A Tour through the NetBSD Documentation - Part II: Info Pages
by Hubert Feyrer

The second part of four of a tour through NetBSD documentation Read More

Adventures in Dialup
by Bill Moran

Over the last eight months or so I've spent long nights pouring over technical documents to bring myself up to speed on how different dial-up services work. Overall, I found the documentation very good, but the overall explanation lacking. The next three months will be an attempt to remedy this. Read More

Web Security: Encryption & Authentication
by Paul Weinstein

SSL, developed by Netscape Communications, and TLS, the open-standard replacement for SSL, are the two protocols that add encryption and authentication onto the TCP/IP stack. This article summarizes the basic concepts used in implementing a secure website with SSL/TLS. Read More

Remote Administration with Webmin
by Linh Pham

Webmin was created to provide a fairly simple, but powerful, way to administer a UNIX-like system. Since its first release in late 1997, it has always been freely available under the BSD license and has since been acquired by Caldera. Webmin is completely web-based and uses its own simple web server (which is written entirely in PERL 5 without any external modules). Read More

Channel Critic
by Don Witt

If you want BSD to continue in the future as a high quality, high performance, leading edge operating system, it is NOT just the coding. It is the support of the community. Read More

Hey! Mister Answerman
by Todd Whitesel

Customizing X, enabling unprivileged users to mount devices on NetBSD, tape drive problems revisted, FreeBSD dialup server and much more in this months Answerman column. Read More

Dæmons Advocate
by Wes Peters

Recently a friend sent me an email about Microsoft beginning to create ``fault tolerant'' software. I quipped back ``Why would they want to do that, when they've spent two decades developing fault tolerant customers?'' Making Microsoft the butt of jokes about software quality is a favorite pastime on the Internet these days, but lying underneath the surface of this comment is an important point I'd like to address. Read More