Keeping FreeBSD Up-to-Date in BSD Magazine
December 12th, 2009 admin
Keep your eyes open for the latest printed BSD Magazine , with my article Keeping FreeBSD Up-To-Date: OS Essentials. This article is something like 18 pages long, because at the last minute the publishers had several authors withdraw articles. The publishers decided to print the extended version of my article, so it’s far longer than I expected! We’re currently edited the companion piece on keeping FreeBSD applications up-to-date. I expect to also submit an article on running Sguil on FreeBSD 8.0 when I get a chance to test the latest version in

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