What Makes An Operating System Portable?
by Hubert Feyrer

Hubert gives us an answer to what a portable OS really is; if NetBSD comes to mind, then you're on the right track. Read More

USENIX Technical Conference 2000 from the Exhibits Hall
by Kelleye and Len Vinci

Thinking about working a booth at a USENIX conference? Sounds like a lot of work, and a lot of fun too! BTW, what's with those horns? Read More

Data Migration for NetBSD
by Matthew Hunt

USENIX report: William Studenmund of Veridian MRJ Technology Solutions and NASA/Ames Research Center presented a Data Migration File System (DMFS) for NetBSD, which he developed with collaborators at NASA/Ames. Its purpose is to automatically migrate files from disk to tape as they cease to be accessed, and to transparently restore them to disk when a program tries to open them. Read More

Bill Joy delivers USENIX keynote
by Matthew Hunt

USENIX report: Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems delivered the keynote address on 21 June 2000 at the USENIX Technical Conference in San Diego. Joy's talk focused on his predictions of the future of computing, drawing on his extensive experience in the industry. Joy began by recalling the origins of Open Source UNIX, before that term had been coined. Read More

Answerman: Help, I've Fallen!
by Gary Kline, David Leonard and Dirk Myers

Perl, text editors, df, shells, and more... Thrills and chills as the Answermen show you around a land that isn't Kansas any more. Read More

Blueprints: Writing an ISA device driver
by Sergey Babkin

This document may be considered as a chapter from an imaginary Device Driver Writer's Guide. It concentrates on the issues relevant to writing a driver for an ISA device. Read More

Newbies: Setting up FreeBSD on an iPaq
by Linh Pham

How to get FreeBSD installed on the new Compaq iPaq Read More

The Dæmon's Advocate
by Greg Lehey

Some feedback on the ILOVEYOU virus and the state of things to come for the next version of FreeBSD SMP. Read More