From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Oct 27 20:01:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA06856 for announce-outgoing; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 20:01:03 -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 TAA06816 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 19:59:50 -0700 Received: (warren@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.6.8/8.3) id MAA15255; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 12:58:05 +1000 Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 12:58:05 +1000 From: warren@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Message-Id: <199510280258.MAA15255@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 [131.236.21.160] has a publically available cache of information on BSD4.x and BSD-related systems, especially the free flavours of BSD. 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 with: + 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 several newsgroups. 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-RELEASE, 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