BSD Magazine 2010/07: OpenBSD

July’s issue of the BSD Magazine can now be downloaded: BSD magazine 2010/07: OpenBSD.

Olga Kartseva, chief editor, wrote that the BSD Magazine archives are available now for freebsd-announce mailinglist subscribers without having to subscribe to the BSD Mag newsletter.

This is the table of contents of the OpenBSD issue:

Building a Desktop Firewall with pf and fwbuilder

This article is an excerpt from the Firewalls and VPNs chapter of the book The Best of FreeBSD Basics (ISBN 9780979034220), published by Reed Media Publishing.
- Dru Lavigne

OpenBSD Some Interesting One Floppy Systems

One floppy systems are very practical, as they usually have a specific goal, which cannot be said about all Live CD’s.
- JURAJ SIPOS

Remote Installation of the FreeBSD Operating System without a Remote Console

This article documents the remote installation of the FreeBSD operating system when the console of the remote system is unavailable. The main idea behind this article is the result of a collaboration with Martin Matuska mm@FreeBSD.org with valuable input provided by Pawel Jakub Dawidek jd@FreeBSD.org.
- DANIEL GERZO

OpenBSD as a Mail Server

In a previous document, we built redundant firewalls using the CARP and PFSYNC protocols; these were the first building blocks of a hypothetical, penBSD-based, small private networkthat we are going to build step by step across several documents.
- DANIELE MAZZOCCHIO

Performance Comparison ITTIA DB and SQLite

ITTIA DB SQL and SQLite are used by software developers to manage information stored in applications and devices. Designed to be hidden from the end-user, these embedded relational database management systems are linked into the application or firmware as self-contained software libraries.
- Sasan Montaseri

Interview with Jeff Roberson
- Jesse Smith

FreeBSD Experience and Success Story
- JOSHUA EBARVIA