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Daemon News: December 2004 http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200412/ Mirrors Primary (US) Issues December 2004 December 2004 Get BSD Contact Us Search BSD FAQ New to BSD? DN Print Magazine BSD News BSD Mall BSD Support Join Us T H I S M O N T H ' S F E A T U R E S From the Editor Installing OpenBSD: A Beginner's Guide (Mac PPC) by Brian Schonhorst Digium releases g.729 codec for FreeBSD The OpenBSD website is contains an extermely thorough FAQ and by Chris Coleman manual that should be any OpenBSD user's primary resource. Below Digium makes the g.729 speech I will go through a basic installation of OpenBSD 3.5 to clarify some vocoder codec available for points that might be confusing to a new OpenBSD user. FreeBSD after bsdnews.com readers lobby for a FreeBSD There are many ways you can get OpenBSD up and running on your port machine. I will assume you are using the official OpenBSD CD set because if you aren't, you should be. The official CD's are one of the few ways to support the OpenBSD community financially. Get BSD Stuff A few things you should consider before beginning: Read More FreeBSD 5.x and the Future by Scott Long The release of FreeBSD 5.3 signals the true kick-off of the 5-STABLE and 6-CURRENT series. We are very excited about this, both because 5.3 is a good release, and because 6.0 will give us a chance to, erm, redeem ourselves and our development process. 5.x was a tremendous undertaking. SMPng, KSE, UFS2, background fsck, ULE, ACPI, etc., etc., etc. were all incredible tasks. Given that Search many of these things were developed and managed by unpaid volunteers, the fact that we made it to 5-STABLE at all is quite impressive and says a lot about the quality and determination of all of our developers and users. However, four years was quite a long time Monthly Ezine to work on it. 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Scienced (Fachhochschule) Regensburg, then continued working NetBSD pkgsrc now supports there, first in a project about electronic libraries, later on as system multiple checksums administrator maintaining a cluster of Sun workstations with some NetBSD enables PAM in additional work on machines running Irix, NetBSD and Windows. HEAD Besides doing system administration, he started giving lectures on OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" "System Administration" and "Open Source". Read More Wireless Support R E G U L A R C O L U M N S Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date BSDMall 1 of 2 16.03.2005 07:59 Daemon News: December 2004 http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200412/ by Richard Bejtlich Miscellaneous An important system administration task, and a principle of running a defensible network, is keeping operating systems and applications up-to-date. Running current software is critical when older services Credits are vulnerable to exploitation. 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Read More Daemon's Advocate by Poul-Henning Kamp When I hear somebody like Robert Watson complain about not being able to find features and options in OpenOffice, I am reminded of my own introduction to UNIX: "I'm sure there is a way to do this, but I wonder what the program is called...". As the deadlines made me older I came to know the contents of /usr/bin by heart, and it now feels like my organised but cluttered workshop where I can almost always find a gadget and thingmajic which can be used to solve the problem at hand. Over time new things have appeared in /usr/bin but that has not been a problem for me, because it did not rename the old commands so all the tricks I learned on System III still work. Read More 2 of 2 16.03.2005 07:59 Daemon News '200412' : '"Digium releases g.729 codec... http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200412/editorial.html December 2004 Get BSD New to BSD? Search BSD Submit News FAQ Contact Us Join Us Digium releases g.729 codec for FreeBSD Search By Chris Coleman Monthly Ezine I've been using Asterisk as our company PBX and doing consulting work on Asterisk to help pay the bills for quite some time. For the most part, I've been Search able to use BSD as the OS for it to run on. However, one of my bigger contracts required the use of the g.729 codec. A few weeks back, I approached Digium about making the g.729 codec Get BSD Stuff available for FreeBSD as well as Linux. The first response I got was that Linux was their only supported platform. Basically the same thing they said when we wanted to port the Digium hardware drivers to BSD. The problem this time is that g.729 was licensed code that we didn't have, compared to the open source hardware drivers that we didn't need their permission to port ourselves. So, I announced on bsdnews.com a call for people to contact Digium and request that they create a binary of g.729 for FreeBSD. Just recently I got an e-mail from my contacts at digium announcing that the g.729 port was ready, though officially "unsupported". So, thankyou to all who called and helped lobby for this. Me and my projects thank you. -Chris Author maintains all copyrights on this article. Images and layout Copyright © 1998-2004 Dæmon News. All Rights Reserved. 1 of 1 16.03.2005 07:59 Daemon News '200412' : '"Installing OpenBSD: A Beg... http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200412/openbsd.html December 2004 Get BSD New to BSD? Search BSD Submit News FAQ Contact Us Join Us Installing OpenBSD: A Beginner's Guide Search by Brian Schonhorst Monthly Ezine The OpenBSD website is contains an extermely thorough FAQ and manual that should be any OpenBSD user's primary resource. Below I will go through Search a basic installation of OpenBSD 3.5 to clarify some points that might be confusing to a new OpenBSD user. There are many ways you can get OpenBSD up and running on your machine. Get BSD Stuff I will assume you are using the official OpenBSD CD set because if you aren't, you should be. The official CD's are one of the few ways to support the OpenBSD community financially. A few things you should consider before beginning: 1. Which platform you will be using (e.g., i386, sparc, macppc, etc...). See http://openbsd.org/plat.html for a complete list. 2. Hardware information such as RAM, hard drive size, and ethernet. 3. Network settings (especially if you decide to install without the official CD set). Machine Name Domain Name IP address or DHCP Netmask DNS server Gateway IP 4. How you will lay out your OpenBSD file system. (You can set OpenBSD up as a partition on a multiboot machine. More on that later.) Now lets get to it... For this document I will be installing OpenBSD 3.5 onto a Mac with the following: 450 MHz G4 processor (old world PowerPC's are not supported yet, so NetBSD is the answer for all those old beige G3 towers) 1024 MB RAM 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (built-in) 25 GB HD Matshita PD-2 LF-D110 CD-ROM/DVD-RAM For information on supported hardware see the OpenBSD platforms page. Make sure to back up anything on the drive that you need to keep. Don't say I didn't warn you! Insert the installation CD into the machine and boot from it. Make sure you put the correct CD in for the platform you're installing on. For an i386 install, enter the BIOS and change the boot device to CD-ROM. For macppc just hold down the c key at boot, or boot into Open Firmware (by holding down Apple+Option+o+f) and type: boot cd:,ofwboot 3.5/macppc/bsd.rd After the CD boots up and the device driver information scrolls past, the install program will start and ask you what to do.