From owner-freebsd-www Mon Feb 11 12:31:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua (alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.224.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFE7237B41B for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:26:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipcard.iptcom.net (ipcard.iptcom.net [212.9.224.5]) by alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA65120 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:26:42 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from vega.vega.com (h210.229.dialup.iptcom.net [212.9.229.210]) by ipcard.iptcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA78870 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:26:32 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1BKQ1d81684 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:26:01 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3C6828EB.2FC7F8E2@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:26:19 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,uk,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Moving old (2001's) announcements out of the way Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------30A54E02C86514681AC8873A" Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------30A54E02C86514681AC8873A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, What do the www people think about attached patch to move old announcements out of the way? It provides new XSL template for old announcements, so that in the future moving could be performed very easy. Also I would like to get a suggestions about repo-copying required: do I need a news/news.xml --> news/2001/news.xml and news/newsflash.xsl --> news/oldnewsflash.xsl repo-copies or not? Thanks! -Maxim --------------30A54E02C86514681AC8873A Content-Type: text/html; charset=koi8-r; name="www_en_news.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="www_en_news.diff" Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/www/en/news/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.32 diff -d -u -r1.32 Makefile --- Makefile 13 Dec 2001 19:30:09 -0000 1.32 +++ Makefile 11 Feb 2002 20:18:30 -0000 @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ SUBDIR+= 1998 SUBDIR+= 1999 SUBDIR+= 2000 +SUBDIR+= 2001 SUBDIR+= status DATA= newsflash.html news.rdf press.html Index: news.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/www/en/news/news.xml,v retrieving revision 1.61 diff -d -u -r1.61 news.xml --- news.xml 11 Feb 2002 17:27:21 -0000 1.61 +++ news.xml 11 Feb 2002 20:18:30 -0000 @@ -118,944 +118,5 @@ - - - 2001 - - - December - - - 31 - - - <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCon - 2002</a> - February 11-14, San Francisco - -

BSDCon - will be hosted by the Usenix - Association this year. The conference will run from - February 11-14 in San Francisco. The FreeBSD Project will - have a broad presence at this conference, and anyone - interested in learning more about specific technologies - or the FreeBSD Project in general is encouraged to attend.

- - - - - 28 - - -

New committer: Doug Ambrisko - (Aironet)

- - - - - - 27 - - -

New committer: Sergey Skvortsov - (Ports)

- - - - - - 21 - - - FreeBSD-stable tree frozen in preparation for 4.5 - -

The FreeBSD-stable branch of the source tree has now been - frozen in preparation for the release of FreeBSD 4.5. This means - that any new commits to the -stable source tree must be approved - by the release engineering team first. Our expected "ship" date - for 4.5 is January 20th, 2002.

- - - - November 2001 Status Report - -

The November 2001 status report is now available; see the - status reports Web page for - more information.

- - - - "Backports" site, with patches for older FreeBSD - releases - -

The - FreeBSD Backports Collection is a new site created by - D J Hawkey Jr. It contains patches that appeared in - FreeBSD-stable that have not yet been merged in to older - releases. Wider testing of these patches makes it more likely - that they will be committed to earlier FreeBSD releases. So if - your site relies on earlier releases of FreeBSD, and, for whatever - reason, you do not wish to update to the most recent release, - you are encouraged to visit this site frequently.

- - - - - 20 - - -

New committer: Martin Blapp - (Ports)

- - - - - 7 - - - New BSD-related journal : <a - href="http://bsdfreak.org">BSDFreak</a> - -

BSDFreak is a new site - that provides tutorials, articles, and journals covering - BSD operating systems from a user's perspective.

- - - - - - - November - - - 30 - - -

New committer: Michael Lucas - (Documentation Project)

- - - - - 28 - - -

New committer: Prafulla - Deuskar (Intel gigabit device driver)

- - - - - 25 - - -

New committer: Yoichi - NAKAYAMA (Ports)

- - - - - 23 - - - Writing FreeBSD Problem Reports - -

Dag-Erling SmÛrgrav - has written an article about - writing FreeBSD problem reports.

- - - - - 20 - - -

New committer: Ernst - de Haan (Ports)

- - - - Core Appoints Bugmeister - -

The FreeBSD Core Team has appointed Dag-Erling SmÛrgrav as - Bugmeister.

- - - - - 14 - - -

New committer: Patrick - Li (Ports)

- - - - - 13 - - -

New committer: Cy - Schubert (Ports)

- - - - - 6 - - -

New committer: Anders - Nordby (Ports)

- - - - - 3 - - -

New committer: Christian - Weisgerber (Ports)

- - - - ATA 48-bit addressing code tested and found to be - working and stable - -

Soren Schmidt, author of the ATA driver, tested a - new 160 GB ATA harddisk provided kindly by - Maxtor Corporation - with the new ATA specification's 48-bit addressing mode - support in FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. The results show that the - code is stable and functions as it should and will be - backported to STABLE.

- - - - - 2 - - -

New committer: MANTANI - Nobutaka (Ports)

- - - -

New committer: Andrew R. - Reiter (SMPng, TrustedBSD)

- - - - - - October - - - 30 - - - FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd Edition now available! - -

"The FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd Edition" is now available in - printed form! This is the primary source of documentation - produced by the FreeBSD - Documentation Project and is available now from, - amongst other places, The FreeBSD Mall. - For a complete list of changes in this edition, see the announce - message from the editors. The ISBN for this book is - 1571763031. 653 pages.

- - - - - - 26 - - -

New committer: Makoto - Matsushita (release building)

- - - - - 23 - - - Bootstrapping Vinum: A Foundation for Reliable Servers -

Bob Van Valzah has submitted - an article introducing - failure-resilient servers and step-by-step instructions - for building one with Vinum.

- - - - FreeBSD/ia64 port boots unattended to multi-user mode -

Doug Rabson and - Peter Wemm have been - working non-stop on the FreeBSD/ia64 port in the past few - weeks and said today that it boots into multi-user mode - without any operator attendence. This is indeed a major - milestone in continued FreeBSD porting efforts. Right now - most work is concentrating on fixing any problems in the - sourcetree which become exposed by this platform's porting - effort.

- - - - - 19 - - - FreeBSD/sparc64 port boots to single user mode -

Jake Burkholder and - Thomas Moestl have been - porting FreeBSD to the ultra sparc for the past few months - and first booted a machine into single user mode on the 18th - of October. The log from the serial console can be found at - - http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jake/tip.single_user.

- - - - - 17 - - -

New committer: Akio - Morita (PC98)

- - - - - 7 - - - FreeBSD/ppc port now boots and executes kernel -

Benno Rice has committed - a mega-patch which added support for OpenFirmware to the FreeBSD - loader. The loader can now load a kernel over the network and - execute it on an Apple iMac.

- - - - - 5 - - - FreeBSD/ia64 port now boots on real hardware -

After a few months of development - Doug Rabson and Peter - Wemm have committed patches which extends the FreeBSD/ia64 - port's functionality and adds the possibility to boot on real - hardware.

- - - -

New committer: - Giorgos Keramidas - (Docs)

- - - - - - September - - - 18 - - - August 2001 Status Report - -

The August 2001 Status Report is now available; see the - Status Reports Web Page.

- - - - - 10 - - - Comprehensive Project List available for 5.0 - -

Many people, upon hearing of 5.0's untimely delay for a - full year, have asked what they can do to help 5.0 get - back on track. - This email gives a list of outstanding projects for 5.0 and - as much information as possible about how to get - involved.

- - - - - - August - - 30 - - - FreeBSD 5.0 delayed until November 2002 - -

FreeBSD 5.0 has been delayed until November 2002. The - complete announcement from Jordan is available here.

- - - - - 28 - - -

New committer: Robert - Drehmel

- - - - - 22 - - -

New committer: Pete - Fritchman (Ports)

- - - - - 17 - - - New-user focused FreeBSD book available - -

Annelise Anderson, a frequent contributor to the FreeBSD mailing - lists, has written "FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System - for Your PC", an introduction to FreeBSD aimed at the new user. - Published by The Bit Tree Press, the ISBN is 0971204500, and it - can be ordered from, amongst other places, the - DaemonNews Mall.

- - - - - 16 - - - Installation documentation substantially improved - -

The - Installing FreeBSD - section of the - Handbook - has been substantially improved and updated. The new - documentation features "screenshots" of almost every stage of the - installation process, and expanded text detailing what each stage - of the install covers. The bulk of the work was carried out by - Randy Pratt.

- - - - - 14 - - -

New committer: Max Khon

- - - - - 9 - - -

New committer: Randy - Pratt (Docs)

- - - - July 2001 Status Report - -

The July 2001 status report is now available; see the - Status Reports Web - page.

- - - - - 8 - - - FreeBSD RDF news headline file now available - -

An RDF file of the last 10 news headlines on the FreeBSD site - is now available. The URL is http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/news.rdf. You can use this file - to syndicate FreeBSD news headlines on to your own web - site (as Daily - DaemonNews and the - FreeBSD - Diary do), or on to your desktop, using applications such as - KNewsTicker.

- - - - - 7 - - - Pandaemonium User Group - -

Pandaemonium, - the BSD Users Group of Western Australia, has been - added to the Support page.

- - - - - 6 - - -

New committer: Valentino - Vaschetto (Docs)

- - - - - - July - - - 30 - - - FreeBSD Handbook task list now available - -

A second edition of The FreeBSD - Handbook will be in production shortly. A - task list has been - published for anyone who wants to help contribute to the state of - available printed documentation about FreeBSD.

- - - - - 26 - - -

New committer: Mark Peek

- - - - - 16 - - -

New committer: Rob - Braun

- - - -

New committer: Dave - Zarzycki

- - - -

New committer: Mike Barcroft

- - - - - 13 - - -

New committer: Chern Lee - (Docs)

- - - - - - June - - - 21 - - -

New committer: Brooks - Davis (Networking, Mobile Computing)

- - - - - 20 - - - Using FreeBSD with Solid State Media - -

John Kozubik has submitted - an article explaining - How - to use FreeBSD with solid state media.

- - - - - 17 - - - FreeBSD boots on PowerPC - -

Benno Rice has completed - enough work to allow FreeBSD to reach the mountroot prompt on the - PowerPC processor. Please see the PowerPC platform page and mailing list for more - information.

- - - - - 15 - - -

New committer: Mike - Silbersack (Networking)

- - - - - 14 - - -

New committer: Johann Visagie - (Ports)

- - - - - 13 - - - FreeBSD Status Report Available - -

Robert Watson has - compiled a - status report for the FreeBSD Project. These reports are scheduled to continue on a monthly basis.

- - - - - 11 - - -

New committer: Anton - Berezin (all things Perl)

- - - - - 6 - - -

New committer: David - W. Chapman Jr.(Ports)

- - - -

New committer: Mark Pulford - (Ports)

- - - - - 1 - - -

New committer: Crist J. Clark - (Networking, security)

- - - - - - May - - - 24 - - - ftp.FreeBSD.org back up - -

The famous ftp site, - ftp.FreeBSD.org, is now back - in full operation. Many thanks to Tele - Danmark, who are supplying the machine as well as the network - connection.

- - - - - 16 - - -

New committer: Jim - Pirzyk

- - - - - 2 - - - New FreeBSD 'zine issue out - -

The first May 2001 issue of the - FreeBSD 'zine is now - available. Starting this month, there will be two issues - per month; one on the 1st, and one on the 15th.

- - - - - - April - - - 27 - - - SMP Alpha now works - -

FreeBSD now works with multiple processors on Alpha systems, - thanks to the efforts of John - Baldwin, Andrew - Gallatin, and Doug - Rabson.

- - - - - 25 - - -

New committer: Takuya - SHIOZAKI (Internationalization)

- - - -

New committer: Udo Erdelhoff - (Docs)

- - - - - 18 - - -

The - Developer's - Handbook is now available on the web site. This is an - evolving resource for people wanting to develop software for - FreeBSD (and not just for the committers who are developing - FreeBSD). Don't forget that a complete list of documentation - available from this site is also available.

- - - - - 17 - - -

Addison Wesley have allowed us to republish - Chapter - 8 of the - FreeBSD - Corporate Networker's Guide. Chapter 8 provides an in-depth - look at providing printing services to Windows, NT, and Novell - clients using FreeBSD.

- - - - - 16 - - -

Yet another new committer: - Jens Schweikhardt - (Standards compliance)

- - - - - 12 - - -

The April issue of The - FreeBSD 'zine is now available.

- - - - - 10 - - -

The Ports Collection now - contains more than 5,000 individual entries!

- - - - - 5 - - -

New committer: George Reid - (Sound support, ports)

- - - - - 4 - -

Wind River to Acquire BSDi Software Assets. Please read the - Wind River - Press Release, the announcement from - Jordan K. Hubbard, and the FreeBSD Core Team statement.

- - - - - - March - - - 25 - - -

New committer: Yar Tikhiy - (Networking)

- - - - - 24 - - -

New committer: Eric Melville - (System tools)

- - - - - 13 - - -

The March issue of The - FreeBSD 'zine is now available.

- - - - - 9 - - -

New committer: Dima Dorfman - (Docs)

- - - - - 7 - - -

New committer: Michael - C. Wu (Internationalization, porting efforts)

- - - - - 6 - - -

New committer: Thomas - Möstl (POSIX.1e extensions)

- - - -

New committer: Orion Hodson - (Sound support)

- - - - - - February - - - 20 - - -

New committer: Jesper - Skriver

- - - - - 16 - - -

The February issue of The - FreeBSD 'zine is now available.

- - - - - 5 - - -

New committer: Mike Heffner - (Audit project)

- - - - - - January - - - 24 - - -

New committer: Jimmy - Olgeni (Ports)

- - - - - 23 - - -

New committer: Dirk Meyer - (Ports)

- - - - - 20 - - -

New committer: Ying-chieh - Liao (Ports)

- - - - Index: newsflash.xsl =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/www/en/news/newsflash.xsl,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -d -u -r1.4 newsflash.xsl --- newsflash.xsl 11 Feb 2002 17:12:11 -0000 1.4 +++ newsflash.xsl 11 Feb 2002 20:18:30 -0000 @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@

Older announcements: + 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, Index: oldnewsflash.xsl =================================================================== RCS file: oldnewsflash.xsl diff -N oldnewsflash.xsl --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ oldnewsflash.xsl 11 Feb 2002 20:18:30 -0000 @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + FreeBSD News + + + + + + + + + + + + +

+ +

+ + + + + + + +

+ + + + + + + + , + : + +

+ +

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Index: 2001/Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: 2001/Makefile diff -N 2001/Makefile --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ 2001/Makefile 11 Feb 2002 20:18:30 -0000 @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +# $FreeBSD$ + +.if exists(../Makefile.conf) +.include "../Makefile.conf" +.endif +.if exists(../Makefile.inc) +.include "../Makefile.inc" +.endif + +DATA= index.html +CLEANFILES+= index.html + +index.html: ../oldnewsflash.xsl news.xml ../includes.xsl ../../includes.xsl + ${XSLTPROC} ${XSLTPROCOPTS} -o ${.TARGET} \ + ${.CURDIR}/../oldnewsflash.xsl ${.CURDIR}/news.xml +.if !defined(NO_TIDY) + -${TIDY} ${TIDYOPTS} ${.TARGET} +.endif + +.include "${WEB_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk" Index: 2001/news.xml =================================================================== RCS file: 2001/news.xml diff -N 2001/news.xml --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ 2001/news.xml 11 Feb 2002 20:18:30 -0000 @@ -0,0 +1,967 @@ + + + + + + + + $FreeBSD$ + + + + + 2001 + + + December + + + 31 + + + <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCon + 2002</a> - February 11-14, San Francisco + +

BSDCon + will be hosted by the Usenix + Association this year. The conference will run from + February 11-14 in San Francisco. The FreeBSD Project will + have a broad presence at this conference, and anyone + interested in learning more about specific technologies + or the FreeBSD Project in general is encouraged to attend.

+ + + + + 28 + + +

New committer: Doug Ambrisko + (Aironet)

+ + + + + + 27 + + +

New committer: Sergey Skvortsov + (Ports)

+ + + + + + 21 + + + FreeBSD-stable tree frozen in preparation for 4.5 + +

The FreeBSD-stable branch of the source tree has now been + frozen in preparation for the release of FreeBSD 4.5. This means + that any new commits to the -stable source tree must be approved + by the release engineering team first. Our expected "ship" date + for 4.5 is January 20th, 2002.

+ + + + November 2001 Status Report + +

The November 2001 status report is now available; see the + status reports Web page for + more information.

+ + + + "Backports" site, with patches for older FreeBSD + releases + +

The + FreeBSD Backports Collection is a new site created by + D J Hawkey Jr. It contains patches that appeared in + FreeBSD-stable that have not yet been merged in to older + releases. Wider testing of these patches makes it more likely + that they will be committed to earlier FreeBSD releases. So if + your site relies on earlier releases of FreeBSD, and, for whatever + reason, you do not wish to update to the most recent release, + you are encouraged to visit this site frequently.

+ + + + + 20 + + +

New committer: Martin Blapp + (Ports)

+ + + + + 7 + + + New BSD-related journal : <a + href="http://bsdfreak.org">BSDFreak</a> + +

BSDFreak is a new site + that provides tutorials, articles, and journals covering + BSD operating systems from a user's perspective.

+ + + + + + + November + + + 30 + + +

New committer: Michael Lucas + (Documentation Project)

+ + + + + 28 + + +

New committer: Prafulla + Deuskar (Intel gigabit device driver)

+ + + + + 25 + + +

New committer: Yoichi + NAKAYAMA (Ports)

+ + + + + 23 + + + Writing FreeBSD Problem Reports + +

Dag-Erling SmÛrgrav + has written an article about + writing FreeBSD problem reports.

+ + + + + 20 + + +

New committer: Ernst + de Haan (Ports)

+ + + + Core Appoints Bugmeister + +

The FreeBSD Core Team has appointed Dag-Erling SmÛrgrav as + Bugmeister.

+ + + + + 14 + + +

New committer: Patrick + Li (Ports)

+ + + + + 13 + + +

New committer: Cy + Schubert (Ports)

+ + + + + 6 + + +

New committer: Anders + Nordby (Ports)

+ + + + + 3 + + +

New committer: Christian + Weisgerber (Ports)

+ + + + ATA 48-bit addressing code tested and found to be + working and stable + +

Soren Schmidt, author of the ATA driver, tested a + new 160 GB ATA harddisk provided kindly by + Maxtor Corporation + with the new ATA specification's 48-bit addressing mode + support in FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. The results show that the + code is stable and functions as it should and will be + backported to STABLE.

+ + + + + 2 + + +

New committer: MANTANI + Nobutaka (Ports)

+ + + +

New committer: Andrew R. + Reiter (SMPng, TrustedBSD)

+ + + + + + October + + + 30 + + + FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd Edition now available! + +

"The FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd Edition" is now available in + printed form! This is the primary source of documentation + produced by the FreeBSD + Documentation Project and is available now from, + amongst other places, The FreeBSD Mall. + For a complete list of changes in this edition, see the announce + message from the editors. The ISBN for this book is + 1571763031. 653 pages.

+ + + + + + 26 + + +

New committer: Makoto + Matsushita (release building)

+ + + + + 23 + + + Bootstrapping Vinum: A Foundation for Reliable Servers +

Bob Van Valzah has submitted + an article introducing + failure-resilient servers and step-by-step instructions + for building one with Vinum.

+ + + + FreeBSD/ia64 port boots unattended to multi-user mode +

Doug Rabson and + Peter Wemm have been + working non-stop on the FreeBSD/ia64 port in the past few + weeks and said today that it boots into multi-user mode + without any operator attendence. This is indeed a major + milestone in continued FreeBSD porting efforts. Right now + most work is concentrating on fixing any problems in the + sourcetree which become exposed by this platform's porting + effort.

+ + + + + 19 + + + FreeBSD/sparc64 port boots to single user mode +

Jake Burkholder and + Thomas Moestl have been + porting FreeBSD to the ultra sparc for the past few months + and first booted a machine into single user mode on the 18th + of October. The log from the serial console can be found at + + http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jake/tip.single_user.

+ + + + + 17 + + +

New committer: Akio + Morita (PC98)

+ + + + + 7 + + + FreeBSD/ppc port now boots and executes kernel +

Benno Rice has committed + a mega-patch which added support for OpenFirmware to the FreeBSD + loader. The loader can now load a kernel over the network and + execute it on an Apple iMac.

+ + + + + 5 + + + FreeBSD/ia64 port now boots on real hardware +

After a few months of development + Doug Rabson and Peter + Wemm have committed patches which extends the FreeBSD/ia64 + port's functionality and adds the possibility to boot on real + hardware.

+ + + +

New committer: + Giorgos Keramidas + (Docs)

+ + + + + + September + + + 18 + + + August 2001 Status Report + +

The August 2001 Status Report is now available; see the + Status Reports Web Page.

+ + + + + 10 + + + Comprehensive Project List available for 5.0 + +

Many people, upon hearing of 5.0's untimely delay for a + full year, have asked what they can do to help 5.0 get + back on track. + This email gives a list of outstanding projects for 5.0 and + as much information as possible about how to get + involved.

+ + + + + + August + + 30 + + + FreeBSD 5.0 delayed until November 2002 + +

FreeBSD 5.0 has been delayed until November 2002. The + complete announcement from Jordan is available here.

+ + + + + 28 + + +

New committer: Robert + Drehmel

+ + + + + 22 + + +

New committer: Pete + Fritchman (Ports)

+ + + + + 17 + + + New-user focused FreeBSD book available + +

Annelise Anderson, a frequent contributor to the FreeBSD mailing + lists, has written "FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System + for Your PC", an introduction to FreeBSD aimed at the new user. + Published by The Bit Tree Press, the ISBN is 0971204500, and it + can be ordered from, amongst other places, the + DaemonNews Mall.

+ + + + + 16 + + + Installation documentation substantially improved + +

The + Installing FreeBSD + section of the + Handbook + has been substantially improved and updated. The new + documentation features "screenshots" of almost every stage of the + installation process, and expanded text detailing what each stage + of the install covers. The bulk of the work was carried out by + Randy Pratt.

+ + + + + 14 + + +

New committer: Max Khon

+ + + + + 9 + + +

New committer: Randy + Pratt (Docs)

+ + + + July 2001 Status Report + +

The July 2001 status report is now available; see the + Status Reports Web + page.

+ + + + + 8 + + + FreeBSD RDF news headline file now available + +

An RDF file of the last 10 news headlines on the FreeBSD site + is now available. The URL is http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/news.rdf. You can use this file + to syndicate FreeBSD news headlines on to your own web + site (as Daily + DaemonNews and the + FreeBSD + Diary do), or on to your desktop, using applications such as + KNewsTicker.

+ + + + + 7 + + + Pandaemonium User Group + +

Pandaemonium, + the BSD Users Group of Western Australia, has been + added to the Support page.

+ + + + + 6 + + +

New committer: Valentino + Vaschetto (Docs)

+ + + + + + July + + + 30 + + + FreeBSD Handbook task list now available + +

A second edition of The FreeBSD + Handbook will be in production shortly. A + task list has been + published for anyone who wants to help contribute to the state of + available printed documentation about FreeBSD.

+ + + + + 26 + + +

New committer: Mark Peek

+ + + + + 16 + + +

New committer: Rob + Braun

+ + + +

New committer: Dave + Zarzycki

+ + + +

New committer: Mike Barcroft

+ + + + + 13 + + +

New committer: Chern Lee + (Docs)

+ + + + + + June + + + 21 + + +

New committer: Brooks + Davis (Networking, Mobile Computing)

+ + + + + 20 + + + Using FreeBSD with Solid State Media + +

John Kozubik has submitted + an article explaining + How + to use FreeBSD with solid state media.

+ + + + + 17 + + + FreeBSD boots on PowerPC + +

Benno Rice has completed + enough work to allow FreeBSD to reach the mountroot prompt on the + PowerPC processor. Please see the PowerPC platform page and mailing list for more + information.

+ + + + + 15 + + +

New committer: Mike + Silbersack (Networking)

+ + + + + 14 + + +

New committer: Johann Visagie + (Ports)

+ + + + + 13 + + + FreeBSD Status Report Available + +

Robert Watson has + compiled a + status report for the FreeBSD Project. These reports are scheduled to continue on a monthly basis.

+ + + + + 11 + + +

New committer: Anton + Berezin (all things Perl)

+ + + + + 6 + + +

New committer: David + W. Chapman Jr.(Ports)

+ + + +

New committer: Mark Pulford + (Ports)

+ + + + + 1 + + +

New committer: Crist J. Clark + (Networking, security)

+ + + + + + May + + + 24 + + + ftp.FreeBSD.org back up + +

The famous ftp site, + ftp.FreeBSD.org, is now back + in full operation. Many thanks to Tele + Danmark, who are supplying the machine as well as the network + connection.

+ + + + + 16 + + +

New committer: Jim + Pirzyk

+ + + + + 2 + + + New FreeBSD 'zine issue out + +

The first May 2001 issue of the + FreeBSD 'zine is now + available. Starting this month, there will be two issues + per month; one on the 1st, and one on the 15th.

+ + + + + + April + + + 27 + + + SMP Alpha now works + +

FreeBSD now works with multiple processors on Alpha systems, + thanks to the efforts of John + Baldwin, Andrew + Gallatin, and Doug + Rabson.

+ + + + + 25 + + +

New committer: Takuya + SHIOZAKI (Internationalization)

+ + + +

New committer: Udo Erdelhoff + (Docs)

+ + + + + 18 + + +

The + Developer's + Handbook is now available on the web site. This is an + evolving resource for people wanting to develop software for + FreeBSD (and not just for the committers who are developing + FreeBSD). Don't forget that a complete list of documentation + available from this site is also available.

+ + + + + 17 + + +

Addison Wesley have allowed us to republish + Chapter + 8 of the + FreeBSD + Corporate Networker's Guide. Chapter 8 provides an in-depth + look at providing printing services to Windows, NT, and Novell + clients using FreeBSD.

+ + + + + 16 + + +

Yet another new committer: + Jens Schweikhardt + (Standards compliance)

+ + + + + 12 + + +

The April issue of The + FreeBSD 'zine is now available.

+ + + + + 10 + + +

The Ports Collection now + contains more than 5,000 individual entries!

+ + + + + 5 + + +

New committer: George Reid + (Sound support, ports)

+ + + + + 4 + +

Wind River to Acquire BSDi Software Assets. Please read the + Wind River + Press Release, the announcement from + Jordan K. Hubbard, and the FreeBSD Core Team statement.

+ + + + + + March + + + 25 + + +

New committer: Yar Tikhiy + (Networking)

+ + + + + 24 + + +

New committer: Eric Melville + (System tools)

+ + + + + 13 + + +

The March issue of The + FreeBSD 'zine is now available.

+ + + + + 9 + + +

New committer: Dima Dorfman + (Docs)

+ + + + + 7 + + +

New committer: Michael + C. Wu (Internationalization, porting efforts)

+ + + + + 6 + + +

New committer: Thomas + Möstl (POSIX.1e extensions)

+ + + +

New committer: Orion Hodson + (Sound support)

+ + + + + + February + + + 20 + + +

New committer: Jesper + Skriver

+ + + + + 16 + + +

The February issue of The + FreeBSD 'zine is now available.

+ + + + + 5 + + +

New committer: Mike Heffner + (Audit project)

+ + + + + + January + + + 24 + + +

New committer: Jimmy + Olgeni (Ports)

+ + + + + 23 + + +

New committer: Dirk Meyer + (Ports)

+ + + + + 20 + + +

New committer: Ying-chieh + Liao (Ports)

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