New committer: Sean Kelly
-New committer: Diomidis D. Spinellis
-Ten years ago on this day the name "FreeBSD" was coined - by David Greenman in this - email message. Viva FreeBSD!
- -New committer: Lev Serebryakov - (Ports)
-Returning committer: John-Mark Gurney
-FreeBSD - 5.1-RELEASE is now available. Please see the Release Information - page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata - for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.1.
-New committer: Sergey A. Osokin - (Ports)
-New committer: Erwin Lansing - (Ports)
-New committer: Oliver Lehmann - (Ports)
-New committer: Michael L. Hostbaek
-New committer: Hiten M. Pandya
-The performance@ mailing list exists to provide a place - for hackers, administrators, and/or concerned parties to - discuss performance related topics pertaining to FreeBSD. - Acceptable topics includes talking about FreeBSD - installations that are either under high load, are - experiencing performance problems, or are pushing the - limits of FreeBSD. Concerned parties that are willing to - work toward improving the performance of FreeBSD are - highly encouraged to subscribe to this list. This is a - highly technical list ideally suited for experienced - FreeBSD users, hackers, or administrators interested in - keeping FreeBSD fast, robust, and scalable. To subscribe, - please visit the freebsd-performance@ - web interface.
-Majordomo served its purpose well, but has been retired - in favor of Mailman. - It is now possible to browse through the authoritative - list of mailing lists by heading over to http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo - or by browsing through the handbook's - section on mailing lists. A big thanks to Peter Wemm - is in order for spending the time to seamlessly convert - the various lists over to Mailman, thank you.
-FreeBSD - 4.8-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information - page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata - after installation for any late-breaking news and/or - issues with 4.8.
-The January-February status report is now available; see the - status reports Web page - for more information.
-New committer: Arun Sharma
-New committer: David Schultz
-New committer: Hartmut Brandt - (Sparc and ATM)
-The November-December status report is now available; see the - status reports Web page - for more information.
-New committer: Hideyuki KURASHINA - (Documentation Project)
-FreeBSD - 5.0-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information - page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata - after installation for any late-breaking news and/or - issues with 5.0.
-New committer: Christian Brüffer - (Documentation Project)
-New committer: Michael Telahun Makonnen
-The September-October status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
BSD Conference Japan 2002 was held in Tokyo on November 23rd, 2002. During the conference FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD folks in Japan got together to discuss various topics of mutual interest. In addition, Apple Computer, Inc. gave us excellent lectures about Mac OS X and Rendezvous. Matsui Securities Co.,Ltd, Yahoo Japan Corporation, and SRS SAKURA Internet Inc. gave case studies of how FreeBSD is used in their production environments. Brains Corporation gave a talk on mmEye, which is equipped with 32bit RISC CPU SH-3 and runs NetBSD.
The event report published by Mainichi Communications inc., can be found at MYCOM PCWEB (but sorry, Japanese only). There were 172 attendees at the conference. We are pleased with this turnout, considering that this was the first attempt to hold such an event in Japan.
The second developer preview snapshot of 5.0-CURRENT is now available. Please see the release notes, errata, and the new Early Adopter's Guide for more information.
nVidia releases Geforce drivers for FreeBSD! Check out the README for more information.
New committer: Stéphane Legrand (Documentation Project)
Opera is natively ported to FreeBSD! Read the official press release for more information.
New committer: Edwin Groothuis (Ports)
New committer: Tilman Linneweh (Ports)
New committer: Daichi GOTO (Ports)
New committer: Maho Nakata (Ports)
New committer: Adam Weinberger (Ports)
New committer: Olivier Houchard
FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.7.
New committer: Eric Moore
New committer: Martin Heinen (Documentation Project)
The July-August status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
New committer: Peter Grehan (PowerPC)
Notes from the USENIX ATC 2002 FreeBSD Developer Summit are now available.
The FreeBSD-STABLE branch of the source tree has now been frozen in preparation for the release of FreeBSD 4.7. 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 4.7 is October 1, 2002.
New committer: David Xu (KSE)
New committer: Oliver Braun (Ports)
New committer: Thomas Quinot
The May-June 2002 status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.6.2.
New committer: Sean Chittenden (Ports)
New committer: Yen-Ming Lee (Ports)
New committer: Jennifer Jihui Yang
New committer: Nate Lawson
The Open Group has generously donated several copies of the Authorized Guide to The Single UNIX Specification, Version 3, books and CD-ROMs to the FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance Project. We are greatly appreciative of their gift.
New committer: Alexander Kabaev
New committer: Johan Karlsson
New committer: Hye-Shik Chang (Ports)
New committer: Ville Skyttä (projects/cvsweb)
New committer: Marc Fonvieille (Documentation Project)
FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.6.
New committer: Alan Eldridge (Ports)
The February-April status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
New committer: Gordon Tetlow
New committer: Tony Finch
The FreeBSD-STABLE branch of the source tree has now been frozen in preparation for the release of FreeBSD 4.6. 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 4.6 is June 1, 2002.
New committer: Katsushi Kobayashi
New committer: Eric Anholt
New committer: Jonathan Mini
New committer: Tim Robbins
New committer: Greg Lewis (Ports)
A developer preview snapshot of 5.0-CURRENT is now available. Please see the release notes for more information. Also be sure to check the release errata for a list of known problems.
New committer: Gerald Pfeifer (Ports)
New committer: Joe Marcus Clarke (Ports)
New committer: Norikatsu Shigemura (Ports)
Notes from the BSDCon 2002 FreeBSD Developer Summit are now available.
New committer: Tom Rhodes (Documentation Project)
New committer: SUZUKI Shinsuke (IPv6)
New committer: Alexander Leidinger (Ports)
New committer: Ceri Davies (Documentation)
A new area of the FreeBSD web site has been created dedicated to release engineering. This new section contains information about future releases of FreeBSD, a specific schedule for the upcoming releases of FreeBSD 4.6 and 5.0, and more.
FreeBSD now works with multiple processors on sparc64 systems, thanks to the efforts of Jake Burkholder, and Thomas Moestl.
New committer: Maxime Henrion (VFS, SMP, ...)
The December/January status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
New committer: J. Mallett
New committer: Bernd Walter (Alpha)
FreeBSD GNOME team is proud to announce new section of the FreeBSD.org site devoted to various aspects of the GNOME desktop and development environment on the FreeBSD. Check it out here.
New committer: Maxim Konovalov
The announcement and call for papers for BSDCon Europe 2002 has been released. This conference will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands some time in November 2002. Individuals interested in presenting a paper at the conference should submit an abstract by June 24, 2002.
FreeBSD 4.5 has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 4.5 that may occur.
The FreeBSD 4.5 Release Engineering Team has submitted a testing guide for the upcoming FreeBSD 4.5 release. Please help us ensure that 4.5 is our most stable and highest performance release yet.
Aaron Kaplan has submitted a new article explaining how to adjust your system configuration to use the new Euro symbol on FreeBSD.
New committer: Sean Kelly
New committer: Diomidis D. Spinellis
Ten years ago on this day the name "FreeBSD" was coined by David Greenman in this email message. Viva FreeBSD!
New committer: Lev Serebryakov (Ports)
Returning committer: John-Mark Gurney
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE is now available. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.1.
New committer: Sergey A. Osokin (Ports)
New committer: Erwin Lansing (Ports)
New committer: Oliver Lehmann (Ports)
New committer: Michael L. Hostbaek
New committer: Hiten M. Pandya
The performance@ mailing list exists to provide a place for hackers, administrators, and/or concerned parties to discuss performance related topics pertaining to FreeBSD. Acceptable topics includes talking about FreeBSD installations that are either under high load, are experiencing performance problems, or are pushing the limits of FreeBSD. Concerned parties that are willing to work toward improving the performance of FreeBSD are highly encouraged to subscribe to this list. This is a highly technical list ideally suited for experienced FreeBSD users, hackers, or administrators interested in keeping FreeBSD fast, robust, and scalable. To subscribe, please visit the freebsd-performance@ web interface.
Majordomo served its purpose well, but has been retired in favor of Mailman. It is now possible to browse through the authoritative list of mailing lists by heading over to http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo or by browsing through the handbook's section on mailing lists. A big thanks to Peter Wemm is in order for spending the time to seamlessly convert the various lists over to Mailman, thank you.
FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.8.
The January-February status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
New committer: Arun Sharma
New committer: David Schultz
New committer: Hartmut Brandt (Sparc and ATM)
The November-December status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
New committer: Hideyuki KURASHINA (Documentation Project)
FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.0.
New committer: Christian Brüffer (Documentation Project)
New committer: Michael Telahun Makonnen
The September-October status report is now available; see the - status reports Web page - for more information.
-BSD Conference Japan 2002 - was held in Tokyo on November 23rd, 2002. During the conference - FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD folks in Japan got together - to discuss various topics of mutual interest. - In addition, Apple - Computer, Inc. gave us - excellent lectures about Mac OS X and Rendezvous. - Matsui Securities Co.,Ltd, - Yahoo Japan Corporation, - and SRS SAKURA Internet Inc. - gave case studies of how FreeBSD is used in their - production environments. - Brains - Corporation gave a talk on - mmEye, - which is equipped with 32bit RISC CPU SH-3 and runs NetBSD.
- -The event report published by Mainichi Communications inc., - can be found at - MYCOM PCWEB - (but sorry, Japanese only). There were 172 attendees at - the conference. We are pleased with this turnout, considering - that this was the first attempt to hold such an event in Japan.
-The second developer preview snapshot of 5.0-CURRENT is - now - available. Please see the release - notes, errata, and - the new Early - Adopter's Guide for more information.
- -nVidia releases Geforce drivers for FreeBSD! Check out the README - for more information.
-New committer: Stéphane Legrand - (Documentation Project)
-Opera is natively ported to FreeBSD! Read the official press - release for more information.
-New committer: Edwin Groothuis - (Ports)
-New committer: Tilman Linneweh - (Ports)
-New committer: Daichi GOTO - (Ports)
-New committer: Maho Nakata - (Ports)
-New committer: Adam Weinberger - (Ports)
-New committer: Olivier Houchard
-FreeBSD - 4.7-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information - page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata - after installation for any late-breaking news and/or - issues with 4.7.
-New committer: Eric Moore
-New committer: Martin Heinen - (Documentation Project)
-The July-August status report is now available; see the - status reports Web page - for more information.
-New committer: Peter Grehan - (PowerPC)
-Notes from the USENIX ATC 2002 - FreeBSD Developer Summit are now - available.
-The FreeBSD-STABLE branch of the source tree has now been - frozen in preparation - for the release of FreeBSD 4.7. 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 4.7 is October 1, 2002.
-New committer: David Xu - (KSE)
-New committer: Oliver Braun - (Ports)
-New committer: Thomas Quinot
-The May-June 2002 status report is now available; see the - status reports Web page - for more information.
-FreeBSD - 4.6.2-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information - page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata - after installation for any late-breaking news and/or - issues with 4.6.2.
-New committer: Sean Chittenden - (Ports)
-New committer: Yen-Ming Lee - (Ports)
-New committer: Jennifer Jihui Yang
-New committer: Nate Lawson
-The Open Group has - generously donated several copies of the Authorized Guide to The - Single UNIX Specification, Version 3, books and CD-ROMs to - the FreeBSD C99 & - POSIX Conformance Project. We are greatly appreciative of - their gift.
-New committer: Alexander Kabaev
-New committer: Johan Karlsson
-New committer: Hye-Shik Chang - (Ports)
-New committer: Ville Skyttä - (projects/cvsweb)
-New committer: Marc Fonvieille - (Documentation Project)
-FreeBSD - 4.6-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information - page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata - after installation for any late-breaking news and/or - issues with 4.6.
-New committer: Alan Eldridge - (Ports)
-The February-April status report is now available; see the - status reports Web page - for more information.
-New committer: Gordon Tetlow
-New committer: Tony Finch
-The FreeBSD-STABLE branch of the source tree has now been - frozen in preparation - for the release of FreeBSD 4.6. 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 4.6 is June 1, 2002.
-New committer: Katsushi Kobayashi
-New committer: Eric Anholt
-New committer: Jonathan Mini
-New committer: Tim Robbins
-New committer: Greg Lewis - (Ports)
-A developer preview snapshot of 5.0-CURRENT is now available. - Please see the release - notes for more information. Also be sure to check the - release - errata for a list of known problems.
-New committer: Gerald Pfeifer - (Ports)
-New committer: Joe Marcus Clarke - (Ports)
-New committer: Norikatsu Shigemura - (Ports)
-Notes from the BSDCon 2002 - FreeBSD Developer Summit are now - available.
-New committer: Tom Rhodes - (Documentation Project)
-New committer: SUZUKI Shinsuke - (IPv6)
-New committer: Alexander Leidinger - (Ports)
-New committer: Ceri Davies (Documentation)
-A new area of the FreeBSD web site has been created - dedicated to release - engineering. This new section contains information - about future releases of FreeBSD, a specific schedule for - the upcoming releases of FreeBSD 4.6 and 5.0, and - more.
-FreeBSD now works with multiple processors on sparc64 systems, - thanks to the efforts of Jake - Burkholder, and Thomas - Moestl.
-New committer: Maxime Henrion - (VFS, SMP, ...)
-The December/January status report is now available; see the - status reports Web page - for more information.
-New committer: J. Mallett
-New committer: Bernd Walter - (Alpha)
-FreeBSD GNOME team - is proud to announce new section of the FreeBSD.org site devoted to - various aspects of the GNOME desktop and development environment - on the FreeBSD. Check it out here. -
-New committer: Maxim Konovalov
-The announcement - and call for papers for BSDCon Europe 2002 has been - released. This conference will take place in Amsterdam, - The Netherlands some time in November 2002. Individuals - interested in presenting a paper at the conference should - submit an abstract by June 24, 2002.
-FreeBSD - 4.5 has been released. Please see the Release Information - page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata - after installation for any late-breaking issues with 4.5 - that may occur.
-The FreeBSD 4.5 Release Engineering Team has submitted a - testing guide - for the upcoming FreeBSD 4.5 release. Please help us - ensure that 4.5 is our most stable and highest performance - release yet.
-Aaron Kaplan has submitted a new article explaining how to - adjust your system configuration to use the new Euro - symbol on FreeBSD.
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