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FreeBSD
	Why I wanted FreeBSD before I knew it existed 11 Feb 1998 How I found FreeBSD 11 May 1998 The installation 11 Jun 1998 upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998 a new hard drive 14 Aug 1998 Screen savers - and how to load stuff after changing rc.conf` 14 Oct 1998 Upgrading FreeBSD - installing a new version 7 Jan 1999 Staying current with FreeBSD - using CVSup to upgrade FreeBSD 14 Jan 1999 Before the disaster 14 Jan 1999 Updating the ports collection 17 Jan 1999 Restarting cvsup 29 Jan 1999 Setting up a FreeBSD mirror site has been completed. 14 Feb 1999 User Friendly - a cartoon strip 24 Mar 1999 System tools - toys I have found - the z-tools 20 Nov 1999 FreeBSD Diary news feeds 8 Mar 2000 BSDCon 2000 15 Mar 2000 USB Mouse support under 4.0 Release 20 Mar 2000 Directing mail to a program 20 Apr 2000 FreeBSD Virtual Memory 24 Apr 2000 Tips for Linux users (by Liz) 2 May 2000 New server - installing FreeBSD 6 May 2000 FreeBSD 3.5-stable is born 20 Jun 2000 FreshPorts 1.1 30 Jun 2000 FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE schedule 22 Feb 2001 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005 PC-BSD 17 Dec 2007


Installation
	Installing FreeBSD on a Windows 95 machine 14 Mar 1999 Installing PPP 15 Mar 1999 Installing FreeBSD to replace Windows 95 20 Mar 1999 Saving and using the kernel change information 20 Mar 1999 Installing PPP - alias 24 Mar 1999 Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999 Starting stuff at boot time 5 May 1999 Installing 3.2-release [the hard way] 20 Jun 1999 How to build a gateway 5 Jul 1999 Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999 FreeBSD on a laptop (by Chris Silva) 12 Jan 2000 Installing FreeBSD via PLIP - (the parallel port - good for laptops) 23 Feb 2000 Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.0-Release to FreeBSD 4.0-Stable 6 May 2000 Installing cvsup 6 May 2000 New server - installing FreeBSD 6 May 2000 Unexpected busfree in Message-out 10 May 2000 Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000 FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000 Crypto problem fixed 11 Jul 2000 The make-world script 30 Jul 2000 Upgrading to 4.1-STABLE - things to watch out for 30 Jul 2000 Installing via wireless NIC 21 May 2001 Checklist for a new box 12 Jan 2002 Your Makefile has been rebuilt. 16 Jan 2002 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005 PC-BSD 17 Dec 2007