From owner-freebsd-announce Wed Sep 30 18:32:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13764 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:32:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (localhost.freebsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA13610 for freebsd-announce; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:31:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailman@freebsd.org) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:31:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Handles majordomo bounced mail Message-Id: <199810010131.SAA13610@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: RQN -- Sept 98 To: undisclosed-recipients:; Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Reply-To: postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Real-Quick(TM) NewsLetter. Things Happening in FreeBSD. Volume #1 Issue #5 September 1998 Release Information: The latest RELEASE is 2.2.7-RELEASE. FreeBSD 2.2.8 is scheduled to be released November 30th. FreeBSD 3.0 is scheduled to be released October 15th. Start BETA Testing!!! FreeBSD in the News: http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,349576,00.html Recent Improvements: CAM (Common Access Method) SCSI layer implemented into 3.0-Current. Perl5 now standard in 3.0-Current Support for IDE disks drives larger than 8G in 2.2 3.0-CURRENT is now ELF! FreeBSD/alpha now self-hosting - both kernel and `make world' work! New FreeBSD JDK release: Download information is available at: http://www.freebsd.org/java Uniform Driver Interface: http://www.sco.com/udi ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/pub/hp_stds/udi/docs.html http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980916.ecminer.htm http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/Cn091698.htm ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/pub/hp_stds/udi/Postscript/rules.ps.Z RealTek 8139 Ethernet driver : Testers Wanted. http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/RealTek/3.0 source for FreeBSD 3.0 http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/RealTek/2.2 source for FreeBSD 2.2.x Reply to: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu. ThunderLAN Ethernet driver (popular in Compaq machines) : Testers Wanted. http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/ThunderLAN/3.0 source for FreeBSD 3.0 http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/ThunderLAN/2.2 source for FreeBSD 2.2.x Reply to: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu. Commercial FreeBSD Products: Emerging Technologies, Inc. ISA and PCI Sync Cards for FreeBSD http://www.etinc.com Bandwidth Manager http://www.etinc.com/bwmgr.htm Acadix Software Systems: APE is a syntax-colorizing, language-independent, terminal-independent integrated development environment for Unix. http://www.execpc.com/~acadix BSD Online Magazine: Daemon News! Don't forget to check out the BSD online Magazine written by many from the FreeBSD Community. Articles are due the 15th of each month, and publish the 1st of the following month. Authors Wanted. http://www.daemonnews.org/ Quote: If you aim the gun at your foot and pull the trigger, it's UNIX's job to ensure reliable delivery of the bullet to where you aimed the gun (in this case, Mr. Foot). (Terry) This is an (at least) monthly Newsletter, published only by E-mail. Archived copies can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/news/qnewsletter.html If you have anything you would like to see in the next edition, please send e-mail to fbsd-book@vmunix.com -Chris Coleman 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