>
	<date>20 January 2006</date>
	<author>David Chisnall</author>
	<p>An introduction to the open-source BSD operating systems.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Interview: Dru Lavigne, BSD Certification Group</name>
	<url>http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/01/13/173233.shtml?tid=35&amp;tid=8</url>
	<site-name>Newsforge</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.newsforge.com/</site-url>
	<date>20 January 2006</date>
	<author>Federico Biancuzzi</author>
	<p>An interview with the founder of the BSD Certification Group,
	  a non-profit organization established to create certification
	  standards for BSD-based operating systems.</p>
      </story>

      <story>
	<name>Running Commercial Linux Software on FreeBSD</name>
	<url>http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/01/12/Big_Scary_Daemons.html</url>
	<site-name>Onlamp.com</site-name>
	<site-url>http://www.onlamp.com/</site-url>
	<date>12 January 2006</date>
	<author>Michael W. Lucas</author>
	<p>The author shows how to use software built for a
	  Linux-based OS on FreeBSD.</p>
      </story>
    </month>
  </year>

</press>