The 4th and July/August edition of the FreeBSD Journal is now available through Amazon, iTunes, and the Google store. In this issue, there are sections about FreeBSD and virtualization, Amazon’s EC2, bhyve, Xen, the USE Method, etc.
Check out the official post here: http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/08/julyaugust-issue-of-freebsd-journal-now.html
More information on how to subscribe here: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/journal
FreeBSD Journal has just released their second issue available on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play. Issue #2 will discuss Poudriere, PBI Format, hwpmc, as well as Journaled Soft-updates.
Check out this link for more information on the FreeBSD Journal itself: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/journal
Full blog post can be found here: http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/04/freebsd-journal-issue-2-is-now-available.html
Though the FreeBSD Journal was announced and a few printed copies were distributed at last week’s NYCBSDCon, the FreeBSD Foundation has now officially announced the Journal on their blog:
“We are pleased to announce the FreeBSD Journal is now available! This is a new, FreeBSD focused, online publication.
You can find out how to subscribe to the Journal by going to www.freebsdjournal.com. Or, go to the following links for the device you’d like to download to:
Here’s the letter the editorial board wrote for this inaugural issue.”
I hope feedback from the FreeBSD Community will make future issues and distribution even better. How about a FreeBSD-friendly reader, or, even better, a PDF based version, just like the BSD Mag? DRM won’t stop somebody taking screenshots on his tablet and sharing these…
This is another good initiative by the Foundation to give FreeBSD more exposure.
NYCBSDCon is a bi-annual, one-day conference in New York organised by the NYCBUG BSD users group, with the theme of “The BSDs in Production.” The focus of the presentations is on the critical roles the BSDs do and can play in infrastructures.
Some may think the BSDs are slowly dying, but presentations given at this conference show quite the opposite. It’s interesting to see what Netflix has achieved with FreeBSD!
Last Saturday (8 Feb) NYCBSDCon 2014 took place, which according to the “My NCYBSDCon Trip” write-up by Justin Sherill (DragonFlyBSD), was a successful event.
It was nice the talks were broadcast live, and hopefully these will be published later.
The FreeBSD Journal was also announced by the FreeBSD Foundation last Saturday, and some paper issues (the only ones ever) handed out. The only way to get the Journal from now on is electronically via Google Play, Amazon Kindle or Apple iTunes.
I think the FreeBSD Journal website could do with an update to make this clearer, explain what the Journal is about, how to get it, and to take away some confusion. There has been a lot of useful information in recent interviews (BSD Now Episode 22, BSD Talk 237), but nothing of this is on the website (yet).
If I come across any pictures or other write-ups, I’ll share them here.