From owner-freebsd-announce Thu Jan 6 13:45:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F956151D5 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:45:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chrisc@vmunix.com) Received: from localhost (chrisc@localhost) by vnode.vmunix.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA13333 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:45:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:45:37 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Coleman To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Real Quick Newsletter Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Real-Quick(TM) NewsLetter. Things Happening in FreeBSD. Release Information: FreeBSD 3.4 is available from http://www.FreeBSDMall.com FreeBSD 4.0 is still in the Development Version with no release scheduled until early 2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blueprints: Design Elements of the FreeBSD VM System by Matt Dillon In this first article in the new Blueprints column, Matt Dillon gives us an overview of FreeBSD's VM system. Blueprints features in-depth information on BSD subsystems, presented by the authors or major developers. Matt has recently done some major work on the VM system, including a complete rewrite of the swap mechanism. LINK: http://www.daemonnews.org/200001/freebsd_vm.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Wars, The Continued Adventures of Darby December 31, 1999 Susannah Coleman and Seth Claybrook have joined forces to bring you the Continued Adventures of Darby Daemon. This episode catapults most of the original cast into a new story. The cartoon will be weekly and features some real cool graphics. "Lower Limit" will replace Darby in the Monthly DN Ezine. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=414 LINK: http://darby.daemonnews.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Configuration of ipfilter on FreeBSD January 05, 2000 Ipfilter is already integrated in newer FreeBSD-Versions. But there is still no integration into the startup-configuration via the rc.x-files. This article describes how to change the rc.conf and rc.network files to integrate the configuration of ipfilter into the startup of a FreeBSD server. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=443 LINK: http://www.free-x.ch/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD testdrives on a new XP1000 EV6.7 January 04, 2000 The Compaq Testdrive program is now making testdrives available of the the latest 4.0-20000101-CURRENT running on an Alpha XP1000 EV6.7. This program is free of charge. This Alpha system is running at 667MHz and is loaded with two gigs of ram. To get a shell account all you need to do is register at http://www.testdrive.compaq.com. No funny business of any kind. Our goal is to make this brand new system available to developers so they can test, build, port, their apps on the worlds fastest computer. We also have several other systems running FreeBSD to include: Proliant 5500 dual Xeon 450MHz and a DPW500a MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=439 LINK: http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/freebsd/index.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Growth of FreeBSD Committers January 03, 2000 The FreeBSD Project has experienced tremendous growth in 1999. This short article lists the 51 new committers added to the Project during the calendar year, as well as those who have left the Project. MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=438 LINK: http://www.freebsd.org/~wes/committers.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Chris Coleman Daemon News Editor in Chief Subscribe to Daemon News Announcements: daemon-news-announce-subscribe@eGroups.com This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message