From owner-freebsd-announce Wed Sep 27 20:01:18 1995 Return-Path: owner-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA27010 for announce-outgoing; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 20:01:18 -0700 Received: from minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA26964 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 20:01:02 -0700 Received: (warren@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.6.8/8.3) id MAA02870; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:58:04 +1000 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:58:04 +1000 From: warren@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Message-Id: <199509280258.MAA02870@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au> To: freebsd-announce@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Monthly Reminder: BSD Information Archive on Minnie Sender: owner-announce@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Subject: Monthly Reminder: *BSD Information Archive on Minnie From: wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Message-ID: Supersedes: Followup-To: poster Organization: ADFA, Canberra, Australia Summary: Where to get information about BSD Keywords: bsd, news, archive, ftp, telnet, WWW Minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.23.152] has a publically available cache of information on BSD4.x and BSD-related systems, especially the free flavours of BSD. CHANGES -- Minnie is mirroring FreeBSD-2.0.5-ALPHA, and the packages-2.0. The hyperlinked source tree is now _all_ of FreeBSD 2.0.5 /sys. Web Documents ------------- All of the BSD-related information on minnie can be accessed through the Web at http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/BSD-info/BSD.html. There are many hotlinks to the FreeBSD and NetBSD web pages. Minnie has web pages about: + BSD-related Usenet news, e.g the end of the UCB/USL litigation. + Interactive access to a Usenet News archive on *BSD. + A hyperlinked version of the FreeBSD 2.0.5 kernel source code. Bsdnews ------- Minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au keeps an archive of the Usenet news on *BSD, taken from the newsgroups comp.os.386bsd.* and comp.unix.bsd. This archive can be accessed either via telnet or through the WorldWide Web. You can do two things: + search through the news subject lines for a particular pattern + retrieve particular articles To do this by telnet, telnet to minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au and login as `bsdnews'. To do this through the Web, connect to the Web URL above and follow the link to the News Web interface page. Ftp --- Minnie has the following BSD-related stuff available by anonymous ftp: + FreeBSD - FreeBSD 2.0.5-ALPHA, and some previous versions. + bsdnews - The Usenet news about *BSD, from June 1992 onwards. + daemons - Gif images of the BSD Daemons. These are copyright by Marshall Kirk McKusick. + phillip - NFS mount of some other *BSD stuff, which is maintained by Phillip Musumeci here at ADFA. + 4.4BSD-Lite - The entire source tree for 4.4BSD-Lite. + net2 - The kernel source tree for the Net/2 distribution. Please ftp from a site closer to you, if there is one. Australia has a single link to the Internet, and it's usually saturated. Thanks! ---- Warren Toomey wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au