From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Jun 4 01:06:46 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA01990 for announce-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 01:06:46 -0700 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA01978 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 01:06:31 -0700 Received: from grumble.grondar.za (grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA21938 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 10:06:18 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA01702 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 10:06:13 +0200 Message-Id: <199506040806.KAA01702@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: DES, eBones and crypt availble for non-US! Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1995 10:06:12 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: announce-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello World! (In particular, that part of it ouside the USA and Canada) I have (with official sanction of the organisation concerned) a LEGAL site for the distribution of crypt and Kerberos code. The secure code (crypt) is _identical_ to the US code. It originated in South Africa and Australia, and has never been to the US, so it is totally kosher. The Kerberos (eBones actually) code stared out life like the secure stuff, but as the US code was worked on, the changes were tracked with code legally available outside the US, so that too is kosher. There are minor differences between the US and the "foreign" eBones, but it is ALL in comments and whitespace, so the compiled code should be the same barring CVS-type strings. The site is skeleton.mikom.csir.co.za in the directory ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD, and this site is running wu-ftpd, so to get a whole directory you _should_ be able to type get .tar or .tar.gz for compression. I have (at the the moment) 4 directories each containing crypto code for a different version of FreeBSD: ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/1.1-RELEASE ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/1.1.5.1-RELEASE ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/2.0-RELEASE ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA Each directory contains two subdirectories - src and distfiles. `src' has all the source unpacked an in the individual files for those who need just a piece. `distfiles' contains the distribution tarballs that you would need for your installation process. Many thanks to the kind folks at the CSIR's Program for Network Design and Security. My email address is live (not dialup) but I do not generally read it during working hours. (My timezone is 2 hours ahead of GMT, and I work on average from 8:30am till 6:30pm Mon-Fri local time) My heart is in this project, and I WILL make it work. Work with me! Enjoy! Mark Murray -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Jun 4 02:04:10 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA04395 for announce-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 02:04:10 -0700 Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA04384 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 02:04:05 -0700 Received: from cc.uq.oz.au by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au id <17064-0@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 19:04:00 +1000 Received: from saturn.mincom.oz.au by minbne.mincom.oz.au with SMTP id AA02135 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for mark@grondar.za); Sun, 4 Jun 1995 19:00:57 +1000 Received: by saturn.mincom.oz.au id AA15407 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for announce@freebsd.org); Sun, 4 Jun 1995 19:02:48 +1000 Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 19:02:47 +1000 (EST) From: Eric Young To: Mark Murray Cc: Eric Young , Tim Hudson , announce@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DES, eBones and crypt availble for non-US! In-Reply-To: <199506040806.KAA01702@grumble.grondar.za> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: announce-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 4 Jun 1995, Mark Murray wrote: > The secure code (crypt) is _identical_ to the US code. It originated in > South Africa and Australia, and has never been to the US, so it is totally > kosher. The Kerberos (eBones actually) code stared out life like the secure Just in case you guys are interested, I'm the person who originally did the eBones stuff many years ago. I have been doing some more crypto stuff recently but I have only announced it on the ssl-list mailing list, newsgroups anouncements will occur in a week or 2. Anomgst the things. libdes - the des library that came with eBones has had a life of it's own and has been updated quite a bit. It has tripple des, ofb, cfb modes etc now and a few bug fixes. It is now released as part of my SSL implementation. This implementation contains DES, RC4, RSA (full private key generation function etc, infact about half the library is X509/RSA stuff). X509 routines. SSL. There are programs for handling X509 stuff and demo programs for ssl client and server implementation. A friend of mine (Tim Hudson tjh@mincom.oz.au) has put this into SRA telnet/telnetd, Mosaic and httpd (for https). This code has been tested and runs on all unix boxes I could get hold of. The SRA telnet has only been tested on Solaris 2.x and IRIX 5.x. The applications are still being worked on. This code is officially Alpha, in that I'm still working on the library quite a bit but it works and is available for ftp from ftp.psy.uq.oz.au /pub/Crypto/SSL and /pub/Crypto/SSLapps. There is a web page at http://www.psy.uq.oz.au/~ftp/Crypto (I think). The only problem is this machine blew it's root disk and will not be back until monday :-(. Currently SSLeay is not compatable with SSLref from netscape at a call level but it definitly is at a protocol level. In the next week or 2 I'll probably be working on making an interface to my RSA code compatable with RSAref. This code is now all under a licence which makes all of the above free for comercial and non-comercial use, with the restriction that I'm given attribution. Basically the same as the BSD licence. If people are interested in testing and putting SSL into apps under free BSD, feel free to start using the code. Documentation is somewhat lacking but I'll be working on that, you will just have to read the demo programs :-) have fun (on monday when psych is fixed) eric -- Eric Young | And Jesus said unto the masses AARNet: eay@mincom.oz.au |'Go and get a life of your own.' From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Jun 4 05:12:52 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA08715 for announce-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 05:12:52 -0700 Received: (from jkh@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA08708 ; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 05:12:52 -0700 Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 05:12:52 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Message-Id: <199506041212.FAA08708@freefall.cdrom.com> To: announce, hackers Subject: New "release candidate floppies" available Sender: announce-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -rw-rw-r-- 1 jkh wheel 1228800 Jun 4 05:09 boot.flp -rw-rw-r-- 1 jkh wheel 346624 Jun 4 05:09 root.flp In the usual UPDATES directory. Modulo any final bug fixes or typo corrections to the documentation, I do not plan any further functional changes to the install! If you run into any serious walls with this installation then I want to hear about it ASAP! The CD distribution is sitting on the launch pad and this is one of the last few things holding it up. I do think you'll find this revision of the install floppies to be quite a bit more robust than the first set! Thanks! From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Jun 4 08:13:30 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA12919 for announce-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 08:13:30 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA12900 ; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 08:13:23 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id BAA02174; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 01:01:58 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199506041531.BAA02174@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: New "release candidate floppies" available To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 01:01:57 +0930 (CST) Cc: announce@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199506041212.FAA08708@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 4, 95 05:12:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2172 Sender: announce-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 jkh wheel 1228800 Jun 4 05:09 boot.flp > -rw-rw-r-- 1 jkh wheel 346624 Jun 4 05:09 root.flp > > In the usual UPDATES directory. Modulo any final bug fixes > or typo corrections to the documentation, I do not plan any > further functional changes to the install! I hope this makes it back to you in time : I'm running my second install with these (actually 7am ??) images. Very close! FTP install is still looking for .tgz, and hangs if it doesn't find it. (ie. FTP sites with .xx break it) FTP's to nonfunctioning hosts now time out OK, this is good 8) In the post-install configuration, there's a menu (with NFS client/server options on it) that is remeniscent of the old options menu - items that should have [X] fields but dont. If you nominate to be an NFS server, the install starts vi on /etc/exports, but it comes up on the debug screen and you can't type to it. > If you run into any serious walls with this installation then I > want to hear about it ASAP! The CD distribution is sitting > on the launch pad and this is one of the last few things > holding it up. Timezone stuff seems still broken with wall CMOS clocks. Try entering a clock value, nominate that clock time is wall time, then say that you're in South Australia. The 'is this OK' time will be a few hours earlier than the time that you've entered. I can't speak for other locations, as I haven't been travelling all that much the last few days 8) > I do think you'll find this revision of the install floppies to be > quite a bit more robust than the first set! Indeed. _PLEASE_ fix the FTP install to handle <550 File not found> messages 8) (another install just hung 8( ) > Thanks! Mondo congrats to the team. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[ From owner-freebsd-announce Tue Jun 6 05:28:24 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA17757 for announce-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 05:28:24 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA17751 ; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 05:28:19 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: announce@freefall.cdrom.com cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Ok, *now* it's End-Of-ALPHA Release Candidate time! Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 05:28:18 -0700 Message-ID: <17750.802441698@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: announce-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hey folks, OK, so maybe you heard me say this a few days ago too, but that was before I spent 4 solid days and nights beating on the thing! :-) What is now on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA and ftp://freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA is pretty much 2.0.5-BETA in all but name. I suppose a few words on our current status are also in order, provided that I can manage to form any coherent thoughts at the moment, that is (boy, am I _tired!_).. I'm going to re-roll 2.0.5A tonite/this morning and release it as 2.0.5B later in the day, the only real difference being the version string. The tree will NOT be tagged for BETA! You CVS sup'ers can breathe again now.. :-) This is also basically it for sysinstall and 2.0.5R. I'm done and I do not plan to write any additional docs or implement any new functionality. Finito! I will, of course, fix any sufficiently severe last-minute bugs in code or doc, but this part of the tree is now essentially frozen with the rest of 2.0.5B. At this point, all known problems with the installation have been fixed or documented. I know it's still not perfect, but it works quite a bit better than the last one in enough significant ways and it's good enough for me (for now). We do have a few reports of systems falling over with strange cache-related problems, and which David and Poul are looking into. Some other posters reported random Sig-11s, but it is unclear as to whether or not this might have been caused by the "truncated bindist problem" we suffered from for a short time during the ALPHA. The keyboard lock-ups seem to have gone away with the temporary disabling (sorry, Joerg!) of the serial console code. It's also important to note that there are several new pieces of technology at work in this installation process; techniques which will most likely not directly affect you but are nevertheless worth knowing about. The First trick is "kzip", or the compressed (gzip'd) kernel image. Those familiar with Linux already know all about compressing kernels to save space on boot floppies, and we're doing it now too. A kzip'd kernel has a small bootstrap which loads it at 3MB and expands it. This is why 4MB machines briefly stopped working a few days back; we'd allowed the kernel to get larger than 1MB, and naturally there wasn't much room left up there! :-) Needless to say, this trick is only good for medium sized kernels.. The second trick is "kernmfs", which is a kernel that contains a large pre-allocated array inside and into which a second utility has copied a small root filesystem. This means that the kernel is now essentially carrying its own root filesystem around with it and is entirely self-contained, given some memory to run in. When this kernel is booted it creates an MFS (Memory File System) that overlays the internal "filesystem", and presto! A kernel and filesystem all running in memory and without any dependencies on things like the floppy drive, which might actually want to get used for something like loading distributions later. It doesn't matter if the kernmfs image _booted_ from a floppy, once it's up all the way then it's running from memory and no longer interested in where it came from (except as media). Though this solves a lot of problems inherent in the old scheme (some of which were basically impossible to solve before), it is not without its potential quirks.. We're using some new tools here, and while they may work just fine with all the equipment we have lying around it's always possible that there's some combination of hardware out there which we just haven't taken into account. In such cases, your feedback is invaluable in determining whether or not a fix is merited or possible. If you see any unusual behavior while booting the boot floppy, please write it down and let us know! This installation set now fully supports the following installation media types: CDROM Floppy DOS FTP NFS TAPE I've tested all of them and they seem to work quite well. The occasional crash is still possible, but you have to do something pretty creative or be having a really bad day on the Internet (this assumes you're not loading from CD, which is quite a bit simpler to deal with). The distribution menus have also been revamped and are now quite a bit more usable. If you haven't yet jumped on the 2.0.5 testing bandwagon then I strongly urge you to do so while there's still time to make a difference! I've no interest in pushing out a low-quality 2.0.5R release that embarasses us all, but at the same time I can't hold the CD up forever and I'm working on it in parallel now. Ideally, I'd like to hear from as many new installations as possible in the next day or so and thus be able to do a rough head-count of "it worked!" and "it didn't work!" messages so that I can gauge overall stability. I can say that 2.0.5 works very well for wcarchive, my machine, David's machine, Poul's machine, Gary's machine, etc. - many machines, I just need to know right now how well it works on *your* machine! :-) So please, download the floppies/boot.flp file today and test it on something! If you're doing anything but a tape or floppy installation then you don't even need to grab the "root.flp" image and the installation will get it automatically. Do please also try to read through all the documentation before filing a bug report. The documentation files are now available both inside and outside the boot floppy and are easily accessible from your local FTP mirror site. Most installation problems generally fall into a few known categories which, believe it or not, are documented in the Hardware guide and the Disk selection screen this time. Don't be afraid to type "F1" and read everything you see! :-) I know that some of you have felt more than a little rushed by the hectic 2.0.5A schedule and for that I apologise. What can I say? We were late.. :-( For an ALPHA cycle as short as this one, however, I do have to say that we have made some amazingly rapid progress! Perhaps giving up on all that wasteful sleep did the trick.. :-) I don't know how long I can prolong the BETA (a few days, maybe less?), but I'll try to make up for the severe time constraints by being as responsive as humanly possible during the interval. If you have real problems with the installation then I *will* try to get back to you within the hour with some sort of response to any question you send me! If you're really stumped, my phone numbers are in my finger entry on freefall (finger jkh@freefall.cdrom.com). I REALLY WANT TO HEAR YOUR FEEDBACK! If it works, let me know! If it doesn't work, also let me know! I need some feeling for our success rate on installations and this is the only way to get it. Thanks, everyone! And thanks for putting up with my new-floppies-every-20-minutes work model during the ALPHA and an installation I basically had to write from scratch. I suppose this is called "rapid prototyping" in the industry (or perhaps just another way of saying "I didn't really know where I wanted to go when I started, so I just started running." :-) Jordan From owner-freebsd-announce Wed Jun 7 00:33:07 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA05714 for announce-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 00:33:07 -0700 Received: from easynet.com (easy1.easynet.com [199.2.26.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA05708 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 00:33:06 -0700 Received: by easynet.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #7) id m0sJFc4-000reKC; Wed, 7 Jun 95 00:33 WET DST Message-Id: From: brian@MediaCity.com (Brian Litzinger) Subject: Talisman MPEG Stream & VideoCD player To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 00:33:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 3044 Sender: announce-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk You can now play VideoCDs and MPEG Systems Streams using the Omni Media Talisman MPEG decoder under FreeBSD -current or 2.0.5. More information on the OmniMedia products can be had from http://www.omt.com Since the Talisman produces both a VGA Window, and has NTSC/S-Video Out you can watch the stuff on your TV. All the Talisman support code for FreeBSD is alpha. Also, at this time the ONLY CDROM supported to play VideoCDs is the Plextor 4plex (either 256K or 1MB buffer models) (You need a special access mode to read VideoCDs which is not supported by all CDROMs and is different between manufacturers.) (As manufacturers make the necessary information available I'll support them) Other things to consider: Your VGA card must have a VGA expansion connector that works. At this time only 640x480 or 720x400 VGA modes are supported. There is no window control code at this time. You can plop a window over your VGA or use the NTSC/S-Video out. You will need a -current or 2.0.5 kernel and libscsi.a to play VideoCDs You should probably have at least a 486DX2/66 CPU. Your Disk Subsystem must be fast enough to support the data rates required. Though a standard IDE controller with most IDE drives will work fine for MPEG Streams. To get things up and going: get a Talisman Card from OmniMedia, 408 774 9999 (see OmniMedia Below) fetch the following files: Talisman microcode loader, executable only ftp://omt.com/pub/omt/talisman.freebsd.loader.v1.02.tar.gz initialization & mpeg stream player ftp://omt.com/pub/omt/tm-support-v1.02.tar.gz device driver source ftp://omt.com/pub/omt/tm0.04.tar.gz videocd support tools ftp://omt.com/pub/omt/tm-videocd-v1.02.tar.gz upgrade your system to -current or 2.0.5 kernel and libscsi.a untar all the omt stuff in the same directory and read the READMEs. What is coming: Improved buffering and performance. Support for original CDI CDROMs (Currently reads VideoCD 1.1 and CDI VideoCD, but not old style CDI) Window control with X Application Support for higher VGA resolutions Support for more CDROM Drives General Video Capure (requires an add on board) H.261/320 teleconferencing (actually requires another card) OmniMedia Talisman: How to get: OmniMedia is offering the Talisman for $100 off, if you take it WITHOUT the MS Windows/DOS support software. That is $299 without, and $399 with the MSWindows/DOS stuff. You can direct questions to OmniMedia to sales@omt.com, or see their WEB site at http://www.omt.com, or call them at 408 774 9999, or fax them at 408 774 9919. Please remember all the FreeBSD stuff is alpha, and is NOT an officially supported product of OmniMedia. Brian Litzinger brian@easynet.com Thanks to Plextor for help reading mode 2 form 2 sectors! Thanks to Amancio Hasty for the effort in driving Plextor and figuring out how to get the VideoCD data off the CDROM! From owner-freebsd-announce Thu Jun 8 09:38:39 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA16801 for announce-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 09:38:39 -0700 Received: from nahanni.BouletFermat.ab.ca (danny@dboulet.ccinet.ab.ca [198.161.96.245]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA16795 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 09:38:36 -0700 Received: (from danny@localhost) by nahanni.BouletFermat.ab.ca (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA05482 for freebsd-announce@freebsd.org; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 10:40:10 -0600 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 10:40:10 -0600 From: Danny Boulet Message-Id: <199506081640.KAA05482@nahanni.BouletFermat.ab.ca> To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Subject: Bugfix release of ipfirewall available Sender: announce-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Very short background info: ipfirewall is an IP packet filtering tool which is analogous to the packet filtering facilities provided by most commercial routers. Once the facility has been installed on a host computer, the system administrator defines a set of blocking filters and a set of forwarding filters. The blocking filters determine which packets are to be accepted by the host. The forwarding filters determine which packets are to be forwarded by the host. There is a bug in ipfirewall v2.0 (and v2.0a) that can, in certain circumstances, result in filters not being applied to packets as intended by the system administrator. User's of ipfirewall v2.0 (and v2.0a) should seriously consider upgrading to this new version. This version can be found in ftp://ftp.bsdi.com/contrib/networking/security/ipfirewall_v2.0b.shar.gz or ftp://ftp.nebulus.net/pub/bsdi/security/ipfirewall_v2.0b.shar.gz Alternatively, if you send me a request via e-mail, I can send it back to you as a set of shar files (my e-mail address is danny@bouletfermat.ab.ca). N.B. If you are a registered user of ipfirewall v2.* then I e-mailed the bug fix to you on the day after the bug was reported. This note is intended for users of ipfirewall v2.0 (and v2.0a) who haven't registered themselves (ipfirewall v2.* is distributed on a shareware basis). -Danny P.S. The v2.0b release also contains patches for installing ipfirewall on a FreeBSD 2.0 system. The release now includes patches for installing it on BSD/OS v1.*, BSD/OS v2.0, NetBSD-current and FreeBSD 2.0. P.P.S. I'm posting this to the freebsd-announce mailing list because the original ipfirewall v2.0 announcement was posted to some of the freebsd mailing lists and I'm trying to reach as many unregistered users as practical. Also, FreeBSD users might be interested in the availability of patches for FreeBSD 2.0. From owner-freebsd-announce Thu Jun 8 16:45:31 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA02583 for announce-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:45:31 -0700 Received: from minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.23.152]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA02575 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:45:25 -0700 Received: (warren@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.6.8/8.3) id JAA01830; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 09:43:19 +1000 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 09:43:19 +1000 From: warren@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Message-Id: <199506082343.JAA01830@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au> To: freebsd-announce@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Monthly Reminder: BSD Information Archive on Minnie Sender: announce-owner@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 From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Jun 9 12:16:30 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA29229 for announce-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 12:16:30 -0700 Received: from argus.iadfw.net (root@argus.iadfw.net [204.178.72.68]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA29223 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 12:16:28 -0700 Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by argus.iadfw.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA00304 for freebsd-announce@freebsd.org; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 14:16:21 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199506091916.OAA00304@argus.iadfw.net> Subject: need a repost of the Motif announcement To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 14:16:21 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text Content-Length: 395 Sender: announce-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Can someone please repost that announcement for the Motif package that is 2.0.5 compat? Jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@argus.iadfw.net, System administrator, Internet America From owner-freebsd-announce Sat Jun 10 13:01:14 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA20668 for announce-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 13:01:14 -0700 Received: (from jkh@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA20659 ; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 13:01:12 -0700 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 13:01:12 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Message-Id: <199506102001.NAA20659@freefall.cdrom.com> To: announce, hackers Subject: Announcing FreeBSD 2.0.5 RELEASE! Sender: announce-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It is my usual pleasure (and, to a small degree, relief! :) to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.0.5R - the final release in the 2.0.5 series. This release provides both what I hope will be an exciting glimpse of some of the new technologies and directions we have planned for 2.1R and a stable and much easier-to-install alternative to 2.0R. Highlights of this release are: o Multi-lingual documentation files. o Completely menu driven installation. o More installation media types. o Support for a much larger range of PC hardware. o Easy mounting of DOS partitions and CD devices mounted automatically. o "Canned" installation types for easy installs. o Easy post-configuration menu And many other new features and bug fixes. The ports and packages collection has also been bundled with 2.0.5R to prevent synchronization errors. While this does result in a larger overall distribution, it at least ensures more consistent results when installing ports and packages. More information on the release may be found in the RELNOTES and README files, so I'll simply leave you all to see for yourself! The usual locations: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE As well as the usual mirrors, once they pick it up. It is also available on CD from Walnut Creek CDROM, the project's principle sponsors. Please see the release notes for ordering information. Any feedback should be sent to hackers@freebsd.org. I will be leaving the country shortly (about 3 hours :) and will try to read my email as often as possible, but for quicker replies please send to the mailing list. Thank you! Jordan