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This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to Alpha systems.

FreeBSD/Alpha Specific Links

FreeBSD/Alpha mailing list

Experience the possibilities with FreeBSD

FreeBSD can handle nearly any task you would expect of a UNIX workstation, as well as many you might not expect:

FreeBSD is a true open system with full source code.

There is no doubt that so-called open systems are the requirement for today's computing applications. But no commercial vendor-supplied solution is more open than one which includes full source code to the entire operating system, including the kernel and all of the system daemons, programs, and utilities. You can modify any part of FreeBSD to suit your personal, organizational, or corporate needs.

With its generous licensing policy, you can use FreeBSD as the basis for any number of free or commercial applications.

FreeBSD runs thousands of applications.

Because FreeBSD is based on 4.4BSD, an industry-standard version of UNIX, it is easy to compile and run programs. FreeBSD also includes an extensive packages collection and ports collection that bring precompiled and easy-to-build software right to your desktop or enterprise server. There is also a growing number of commercial applications written for FreeBSD.

Here are some examples of the environments in which FreeBSD is used:

Internet services. Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) find FreeBSD ideal, running WWW, Usenet news, FTP, Email, and other services. Ready-to-run software like the Apache web server or the Wu-ftpd FTP server make it easy to set up a business or community-centered ISP. Of course, with FreeBSD's unbeatable networking, your users will enjoy high speed, reliable services.

X Window workstation. From an inexpensive X terminal to an advanced X display, FreeBSD works quite well. Free X software (XFree86) comes with the system. Xi Graphics offers accelerated X software for high-performance graphics hardware (such as Matrox), as well as the industry standard Motif and OpenGL libraries.

Networking. From packet filtering to routing to name service, FreeBSD can turn any PC into a Internet firewall, email host, print server, PC/NFS server, and more.

Software development. A suite of development tools comes with FreeBSD, including the GNU C/C++ compiler and debugger and the Perl scripting language. Java and Tcl/Tk development are also possible. Popular editors like Xemacs and more esoteric programming languages like Icon work just fine, too. And FreeBSD's shared libraries have always been easy to make and use.

Net surfing. A real UNIX workstation makes a great Internet surfboard, and the BSD version of Netscape Navigator with Java support runs on FreeBSD. Surf the web, publish your own web pages, read Usenet news, and send and receive email with a FreeBSD system on your desktop.

Education and research. FreeBSD makes an excellent research platform because it includes complete source code. Students and researchers of operating systems or other computer science fields can benefit greatly from such an open and well-documented system.

And much more. Accounting, action games, MIS databases, scientific visualization, video conferencing, Internet relay chat (IRC), home automation, multiuser dungeons, bulletin board systems, image scanning, and more are all real uses for FreeBSD today. If you have an innovative application for FreeBSD, let us know so we can add it to our gallery.

FreeBSD is an operating system that will grow with your needs.

Though FreeBSD is free software, it is also user supported software. Any questions you have can be posted to hundreds of FreeBSD developers and users simply by e-mailing the freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG mailing list.

FreeBSD also has a worldwide group of programmers and writers who fix bugs, add new features and document the system. Support for new devices or special features is an almost constant development process, and the team keeps a special eye out for problems which affect system stability. FreeBSD users are quite proud of not only how fast but how reliable their systems are.

What experts have to say . . .

``FreeBSD handles [our] heavy load quite well and it is nothing short of amazing. Salutations to the FreeBSD team.''

---Mark Hittinger, administrator of WinNet Communications, Inc.

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- Last Updated: $FreeBSD: www/en/auditors.sgml,v 1.30 1999/12/12 16:24:00 jhb Exp $ + Last Updated: $FreeBSD: www/en/auditors.sgml,v 1.31 2000/04/03 10:41:11 kuriyama Exp $

Overview

In light of our recent (and still ongoing) security concerns, it has become rather obvious that nothing less than a rigorous and comprehensive security review of the FreeBSD source tree will enable us to really have much confidence in the security of our operating system, an OS that many have come increasingly to rely upon and must be made more than reasonably secure if they are to continue to be able to do so.

The sheer amount of legacy code & code from outside sources in FreeBSD also makes it especially easy for security holes to go unnoticed until it's rather too late, and no truly large-scale attempt has been made up to this point to really go through the codebase with a specific focus on security issues, that being a rather big project and most FreeBSD developers being more than busy enough elsewhere. This situation must now change, however, if we are to remain the kind of operating system that people can continue to rely upon as the Internet continues to grow and (I suspect) become an ever-more hostile environment for improperly protected systems. Proper security is something of a cooperative arrangement between the local administrator and the OS vendor, and this "OS vendor" needs to do its part.

The core team's first step in becoming more serious about security was to bring the project's security officer, Guido van Rooij, into the team so that one of the "voices at the table" would have security as his primary mandate and representation in all the important security mailing lists external to the FreeBSD Project. He will also keep the rest of us in core much more aware of security concerns as they arise, hopefully not to be taken quite so by surprise as we have a few times in the past.

Our second step will be this audit, an attempt to methodically go through every line of source in FreeBSD looking for obvious buffer overflows (sprintf()/strcpy() vs snprintf()/strncpy() and so on), less obvious security holes, instances of insufficiently defensive coding, amusing comment strings to forward to freebsd-chat, whatever we run across.

Using the modules database as an outline, we will split the source tree into more manageable pieces, keeping a sign-up sheet in a prominent place so that people can see which modules are covered and which are not. A carefully selected team of individuals is now also being formed, that team being composed of "auditors" and "reviewers" (most members of the team being both). An auditor has principle responsibility, which may be shared with another auditor, for actually going through the code and looking for security holes and/or bugs. Once a reasonable pile of diffs have been accumulated, assuming that any problems were found, they are send to one or more reviewers who are responsible for giving the changes another once-over and, if the auditor does not have commit privileges, to actually commit the changes when & if they're deemed acceptable.

Requirements:

In order to be an auditor, you should either have commit privileges on freefall.FreeBSD.org or an arrangement with another auditor/reviewer who does. You should also be running or have immediate access to FreeBSD-current sources since all of our changes will be made relative to that branch and then brought back (as necessary) into the 2.1 and 2.2 branches.

What to look for and what the general rules to follow are is sufficiently complex that I have turned it into a FreeBSD Security Guide. Please read this now if you haven't already. Other excellent documents are the Secure Programming Checklist and the Unix Security Checklist, both available from AUSCERT.

Sign-Up sheet:

Here is the sign-up sheet as it sits so far. This is *very* skeletal at this stage, given that we've just now started, and as people indicate which module(s) they're willing to either audit or review, we'll fill it in. If this tabular format also becomes unwieldy as it fills up, we can change it or put it on a web page or something. :) I've left some sample entries open just as place-holders, and they in no way imply that someone has to be willing to pick up pieces that large.

Anything in the modules database represents a potential auditing target - from ones as small as "cat" to ones as large as "lib", the most important being that people bite off pieces no larger than they think they can chew. If you take 15 things onto your plate and deal with only 5, you're not doing anyone any favors since the other auditors will be assuming that the other 10 items are handled!

To sign up for something, please send mail to jmb@FreeBSD.org.

Module	Auditor(s)	Reviewer(s)	Status
bin	ac ee* gvr* jh ka mu vk	imp* jmb* md* gvr*	Open
contrib	cg	gvr*	Open
eBones	mrvm*	gvr*	Open
games	ab ee* xaa	gvr*	Open
init	gl	gvr*	Open
lib	ak bjn pst*	dg* imp* jkh* gvr*	Open
libc	ee* mu	gvr*	Open
libexec	crh ee* imp* mr witr	gvr*	Open
lkm	dob*	gvr*	Open
sbin	ee* imp* or* tao	jmb* md* gvr*	Open
secure	dc mrvm*	gvr*	Open
telnetd	ac dn	imp* gvr*	Open
usr.bin	bob ee* jha jm ky* rb rd rjk vk	md* gvr*	Open
usr.sbin	ee* ejc gl imp* jm marc rd	md* gvr*	Open

Auditor/Reviewer keys

This is the list of people who have volunteered to participate as auditors or reviewers in this process. They may also be reached collectively by sending mail to the auditors@FreeBSD.org alias at times when it is appropriate to send mail to all auditors. If you wish to reach just the auditors & reviewers for a specific category, say usr.sbin for example, then you would send mail to audit-usr.sbin@FreeBSD.org.

Key	Auditor/Reviewer Name and Email address
ab	Aaron Bornstein aaronb@j51.com
ac	Adrian Chadd adrian@psinet.net.au
ak	Adam Kubicki apk@itl.waw.pl
am	Albert Mietus gam@gamp.hacom.nl
avk	Alexander V. Kalganov top@sonic.cris.net
bb	Bob Bishop rb@gid.co.uk
bjn	Brent J. Nordquist nordquist@platinum.com
bob	Bob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.com
btm	Brian T. Michely brianm@cmhcsys.com
cg	Coranth Gryphon gryphon@healer.com
cl	Chris Lambertus cmlambertus@ucdavis.edu
crh	Charles Henrich henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
dc	Dan Cross tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu
dg*	David Greenman davidg@FreeBSD.org
din	Dinesh Nair dinesh@alphaque.com
dn	David Nugent davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au
dob*	David E. O'Brien obrien@NUXI.com
dz	Danny J. Zerkel dzerkel@phofarm.com
ee*	Eivind Eklund eivind@FreeBSD.org
eh	Elijah Hempstone avatar@gandalf.bss.sol.net
ehu	Ernest Hua hua@chromatic.com
ejc	Eric J. Chet ejc@gargoyle.bazzle.com
gl	Giles Lean giles@nemeton.com.au
gvr*	Guido van Rooij guido@FreeBSD.org
gw	Graham Wheeler gram@oms.co.za
imp*	Warner Losh imp@FreeBSD.org
jb	Jim Bresler jfb11@inlink.com
jh	Jake Hamby jehamby@lightside.com
jha	John H. Aughey jha@cs.purdue.edu
jk	Jerry Kendall Jerry@kcis.com
jkh*	Jordan K. Hubbard jkh@FreeBSD.org
jm	Josef Moellers mollers.pad@sni.de
jmb*	Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@FreeBSD.org
joe*	Joe Greco jgreco@solaria.sol.net
ka	Kalganov Alexander top@bird.cris.net
ki	Kenneth Ingham ingham@i-pi.com
ky*	Kazutaka YOKOTA yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
marc	Marc Slemko marcs@znep.com
md*	Matt Dillon dillon@best.net
mr	Mike Romaniw msr@cuc.com
mrvm*	Mark Murray mark@grondar.za
mu	Mudge mudge@l0pht.com
or*	Ollivier Robert roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
pb	Peter Blake ppb@baloo.tcp.co.uk
peter*	Peter Wemm peter@FreeBSD.org
phk*	Poul-Henning Kamp phk@FreeBSD.org
pst*	Paul Traina pst@FreeBSD.org
rb	Reinier Bezuidenhout rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za
rd	Rajiv Dighe rajivd@sprynet.com
rel	Roger Espel Llima espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr
rjk	Richard J Kuhns rjk@grauel.com
rm	Robin Melville robmel@nadt.org.uk
rs	Robert Sexton robert@kudra.com
sc	Sergei Chechetkin csl@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua
tao	Brian Tao taob@risc.org
tdr	Thomas David Rivers ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com
vk	Vadim Kolontsov vadim@tversu.ac.ru
witr	Robert Withrow witr@rwwa.com
xaa	Mark Huizer xaa@stack.nl

* = Has CVS commit privileges.

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Availability of FreeBSD

FreeBSD is free and is available for downloading over the Internet or on CDROM for a small fee.

Hardware requirements.

FreeBSD runs on a variety of PC and Alpha hardware. Please review the supported configurations section of the FreeBSD Handbook for more information.

Where to get it.

FreeBSD can be downloaded over the Internet for free, using a variety of different protocols (FTP, CVS, AFS, and more). If bandwidth is expensive for you then it can also be purchased on CDROM from a variety of vendors.

For more information on obtaining FreeBSD, please see the Handbook Chapter on obtaining FreeBSD.

For more information on installing FreeBSD, please see the Handbook Chapter on installing FreeBSD.

About the FreeBSD Project.

FreeBSD is developed and supported by a worldwide team of programmers. Jordan Hubbard, one of the project's founders, has written a brief history of the FreeBSD project. Information about who's responsible for what is also available. If you are curious, take a look at some pictures of the team members. A more complete listing of contributors is available in the Contributors section of the FreeBSD Handbook. FreeBSD is an open project, and welcomes the help of individuals who have time and or skills to offer.

This "about" section was created by Sean Kelly.

Inside your PC is a daemon waiting to be unleashed. Free it with FreeBSD.

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Please note that the inclusion of vendors in our list does not signify our endorsement of their products or services.

Software Vendors From audio players, network drivers, to commercial databases, you will find a variety of industrial strength software for FreeBSD. You can see the alphabetical list, or, if you prefer, view it by categories.
Hardware Vendors Need specialized tools, or just browsing for equipment ? These companies may have what you need!
Consulting Services Whether you are just starting out with FreeBSD, or need to complete a large project, a consultant or two might be your answer. You can see the alphabetical list, or, if you prefer, view it by categories.
Miscellaneous Vendors Books and accessories you just cannot live without!

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The FreeBSD Copyright

The BSD Copyright

The BSD Daemon

FreeBSD Ports redistribution restrictions

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

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The little red fellow that graces many of these pages is the BSD Daemon. In the context of Unix systems, daemons are process that run in the background attending to various tasks without human intervention. In the general sense, daemon is an older form of the word demon. In the Unix System Administration Handbook, Evi Nemeth has this to say about daemons:

"Many people equate the word ``daemon'' with the word ``demon,'' implying some kind of Satanic connection between UNIX and the underworld. This is an egregious misunderstanding. ``Daemon'' is actually a much older form of ``demon''; daemons have no particular bias towards good or evil, but rather serve to help define a person's character or personality. The ancient Greeks' concept of a ``personal daemon'' was similar to the modern concept of a ``guardian angel'' --- ``eudaemonia'' is the state of being helped or protected by a kindly spirit. As a rule, UNIX systems seem to be infested with both daemons and demons." (p403)

The earliest (and most popular) renditions of the BSD Daemon were created by John Lasseter. More recent FreeBSD-specific renditions have done by Tatsumi Hosokawa, but the basic inspiration was definitely John's. The copyright holder and creator of the daemon image is Marshall Kirk McKusick. A short pictorial history is also available. There is a gallery of FreeBSD related publications that use variations of the daemon graphic.

Various size stuffed and beanie daemons are available from the FreeBSD Mall . In Europe, German-made stuffed daemons are also available from Liebscher & Partner.

ScotGold produce 1" case badges featuring BSD Daemon.

Permission to use the daemon may be obtained from:

Marshall Kirk McKusick
1614 Oxford St
Berkeley, CA 94709-1608
USA

or via email at mckusick@mckusick.com.

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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE FREEBSD PROJECT ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FREEBSD PROJECT OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

The views and conclusions contained in the software and documentation are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing official policies, either expressed or implied, of the FreeBSD Project or FreeBSD, Inc.

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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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In the following statement, the phrase ``this text'' refers to portions of the system documentation.

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form in the second BSD Networking Software Release, from IEEE Std 1003.1-1988, IEEE Standard Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments (POSIX), copyright C 1988 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. In the event of any discrepancy between these versions and the original IEEE Standard, the original IEEE Standard is the referee document.

In the following statement, the phrase ``This material'' refers to portions of the system documentation.

This material is reproduced with permission from American National Standards Committee X3, on Information Processing Systems. Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association (CBEMA), 311 First St., NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20001-2178. The developmental work of Programming Language C was completed by the X3J11 Technical Committee.

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Here are the projects currently under way (or being actively contemplated on the freebsd-doc mailing list). I have also included some that have not really been talked about, but would probably be a good idea. Each project lists the contact person for that project (if I know who it is).

If you think you can contribute to any of these, please do not hesitate to stand up and be counted. You should talk to the person responsible for that particular project, who can then bring you up to speed on what is happening.

Any omissions in this list are entirely my fault (Nik Clayton, <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>), sorry in advance to anyone whose project I have missed.

Open documentation problem reports
FreeBSD for Linux users
Fixup the FOO.TXT files
Write a section in the Handbook and/or FAQ
Write some new Papers
Write some new Tutorials
Write Manpages for the kernel
CGI Scripts
Multilingual Web scripts
Translations of the FreeBSD Documentation
Search engine enhancements

Open documentation problem reports

Current FreeBSD problems reports are tracked using the GNATS database. You can view the open documentation problem reports.

FreeBSD for Linux users

Responsible: Annelise Anderson < andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>

Synopsis: Linux users coming to FreeBSD can be confused by some of the differences between the systems (the different default shells, how boot time configuration is performed, and so on). Annelise is coordinating the development of a tutorial/FAQ section that will address these points.

The list of current questions is at http://freebsd.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/linux.html.

Fixup the FOO.TXT files

Responsible: Doug <studded@dal.net>

Synopsis: The "FOO.TXT" files are the README files, the INSTALL.TXTs. the ABOUT.TXTs and so on that you get with FreeBSD. Doug (and others) are going through these trying to make sure they are accurate, consistent, and easy to understand. A very worthwhile task.

Write a section in the Handbook and/or FAQ

Responsible: No one

Synopsis: Chunks of the FAQ and Handbook have empty sections in them. They need filling. If you have just had to use one of these documents to complete a task, and found them lacking, please find the time to write up your experiences as a possible replacement.

Alternatively, if you have just had to do something that had no entry in the FAQ and/or Handbook, please consider writing a new section. Then submit it as outlined above.

Write some new Papers

The New SCSI layer for FreeBSD (CAM)

Responsible: <doc@FreeBSD.org>, <scsi@FreeBSD.org>

Synopsis: See The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD SCSI Subsystem for a first snapshot.

Write some new Tutorials

Responsible: <doc@FreeBSD.org>

Synopsis:

How to update from a.out to elf
How to build a FreeBSD release

Write Manpages for the kernel

Responsible: <doc@FreeBSD.org>

Synopsis: Document kernel functions, section 9

CGI Scripts

Responsible: <doc@FreeBSD.org>, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>

Synopsis:

Write a ports INDEX perl Module.

Here are some hints how to write the ports module

A single line in /usr/ports/INDEX looks like

    xfig-3.2.2|/usr/ports/graphics/xfig|/usr/X11R6|A drawing program for X11|/usr/ports/graphics/xfig/pkg/DESCR|ports@FreeBSD.ORG|graphics x11|XFree86-3.3.2 Xaw3d-1.3 jpeg-6b xpm-3.4k|XFree86-3.3.2 Xaw3d-1.3 jpeg-6b netpbm-94.3.1 tiff-3.4 transfig-3.2 xpm-3.4k

The format is

    distribution-name|port-path|installation-prefix|comment| \
        description-file|maintainer|categories|build deps|run deps

The above INDEX line parsed into an anonymous hash object

 $port = {	
 	DISTRIBUTION_NAME   => 'xfig-3.2.2',
 	PORT_PATH           => '/usr/ports/graphics/xfig',
 	INSTALLATION_PREFIX => '/usr/X11R6',
 	COMMENT             => 'A drawing program for X11',
 	DESCRIPTION_FILE    => '/usr/ports/graphics/xfig/pkg/DESCR',
 	MAINTAINER          => 'ports@FreeBSD.ORG',
 	CATEGORIES          => ['graphics', 'x11'],
 	BUILD_DEPS          => ['XFree86-3.3.2', 'Xaw3d-1.3', 'jpeg-6b', 
 	                        'xpm-3.4k'],
 	RUN_DEPS            => ['XFree86-3.3.2',  'Xaw3d-1.3', 'jpeg-6b',
 				'netpbm-94.3.1', 'tiff-3.4', 'transfig-3.2',
 				'xpm-3.4k'] 
 };

Now we need some functions

Print a $port object as HTML output
Print a $port object as ASCII output
Find all objects which are maintained by user XYZ
Find all objects which are in category XYZ
Find all objects which run/build depend on port XYZ
Find all objects which match the string XYZ in DISTRIBUTION_NAME or COMMENT
Sort objects by DISTRIBUTION_NAME

Finally

Modify the cgi script url.cgi, ports.cgi , pds.cgi and the script portindex to use this module.

Contact Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> for a first snapshot of the ports module.

Multilingual Web scripts

Responsible: <doc@FreeBSD.org>

Synopsis:

Our main Web pages are written in (American) English. The FreeBSD Translations Projects translate the web pages, Handbook and FAQ to other languages.

We must translate the cgi scripts and web build scripts too. The scripts should support multiple languages, not only one. Most scripts are written in perl.

Merge the perl scripts www/en/ports/portindex and www/ja/ports/portindex into one script. Add an option for English and Japanese output.

Translations of the FreeBSD Documentation

Responsible: <doc@FreeBSD.org>

Translate the FreeBSD documentation (Web pages, FAQ, handbook, manpages) into other languages. See the FreeBSD translations projects

Search engine enhancements

Responsible: <doc@FreeBSD.org>

When searching the website, the output from the search engine includes the filename that was found, which might be something like FAQ34.html.

It would be more useful if the results included the question text, allowing the user to see whether or not the result was relevant.

FreeBSD Documentation Project Home &footer diff --git a/en/docproj/doc-set.sgml b/en/docproj/doc-set.sgml index e80ce0f700..16319587e9 100644 --- a/en/docproj/doc-set.sgml +++ b/en/docproj/doc-set.sgml @@ -1,61 +1,60 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header;

FreeBSD's documentation falls into four basic categories;

The manual pages

The Project does not really concern itself with these, since they are a part of the base system. The exception to this is the Japanese team, who are translating them. There is no reason other volunteers could not step in to translate the manual pages to other languages as well.

That is not to say that the manual pages are unimportant, far from it. It is just that they are intimately tied to specific systems of FreeBSD, and most of the time the best person to write the manual page is the person that wrote that part of FreeBSD.
The FAQ

This is maintained by the project. The aim is to address (in short question and answer format) questions that are asked or should be asked on the various mailing lists and newsgroups devoted to FreeBSD. The format does not permit long winded and comprehensive answers.
The Handbook

This is maintained by the project. Topics that need a more in depth discussion are addressed in the Handbook.
The Tutorials

Some of these tutorials are maintained by Project committers, others are not. The maintenance of these documents is up to the individual authors, although, to the best of my knowledge, they have all kept them up to date, solicit comments from the readership and so on.

Some of the tutorials are stored on the FreeBSD web site. For these tutorials the authors submit their changes to one of the committers, and the committer makes the change. Other tutorials are stored on the author's private webspace, and the author can make changes as and when they wish. Sometimes this is a deliberate choice on the part of the author, and sometimes it is a historical accident.

FreeBSD Documentation Project Home &footer diff --git a/en/docproj/sgml.sgml b/en/docproj/sgml.sgml index 0f2b357c6c..8760c34de5 100644 --- a/en/docproj/sgml.sgml +++ b/en/docproj/sgml.sgml @@ -1,188 +1,187 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header;

The Documentation Project is trying to use SGML as the standard method of representing the documentation.

SGML is the Standard Generalised Markup Language.

In a nutshell (and apologies to any SGML purists in the audience that are offended) SGML is a language for writing other languages.

You have probably already used SGML, but you did not know it. HTML, the language that web pages are written in, has a formal description. That description is written in SGML. When you are writing HTML you are not writing SGML (per se), but you are using a language that is defined using SGML.

There are many, many markup languages that are defined using SGML. HTML is one of them. Another is called "LinuxDoc". As you can probably guess, it was originally created by the Linux documentation group to write their documentation, and the FreeBSD Documentation Project adopted it as well.

Another markup language defined using SGML is called "DocBook". This is a language designed specifically for writing technical documentation, and as such it has many tags (the things inside the <...>) to describe technical documentation related things.

For example, this is how you might write a brief paragraph in HTML (do not worry about the content, just look at the tags):

The system's passwords are stored in /etc/passwd. To edit this file you should use vipw. However, if you just want to add a new user you can use adduser.

]]>

The same paragraph, marked up using DocBook, looks like

The system's passwords are stored in
       /etc/passwd. To edit this file you should use
       vipw. However, if you just want to add a new user
       you can use adduser.
 ]]>

As you can see, DocBook is much more 'expressive' than HTML. In the HTML example the filename is marked up as being displayed in a 'typewriter' font. In the DocBook example the filename is marked up as being a 'filename', the presentation of the filename is not described.

There are a number of advantages to this more expressive form of markup:

It is not ambiguous or inconsistent.

You do not spend time thinking "Hmm, I need to show a filename, should I use 'tt', or 'b', or 'em'?"

Instead, you just use the right tag for the right job.

The conversion process from DocBook to other formats (HTML, Postscript, and so on) makes sure that all <filename>'s are shown the same way.
You stop thinking about the presentation of your document, and instead concentrate on the content.
Because the documentation is not tied to any particular output format, the same documentation can be produced in many different formats - plain text, HTML, Postscript, RTF, PDF and so on.
The documentation is more 'intelligent', so more intelligent things can be done with it. For example, it becomes possible to automatically produce an index of the documentation that lists every command shown in the documentation.

If you are familiar with them, this is a bit like Microsoft Word stylesheets, only vastly more powerful.

Of course, with this power comes a price;

Because the number of tags you can use is much larger, it takes longer to learn all of them, and how to use them effectively.

I found the best way to learn was to read the source to lots of example documents, seeing how other authors had written similar information.
The conversion process is not that simple.

Right now, the Project is still using LinuxDoc for the Handbook and the FAQ. That's changing, and in particular there's a project underway to convert the documentation to DocBook.

What if you don't know LinuxDoc/DocBook? Can you still contribute?

Yes you can. Quite definitely. Any documentation is better than no documentation. If you've got some documentation to contribute and it's not marked up in LinuxDoc or DocBook, don't worry.

Submit the documentation as normal. Someone else on the Project will grab your committed documentation, mark it up for you, and commit it. With a bit of luck they'll then send you the marked up text back. This is handy because you can do a "before and after" shot of the plain documentation and the marked up stuff, and hopefully learn a bit more about the markup in the process.

Obviously, this slows down the committing process, since your submitted documentation needs to be marked up, which may take an evening or too. But it will get committed.

More information about SGML and DocBook?

You should first read the Documentation Project Primer. This aims to be a comprehensive explanation of everything you need to know in order to work with the FreeBSD documentation.

This is a long document, split in to many smaller files. You can also view it as one large file.

http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgml-xml.html: The SGML/XML web page. Includes countless pointers to more information about SGML.
http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei/sgml/teip3sg/index.html: The "Gentle Introduction to SGML". Recommended reading for anyone who wants to learn more about SGML from a beginners perspective.
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/: The DocBook DTD is maintained by OASIS. These pages are aimed users who are already comfortable with SGML, and who want to learn DocBook.
http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber/docbook/: John Fieber's page containing links to DocBook resources and sample documents. It also includes the beginnings of a markup guide for FreeBSD.
http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/: Nik Clayton's page contains links to documentation written in DocBook and then converted to HTML. The original DocBook files are available, and give a reasonable example of how the various elements in DocBook can be used.
http://wolfram.schneider.org/papers/webbuild.html: &webbuild;

FreeBSD Documentation Project Home &footer; diff --git a/en/docproj/submitting.sgml b/en/docproj/submitting.sgml index 3430b9b421..2c48132abc 100644 --- a/en/docproj/submitting.sgml +++ b/en/docproj/submitting.sgml @@ -1,135 +1,134 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header;

I have written some documentation. How do I submit it?

First, thank you for taking the time to do this.

You should make your documentation available for review. If you can, put it on an FTP site or a website.

Then post a message to the -doc mailing list, with a brief outline of the documentation and the pointer to its location, and solicit feedback.

If, for some reason, you can not put the documentation up for FTP or on a web site somewhere you can send it directly to the -doc mailing list. If you do this, please only send plain text documents.

You should probably cc: this request for comments to other appropriate mailing lists. For example, something that relates to how to use CVSup to keep your source tree up to date would be of interest to the subscribers of the FreeBSD-current and FreeBSD-stable mailing lists.

After people have looked over your documentation, and you have had the chance to incorporate any of their suggestions, you are ready to submit it.

To do this, wrap it up into a tar file. If your documentation consists of three files,

     % tar cf doc.tar one two three

which does just that. Then compress the tar file, % gzip -9 doc.tar which will produce doc.tar.gz. Finally, encode the file so that it will not be mangled by any e-mail programs. % uuencode doc.tar.gz doc.tar.gz > doc.uue You should then let the Documentation Project know about it. The correct way to do this is to use a command called send-pr, which should be installed on your machine. You do this so that your submission can be tracked. When you submit a PR (Problem Report) it is assigned a unique number. One of the committers can then assign the PR to themselves, and liase with you on committing the new documentation. send-pr itself is pretty simple. All it does is send an e-mail with some special formatting to a particular address. When you run send-pr you will be put into your editor (probably vi or emacs) with a template to fill out, and some instructions on how to fill it out. Make sure the "Category" is set to "docs" and that the "Class" is set to one of "change-request". You should include the .uue file you created earlier in to the PR. When you come out of the editor the PR will be sent as an e-mail to the right place. You will get a notification message shortly afterwards telling you what number your PR has been given, and this number can be used to track its progress. Alternatively, you can use the web interface at http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html. I have made some changes to existing documentation, how do I submit them? Again, thank you for taking the time to do this. First off, you need to produce a special file, called a diff. This diff shows just the changes that you have made. This makes it easier for the person doing the committing to see what you have changed, and means you do not need to spend lots of time explaining what you have changed (although you should still explain why you think the change should be made). To make a 'diff', you should; Make a copy of the file you are going to change. If you are changing % cp foo.sgml foo.sgml.old Then, make your changes to foo.sgml % vi foo.sgml ... tap tap tap ... ... test the changes, read them for typos and so on ... Make the diff. 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The FreeBSD pages are HTML 3.2 compliant and best viewed with your browser. See also the FreeBSD Documentation Project Page Design Original page design by Megan McCormack Building and updating the FreeBSD Web Pages &webbuild; Update of the FreeBSD Web Pages The FreeBSD Web Pages are updated daily at 0800 and 2000 UTC. Mirroring the FreeBSD Web Pages You can (and are encouraged to) mirror the FreeBSD web pages on www.FreeBSD.org. Usage statistics for this server are updated daily. FreeBSD Internal Home &footer; diff --git a/en/internal/developer.sgml b/en/internal/developer.sgml index f11464dd6f..7c804c5dd9 100644 --- a/en/internal/developer.sgml +++ b/en/internal/developer.sgml @@ -1,59 +1,58 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header; Committers Guide Almost everything a new committer to the FreeBSD Project needs to know (see the Ports Guide and FDP Primer for more info). Build the FreeBSD Web Pages &webbuild; FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors This primer covers everything you will need to know in order to start contributing to the FreeBSD Documentation Project, from the tools and software you will be using (both mandatory and recommended) to the philosophy behind the Documentation Project. FreeBSD Porter's Handbook A Guide for FreeBSD Ports Committers FreeBSD Projects FreeBSD Documentation Project PicoBSD FreeBSD/Alpha Project FreeBSD/IA-64 Project FreeBSD/PPC Project FreeBSD/SPARC Project SMP Next Generation Project FreeBSD Development Projects Other Resources CVS Repository Bug Reports FreeBSD Security Information Copyright FreeBSD Internal Home &footer; diff --git a/en/internal/homepage.sgml b/en/internal/homepage.sgml index 92894f2b5a..67d24ab512 100644 --- a/en/internal/homepage.sgml +++ b/en/internal/homepage.sgml @@ -1,20 +1,19 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header; &homepage; FreeBSD Internal Home &footer; diff --git a/en/internal/internal.sgml b/en/internal/internal.sgml index 97e60663ac..b0bcbff246 100644 --- a/en/internal/internal.sgml +++ b/en/internal/internal.sgml @@ -1,61 +1,60 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header; The FreeBSD.org Network This page documents, for those with accounts on the FreeBSD.org network, just what machine resources are currently available and the sorts of jobs they are being provided for. Resources for FreeBSD Committers This page documents resources for FreeBSD committers. About the FreeBSD WWW Server The Machine, the software, mirroring the FreeBSD Web Pages, Usage statistics. FreeBSD Project Staff The FreeBSD Project is managed and operated by the following groups of people: FreeBSD Core Team, FreeBSD Developers; who is responsible for what. Photos from Social Events Personal Homepages A list of private home pages hosted on people.FreeBSD.org. FreeBSD ProjectsIn addition to the mainstream development path of FreeBSD, a number of developer groups are working on the cutting edge to expand FreeBSD's range of applications in new directions. Contacting FreeBSD FreeBSD Copyright The FreeBSD Copyrights. Search the FreeBSD Site FreeBSD Search Services. FreeBSD Statistics Web statistic, FTP traffic, Release usage. &footer; diff --git a/en/internal/machines.sgml b/en/internal/machines.sgml index 6cf16f4ef0..18659aa43d 100644 --- a/en/internal/machines.sgml +++ b/en/internal/machines.sgml @@ -1,219 +1,218 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header; This page documents, for those with accounts on the FreeBSD.org network, just what machine resources are currently available and the sorts of jobs they are being provided for. For a list of SSH host keys and their fingerprints for the public FreeBSD.org machines, please see this file. All host names in the FreeBSD.org domain Host OS Purpose Owner(s) builder 5.0-current Build server for -current packages ports team beast 5.0-current Alpha box for FreeBSD/alpha testing jkh bento 4-stable Package build master ports team eatmorepie OS X PPC for OS X/Darwin testing jkh freefall 4-stable CVS master repository committers gohan10-17 3-stable/4-stable/5-current Ports building cluster ports team hub 4-stable Mail & WWW services post/webmaster mx1 4-stable Mail services postmaster ref4 4-stable Reference machine for testing 4-stable changes committers ref5 5-current Reference machine for testing 5-current changes committers Hardware configurations Host Type Hardware builder Intel x86 400MHz Pentium II, 256MB mem, NCR 53c875, 9GB IBM SCSI drive, Winbond 100bTX NIC. beast Aspen Durango 500MHz Alpha 21164A on DEC PCI64 MB, 128MB mem, NCR 53c875 SCSI controller, 2x4GB SCSI WIDE drives (one NetBSD/alpha, one FreeBSD/alpha), DEC 21140 NIC. eatmorepie Power Macintosh G4 500MHz PowerPC G4, 256MB mem, 30GB IDE drive bento Intel x86 MP 2x733MHz Pentium III, 1024MB mem, 2xLSI53C1010, 1x18GB SCSI U160 drive, 5x36GB SCSI U160 drives. Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B NIC. freefall Intel x86 800MHz Pentium III, 1024MB mem, Mylex DAC960 PCI SCSI RAID controller, 5x18GB SCSI U2W drives, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B NIC. gohan10-17 Intel x86 800MHz Pentium III, 512MB mem, Intel ICH ATA66 controller, 1x30GB ATA66 drive, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B NIC. hub Intel x86 400MHz Pentium II, 256MB mem, Mylex DAC960 PCI SCSI RAID controller, 3x9GB SCSI WIDE drives, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B NIC. mx1 Intel x86 800MHz Pentium III, 512MB mem, Intel ICH ATA66 controller, 1x30GB ATA66 drive, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B NIC. ref4 Intel x86 400MHz Pentium II, 128MB mem, 1x20GB IDE drive, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B NIC. ref5 Intel x86 400MHz Pentium II, 128MB mem, 1x20GB IDE drive, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B NIC. All machines, as a general rule, are connected at 100Mbits to the FreeBSD network (a 100Mbit network switch) unless some other reason requires that they communicate at 10Mbits. Administrative Policies If the machine in question is "owned" by someone specific, please direct queries to them first when asking about administrative issues, this includes changes to user accounts or filesystem layout. All new user accounts must be cleared with the admin staff, admin@FreeBSD.org, and are given only to FreeBSD developers, either in the docs, ports or general src hacking category. Accounts may be given to non-project developers if they have a specific need to test something of a truly experimental nature and need access to a FreeBSD machine for the purpose. Accounts are not given to the general public for "vanity domain" mail or other such uses, so please don't ask. Thanks. Jordan Hubbard jkh@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Internal Home &footer; diff --git a/en/internal/mirror.sgml b/en/internal/mirror.sgml index 340fcbafef..0f6c3e5716 100644 --- a/en/internal/mirror.sgml +++ b/en/internal/mirror.sgml @@ -1,62 +1,61 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header; You can (and are encouraged to) mirror the FreeBSD web pages www.FreeBSD.org. To do this, you need to obtain and install a program called cvsup on your web server. CVSup is a software package for distributing and updating collections of files across a network. Installing CVSup To build and install it, do the following: # cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-bin # make all install clean Running CVSup If you keep your mirrored FreeBSD web pages in the directory /usr/FreeBSD-mirror and are owned by the user `fred', then run the following command as user `fred': $ cvsup supfile-www The file supfile-www contain: *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org *default prefix=/usr/FreeBSD-mirror *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup www release=current delete use-rel-suffix compress This will mirror the FreeBSD web pages into /usr/FreeBSD-mirror. You can install this into fred's crontab, so that it runs once a day. The pages on www.FreeBSD.org are updated daily at about 4:30am California time. More Information on CVSup See the CVSup introduction in the handbook. FreeBSD Internal Home &footer; diff --git a/en/internal/photos.sgml b/en/internal/photos.sgml index f5d141b66e..1f6dabee44 100644 --- a/en/internal/photos.sgml +++ b/en/internal/photos.sgml @@ -1,86 +1,85 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header; BSDCon 2000, Monterey, October 2000 Photos by Will LinuxWorld 2000, February 2000 Photos by jkh. BSD Social Event Berlin, October 1999 Oxford (UK) FreeBSD meeting, November 1998 Photos and text by Nik. Organised by Paul Richards. Dutch FreeBSD meeting, October 1998 Photos by Jordan and Wilko BSD Social Event Hamburg, June 1998 Aled Morris, Andre Oppermann, Andreas Klemm, Andrew Gordon, Christoph Badura, Dirk Meyer, Frank Nobis, Harald Klatte, Joerg Wunsch, Jonathan Laventhol, Lars Gerhard Kuehl, Martin Cracauer, Stefan Bethke, Stefan Esser, Stefan Huerter, Stefan Zehl, Stephan Forth, Thomas Gellekum AUUG Spring conference, Sydney, September 1998 Richard Stallman, Peter Wemm, Mark White, Andrew McRae, Greg Rose, many unidentified. Summer 1998 USENIX, New Orleans Branson, David Greenman, David O'Brien, Greg Lehey, Guido van Rooij, John Polstra, Jonathan Bresler, Jordan Hubbard, Justin Gibbs, Luigi Rizzo, Mark Murray, Mike Smith, Monique van Rooij, Ollivier Robert, Philippe Regnauld, Poul-Henning Kamp, Sharon, Steve Mann FreeBSD Social Event Aachen, 1995 Aled Morris, Christoph Kukulies, Guido van Rooij, Jonathan Leventhol, J�rg Wunsch, Martin Welk, Michael Reifenberger, Patrick Hausen, Paul Richard, Paul Richards, Poul-Henning Kamp, Ren� de Vries, Stefan Esser, Ulf Kieber, Wilko Bulte FreeBSD People Aled Morris, Andrey Chernov, Christoph Kukulies, Gary Jennejohn, Gary Palmer, Guido Van Rooij, Guy Helmer, Hellmuth Michaelis, James Robinson, Joerg Wunsch, John Fieber, Jon Loeliger, Jonathan Leventhol, Jordan Hubbard, Julian Stacey, Mark Murray, Martin Welk, Michael Reifenberger, Mike Smith, Ollivier Robert, Patrick Hausen, Paul Richards, Paul Traina, Poul-Henning Kamp, Rene de Vries, Stefan Esser, Thomas Gellekum, Timo Rinne, Ulf Kieber, Wilko Bulte, Wolfram Schneider FreeBSD Internal Home &footer; diff --git a/en/internal/statistic.sgml b/en/internal/statistic.sgml index 872aadda4e..07cc617d45 100644 --- a/en/internal/statistic.sgml +++ b/en/internal/statistic.sgml @@ -1,67 +1,66 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header; Web Statistic Analog The Web usage statistics for this server are updated daily with the analog(1) tool. Urchin The Urchin web statistics package is used to provide these statistics on web server usage. FreeBSD Release Usage Statistic A snapshot of the current FreeBSD release usage is available at http://www.FreeBSD.org/statistic/release_usage/images/. The FreeBSD Counter Page The FreeBSD Counter Page page is the start of a project which will attempt to determine the world-wide installed base of FreeBSD users. The FreeBSD development community currently has only the vaguest idea as to how large our user base is, and this makes it all the more difficult to persuade hardware and software vendors to take it seriously. FTP traffic at ftp.FreeBSD.org We set a new traffic record for TerraSolutions and Lightning Internet Services at 29-Sep-2000, over 2TB. Previous record was set for wcarchive at 23-May-1999, 1.39TB. FreeBSD Internal Home &footer; diff --git a/en/internet.sgml b/en/internet.sgml index 1206f6aa32..c248be5b71 100644 --- a/en/internet.sgml +++ b/en/internet.sgml @@ -1,160 +1,159 @@ + %includes; ]> - &header; FreeBSD was designed for the Internet FreeBSD includes what many consider the reference implementation for TCP/IP software, the 4.4 BSD TCP/IP protocol stack, thereby making it ideal for network applications and the Internet. FreeBSD supports standard TCP/IP protocols. Like most UNIX systems, the FreeBSD operating system enables you to Share filesystems with NFS Distribute network information with NIS Support remote logins Do remote SNMP configuration and management Serve files with FTP Resolve Internet hostnames with DNS/BIND Route packets between multiple interfaces, including PPP and SLIP lines Use IP Multicast services (the MBONE) FreeBSD lets you to turn a PC into a World Wide Web server or Usenet news relay with included software. Using the included SAMBA software you can even share filesystems or printers with your Win95 and NT machines and, with the supplied PCNFS authentication daemon, you can support machines running PC/NFS. FreeBSD also supports Appletalk and Novell client/server networking (using an optional commercial package), making it a true "Intranet" networking solution. FreeBSD also handles TCP extensions like the RFC-1323 high performance extension and RFC-1644 extension for transactions, plus SLIP and dial-on-demand PPP. It is an operating system suitable for a home-based net surfer as well as a corporate systems administrator. FreeBSD's networking is stable and fast. If you need an Internet server platform that is reliable and offers the best performance under heavy load, then consider FreeBSD. Here are just a few of the companies that make use of FreeBSD every day: BSDi's Open Source Division outside of San Francisco runs one of the most popular FTP servers on the net - ftp.freesoftware.com. It is a FreeBSD machine supporting 5000 connections, and is capable of transferring more than 30 terabytes (as of June, 1999; yes that is terabytes!) worth of files every month to more than 10 million people. The configuration details are available to those interested in building similar systems. Yahoo Inc. runs the ultimate index of the Internet, serving scads of daily net surfers with information about the World Wide Web. Yahoo, as well the companies that advertise on Yahoo, rely on FreeBSD to run reliable and responsive web servers. If that is not enough, visit our Gallery of satisfied FreeBSD users. FreeBSD makes an ideal platform for these and other Internet services: Company-wide or world-wide WWW service Proxy WWW service Anonymous FTP service Enterprise file and print services The FreeBSD ports collection contains ready-to-run software that makes it easy to set up your own Internet server. High performance and security. The FreeBSD developers are as concerned about security as they are about performance. FreeBSD includes kernel support for IP firewalling, as well other services, such as IP proxy gateways. If you put your corporate servers on the Internet, any 386 PC (or better) running FreeBSD can act as a network firewall to protect them from outside attack. Encryption software, secure shells, Kerberos, end-to-end encryption and secure RPC facilities are also available (subject to export restrictions). Furthermore, the FreeBSD team is proactive in detecting and disseminating security information and bug reports with a security officer and ties to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). What experts have to say . . . ``FreeBSD ... provides what is probably the most robust and capable TCP/IP stack in existence ...'' ---Michael O'Brien, SunExpert August 1996 volume 7 number 8. &footer; diff --git a/en/mailto.sgml b/en/mailto.sgml index aa9a041a5f..46094deeb7 100644 --- a/en/mailto.sgml +++ b/en/mailto.sgml @@ -1,53 +1,52 @@ + %includes; ]> - &header; Questions about FreeBSD... Questions regarding FreeBSD should be addressed to the FreeBSD Questions mailing list, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG. Mailing lists are the primary support channel for FreeBSD users, with numerous mailing lists covering different topic areas. Several non-English mailing lists are also available. Questions about the contents of this WWW server... Questions or suggestions about our documentation (Handbook, FAQ, Tutorials) should be addressed to the FreeBSD Documentation Project mailing list, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG. Snail mail, phone and fax For CDROM orders: The FreeBSD Mall For commercial support: The FreeBSD Mall Who Is Responsible for What Public Relations & Corporate Liaison, Security Officer, Postmaster, Webmaster etc. &footer; diff --git a/en/news/1996/index.sgml b/en/news/1996/index.sgml index 0a80c4f651..05ac618641 100644 --- a/en/news/1996/index.sgml +++ b/en/news/1996/index.sgml @@ -1,55 +1,54 @@ - + %includes; News Home'> %newsincludes; ]> - &header; December 1996 24-Dec-1996 FreeBSD 2.2-BETA has been released. Please see the Release Notes for more information. 13-Dec-1996 FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE will not support installation on machines with less than 5MB of RAM or 1.2MB floppy drives. Please see the original announcement for more information. November 1996 15-Nov-1996 FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE is out. Please see the release notes for more information. 4-Nov-1996 The FreeBSD CVS development tree has branched again. See here for more information. &newshome; &footer; diff --git a/en/news/1997/index.sgml b/en/news/1997/index.sgml index 48f52c9eee..02273fba90 100644 --- a/en/news/1997/index.sgml +++ b/en/news/1997/index.sgml @@ -1,273 +1,272 @@ - + %includes; News Home'> %newsincludes; ]> - &header; December 1997 26-Dec-97 A convenient front-end tool for installing and configuring the CVSup utility is now available. To use it, simply login or su to root and run: pkg_add &ftp;/development/CVSup/cvsupit.tgz 2-Dec-97 The "FOOF" bug has now been fixed in our 3.0-current and 2.2-stable branches and can either be incorporated by using the CVSup utility, as described below for the LAND attack fix, or by applying these patches. 1-Dec-97 The "LAND attack" bug in TCP/IP has now been fixed in all relevant branches and can be incorporated by using the CVSup utility to track the latest 2.2 or 3.0 sources. 1-Dec-97 Team FreeBSD is a group of FreeBSD users and supporters contributing CPU idle time in an effort to crack RSA's 64-bit encryption code. For more information, visit Team FreeBSD's WWW site. November 1997 21-Nov-97 Pentium bug -- We are aware of the "F00F" Pentium halting bug and are working with Intel on a fix. When we have a fix ready for public consumption it will be announced here, on the mailing list announce@FreeBSD.org and to the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce. Your patience is appreciated. 09-Nov-97 FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE CDROMS are now in stock and shipping to customers worldwide. More information is available at http://www.wccdrom.com/titles/os/fbsd25.htm. October 1997 22-Oct-97 FreeBSD 2.2.5 has been released. See the Release Information page for details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 2.2.5 that you should know about. September 1997 01-Sep-97 FreeBSD performed well in an Internet Week review of WWW server platforms. August 1997 11-Aug-97 Researchers in Duke University's Trapeze Project have developed a high-speed Myrinet driver for FreeBSD. More information about the driver, Trapeze Project, and its parent project, the Collaborative Cluster Computing Iniative, including the code for the Myrinet driver, are available from the CCCI's WWW page. 03-Aug-97 Netscape Communications has released a beta version of Netscape Communicator v4.0 for FreeBSD. It can be obtained via FTP from ftp.netscape.com or its mirrors. July 1997 22-Jul-97 MacIP, an AppleTalk-to-IP gateway program for FreeBSD, is in beta testing. To get the latest version, see http://www.promo.de/pub/people/stefan/netatalk/ or ftp://ftp.promo.de/pub/people/stefan/netatalk/. 17-Jul-97 The first issue of the FreeBSD Newsletter is now available in Adobe PDF format (also by FTP). A help file is available to assist you in selecting and using a PDF viewer. Article submissions, advertisements, and letters to the editor should be sent to newsletter@FreeBSD.org. June 1997 17-Jun-97 FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE CD-ROM discs are now in stock; subscription customers should receive them shortly. May 1997 16-May-97 FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE has been released. The Release Notes and Errata List can provide more information. 12-May-97 A 3.0-Current SNAP-of-the-day server has been established at ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/. A 3.0-SNAPshot will be generated daily, and old SNAPshots will be kept for a minimum of one week. April 1997 28-Apr-97 The 3.0-current src tree now contains support for building Symmetric MultiProcessor kernels. For details go to the SMP page. 22-Apr-97 A RELENG_2.2 snap-of-the-day server has been established at ftp://releng22.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD. The README.TXT has more information. 15-Apr-97 FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE CDs are shipping. Please see http://www.wccdrom.com/titles/os/fbsd22.htm for more information. March 1997 28-Mar-97 Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Inc. has released an alpha version of ALTQ/CBQ, an alternative queuing framework for BSD Unix. More information and the source code is available. 25-Mar-97 FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE is now available, replacing 2.2-RELEASE. Read the README.TXT file or the Release Notes for more information. 16-Mar-97 FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE is now available. Read the README.TXT file or the Release Notes for more information. February 1997 20-Feb-1997 FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE is now available. Read the README.TXT file or the Release Notes for more information. 10-Feb-1997 FreeBSD 3.0-970209-SNAP has been released. Read the README.TXT file for more information about this release. 06-Feb-1997 A serious security problem affecting FreeBSD 2.1.6 and earlier systems was found. The problem has been corrected within the -stable, -current, and RELENG_2_2 source trees. As an additional precaution, FreeBSD 2.1.6 is no longer available from the FTP distribution sites. You can read more about the problem and solution from the FreeBSD-SA-97:01.setlocale security announcement. 06-Feb-1997 The final pre-release version of FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA, is now available. The README.TXT file has more information. 02-Feb-1997 A snap-of-the-day server has been set up for the most current snapshot release of FreeBSD 2.2. Read the README.TXT file for more information. January 1997 25-Jan-1997 FreeBSD 3.0-970124-SNAP has been released. Please see the Release Notes for more information. &newshome; &footer; diff --git a/en/news/1998/index.sgml b/en/news/1998/index.sgml index 0c1b1b819b..921e23c642 100644 --- a/en/news/1998/index.sgml +++ b/en/news/1998/index.sgml @@ -1,243 +1,242 @@ - + %includes; News Home'> %newsincludes; ]> - &header; December 1998 28-Dec-98 Unless circumstances dictate otherwise, FreeBSD 3.0 will depart the -CURRENT branch late in the day on 15 January 1999. The 3.1 release will follow 30 days later, on 15 February 1999. Developers should consider this as ADVANCE NOTICE of these events. 13-Dec-98 Walnut Creek CDROM has opened the FreeBSD Mall, a site devoted to the commercial aspects of FreeBSD, including add-ons, hardware, and commercial tech-support. To advertise or sell your products or services at the FreeBSD Mall, contact BSDi. November 1998 30-Nov-98 FreeBSD 2.2.8 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 2.2.8 that you might need to be aware of. 26-Nov-98 FreeBSD Rocks is an initiative designed to provide the FreeBSD community with the latest FreeBSD news, software and resources. All areas include search facilities, making keyword searching of historical posts a breeze. The pages are updated daily and everyone is invited to sign up an post an article. If it happened today, you'll see it on FreeBSDRocks. October 1998 15-Oct-98 FreeBSD 3.0 has been released. See the Release Information page for details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.0 that you might need to be aware of. September 1998 15-Sep-98 September 15th is the scheduled date for entering BETA with the 3.0-CURRENT tree. As all of you already (should) know, 3.0 is scheduled for release on October 15th so this gives us a nice 30 day BETA period. During this time, I don't expect anyone to drop in significant new work or otherwise perturb the 3.0-CURRENT tree in such a way that violates the general idea of a BETA (you're supposed to test what you have, not move the goalposts every couple of days :). 13-Sep-98 After more than a year of development, the Common Access Method SCSI layer for FreeBSD will be integrated into 3.0-CURRENT on Sunday, September 13th. The CAM development team is currently busy ensuring that the integration process goes as smoothly as possible, so please understand that we may be slow to respond to questions about CAM during that time. 09-Sep-98 Perl5 is now imported into the 3.0-CURRENT source tree. 05-Sep-98 The BSD CD Giveaway List. If somebody has a CD to give away (recipient pays for shipping) or to lend locally, they can put their email address on the list. Hardware and literature can also be given away. We encourage people to donate CDs to local libraries and put them on the list as well. 01-Sep-98 First issue of Daemon News arrives day earlier. This ezine is by the BSD community for the BSD community. See http://www.daemonnews.org/ August 1998 31-Aug-98 FreeBSD -CURRENT branch (the future 3.0-RELEASE) has switched to ELF from a.out format. People involved did a great job; transition went smooth. Check the freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org mail archive for more information on the transition to ELF. 23-Aug-98 Suidcontrol-0.1 utility has been released. The suidcontrol is an experimental utility for managing suid/sgid policy under FreeBSD. You can get more information at http://www.watson.org/fbsd-hardening/suidcontrol.html 09-Aug-98 FreeBSD Security How-To has been published. This work is currently in beta and can be found at http://www.best.com/~jkb/howto.txt July 1998 22-Jul-98 FreeBSD 2.2.7 has been released. See the Release Information page for details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 2.2.7 that you should know about. 16-Jul-98 A ``FreeBSD for Linux users'' documentation effort has started. Please see the list of current documentation projects for more information. 13-Jul-98 Jordan Hubbard writes an editorial on the past and future of the Unix community. 09-Jul-98 A Spanish translation of the FAQ has been completed by the Spanish Documentation Project. More information can be found at the translations page. May 1998 30-May-98 FreeBSD and Apache are used in this very useful article on implementing a web farm using round-robin DNS in WEBTechniques.com. 23-May-98 The second issue of the FreeBSD Newsletter is now available in Adobe PDF format (also by FTP). A help file is available to assist you in selecting and using a PDF viewer. Article submissions, advertisements, and letters to the editor should be sent to newsletter@FreeBSD.org. 01-May-98 The FreeBSD Project set up Anonymous CVS for the FreeBSD CVS tree. Among other things, it allows users of FreeBSD to perform, with no special privileges, read-only CVS operations against one of the FreeBSD project's official anoncvs servers. April 1998 16-Apr-98 The new 4 CD set of FreeBSD 2.2.6 is now in stock and should start shipping to subscription and back-order customers tomorrow. More information on the CD contents are available from http://www.wccdrom.com/. 11-Apr-98 The new FreeBSD project FreeBSD Mozilla Group is created. The FreeBSD Mozilla Group supports and improves the free available Netscape web browser, otherwise known as Mozilla. March 1998 25-Mar-98 FreeBSD 2.2.6 has been released. See the Release Information page for details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 2.2.6 that you should know about. February 1998 08-Feb-98 A page detailing the FreeBSD Year 2000 compliance statement is now available, linked through the Documentation page. January 1998 08-Jan-98 Improved support for Plug-n-Play cards has now been integrated into both 3.0-CURRENT and 2.2-STABLE branches now. This is available in source form via the CVSup utility or in binary release snapshots from current.FreeBSD.org &newshome; &footer; diff --git a/en/news/1999/index.sgml b/en/news/1999/index.sgml index 5689ad2a49..4a98420e7b 100644 --- a/en/news/1999/index.sgml +++ b/en/news/1999/index.sgml @@ -1,371 +1,370 @@ - + %includes; News Home'> %newsincludes; ]> - &header; December 1999 30-Dec-1999 A new committer: Gerard Roudier (Symbios SCSI driver) 20-Dec-1999 FreeBSD 3.4 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 3.4 that occur. 18-Dec-1999 A new committer: Robert Watson (Coda, POSIX.1e ACLs/Capabilities/Auditing/MAC, FFS extended attributes, Jail code improvements/documentation, IPFW/BPF cleanup) 16-Dec-1999 Remove a committer: James Raynard, "I have decided to resign as a committer as it's been a very long time since I last had the time to work on FreeBSD and things have now got to the point where not even "speed reading" can help me keep up with the commit mail." Our thanks to James for the time and effort he has contributed to FreeBSD. A new committer: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (Docs, in particular mdoc, low-level interfaces, and other source tree related documentation) 15-Dec-1999 A new committer: Chris D. Faulhaber 14-Dec-1999 A new committer: Neil Blakey-Milner (Docs) October 1999 24-Oct-1999 The FreeBSD Con '99 event this year was a big success! Over 350 people attended, and both the vendors and attendees alike said they found the event to be both entertaining and valuable. Many thanks to Walnut Creek CDROM for producing this event and to Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick for teaching two kernel internals tutorials and giving his History of BSD talk at the conference. 10-Oct-1999 A new committer: Josef Karthauser September 1999 27-Sep-1999 A new committer: Yukihiro Nakai (Ports) 26-Sep-1999 A new committer: Dan Moschuk (Ports) 17-Sep-1999 FreeBSD 3.3 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 3.3 that occur. 08-Sep-1999 New committers: Boris Popov (Netware) and Wilfredo Sanchez (FreeBSD/Apple Darwin collaboration) 05-Sep-1999 A new committer: Jose M. Alcaide (Docs/Spanish translation) 03-Sep-1999 New committers: R. Imura (Ports/KDE), Andrey Zakhvatov (Docs/Russian translation) and Sebastien Gioria (Docs/French translation) 02-Sep-1999 A new committer: Alexey Zelkin (Localization/Docs/Russian translation) August 1999 23-Aug-1999 A new committer: John Baldwin (Docs) 11-Aug-1999 New committers: Alfred Perlstein (SMP) and Jim Mock (Docs) 10-Aug-1999 C-Forge, an Integrated Development Environment, has been released (beta) for FreeBSD, supporting C, C++, Perl, Tcl, and many other languages. 06-Aug-1999 A new committer: Chris Costello (Docs) 04-Aug-1999 A new committer: Peter Holm (Docs) July 1999 29-Jul-1999 New committers: Yoshinobu Inoue and Munechika Sumikawa (KAME/IPv6) 27-Jul-1999 A new committer: Matthew N. Dodd (EISA/PCI/newbus) 14-Jul-1999 A new committer: Seigo Tanimura (MIDI) 07-Jul-1999 A new committer: Cameron Grant (PCM) 03-Jul-1999 A new committer: Marcel Moolenaar (Linux compat) 01-Jul-1999 New committers: Takahashi Yoshihiro (PC98) and Masahide MAEKAWA June 1999 30-Jun-1999 New committers: Larry Lile (Token Ring), Daniel Baker (Ports), and Daniel Eischen 19-Jun-1999 A new committer: Chris Piazza 18-Jun-1999 A new committer: Mitsuru IWASAKI 17-Jun-1999 A new committer: Brian Feldman 14-Jun-1999 A new committer: Sheldon Hearn 10-Jun-1999 FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE CDs are shipping. Subscribers who did not make any special shipping arrangements should be receiving their CDs soon. Anyone who wishes to order 3.2-RELEASE or to subscribe may do so via The FreeBSD Mall. 08-Jun-1999 A new Australian FreeBSD Web Mirror now exists. Thanks to ITworks Consulting for providing the host. May 1999 28-May-1999 A new committer: Kevin Lo 27-May-1999 A new committer: Ruslan Ermilov 26-May-1999 A new committer: Mark J. Taylor 18-May-1999 FreeBSD 3.2 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 3.2 that you might need to be aware of. April 1999 30-Apr-1999 A new committer: Tom Hukins (Docs) 22-Apr-1999 The FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer is now available (in the tutorials section) for people who want to learn the technical details of the Documentation Project. 15-Apr-1999 A new committer: Richard Seaman 13-Apr-1999 A new committer: Michael Haro March 1999 30-Mar-1999 A new committer: Nick Sayer 10-Mar-1999 A new committer: Jason Evans 05-Mar-1999 The USENIX Association has announced the 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, scheduled for 06-11 June 1999 in Monterey, CA, USA. Our own Jordan Hubbard is chairing the FREENIX Track, devoted to open source software's latest developments and interesting applications. 02-Mar-1999 A new committer: Satoshi TAOKA (Ports) 01-Mar-1999 A secure server has been set up to accept monetary donations to the FreeBSD Project. For more information, see: http://www.freebsdmall.com/donate/. 01-Mar-1999 FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE CDs are now shipping. Subscribers should receive their CDs soon. See http://www.wccdrom.com/ to order. February 1999 25-Feb-1999 A new committer: Shigeyuki FUKUSHIMA 23-Feb-1999 A new committer: Alan Cox (VM) 19-Feb-1999 A new committer: Kris Kennaway 17-Feb-1999 The Gartner Group has released a report, Divorcing Thin Server Software from the Hardware, examining the trend in the OEM market of using software and hardware from different vendors. 15-Feb-1999 FreeBSD 3.1 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 3.1 that you might need to be aware of. 04-Feb-1999 The FreeBSD Diary, a collection of how-to entries aimed at Unix novices, is now available. 03-Feb-1999 A new committer: Daniel Sobral (Bootloader) January 1999 21-Jan-1999 A new committer: Roger Hardiman (bt8x8 driver) 20-Jan-1999 3.0-STABLE has now departed the -CURRENT branch. The next release on this branch will be 3.1-RELEASE, in mid-February 1999. 15-Jan-1999 A new committer: Andrew Gallatin (Alpha) 13-Jan-1999 The FreeBSD ezine is a monthly collection of easy to read (we hope) articles written by FreeBSD users and administrators just like you. 10-Jan-99 Jordan Hubbard's "State of the Union", a look back at 1998, and a look forward to the future. 02-Jan-1999 A new committer: Hidetoshi Shimokawa (Alpha/Ports) &newshome; &footer; diff --git a/en/news/2000/index.sgml b/en/news/2000/index.sgml index 4e828caf42..6de076aa52 100644 --- a/en/news/2000/index.sgml +++ b/en/news/2000/index.sgml @@ -1,457 +1,456 @@ - + %includes; News Home'> %newsincludes; ]> - &header; December 2000 28-Dec-2000 New committer: FUJISHIMA Satsuki (ports) 06-Dec-2000 New committer: Clive T. Lin 04-Dec-2000 New committers: Christoph Herrmann and Thomas-Henning von Kamptz (growfs) 01-Dec-2000 New committer: Ian Dowse November 2000 30-Nov-2000 Individual porting efforts were moved into the platforms directory. Separate pages for the Alpha, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC porting projects can be found there. 22-Nov-2000 FreeBSD 4.2 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 4.2 that occur. 22-Nov-2000 And yet another new committer: Peter Pentchev (ports) 13-Nov-2000 Yet another new committer: OKAZAKI Tetsurou (ports) 13-Nov-2000 Another new committer: Kazuhiko Kiriyama (ports) 13-Nov-2000 New committer: Dmitry Sivachenko (Mainly ports) 12-Nov-2000 Another new committer: Issei Suzuki (Ports) 06-Nov-2000 Another new committer: Jing-Tang Keith Jang (ports, mostly in the chinese category) 02-Nov-2000 Another new committer: Benno Rice (PowerPC port and OpenFirmware /boot/loader) October 2000 26-Oct-2000 Yet another new committer: Doug Barton (mergemaster, and whatever other trouble I can get into) 26-Oct-2000 A new committer: Garance A Drosehn (lpr and friends) 18-Oct-2000 New FreeBSD Core Team Elected! Read the official press release for more information. 16-Oct-2000 A new committer: Jonathan Chen (newcard cardbus) 03-Oct-2000 The complete track schedule for BSDCon has been released. BSDCon is the premiere annual technical conference for BSD users and will be held from October 14-20 in Monterey, CA. 02-Oct-2000 Doug Rabson has made a series of commits to -CURRENT with early IA64 support. The kernel will now reach the mountroot prompt. Please follow the ia64 mailing list for more information. 01-Oct-2000 A new committer: Trevor Johnson (sundry ports, mostly in the audio category) 01-Oct-2000 A new committer: James Housley (ports, especially RTEMS. Side interest in IPv6) 01-Oct-2000 A new committer: Mário Sérgio Fujikawa Ferreira September 2000 29-Sep-2000 TeraSolutions, Inc. and Lightning Internet Services announced today that a popular OpenSource software archive at ftp.freesoftware.com (also known as ftp.FreeBSD.org) has surpassed the two trillion bytes (two terabytes) milestone of files downloaded per day from a single server machine. 27-Sep-2000 FreeBSD 4.1.1 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 4.1.1 that occur. 21-Sep-2000 A new committer: Bosko Milekic August 2000 22-Aug-2000 A new committer: Bruce A. Mah (docs, pkg_version, assorted ports) 15-Aug-2000 A new committer: Rajesh Vaidheeswarran (ports/devel/cons) 05-Aug-2000 A new committer: Atsushi Onoe (awi driver) July 2000 27-July-2000 FreeBSD 4.1 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 4.1 that occur. 12-July-2000 A new committer: Mark Ovens 11-July-2000 A new committer: Kelly Yancey 11-July-2000 A new committer: David Malone 11-July-2000 A new committer: Noriaki Mitsunaga (PC-Card) 10-July-2000 A new committer: Ben Smithurst (Docs) 08-July-2000 A new committer: Daniel Harris (Docs) 07-July-2000 A new committer: Takanori Watanabe (ACPI) 06-July-2000 A new committer: Hiroki Sato (Japanese Docs) 05-July-2000 A new committer: Kazuo Horikawa (Japanese Online Manuals) 03-July-2000 A new committer: Adrian Chadd June 2000 30-June-2000 http://freshports.org/ has been upgraded to FreshPorts 1.1. The FreshPorts website contains the latest details of which ports have been create/updated/removed. This upgrade, the first since FreshPorts was release in early May, gives you an improved home page, which together with a commit history means you can find out about your ports faster and easier. 29-June-2000 Tucows has added a BSD section. 26-June-2000 A new committer: Shunsuke Akiyama (Optical disk driver) 24-June-2000 FreeBSD 3.5 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 3.5 that occur. 20-June-2000 A new committer: MIHIRA Sanpei Yoshiro (PC-Card) A new committer: Coleman Kane (3dfx voodoo for glide/Mesa) 19-June-2000 A new committer: CHOI Junho (Ports) 08-June-2000 Jordan Hubbard and Warner Losh will be in Japan during the first part of June 2000. They will be giving talks at: the BSD BOF at Networld+Interop 2000 Tokyo (8th), the JUS seminor at Tokyo (9th), the NBUG event at Nagoya (10th), and, the K*BUG seminor at Osaka (10th). Please see http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/. A new article is available, explaining how to use PPP, natd, and ipfw to implement a firewall with a PPP dialup connection. A new committer: Alexander Langer (Ports, Docs) 06-Jun-2000 The first FreeBSD Conspectus has been added, providing a summary of events on the -stable mailing list over the past week. May 2000 19-May-2000 A new committer: Chuck Paterson (SMP) 18-May-2000 A hardcopy version of the FreeBSD Handbook is now available. If you would like to order a copy, please visit the FreeBSDMall, or BSDi's web site. 15-May-2000 A new committer: Jake Burkholder (legacy drivers) 14-May-2000 Issue #04 of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available. 09-May-2000 Freshports: Similar in nature to Freshmeat, this site deals exclusively with FreeBSD ports, and allows you to create your own ``watch lists'' for your favorite ports. April 2000 16-Apr-2000 New mailing lists available: freebsd-i18n (FreeBSD Internationalization) and freebsd-ppc (Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC) 04-Apr-2000 A new committer: Murray Stokely (sysinstall) March 2000 22-Mar-2000 A new committer: Akinori MUSHA (Ports) 21-Mar-2000 Bill Swingle has written an article on the Ports and Packages System for 32bitsonline.com 20-Mar-2000 A new committer: Will Andrews (Ports) 15-Mar-2000 Issue #2 of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available. 13-Mar-2000 FreeBSD 4.0 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 4.0 that occur. 09-Mar-2000 Walnut Creek CDROM and BSDI merge! Read the official press release for more information. February 2000 26-Feb-2000 A new committer: Hajimu UMEMOTO (IPv6) 23-Feb-2000 A new committer: Paul Saab 22-Feb-2000 32BitsOnline.com has a review of FreeBSD 3.4 by Clifford Smith available on their web site. All in all, a good review. 18-Feb-2000 A new committer: Brian S Dean (Kernel support for IA32 hardware debug registers, misc fixes/feature enhancements in other areas) 17-Feb-2000 A new issue of The FreeBSD 'zine came out on the 15th. This is the first issue of the 'zine in 7 months; lots of changes have been made, and many new features have been added. Be sure to check it out. 10-Feb-2000 Michael Lucas has written an excellent article on the differences between the BSD license and the GPL. This article is definitely worth reading. New committers: Greg Sutter and Bill Swingle (Docs) January 2000 22-Jan-2000 The FreeBSD Diary, a chronicle of what one guy is doing with FreeBSD, has been around for almost two years. Until today, it was tucked away in a corner of his site. Following significant growth, a new-look site was launched today. The site contains a huge number of how-to guides and the readership includes NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux users. 13-Jan-2000 A new committer: Wilko Bulte 04-Jan-2000 The Compaq Testdrive program is now making testdrives available of the latest FreeBSD 4.0-20000101-CURRENT release running on an Alpha XP1000 EV6.7. running at 667MHz and loaded with two gigs of ram. To get a free shell account as a participant in the testdrive program, all you need to do is register at the site. These accounts aren't for playing, the goal of the program is to make brand new systems available to developers so they can test, build and port their apps to the world's fastest computer. The testdrive program also offers other systems running FreeBSD, including a Proliant 5500 dual Xeon 450MHz and a DPW500a. 03-Jan-2000 A new committer: Patrick Gardella (JDK/WWW) 02-Jan-2000 A new committer: Ade Lovett (Ports) 01-Jan-2000 A new committer: Jeremy Lea (Ports) &newshome; &footer; diff --git a/en/news/news.sgml b/en/news/news.sgml index 2b39d19c54..b195390587 100644 --- a/en/news/news.sgml +++ b/en/news/news.sgml @@ -1,89 +1,88 @@ - + %includes; %newsincludes; ]> - &header; Local news Newsflash: New releases, drivers, committers, security announcements, and other news. Press Releases: Press releases from the project and other related organizations. Really-Quick(tm) Newsletter: For when you just don't have time. Newsletter: The FreeBSD Newsletter. Press articles: FreeBSD appearing in the regular press. Other sites Slashdot's BSD section: Pointers and discussion about BSD news, not just FreeBSD. DaemonNews: Monthly articles and daily discussion about all things BSD. FreeBSD 'zine: A monthly collection of articles. FreeBSD Diary: One man's record of his trials and triumphs with FreeBSD. FreeBSD Rocks: The latest news, software, and resources. BSDFreak: More latest news, software, and resources. . . BSD Today: Your Daily Source for BSD News and Information. BSD Vault &footer; diff --git a/en/news/press-rel-1.sgml b/en/news/press-rel-1.sgml index 5957626089..cdf0d0b3b6 100644 --- a/en/news/press-rel-1.sgml +++ b/en/news/press-rel-1.sgml @@ -1,60 +1,59 @@ - + %includes; %newsincludes; ]> - &header; FreeBSD Used to Generate Spectacular Special Effects Concord, CA, April 22, 1999: 32 Dual-Processor FreeBSD systems were used to generate a large number of special effects in the cutting edge Warner Brothers film, The Matrix. Manex Visual Effects used 32 Dell Precision 410 Dual P-II/450 Processor systems running FreeBSD as the core CG Render Farm. Charles Henrich, the senior systems administrator at Manex, says, "We came to a point in the production where we realized we just did not have enough computing power on our existing SGI infrastructure to get through the 3-D intensive sequences. It was at that point we decided on going with a FreeBSD based solution, due to the ability to get the hardware quickly as well as the reliability and ease of administration that FreeBSD provides us. Working with Dell, we purchased 32 of these systems on a Wednesday, and had them rendering in production by Saturday afternoon. It was truly an amazing effort on everyone's part, and I don't believe it would've been possible had we chosen to go with any other Operating System solution." The FreeBSD operating system is a powerful, completely open-source system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution of UNIX. It is available free of charge from numerous Internet websites and also on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek CDROM, and includes thousands of ported applications including 3-D graphics rendering and many other equally powerful tools. FreeBSD is optimized for use on the Intel x86 processor line that is the heart of today's versatile commodity personal computers. Infinitely customizable, FreeBSD is at the heart of such Internet powerhouse applications as Yahoo! and U.S. West because it is unencumbered by commercial license restrictions and can be copied and modified freely. For more information on FreeBSD, visit http://www.FreeBSD.org/ and http://www.wccdrom.com/. For more information about Manex Visual Effects, please visit http://www.mvfx.com/ . &footer; diff --git a/en/news/press-rel-2.sgml b/en/news/press-rel-2.sgml index 1ba5e4d773..f9ada6a418 100644 --- a/en/news/press-rel-2.sgml +++ b/en/news/press-rel-2.sgml @@ -1,90 +1,89 @@ - + %includes; %newsincludes; ]> - &header; Complete XML Development System Integrated with FreeBSD Concord, CA, April 29, 1999: Included with FreeBSD 3.1 is a complete, integrated SGML/XML development system that installs with a simple, easy to use command sequence. FreeBSD's Ports system and multitasking architecture makes it easy for an SGML/XML developer to download and install all the latest versions of the tools and reference material he needs to develop SGML and XML formatting languages and documents, and the online Internet mailing lists help him learn and keep up-to-date with the evolving XML implementation. FreeBSD is a full-featured open-source operating system which runs on virtually all Intel x86-based personal computers. Its 580 page "Handbook" has recently been completely done over into DocBook format, and it is a living example of an evolving document built with SGML tools. The Handbook is available on the Internet at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/ ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/ The FreeBSD Documentation Project is also making available the "FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer" to make it as painless as possible for newcomers to contribute to the FreeBSD Documentation Set. Much of the information in the primer is appropriate to all SGML/XML users, and is freely available. The primer, which is constantly being updated by the Documentation Project team, can be found at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/tutorials/primer/ Features of the Document Project SGML/XML System include: James Clark's Jade 1.2.1 and SP suite version 1.3.3, enabling formatting and validation of SGML and XML documents. A complete set of 19 ISO SGML character set entities The DocBook (v2.4.1, v3.0, v3.1), HTML (all versions), and LinuxDoc Document Type Definitions (DTD) Norm Walsh's Modular DocBook Stylesheets, allowing fine control over the appearance and formatting of DocBook documents. Emacs and Xemacs, in conjunction with the PSGML extension package, provide a customizable industrial-strength SGML editing solution. The teTeX-beta package in conjunction with the JadeTeX macros make it possible to convert DocBook documents to DVI, Postscript, and PDF formats with embedded hyperlinks. Additional SGML-aware programs and utilities can be found in the FreeBSD ports system. The FreeBSD Documentation Project is actively migrating from the LinuxDoc DTD to the DocBook DTD, and has been providing feedback to the DocBook maintainers regarding new features and possible implementations for the past year. For more information about the FreeBSD Documentation Project, please contact the freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org mailing list. The FreeBSD operating system is available on the Internet from the master FreeBSD website and from various mirror systems around the world, and it can also be obtained on convenient CDROMs from Walnut Creek CDROM. Information on all of these options is available through: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ http://www.wccdrom.com/ &footer; diff --git a/en/news/press-rel-3.sgml b/en/news/press-rel-3.sgml index cf3d4eed64..50ed0ef7b8 100644 --- a/en/news/press-rel-3.sgml +++ b/en/news/press-rel-3.sgml @@ -1,91 +1,90 @@ - + %includes; %newsincludes; ]> - &header; BSD Community Welcomes Apple's New Open Source Operating System Concord, CA, June 7, 1999: Today, at the start of the UNIX development community's annual Usenix convention, operating system influentials embraced Apple Computer's Darwin (www.apple.com/darwin) as a new member of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) operating system family. "We're very pleased to have Apple's participation in the BSD community," said Jordan Hubbard, chairman of the USENIX convention's Freenix track and co-founder of the FreeBSD Project. "As more smart businesses discover the incredible free resource that is BSD software, they'll realize that contributing to open source development is in their best interest." According to Herb Peyerl of the NetBSD Project, "Our interaction with Apple on the Darwin project has been extremely rewarding for NetBSD and is the kind of open cooperation of which we would like to see more." "Leveraging the twenty-year BSD heritage allows Apple developers to concentrate on adding a unique user experience to the solid, robust foundation of the BSD code," according to Avie Tevanian, Apple Computer's senior vice president of Software Engineering. "We believe that by embracing the open source movement with our Darwin software, the result will be better products for millions of Mac customers worldwide. The BSD code in Darwin is an essential part of our operating system strategy." This type of reciprocation is a return to the original software development model that was universal in the early days of computing, before PCs. Wilfredo Sanchez, technical lead for the Darwin Project, will speak on Darwin at this week's Freenix track, a series of programs at Usenix devoted exclusively to this sort of open source software development. About NetBSD and FreeBSD NetBSD and FreeBSD are open source operating systems based on the last public release of BSD UNIX, 4.4BSDLite2. Each effort has kept up with the latest technologies in processors and software architectures. While having different priorities, the BSD development teams share a friendly competitive rivalry, spurring each other on to produce better product for their worldwide users. Over the twenty years of development, a huge base of software has been developed around BSD -- including much of the Internet infrastructure -- enabling the OS to be used effectively in almost any computing application. The open development model means there are no secrets, creating a worldwide understanding of the code which enables BSD developers to build on the efforts of prior developers without the hassles endemic to proprietary operating systems and applications. For More Information, Contact: The FreeBSD Project Concord, California 925-682-7859 freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The NetBSD Project C/O Charles M. Hannum 81 Bromfield Rd, #2 Somerville, MA 02144 mindshare@netbsd.org http://www.netbsd.org &footer; diff --git a/en/news/press-rel-4.sgml b/en/news/press-rel-4.sgml index b33f6d5bfe..b0cd22b02a 100644 --- a/en/news/press-rel-4.sgml +++ b/en/news/press-rel-4.sgml @@ -1,234 +1,233 @@ - + %includes; %newsincludes; ]> - &header; FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BSD SUPPLIERS UNITE TO DELIVER THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR INTERNET OPERATING SYSTEMS The New BSDI To Deliver Renowned BSD Operating System Technologies And Back The Rapidly Growing FreeBSD Open Source Community Colorado Springs, Colo., March 9, 2000: Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI) announced today that it has merged with Walnut Creek CDROM, the distributor of the popular FreeBSD operating system. As a merged company, the new BSDI unites the leading developers and suppliers of the Berkeley Software Distribution operating system BSDI will develop and deliver advanced BSD� Internet operating systems and platforms, while providing the open source FreeBSD Project with technology, backing and expanded support. BSD operating systems run some of the Internet's most highly trafficked sites and largest service providers, including Yahoo!, Microsoft's Hotmail and UUNET, an MCI WorldCom company. BSD and Linux are today's fastest-growing operating systems, according to Survey.com, the leading eResearch company. BSD operating system, networking and Internet technologies have achieved widespread acceptance in the Internet infrastructure. Over 100,000 commercial Internet customers run BSD operating systems on more than 2,000,000 BSD-powered servers. It is estimated that nine out of 10 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Network Service Providers (NSPs) as well as 15 percent of all Internet sites run BSD systems. BSD operating systems are also embedded in innovative Internet appliances from Intel, IBM, Lucent, F5 Labs, Hitachi and many others. BSDI also announced that Yahoo! Inc. will take an equity interest in the new company. BSDI will leverage the equity interest to execute on its plan to build a bridge between open source innovation and commercial requirements. The equity position will be used to grow BSDI's presence as a leading provider of the most advanced Internet operating systems for the Internet infrastructure. BSDI intends to form a united front for the BSD operating systems. The company will deliver, support and enhance both BSD/OS and FreeBSD. BSDI and the FreeBSD Project are jointly evaluating the technology and market requirements for merging parts of the code bases for the two operating systems. The New BSDI's Leadership "BSD technologies have evolved from a long history of advanced computing at the core of the Internet," said Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick, BSDI's chairman of the board. "The new BSDI will further enrich the popular BSD computing platform, which is already widely deployed throughout the world." McKusick was a founding member of the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) and is widely acknowledged as a key early contributor to the open source movement. To drive the new BSDI's vision, roadmap and continued profitable growth, Gary J. Johnson has been appointed chief executive officer. Johnson is an experienced technology executive who has served in a variety of senior management, sales, marketing and operations capacities with leading Silicon Valley companies including Tandem Computers (Compaq), Convergent Technologies (Unisys) and SCO. Johnson most recently served as president of ClickService Software, a leading provider of e-commerce, customer relationship management (CRM) software. "Innovation in the operating systems arena relies heavily on work in the open source community," said Johnson. "To date, Linux suppliers, such as Red Hat Software and VA Linux, have captured impressive attention for the open source approach to development. At the core of the Internet, however, BSD technologies are pervasive. The new BSDI will be working closely with the open source community to ensure that advanced BSD Internet operating systems and platforms continue to meet the ever-increasing demands for Internet servers, applications, appliances and other elements vital to the Internet infrastructure." In addition to his current responsibilities, Mike Karels, BSDI's vice president of engineering and the former chief system architect and principal programmer for the University of California at Berkeley's CSRG, plans to join the architectural team for the FreeBSD Project. Karels, who replaced Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy at the CSRG, is recognized as one of the world's foremost developers of Unix internals and TCP/IP networking software. "BSD technologies have contributed to Yahoo!'s continued success by offering the reliability and level of service necessary to ensure the availability and scalability we need to keep Yahoo! up and running around the clock regardless of increasing user demand," said David Filo, co-founder and Chief Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc. BSDI Continues To Deliver BSD/OS And FreeBSD; Expands And Accelerates FreeBSD Open Source Initiatives The new BSDI will sell and support FreeBSD, BSD/OS, BSDI Internet Super Server and value-added BSD product lines through its worldwide sales channels to Internet infrastructure providers, appliance developers and business users. BSDI will offer commercially supported BSD operating systems and related applications, Internet appliance platforms, technical support and services, open source software development, and consulting services. The company will deliver its BSD Internet and networking technologies on leading microprocessor platforms, including Intel, SPARC, Alpha, PowerPC and StrongARM. BSDI will continue to develop, enhance and distribute BSD/OS and FreeBSD according to the terms of the business-friendly, unencumbered Berkeley software license, which encourages development for open source software projects, embedded systems, specialized applications, information appliances and other operating system-enabled products. BSDI will expand and accelerate Walnut Creek CDROM's FreeBSD open source initiatives by sharing BSD/OS technical innovations with the FreeBSD Project and by providing this open source project with operational and technical support, marketing and funding. BSDI will continue to distribute packaged versions of FreeBSD and also plans to develop value-added products based on FreeBSD as well as to provide technical support, consulting services, educational services and training for FreeBSD customers. These steps are expected to promote and invigorate the BSD open source computing movement. The FreeBSD Project develops the popular FreeBSD operating system and aggregates and integrates contributed software from more than 5,000 developers worldwide. Internet and Open Source Leaders Support The New BSDI "We are delighted that BSDI is backing the FreeBSD open source community," said Jordan Hubbard, chief evangelist and co-founder of the FreeBSD Project. "The new BSDI has considerable expertise in commercializing, maintaining, distributing and supporting the world's most advanced Internet operating systems. We are excited and greatly looking forward to partnering with BSDI's chief developers, especially Mike Karels and other original members of UC Berkeley's CSRG, to accelerate operating system, networking and Internet innovation." "Open source operating systems like BSD offer better technology and more choices to the customer," said Eric Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative. "I expect BSDI to prove yet again that the open source and business communities can really to do great things together, driving the industry forward as dramatically as the Internet." "Our research shows that BSD and Linux will increase their share of enterprise servers by between 100 percent and 500 percent over the next two years in the fundamental applications that run U.S. business," said Dave Trowbridge, senior analyst at Survey.com. "This new company will help ensure that BSD gets its place in the sun, which its rich heritage and solid technical foundations deserve." About the Berkeley Software Distribution Operating System Berkeley Software Distribution operating system technologies were originally developed from 1979 to 1992 by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley-derived operating system and networking technologies are at the heart of most modern Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Today, virtually every major Internet infrastructure provider uses BSD operating systems. BSD operating system technologies are used by leading mission-critical network computing environments and are embedded in Internet appliance platforms that require advanced Internet functionality, reliability and security. About the FreeBSD Project FreeBSD is a popular open source operating system developed by the FreeBSD Project and its worldwide team, consisting of more than 5,000 developers funneling their work to 185 "committer" developers. It is available free of charge from ftp.FreeBSD.org and also distributed as a shrink-wrap software product through CompUSA, Fry's, Borders, Ingram, FreeBSDmall.com and others. FreeBSD includes thousands of ported applications, including the most popular Web, Internet and E-mail applications. FreeBSD is distributed under the Berkeley Software Distribution license, which means that it can be copied and modified freely. For more information about the FreeBSD Project, visit www.FreeBSD.org. About Walnut Creek CDROM Walnut Creek CDROM was founded in 1991 and began publishing Linux software in 1992, and BSD software in 1993. The company has a long history of working closely with the free software community and providing funding, staffing and other resources for open source projects. Walnut Creek CDROM publishes numerous software titles, including FreeBSD and Slackware, the most BSD-like version of Linux. About Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI) Leading BSD developers founded Berkeley Software Design, Inc. in 1991 to commercialize BSD technologies and continue the Berkeley Unix tradition of robust, reliable and extremely secure Internet operating systems for network computing. By merging Berkeley Software Design, Inc. and Walnut Creek CDROM, BSDI becomes the world's leading supplier of advanced Internet operating systems for the Internet infrastructure. Contact BSDI at info@BSDI.com or at www.BSDI.com or call 1-719-593-9445 (toll free: 1-800-800-4273). # # # BSD is a registered trademark and BSD/OS and BSDI are trademarks of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. Contact: Kevin Rose BSDI 801-553-8166 kgr@bsdi.com Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD Project 925-691-2863 jkh@FreeBSD.org Brigid Fuller ZNA Communications 831-425-1581 brigid@zna.com &footer; diff --git a/en/news/press-rel-5.sgml b/en/news/press-rel-5.sgml index f3a1896bcc..7e0db0868c 100644 --- a/en/news/press-rel-5.sgml +++ b/en/news/press-rel-5.sgml @@ -1,136 +1,135 @@ - + %includes; %newsincludes; ]> - &header; New FreeBSD Core Team Elected BSD Conference, Monterey, CA, October 18, 2000 The FreeBSD Project announced today the election of a new Core Team, the project's management board. This marks the first occasion on which the team has been selected by means of an election among the project's developers. Joining the Core team as new members are Greg Lehey, Warner Losh, Mike Smith, and Robert Watson. Re-elected members are Satoshi Asami, David Greenman, Jordan Hubbard, Doug Rabson, and Peter Wemm. FreeBSD Project co-founder and continuing Core Team member Jordan Hubbard expressed excitement over the results, "For the first time since the FreeBSD project was formed, open elections have determined the composition of its core team and set an important precedent whereby any developer can now become part of the project's leadership." The new core team also well-represents FreeBSD's diverse and highly skilled group of international developers, with expertise ranging from RAID file system and device-driver development to extensive security backgrounds. New Core Team members were elected from and by the FreeBSD committers team, the formal development staff of the FreeBSD project. Committers have direct access to the FreeBSD source repository, and perform the majority of software development associated with the project. Until this point, the Core Team was a self-selected board providing architectural and administrative direction. This summer, the committers voted to move to a democratic model allowing the project to adapt to the changing development requirements of the open source operating system community. However, with over half of the prior Core Team re-elected from the old team, strong continuity exists. Departing Core Team member Poul-Henning Kamp said, "I'm very proud of what we have done together in the Core Team over the last 8 years. The new Core, and the fact that they are elected by the committers, means that the project will be much more responsive to change in the future." The changing of the guard in project leadership comes amid good feelings, Kamp indicated: all past Core members will continue on with the project with increased emphasis on development, "Now I get to spend more time on the FreeBSD source code instead of on project management." Elected Core Team Members Satoshi Asami is a co-founder and CTO of DecorMagic, Inc., and manages the FreeBSD Ports Collection. David Greenman is a co-founder of the FreeBSD Project and is currently President of TeraSolutions, Inc., a company that manufactures Internet servers and RAID storage systems. Jordan Hubbard is a co-founder of the FreeBSD Project as well as its public relations officer and release engineer. He is also Vice President for Open Source Solutions at BSDi. Greg Lehey is an Open Source Researcher with Linuxcare; he has spent most of his professional career in Germany, where he worked for computer manufacturers such as Univac, Tandem, and Siemens-Nixdorf. He is the author of the Vinum volume management and RAID software for FreeBSD, has been involved in the FreeBSD SMPng project, and is the author of Porting Unix Software and The Complete FreeBSD. Warner Losh has been porting NetBSD's pccard code to FreeBSD and has been FreeBSD Security Officer for the past two years. Doug Rabson is a co-founder of Qube Software Ltd., which specializes in 3D graphics technology. His work on FreeBSD includes the alpha and ia64 ports, and he was the main architect for FreeBSD's device driver framework. Mike Smith is Principal Engineer in BSDi's Open Source Solutions group and has been active in the FreeBSD developer community as a developer resource, OEM liaison, sometime architect and device driver author. Robert Watson is a research scientist at NAI Labs, working on network and operating system security research. His contributions to the FreeBSD Project include work on trusted operating system extensions (TrustedBSD), security architecture, and work on the security-officer team. Peter Wemm has been involved with FreeBSD since the early days of the ISP Industry in Australia and has since relocated to the US to work as a Software Engineer for Yahoo!, Inc. His involvement in FreeBSD includes management of the FreeBSD source code repository and kernel development. About FreeBSD FreeBSD is a liberally-licensed open source operating system with its origins in BSD Net/2 and 4.4 Lite, the Berkeley Software Distributions developed at the University of California at Berkeley until 1994. It is developed and maintained by a global organization of paid and volunteer contributors. FreeBSD is distinguished by its high performance networking and file system support, and is widely used among Internet service providers, including industry-recognized companies such as Yahoo!, above.net, and Verio. FreeBSD is also frequently used as a platform for embedded networking devices, including products from IBM, Inktomi, Juniper Networks, and Network Alchemy - a Nokia Company. More information may be found at http://www.FreeBSD.org/. Press Contact Jordan Hubbard The FreeBSD Project 925-682-7859 jkh@FreeBSD.org # # # BSD is a registered trademark of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Other trademarks are property of their respective owners. BSD technologies were originally developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors. &footer; diff --git a/en/news/press.sgml b/en/news/press.sgml index f7e53534c7..233866e0cf 100644 --- a/en/news/press.sgml +++ b/en/news/press.sgml @@ -1,1541 +1,1540 @@ - + %includes; %newsincludes; ]> - &header; If you miss an entry please send the URL to www@FreeBSD.ORG You also can visit FreeBSD/Java Press page for information about FreeBSD Java Project's Press News July 2001 NAI Labs 09 July 2001 NAI Labs Announces DARPA-Funded FreeBSD Security Initiative NAI Labs Press Release NAI Labs, a division of Network Associates, Inc., announced a $1.2 million contract awarded by the U.S. Navy's Space and Warfare Systems Command to develop security extensions to the Open Source FreeBSD operating system. June 2001 CRN 27 June 2001 Microsoft's FreeBSD Move Aimed At Next Generation Of Developers by Paula Rooney A report on Microsoft's venture to port its C# programming language to FreeBSD. Mac World 26 June 2001 BSD guru to guide Apple on Unix by Macworld (UK) staff Apple (http://www.apple.com/) has recruited FreeBSD founder Jordan Hubbard to its team, in a bid to steer its Mac OS X BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) efforts. Wall Street Journal 18 June 2001 Microsoft Uses Open-Source Code Despite Denying Use of Such Software by Lee Gomes An article which states that open-source software connected with the FreeBSD operating system is used in several places deep inside several versions of Microsoft's Windows software, and on numerous server computers that manage major functions at Microsoft's free e-mail service, Hotmail. February 2001 Byte 05 February 2001 For Servers: Linux 2.4 vs. FreeBSD 4.1.1 by Moshe Bar BYTE's Linux guru finds himself wondering why he isn't running FreeBSD --- a comparision (with informal benchmarks) of FreeBSD 4.1.1 and a Linux based distribution running the v2.4.0 Linux kernel. January 2001 Web Techniques January 2001 Is FreeBSD a Superior Server Platform to Linux? by Nathan Boeger A reviewer finds FreeBSD 4.1 to be better suited for web serving than a Red Hat Linux distribution. Dr Dobbs Journal January 2001 A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality by Jack J. Woehr A report from a roundtable at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000, involving several prominent developers in the BSD world. Unix Insider January 2001 Building a browser for the FreeBSD file tree by Rich Morin Rich Morin shows a proof-of-concept demo for the Meta Project: a Web-based file tree browser for the FreeBSD distribution. December 2000 Unix Insider December 2000 Documentation for eclectic systems by Rich Morin Rich Morin examines efforts that may make documentation on FreeBSD and other open-source OSes easier to locate and use. November 2000 Salon Magazine 17 November 2000 Open-sourcing the Apple by Jordan Hubbard A geek's appraisal of the Apple OS X from Jordan Hubbard, one of the lead developers on the FreeBSD project. Unix Insider November 2000 BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference by Rich Morin Rich Morin reports on the conference and gives a helpful overview of the five major variants of BSD. October 2000 BYTE 02 October 2000 BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux by Bill Nicholls This column gives an overview of the different versions of BSD, with links for more information. September 2000 TeraSolutions 29 September 2000 INTERNET'S BUSIEST OPENSOURCE SOFTWARE ARCHIVE SETS NEW DOWNLOAD RECORD TeraSolutions Press Release TeraSolutions, Inc. and Lightning Internet Services announce that the OpenSource archive at ftp.freesoftware.com has surpassed the download milestone of two trillion bytes per day from a single server machine. O'Reilly Network 07 September 2000 BSD Tricks: MFS by Michael Lucas A short article on using the FreeBSD Memory Filesystem. ISPworld September 2000 TRUSTING BSD - Ultra-High Security for FreeBSD by Jeffrey Carl An interview with Robert Watson, one of the lead developers in the TrustedBSD project. August 2000 User Friendly the Comic Strip 7 August 2000 More FreeBSD Comics by Illiad See also the comics for the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th. July 2000 32BitsOnline 11 July 2000 FreeBSD4: The little deamon's got me!! by Clifford Smith A review of FreeBSD 4.0 with praise for its speed, new security features, firewall support, and ports collection. Chapters July 2000 An Industrial Strength OS by Marty Poulin A short introduction to FreeBSD. June 2000 Unix Review 07 June 2000 The State of the Daemon by Michael Lucas An informative article on BSD, and where it is going. Server/Workstation Expert June 2000 Server Goliaths Turn to Appliance Servers by Adam Darby An article evaluating various commercial OSes that contains a blurb about BSDI and FreeBSD. osOpinion June 2000 FreeBSD: Serving the World by James Howard With the recent hype surrounding open source software, an important project has gone unnoticed in the media. This project, FreeBSD, aims to create a rock-solid UNIX clone based on the 4BSD work from the University of California at Berkeley. May 2000 SFGate 29 May 2000 Riding the Web Wave by Henry Norr FreeBSD, a relatively unknown operating system is playing a big role on the Internet. GnuLinux 18 May 2000 BeOpen Interview with Jordan Hubbard of FreeBSD, Inc. by Sam Williams An interview with Jordan Hubbard on the history of FreeBSD. Salon 16 May 2000 BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code by Andrew Leonard How Berkeley hackers built the Net's most fabled free operating system on the ashes of the '60s---and then lost the lead to Linux. TechRepublic 16 May 2000 Install FreeBSD 4.0 in seven easy steps by Dru Lavigne A short guide to installing FreeBSD 4.0. ComputerWorld 8 May 2000 Partial Reunification May Give BSD New Visibility by Dominique Deckmyn Compares the merged Walnut Creek/BSDI OS offering to Linux. CNN 5 May 2000 Developers using open-source software behind bosses' backs by Peter Wayner Open-source software sometimes provides a better solution than expensive commerical, closed software. PolyServe 1 May 2000 FreeBSD 4.0 Now Includes PolyServe's High Availability Clustering & Load Balancing Software PolyServe Press Release PolyServe, a provider of software-based, distributed server clustering technology, announced co-marketing agreement with FreeBSD, Inc. to ship PolyServe's Understudy (TM) software program with all new versions of FreeBSD 4.0 operating system software. WebServer Online May 2000 BSDI Getting the Word Out by Alexandra Barrett Talks of the lack of awareness in the market of the strengths of the BSD operating system and of the plans afoot to change this. April 2000 BSDi 18 April 2000 The New BSDI to Offer Technical Support for the FreeBSD Operating System BSDi Press Release BSDi will be offering technical support contracts for FreeBSD beginning in May 2000. ZD Net News 4 April 2000 Commentary: BSD sleight of hand by Stephan Somogyi Commentary on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger. 32BitsOnline.com April 2000 FreeBSD 3.4 Review, Part 2: Adopting the Daemon by Clifford Smith The second part of a review of FreeBSD v3.4. March 2000 sf life 29 March 2000 The legend of BSD by Annalee Newitz An interview with three BSD veterans on the past and future of BSD. O'Reilly Network 24 March 2000 Bostic on the BSD tradition by Dale Dougherty An interview with BSD veteran Keith Bostic on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger. ``BSD has always had the best technology'', says Keith. LinuxWorld March 2000 Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel by Michael Lucas Michael Lucas presents a guide to customizing the FreeBSD kernel, written for the Linux oriented. SysAdmin March 2000 FreeBSD for the SVR4/Linux Administrator by Michael Lucas This article attempts to give a System V or Linux administrator a basic grounding in FreeBSD configuration and usage. 32BitsOnline March 2000 FreeBSD Ports and Packages System Explained by Bill Swingle A good description of the FreeBSD Ports collection. February 2000 Upside 21 February 2000 Business Lessons From Online Porn by Richard A. Glidewell Praise for FreeBSD from this article: ``FreeBSD is the system of choice because it is fast, stable, and can handle large volumes of traffic.'' Linux.com 10 February 2000 Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower by Michael Lucas An article on the BSD License. ComputerWorld 7 February 2000 Three Unixlike systems may be better than Linux by Simson L. Garfinkel Promotes the BSD OSes as better alternatives to Linux in the areas of performance, reliability and security. Linux.com 8 February 2000 Buddying up to BSD: Part Five - FreeBSD Continued by Matt Michie A Linux user writes about his experiences with the FreeBSD ports system. 32BitsOnline.com February 2000 Review of FreeBSD 3.4 by Clifford Smith A review of FreeBSD 3.4. Boardwatch February 2000 FreeBSD 4.0 And Beyond by Jeffrey Carl A Jordan Hubbard Interview on Improvements, New Platforms and What's to Come. January 2000 Linux.com 26 January 2000 Buddying up to BSD: Part Four - FreeBSD by Matt Michie A Linux user writes about his experiences with FreeBSD. Gartner Group 18 January 2000 Debunking Open-Source Myths: Origins and Players by N. Drakos and M. Driver A report that looks at and debunks some of the myths associated with Open Source development. TechWeb 14 January 2000 Linux Scales Enterprise Wall by Mitch Wagner About 17 percent of enterprises plan to deploy FreeBSD or Linux as a primary platform for e-commerce within two years. CNN 5 January 2000 Jobs announces new MacOS, becomes 'iCEO' CNN news article Steve Jobs' Macworld Expo keynote speech mentions FreeBSD as one of the components in the new Darwin OS from Apple. Apple Inc. January 2000 Mac OS X Apple communication In an article on the next generation Darwin OS, Apple Inc., refers to FreeBSD as one of the ``most acclaimed OS projects of the modern era.'' SysAdmin January 2000 Linux under FreeBSD Michael Lucas FreeBSD has several options for using software from other platforms such as Linux. This article examines Linux emulation under FreeBSD. December 1999 Freei.Net 15 December 1999 Freei.Net Doubles Service Speed With Intel(R) Server Platforms Freei.Net Press Release Freei.Net is purchasing hundreds of Intel's LB440GX 2U Rack Server Platforms as the Internet service provider continues to experience explosive growth in its subscriber base. ``The LB440GX flawlessly supports our FreeBSD operating system,'' said Steve Bourg, Freei.Net's Chief Technical Officer. Data Communications Online December 1999 FreeBSD 3.3. Robust OS well suited for Internet/Intranet Deployment by Juha Saarinen Linux administrator turns to FreeBSD and finds it impressive. November 1999 Slashdot 21 November 1999 FreeBSD at COMDEX by Brett Glass Brett Glass sent this message to the FreeBSD -chat mailing list, about his experiences and perceptions at COMDEX. Of particular interest are the problems he had trying to get vendors to support the BSDs and Linux. Salon Magazine 18 November 1999 Who controls free software? by Andrew Leonard Discusses RedHat's acquisition of Cygnus, quotes Jordan Hubbard at length, and mentions FreeBSD. MacWeek 15 November 1999 The Darwinist: Darwin for x86? by Stephan Somogyi A report on Wilfredo Sanchez's session on FreeBSD and the Apple Darwin project at the first FreeBSDCon. CBS MarketWatch 8 November 1999 Bob Frankenberg's breaking Windows by Michael Tarsala In an interview with CBS MarketWatch, Bob Frankenberg, ex-CEO of Novell, praises FreeBSD for doing ``an exceptionally good job''. FreeBSD is used in his current company, Encanto. Applix Inc. 3 November 1999 Applix and Walnut Creek Partner to Provide Applixware Office for the FreeBSD Operating System Applix Inc. press release Walnut Creek will distribute Applixware Office v4.4.2 in their FreeBSD 3.3 Power Desktop product. In addition, Walnut Creek will bundle Applix'SHELF, a visual open-source application development toolset and runtime environment with FreeBSD. LinuxWorld 1 November 1999 LinuxWorld report on FreeBSDCon 99 by Vicki Brown October 17, 1999 marked a milestone in the history of FreeBSD -- the first FreeBSD conference was held in the city where it all began. CNN 1 November 1999 FreeBSDCon'99: Fans of Linux's lesser-known sibling gather for the first time by Vicki Brown Repost of IDG article about FreeBSDCon '99. October 1999 ServerWatch 25 October 1999 ServerWatch's Review of FreeBSD by Kevin Reichard FreeBSD v3.2 is as close to the perfect Internet server operating system as it comes. Upside 20 October 1999 Grass Roots Daemocracy by Sam Williams A report from the first annual FreeBSDCon held in Berkeley, California. Entera 04 October 1999 ENTERA DELIVERS FreeBSD STREAMING SERVER SUPPORTING QUICKTIME Entera Press Release Entera announces a free, standards-based RTSP/RTP server to stream QuickTime from a FreeBSD platform. First Monday October 1999 Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research by Nikolai Bezroukov This paper tries to explore links between open source software development and academic research as a better paradigm for OSS development. September 1999 The Boston Globe 16 September 1999 Even better than Linux by Simson L. Garfinkel Claims that the operating systems based on BSD are more reliable and secure. (requires registration with The Boston Globe prior to viewing) Wall Street Journal 10 September 1999 Beyond Linux, Free Systems Help Build The Web by Lee Gomes An introduction to the BSD family of free operating systems. SysAdmin September 1999 Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs by Michael Lucas Focusses on the BSD development model and the ease of keeping upto-date with tools like sup and CVSup. August 1999 Boston Globe 12 August 1999 Out of Linux limelight, devil gets its due by Hiawatha Bray A short (but not very accurate) introduction to FreeBSD for people who have heard about Linux. CNN 11 August 1999 Reporter's notebook: Hackers on holiday by Ann Harrison CNN reports that the winner during the "Linux Death Match" at the Chaos Computer Camp in Germany used FreeBSD tools to win out over Linux attackers. More details are available at http://www.42.org/~sec/Berichte/199908Camp/index.en.html#match. User Friendly the Comic Strip 3 August 1999 More FreeBSD Comics by Illiad See also the comics for the 4th and the 5th. Fast Search & Transfer 02 August 1999 World's Biggest Internet Search Engine Goes Online FAST Press Release Said to be the largest search engine on the Internet, FAST Web Search uses the FreeBSD operating system. Science Daily Magazine 02 August 1999 Duke Computer Scientists Exceed "Gigabit" Data Processing Speeds With Internet Software Duke University press release Using FreeBSD, Duke University computer science researchers have developed a system for communication at speeds higher than one billion bits per second in a local area network of personal computers. More details can be found at the Trapeze project web site. July 1999 Pair Networks 27 July 1999 WORLDS LARGEST INDEPENDENT IPP HITS NEW MILESTONE pair Networks press release pair Networks, Inc., the World's largest independently owned and operated paid hosting service, today announced that it has surpassed the 60,000 Web site milestone. Their web servers in their state-of-the-art data center house more than 2 Terabytes of storage, and deliver up to 100 million hits per day to site visitors. pair uses FreeBSD in order to ensure maximum uptime and reliability. TechWeb UK 26 July 1999 Free OS? It' s as easy as BSD by Peter McGarvey Network manager Peter McGarvey writes about his experience with a number of varieties of Unix. He sums up: FreeBSD is the greatest. ZD Net News 22 July 1999 BSD a better OS than Linux? by Bob Sullivan BSD is the software behind the world's most popular Web site and the world's most popular FTP site. MSNBC 21 July 1999 The Net's stealth operating system by Bob Sullivan BSD powers some of the biggest sites, and its users are among the most jealous of Linux. Performance Computing 2 July 1999 Embed Together: The Case For BSD In Network Appliances by Kevin Rose and Charles Davidson Underlines the advantages of BSD for the embedded device market. Mentions picoBSD. June 1999 GigABytes Radio Talk Show June 1999 Radio interview: Linux and FreeBSD by Chris DiBona and Jordan Hubbard Chris DiBona of VA Research and Jordan Hubbard of the FreeBSD Project give their views on Linux and FreeBSD. Windows NT Systems June 1999 Thin Servers by Ted Drude A survey of thin servers, featuring products using FreeBSD as their internal operating system. Public Communications Centre, Ireland June 1999 Information Technology and the Internet in Co-operation Ireland Interview with Michael Doyle Michael Doyle, system administrator for Co-operation Ireland roots for FreeBSD in this interview. Michael is using FreeBSD and PostgreSQL as a cost-effective and ultra-reliable solution for his organization's I.T. needs. 32BitsOnline June 1999 GPL and BSD: explication and comparison by Rob Bos An article comparing BSD and GPL style licenses. Wired Business News 29 June 1999 CmdrTaco on Slashdot Sale by Leander Kahney In an interview with Wired News, Rob Malda, founder of Slashdot, says that he would now like to spend some more time reporting on FreeBSD. ServerWatch 17 June 1999 Server Platforms - FreeBSD Review by Kevin Reichard FreeBSD: Is it the perfect Internet server operating system? As close as it comes. Network Week Online 16 June 1999 Yes! There is intelligent life beyond Linux by David Cartwright It looks like Unix, it tastes like Unix but it isn't Unix. It's FreeBSD! May 1999 SunWorld May 1999 Silicon Carny: Why I run FreeBSD by Rich Morin Rich Morin explains why FreeBSD is the superior OS for him. Walnut Creek CDROM 26 May 1999 INTERNET'S BUSIEST SOFTWARE ARCHIVE REACHES NEW DOWNLOAD MILESTONE by David Greenman Walnut Creek CDROM, Inc. announces that their popular software archive at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com has surpassed the one trillion bytes (one terabyte) milestone of files downloaded per day from a single server machine. CNet 24 May 1999 Bye-Bye, Windows by Christopher Lindquist Reviews alternative PC operating systems. Includes a review of FreeBSD 3.2. BBC 20 May 1999 Gnome is no Windows dwarf by Chris Nuttall Article on Gnome and the Open Source movement. Mentions FreeBSD. Pioneer Planet 17 May 1999 OS Also-Rans by JULIO OJEDA-ZAPATA A short article introducing a few alternative OSes, including FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Aimed at the general public. Walnut Creek CDROM 4 May 1999 Micron Electronics NetFRAME chosen for Internet's busiest site by David Greenman During its first full day of operation, the new NetFRAME 9201 server set a new all-time one day download record of 969GB of files, surpassing the previous record set last year of 873GB/day. ZD Net 3 May 1999 The other open-source OS: FreeBSD by Anne Chen Examples of FreeBSD deployment in the real world and why some technology officers find it attractive. April 1999 Data Communications April 1999 Open-Source Software: Power to the People by Lee Bruno Linux and BSD Unix are starting to show up on more and more corporate servers, running alongside or even replacing Netware and Windows NT. FreeBSD Advocacy 29 April 1999 XML: Complete XML Development System Integrated with FreeBSD by Jordan Hubbard Included with FreeBSD 3.1 is a complete, integrated SGML/XML development system that installs with a simple, easy to use command sequence. Inktomi 26 April 1999 Inktomi Announces Traffic Server 3.0 Inktomi press release FreeBSD is a supported operating system for a new version of Inktomi's carrier-class network cache platform. FreeBSD Advocacy 22 April 1999 The Matrix: FreeBSD Used to Generate Special Effects by Jordan Hubbard Dual-Processor FreeBSD systems were used to generate a large number of special effects in the cutting edge Warner Brothers film, The Matrix. osOpinion 20 April 1999 Let's Get More Educated About FreeBSD by Preston S. Wiley A system administrator shares his views on FreeBSD. ZD Net 15 April 1999 The Oldest Free OS by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols What are the oldest free operating systems around? The answer is the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix variants. Upside 13 April 1999 FreeBSD wants a place in the sun by Sam Williams Introduces FreeBSD to Linux users. Internet World 12 April 1999 FreeBSD Offers a Sound Open Source Alternative by James C. Luh Outside technical circles, many remain unaware of viable choices for internet servers---like the FreeBSD operating system that drives Web servers for such high-profile names as Yahoo and Best Internet Communications (now part of Verio). CNN 8 April 1999 Serious FTP: Behind the scenes of Walnut Creek CDROM by Rich Morin A description of the Walnut Creek CDROM setup. The article is also available from SunWorld. TechWeb 7 April 1999 Thin Servers: Off-the-Shelf Internet Help by Christine Zimmerman Discusses thin-servers, including six built using an embedded FreeBSD kernel. March 1999 User Friendly the Comic Strip 20 March 1999 A FreeBSD Comic Strip by Illiad See also the serial from the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th of March, 1999. Fairfax IT News 16 March 1999 Rising support for BSD by Nathan Cochrane Columnist Nathan Cochrane talks about the BSD family of open source operating systems. O'Reilly Open Source 5 March 1999 Whence the Source: Untangling the Open Source/Free Software Debate by Thomas Scoville An article on the open-source / free-software debate. Mentions Berkeley Unix as one of the early successes of shared source code collaboration. February 1999 Linux Weekly News February 1999 LWN interviews Alan Cox There is a small but interesting FreeBSD mention in LWN in an interview with Linux's Alan Cox. The Economist 20 February 1999 Hackers rule Software that has been developed by thousands of volunteers and is given away is often better than the stuff for sale. Note: The article is no longer available online without registration. January 1999 O'Reilly and Associates January 1999 Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix From AT&T-Owned to Freely Re-distributable by Marshall Kirk McKusick A short history of Berkeley Unix. LINUX JOURNAL January 1999 WWWsmith: Installation and Configuration of FreeBSD by Sean Eric Fagan Here is how to set up a web server using another freely available operating system, FreeBSD, a high performance, mature, Unix-like system. SunWorld January 1999 The return of BSD - What are the BSD flavors and why might you use them? by Greg Lehey Introduces the modern BSD OSes to the general public. GartnerGroup 18 January 1999 Divorcing Thin Server Software from the Hardware by J. Staten While finished thin servers should be optimized in both hardware and software for the task at hand, who says the software and hardware must come from the same developer? This Perspective examines the emerging trend in the OEM market of divorcing the software layer from the hardware layer. Many operating systems are vying to be the OS of choice for thin servers. This document examines this issue in detail, particularly the differences between Linux and FreeBSD, the current de facto leaders in the market. Note: The article is no longer available online without registration. Nature 7 January 1999 Nature Web Matters: Internet tomography by K.C. Claffy, Tracie Monk & Daniel McRobb, UCSD/CAIDA, USA. The article describes a network management tool built on FreeBSD that has even used network connections to www.FreeBSD.org for performing network research. December 1998 LinuxWorld December 1998 The story on FreeBSD by Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz This issue has a good article on FreeBSD and why it's worth a look by Linux folks. November 1998 RELEASE 1.0 November 1998 The Open-Source Revolution by Tim O'Reilly, with an introduction by Esther Dyson A brief, business oriented introduction to the open source community. Linux Today 20 November 1998 Report from Comdex--Walnut Creek CDROM, FreeBSD and Slackware by Dwight Johnson There is a good report on the Walnut Creek booth and FreeBSD at the Linux Today website. The first half of the report is on Slackware Linux, the second half is on FreeBSD. CNET News.com 16 November 1998 Ellison plans hardware, bashes Bill by Tim Clark Larry Ellison talking about their new dedicated Oracle servers, mentions FreeBSD as one of a list of candidate OSes for the platform. October 1998 Computer Bits October 1998 Linux/etc, The other free Unixes, part 2 of 2 by Terry Griffin Continuation of an earlier column reviewing freely available Unix like operating systems. Performance Computing October 1998 What Is FreeBSD? by Jordan K. Hubbard An introduction to FreeBSD, and where it stands with respect to the other free OSes. Mercury Center 26 October 1998 Unix back in the fight with NT by Miguel Helft An article touting the stability and power of the Unix platform over NT. ZDNet 20 October 1998 A No-Cost NOS by Ryan Snedegar Ryan Snedegar reviews FreeBSD 2.2.7 and finds its web-serving performance to be better than Windows NT. Inter@ctive Week 19 October 1998 Open Code Frees Up The Net by Charles Babcock About why customers prefer open source software like Linux, FreeBSD, Perl and TCL to proprietary alternatives. The Irish Times 12 October 1998 It's only free Unix - but I like it by David Malone September 1998 Computer Bits September 1998 Linux/etc, The other free Unixes, part 1 of 2 by Terry Griffin Briefly reviews the BSD Unix heritage. Dr. Dobb's Journal September 1998 Communications & Networking: Asynchronous Communications Using select and poll by Sean Eric Fagan On how to use FreeBSD's select(2) and poll(2) system calls. Sm@rt Reseller Online 7 September 1998 Quality Unix for FREE by Brett Glass A short introduction to FreeBSD 2.2.7. August 1998 News.com: Tech News First 21 August 1998 Hack raises flags about small ISPs by Jim Hu, Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM Desire for better security has led some ISPs to deploy FreeBSD on their servers. July 1998 CRL Network Services 30 July 1998 Walnut Creek CDROM, One of the Largest Public FTP Archives in the World, Sets Traffic Record Using FreeBSD and Colocating on CRL's High-Speed Internet Network CRL Press Release ( freshmeat ) 13 July 1998 Pulling on one end of the rope(the past and future of the Unix community) by Jordan K. Hubbard Jordan compares the past of Unix with the future of Linux, outlining possible similarities and describing faults that could be prevented. June 1998 CNET News.com 14 June 1998 Nader urges Windows probe by Jeff Pelline Consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader mentions FreeBSD by name. RhapsodyOS 10 June 1998 Stone's Throw, Issue Fourteen: Home of the Brave, Land of the FreeBSD by Andrew Stone May 1998 Web Techniques Magazine May 1998 Load Balancing Your Web Site by Ralf S.Engelschall Practical approaches to distributing HTTP traffic at your site. Includes a section on performance tuning Apache under FreeBSD. NC World May 1998 Is NT paranoid or is Unix out to get it? by Nicholas Petreley SysAdmin May 1998 Security Tools in FreeBSD by Guy Helmer GartnerGroup 4 May 1998 Free Unix: Do You Get What You Pay For? by G. Weiss April 1998 NC World April 1998 The new Unix alters NT's orbit by Nicholas Petreley DV Live Magazine April 98 Who's Serving Who? by Nels Johnson For smaller companies and web sites, a FreeBSD and Apache on an Intel (PC) architecture machine is more than sufficient. March 1998 NC World March 1998 Searching for the next Windows NT by Nicholas Petreley Dr. Dobb's Journal March 1998 Benchmarking and Software Testing: Tracing BSD System Calls by Sean Eric Fagan Note: the article is not available online. CNET 25 March 1998 Five alternative operating systems reviewed by Cormac Foster February 1998 News.com 2 February 1998 Source code for the masses by Alex Lash August 1997 Computer Bits Online August 1997 The Network Community by Ted Mittelstaedt June 1997 UNIX Review June 1997 The Internet Notebook / The Ports Collection by Richard Morin A description of the FreeBSD Ports collection. May 1997 NC World May 1997 The Politics of NC Computing According to Oracle by Rawn Shaw November 1996 SysAdmin November 1996 Assorted Security Tips for UNIX by Arthur Donkers A collection of tips and tricks to secure your internal network. &newshome; &footer; diff --git a/en/news/pressreleases.sgml b/en/news/pressreleases.sgml index 5feed49c04..ce8f588cf6 100644 --- a/en/news/pressreleases.sgml +++ b/en/news/pressreleases.sgml @@ -1,61 +1,60 @@ - + %includes; %newsincludes; ]> - &header; October 18, 2000 : New Core First FreeBSD Core Team Elections March 9, 2000 BSD Suppliers Unite to Deliver the World's Most Popular Internet Operating Systems June 7, 1999 BSD Community Welcomes Apple's New Open Source Operating System. April 29, 1999 Complete XML Development System Integrated with FreeBSD. April 22, 1999: The Matrix FreeBSD Used to Generate Spectacular Special Effects for the Warner Brothers film The Matrix. &footer; diff --git a/en/news/sou1999.sgml b/en/news/sou1999.sgml index c1df875ce7..4c2c83f579 100644 --- a/en/news/sou1999.sgml +++ b/en/news/sou1999.sgml @@ -1,375 +1,374 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header; From Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, Sunday January 10th, 1999. Well, it's another year behind us, folks, and probably high time for another state of the union report! Ahem... I'm never quite sure how to word these things since I'm always reminded of a U.S. president sitting in front of fireplace, trying to sound down-home and folksy for the corn growing states, or perhaps England's Queen on Christmas day, giving her usual somber-yet-hopeful address on how things went for Britannia during the previous year and what everyone should perhaps think about for the next. Neither one of those is really me, basically, so perhaps I'll just cut to the chase and focus on the most pertinent lessons (and objectives) to come out of the year 1998 for me. 1998 was, of course, the year that the Internet got bigger (no surprise), various "internetpraneurs" (gag) got richer and FreeBSD's user base, as measured by the ftp download stats grew at its usual 200-300% rate. More companies also entered the FreeBSD arena, either offering add-ons for or solutions incorporating FreeBSD, and our PR machine, as flimsy and low-key as it often is, managed to ratchet things up another notch. All in all, it was a very good year for FreeBSD and I don't think that even the most paranoid of us could claim otherwise - Microsoft took one in the shorts, we got bigger and just a bit better known, life was good. Well, mostly. Whipping off my rosy glasses for a second, I can also say that there were still a number of rocks in the road and unexpected bends that left us not always in the best of control there. While downloads have gone up, CD sales aren't quite following suit since the whole CD market in general is suffering from increased Internet availability and its erosion of some of the CD's fundamental advantages. We still did quite well, considering the market's gradual implosion, but it would be foolish to continue to rely on a single CD product to provide the kinds of subsidies that have been steadily oiling the project's gears (we more than doubled the size of the FreeBSD.org computing cluster, for example, and significantly enlarged our developer equipment grant program in 1998, all things which cost $$$). It's fairly obvious that Walnut Creek CDROM will need to increase the number of products it offers if it wishes to remain an effective player in the FreeBSD game and we must continue, as a project, to be flexible in exploring all types of relationships with those who may now have a vested interest in FreeBSD's success. Things are well past the point where we can do everything that needs to be done as a serious and "grown up" solution just on good will and volunteerism alone. With that in mind, sites like the FreeBSD Mall have been set up to try and market a wider variety of FreeBSD-related products and we've also begun exploring relationships with various companies who can derive measurable value from any PR campaign that enhances FreeBSD's reputation (translation: we want them to help pay for it :). As many people have somewhat bitterly pointed out by now, this business has become a 10% technology and 90% perception equation as far as the direction in which people stampede is concerned, and hate them for the mindless little sheep that they are, you still need to understand people's tendencies and behavioral patterns when it comes to dealing with anything they don't really understand. We've done a great job on the technology, we really have (and should be proud of that), but all too frequently we just throw up our hands over the perception issue and tell people to think whatever the hell they want to. Bad techies! Myopic techies! :-) What can we do to change this in 1999? Well, I've also heard our advocate corps calling for logistical support ("Backup! We need some backup here!!") and I've listened to them, part of my project for the new years being to get more digital daemon imagery made available (which I have already commissioned), more glossies with various handy comparison charts on them ("FreeBSD and NT", "FreeBSD and Solaris", "FreeBSD and Linux", etc) and more newsletters for passing out to people. We can also produce more marketing periphenalia like buttons, stickers, new T-shirts, etc. to give people a wider array of stuff to proudly point to in support of the "emerging FreeBSD phenomenon." If we can manage to raise more money for PR, we can also perhaps buy some of these items in bulk to use as give-aways in various promotional deals. Other than that, I'm always open to suggestions. We need to do more effective PR, that much is inarguable, it's only a question of picking our targets for maximum effect given a limited operating budget. The core team: 1998 also ended with a bit of a bang as far as FreeBSD's project management was concerned, frustration with a mostly recumbent core team goading a couple of bearded Danish Vikings into staging a midnight raid on -current, ruthlessly culling the weak and the lame from the source tree. Unfortunately, some of those weak or lame bits of code were still in use at the time and, with no prior public warning having been given, it did not exactly leave the various followers of -current with the feeling that the event was going to be the highlight of their Christmas season. Their complaints led, in turn, to something of a constitutional crisis within core, the rival factions each accusing one another of either impeding progress or using cowboy tactics to achieve that progress, and each faction had its legitimate points just as it had its wholly unreasonable ones. Coming out of this, various suggestions were bandied about concerning how we might put together a "better core team" to which such things simply did not happen (or, if they did, would not be our fault since we'd all be long gone :-) and many of these suggested cures were eventually deemed, quite rightly, to be worse than the disease. So what did we learn from the exercise then? First off, I think everyone is now pretty much in agreement that these sorts of drive-by shootings are just not an option for the future, no matter what the justification. Anyone who contemplates a major addition or removal of functionality from the source tree MUST communicate those intentions well in advance and give the readership of -current, -stable or -announce (the former two depending on the branch the changes affect and the latter on the extent of the changes) ample time to respond. If there is a conclusively negative response to a proposed change, it just doesn't happen until and unless the proposal somehow manages to win people over through sheer dint of persuasive argument in its favor. If it's more a mixed bag of reactions, or there is little reaction at all, the developer is free to proceed at his or her discretion but still never without advance notice. Second, in reaction to the various proposals put forward to either gut core or have core elected by popular vote, let me just say that we're not going to do that. There are probably several people currently in core who would gladly step aside and retire if they felt that adequate replacements had been found and the project was in good hands, but none of us like the scenario where anyone is overtly forced out of core. It's just not a reasonable way of going about it when so many less painful alternatives exist, and I, for one, would far rather simply grow core and let the inactive members fall off when they themselves have come to a decision that they have nothing left to contribute at a "core level", resignation from core having not stopped several folks from remaining as effective committers or making other valuable contributions. We're a free software project and nobody's paid to be in core, no matter how seriously we may be tempted to take the whole core thing sometimes, and we need to remember that all of this started as a bunch of folks who simply wanted to work together in creating something useful and interesting. The day we lose that kind of informal atmosphere of productivity over politics is the day that something pretty fundamental goes out at the center of core and also the day that I'll retire from it myself, handing my hat to a replacement and wishing everyone the very best of luck. I can also only sound a similar cautionary note about the idea of electing core from the user base, or with committers serving as a kind of "electoral college", as nice and democratic an idea as that might sound. The FreeBSD core team does not represent a democratically selected body and was, in fact, very carefully put together in a very non-democratic way. We picked core with the specific intention that it represent as diverse a set of hard-core FreeBSD evangelist/developers as we knew how to find and we've continued to add people using the same criteria. In bringing someone into core, we don't look at whether they've been winning popularity contests lately or won the Programming Olympiad 3 times in a row, we ask ourselves: "Does this person bring a unique talent or viewpoint to the group? Will the resulting whole be greater than the sum of its parts?" These are our two most overriding concerns and, in fact, are the only grounds on which we've ever felt it necessary to actually ask for someone's resignation from core. We can tolerate quite a bit from people but not when it impacts core's fundamental ability to work together or seeks to undermine the very diversity of opinion we've worked so hard to cultivate. It's good to be an effective group of decision makers as a core team, and we do have our moments (both ways), but sometimes it's even better to know simply when to stay out of the way and just make sure the train stays roughly on the tracks. We've prevented a lot more stupidity through having such a diverse and carefully selected core team than I think we've ever caused and I do not trust the democratic process to leave us with the same thing after a few elections. Core is also continuing to work on drafting some internal documents which cover, in much better detail, just what our rules as committers are, those superseding any "core member privileges", governing how large-scale code removal and addition operations should be carried out. We'll post something to committers just as soon as we finally flesh it out to our mutual satisfaction but, in a nutshell, it basically just insists that people need to be warned before such changes happen and that the owner of a given body of code should be given first say as to whether or not it's time to kill it in the name of obsolescence or redundancy. Finally, we are looking at the general issue of communication inside and outside core and the question of whether or not to bring in some new member(s) at this time. That discussion is ongoing and I'll do my best to keep everyone up to date on that as things progress. Release numbering: Other decisions on the horizon concern returning to our former practice of using "major" version numbers for branches and "minor" numbers for releases, the revision number field only being used to denote point-releases which were done for some reason significant enough to merit such a special release. This means that the next release will be 3.1, not 3.0.1, and the new branch will be 4.0-current instead of 3.1-current. Is this just a marketing ploy? No, it's not, though marketing has indeed been a frequent casualty of our current numbering scheme. We have frequently made fairly large changes between our "point releases", jumps like 2.2.5->2.2.6 and 2.2.6->2.2.7 being a lot bigger than most folks gave them credit for given that it was just one little revision number being changed. This one simple facet of human nature reduced the effectiveness of these releases and under-sold the work being done by our developers to substantially improve every release we do, regardless of which branch it's on. This is not a trend which seems to be reversing itself and so I feel quite safe in saying that 3.1 will be a "full release" over 3.0 in its own right and not merely the "3.0.1" which conveys such a different impression. It's also very important to note that since our branches seem to typically last from 12-18 months these days, no matter what we try in attempting to kill a branch earlier, a major version bump (4.0) is entirely merited for something which won't see full release status until sometime in the year 2000. This will make the marketing people happy since they won't have such an uphill battle on number perception and it will make the users happy since they'll get a clearer picture of what changed in, say, 3.1 to 3.2 vs 3.1 to 3.1.1 (which might be an important security update). It will also make this particular developer happy since I'll have the revision number space back again for doing point releases. It's a win and so we're going to do it. 3.0.1 is dead, long live 3.1! :) Technology: This last year also saw a successful transition to ELF from a.out format and a new kernel loadable module scheme which allows modules to be read in without a runtime dependency on /usr/bin/ld. We also got a new boot loader (with a forth interpreter!) to aggregate a "kernel" at boot time. These are both powerful new mechanisms and, coupled with some new stuff which will be coming in 1999, should give us a far more dynamic and extensible system than we've ever had before. Not to be overlooked is also our new SCSI CAM system, giving us more robust behavior with large drive arrays and supporting more of the high-end SCSI controllers, or the support for multiple processors on the x86. We made considerable progress all across the board with the release of 3.0, finally reaching a point with the DEC Alpha architecture port where people starting worrying more about the packages collection than they did about working kernels or a /usr/src which built. That represents considerable progress towards "genuine usefulness" and I hope that 1999 will see a fully desktop capable release of FreeBSD/axp (to say nothing of a server capable one), various difficulties with X server technology making the Alpha desktop a unique milestone in its own right, especially if it's on an ARC or AlphaBIOS machine. 1999 may also see the early release of a SPARC port, though it's still far too early to say anything more definite than that. Join the sparc@FreeBSD.org mailing list if you want to follow these efforts. IPv6 and IPSec were also hotly debated topics in 1998, FreeBSD's refusal to back any specific implementation being cited by many as an example of core's over-conservatism in action. Happily for everyone, our wait-and-see attitude proved to be the right one when the two major "competing" groups, KAME and INRIA, finally agreed to merge their implementations. We have, in turn, committed to adopting this merged implementation and have several people from the KAME/INRIA groups on the FreeBSD development team who will be importing and maintaining this code as it becomes available. There is also substantial work underway with the VM system and the filesystem code, much of which is either being tested quietly in small groups (Dillon/Dyson/Greenman) or is awaiting the 4.0 branch event, still scheduled for January 15th, 1999. In other areas, we have Kazu's very welcome total redesign of the console driver coming into -current along with USB support, courtesy of Nick Hibma and others. This is just to name a few of the projects underway and I don't mean to slight anyone by not mentioning theirs directly, these are just 3 ongoing projects right off the top of my head. We seem to be gaining a lot of technical momentum, and that's great, just so long as we can also keep our heads during the times where not everyone is in total agreement about which technical direction to take. Tech support: A point which should also be obvious to everyone yet still somehow requires frequent reinforcement is the fact that we need to maintain participation in this project as something which is also enjoyable for the developer/participants or they will just as quickly go away again and stop giving each and every one of us the benefit of their volunteer labor (on which a dollar value could not even be put). This is something which each and every one of our users needs to be aware of, at least somewhere in the back of their minds, for those times when they're tempted to start thinking of FreeBSD as just another shrink-wrap solution from Software, Inc. and start treating project members like personal employees. Those looking for actual FreeBSD employees should send mail to jobs@FreeBSD.org and indicate how much money they're willing to pay, otherwise don't do it. I don't mean to come across so harshly here that people don't even bother asking us for help, I'm simply saying that those users who avail themselves of the various FreeBSD volunteer tech support mechanisms out there (mail, news, irc, etc) should always understand that asking another perfect stranger for help is just not much different from asking a random person on the street for a dollar. If you want to get free handouts, you'd better at the very least learn to ask politely and when to take "no" for an answer! :-) I've seen a lot of abuse of the various tech support forum volunteers this last year and it frankly sucks. People just need to be more considerate and stop regarding free tech support as a god-given right rather than a very special privilege. If you want on-demand tech support, go to www.freebsdmall.com and order yourself a tech support contract. You get what you pay for! :) Looking forward: What do I see ahead for 1999? Well, assuming that we don't all vanish in some pre-millennial holocaust, I see more interesting new features, improved marketing, more commercial interest, more magazine articles and press attention, basically more of the same if we can just try to stay reasonably well focused on what we need to do and not get distracted into chasing weird desktop dreams or suddenly become overly minimalist or kitchen-sink biased in /usr/src, continuing to chart the middle course we're more famous for. The FreeBSD core team, one year older and hopefully a little wiser, needs to continue keeping a light but steady hand on the tiller, relying on our developers as usual to provide much of the actual motive force behind FreeBSD. Our users also need to become more involved and I'm hoping that 1999 will be the year when a lot more local user groups and other self-help type of organizations are formed. The Handbook and FAQ are documents which are getting better, hopefully another trend we'll see continue into 1999 as Nik Clayton, our fearless new Documentation Project leader, continues at the helm. We still have to remember, however, that for many users the handbook and FAQ docs are just not enough. Linux has succeeded largely because of a large grass-roots support and evangelism network which allows it to reach such people and communicate the message to them. If FreeBSD's own users want to see FreeBSD doing better against whomever they most perceive as its competition, and 1998 was certainly a year where I heard a lot of complaining about this, then they're going to simply have to get off their collective duffs and put in more of this kind of work. When was the last time a bunch of FreeBSD users got together to hand out FreeBSD literature at a Microsoft product launch, for example, or held an install-a-thon at a local computer show? The Linux folks do things like that all the time, apparently, whereas only a very few die-hard FreeBSD users currently do it now, so why not help these people out? Join the advocacy@FreeBSD.org mailing list and discuss your plans there so that others with more enthusiasm than ideas can also learn from and perhaps help you with yours. Write short articles for the new advocacy sites like www.daemonnews.org or www.freebsdrocks.com and help promote the success of BSD evangelical publications. Phrases like "this is your FreeBSD" and "it all depends on you" may seem shop-worn and trite, but they're also unfortunately still true when there's so few of us and so many of you. If FreeBSD is to really continue to succeed in 1999, it will only be with substantial user participation and that means you, users! Start a local user group, donate some of your older CD releases to the local library, try and convince a local small business or ISP to use FreeBSD, these are just a few of the many things that can be done if you're truly interested in putting some energy into FreeBSD and ideas for what to do will be the least of your worries if you're truly motivated. Executive Summary: 1999, rah rah rah, let's do it! :) &footer; diff --git a/en/news/webchanges.sgml b/en/news/webchanges.sgml index 922038f327..a9559b41f2 100644 --- a/en/news/webchanges.sgml +++ b/en/news/webchanges.sgml @@ -1,296 +1,295 @@ - + %includes; %newsincludes; ]> - &header; This page lists user visible changes at the FreeBSD Web Server. December 1999 20-Dev-1999 /releases/index.html Announce FreeBSD 3.4's release. October 1999 30-Oct-1999 /index.html Added Singapore web mirror. 25-Oct-1999 /news/press.html Add ServerWatch article reviewing FreeBSD 3.2. Add upside.com report on the recent FreeBSDCon. /projects/ Added BSD Driver Database - Device Drivers In Development /commercial/consulting.html Add Camtech Pty Ltd 23-Oct-1999 /commercial/software.html Add CobolScript entry. 19-Oct-1999 /publish.html Add Japanese new magazine: BSD magazine, published by ASCII. 11-Oct-1999 /support.html Added Unix Users Group Rhein-Neckar. 10-Oct-1999 /news/press.html Add article from `First Monday' by Nikolai Bezroukov: ``Open source software as a special kind of academic research''. 5-Oct-1999 /news/press.html Entera press release about their free FreeBSD based streaming quicktime server. 2-Oct-1999 /commercial/software.html Add Vital, Inc. to list of software vendors. /commercial/misc.html Add ScotGold Products. 1-Oct-1999 /releases/3.3R/errata.html Add new errata item. /projects/ Added Enteruser: A Replacement for Adduser. September 1999 28-Sep-1999 /internet.html Reflect wcarchive's increased FTP server load. 27-Sep-1999 /news/press.html Add CAMPnet report. The winner during the "Linux Death March" contest used FreeBSD to win out over Linux attackers. 26-Sep-1999 /news/press.html Add link to FAST Company's announcement. The world's biggest web search engine uses FreeBSD. 25-Sep-1999 /commercial/consulting.html Added innominate AG to consulting list. /support.html New user groups: DEBUG, Add LFUG and VanBUG 22-Sep-1999 /news/qnewsletter.html Added: FreeBSD Really-Quick(TM) NewsLetter, September 1999 /projects/ The FreeBSD Advocacy homepage is back. 21-Sep-1999 /releases/3.2R/errata.html Add latest errata. /support.html Added Jogja FreeBSD Users Group. 19-Sep-1999 /support.html Add New Orleans *BSD users group. 16-Sep-1999 /news/press.html Add 10th September Wall Street Journal article. Add Boston Globe article "Even better than Linux". /support.html Add CBUG (Cologne BSD Usergroup). 12-Sep-1999 /support.html Added BIM (Berkeley in M�nchen). August 1999 30-Aug-1999 /availability.html Update minimum requirements - this is more in-line with today's needs. 21-Aug-1999 /support.html Added Jogja FreeBSD Users Group. /docproj/translations.html Added new french mailing lists. 11-Aug-1999 /projects/projects.html Remove the link to the splashscreen kit. This functionality has been included in FreeBSD for some time (see splash(4) for more information). /commercial/hardware.html Added Znyx. 10-Aug-1999 /commercial/software.html, /news/newsflash.html List the new release of C-Forge for FreeBSD. /news/press.html Add Sysadmin September 1999 article on keeping upto-date with the BSDs. Add link to Nov 1996 SysAdmin article on assorted security tips for Unix. 8-Aug-1999 /news/press.html Add reference to one more userfriendly.org comic strip. 4-Aug-1999 /news/press.html Add Userfriendly cartoons for the 3rd and 4th of August. 3-Aug-1999 /news/press.html Add pair Networks press release. Add Performance Computing article "Embed Together: The Case for BSD". Add the Texas A&M radio interview. 2-Aug-1999 /news/press.html Add Duke University press release. July 1999 29-Jul-1999 /news/press.html Add TechWeb UK article on FreeBSD. 28-Jul-1999 /docproj/translations.html Updated the address of the Russian Translation Team. /search/search.html Included a link to GeoCrawler's collection of mailing list archives. /projects/projects.html Included a link to the Xircom CEM driver development mailing list. 24-Jul-1999 /news/press.html Add two articles mentioned in the press: The Net's stealth operating system (MSNBC), BSD a better OS than Linux? (ZDNET), both by Bob Sullivan. 15-Jul-1999 /releases/3.2R/errata.html Update FreeBSD 3.2R errata. 14-Jul-1999 /commercial/software.html Add Sendmail Pro. /commercial/hardware.html Add Dynamic Network Factory. /commercial/consulting.html Add Connections USA, add MindStep Corp., add Essenz Consulting 9-Jul-1999 /releases/3.2R/errata.html Update FreeBSD 3.2R errata: gdb broken. /commercial/software.html Added Network Security Wizards. 7-Jul-1999 /support.html Add FUNY and GTAFUG users groups. /news/press.html Add news articles: FreeBSD in Ireland, interview with Michael Doyle, GPL vs BSD license comparision, Wired interview with Rob Malda 6-Jul-1999 /support.html Added chinese mailing list. 4-Jul-1999 /support.html Add CFUG (Conneticut Free Unix user's Group). /y2kbug.html Add a warning about not changing dates to test for the Y2K bug on live production systems. 3-Jul-1999 /index.html A new FreeBSD Web Mirror in China &newshome; &footer; diff --git a/en/platforms/ia64.sgml b/en/platforms/ia64.sgml index c000bfd658..3be813675f 100644 --- a/en/platforms/ia64.sgml +++ b/en/platforms/ia64.sgml @@ -1,72 +1,71 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header; This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to Intel's upcoming IA64 architecture. Latest News 5-Nov-2000 Marcel Moolenaar has written a web page describing the Simulator System Calls. 4-Oct-2000 Doug Rabson has committed code to get FreeBSD as far as start_init() before it dies in the simulator. 30-Sep-2000 Doug Rabson has made a series of commits to -current with early IA64 support. The kernel will now reach the mountroot prompt. Please follow the mailing list for more information. What needs to be done A lot of work needs to be done on the Cygnus IA64 toolchain. At the moment it looks like the various Linux camps doing IA64 development have splintered off without merging their respective changes back into Cygnus' tree. Anyone working on toolchain issues should coordinate with David Obrien. HP's Linux IA64 simulator is currently less than ideal for FreeBSD development. Marcel Moolenaar is currently working on some of these issues. FreeBSD/IA64 Specific Links FreeBSD/IA64 mailing list Other Links of Interest IA64 Documentation Intel IA64 Architecture Reference Manuals Intel IA64 presentations and whitepapers Software Tools Cygnus GNU IA64 Toolchain HP Linux IA64 Simulator and Tools Related Projects Linux / IA64 &footer; diff --git a/en/platforms/x86-64.sgml b/en/platforms/x86-64.sgml index d153d6059f..1b2f8245be 100644 --- a/en/platforms/x86-64.sgml +++ b/en/platforms/x86-64.sgml @@ -1,63 +1,62 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header; This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to AMD's upcoming x86-64 ``Hammer'' architecture. Latest News 13-April-2001 David O'Brien received the commercial Virtutech Simics-LE "VirtuHammer" x86-64 simulator in order to begin the port. What needs to be done David O'Brien is working on modifying the AMD sponsored x86-64 GCC for FreeBSD's needs. Anyone working on toolchain issues should coordinate with David O'Brien. AMD's SimNow! x86-64 simulator is currently less than ideal for FreeBSD development due to its slowness. FreeBSD/x86-64 Specific Links FreeBSD/x86-64 mailing list Other Links of Interest x86-64 Documentation AMD x86-64 Architecture Specification AMD x86-64 DRAFT Processor-specific Application Binary Interface Specification AMD x86-64 whitepaper Software Tools AMD SimNow! x86-64 Linux Simulator and Tools Related Projects Linux / x86-64 &footer; diff --git a/en/projects/mozilla.sgml b/en/projects/mozilla.sgml index a2c249c6d6..408717d1bd 100644 --- a/en/projects/mozilla.sgml +++ b/en/projects/mozilla.sgml @@ -1,89 +1,88 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header; Overview Following Netscape's decision to publicly release the source code for their client product, otherwise known as Mozilla, a number of free software groups have become actively involved in supporting and improving this technology for their own uses. The FreeBSD Mozilla Group seeks to provide a focus for such work in the FreeBSD world, providing centralized resources such as a CVS repository, a mailing list and other tools for collaborative development. Resources CVSup CVSup provides ongoing synchronization with the central Mozilla repository, either for the CVS bits themselves (for those wishing to keep a local repository) or for a "checked out" version, suitable for directly building or editing. Fetch the CVSup binaries from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/ and use a supfile which looks something like this: *default prefix=/usr/src/mozilla base=/usr/src/mozilla host=mozilla.FreeBSD.org release=cvs delete compress use-rel-suffix tag=. ## Main Source Tree cvs-mozilla anoncvs Anonymous CVS allows anyone to check things out of the FreeBSD Mozilla repository using the standard cvs(1) commands. Simply set your CVSROOT environment variable to point to: anoncvs@mozilla.FreeBSD.org:/mozilla And you can then use cvs(1) for doing read-only operations on the Mozilla CVS repository. freebsd-mozilla The FreeBSD-mozilla mailing list is provided for developers and users of the FreeBSD mozilla port to discuss issues relating to building, using and managing the mozilla sources and any FreeBSD-specific changes to them. To subscribe, send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org and say subscribe freebsd-mozilla in the body of your message. More information Mozilla.ORG The Mozilla.org project provides central control over Mozilla for all platforms, not just FreeBSD. Cyclic Software Cyclic Software has some good on-line tutorials on CVS &footer; diff --git a/en/projects/newbies.sgml b/en/projects/newbies.sgml index d12ccb63e2..0de75c0f44 100644 --- a/en/projects/newbies.sgml +++ b/en/projects/newbies.sgml @@ -1,253 +1,252 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header; The following resources are some of those which FreeBSD newbies have found most helpful when learning to use FreeBSD. Please send corrections and additions to FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.org. Using the FreeBSD web site Learning about FreeBSD Learning about UNIX Learning about the X Window System Helping other people Using the FreeBSD web site This web site is the main source of up to date information about FreeBSD. Newbies have found the following pages particularly helpful: Search the Handbook and FAQ, or the whole web site, or the archives of the FreeBSD-Questions mailing list. The Documentation page has links to the Handbook and FAQ, tutorials, information about contributing to the Documentation Project, documents in languages other than English, and much more. Support page contains a wealth of information about FreeBSD, including mailing lists, user groups, web and FTP sites, release information, and links to some sources of UNIX information. Learning about FreeBSD If you haven't installed yet, look for the latest mainstream release. (See the Handbook for why you should not be tempted by any of the other branches.) Before you begin, carefully read the installation instructions, as well as each one of the *.TXT files in the FTP directory or on the installation CD. They are there because they contain information that you will need. Also pick up the latest errata file from the web site, in case it has been updated. If you decide to download FreeBSD, check whether these illustrated and expanded download instructions for a previous version are still available before you begin. That should make the whole process a lot clearer. A number of tutorials are available. The one For People New to Both FreeBSD and Unix is popular with absolute beginners. You don't have to know much about anything to enjoy this one. It is also available from the author's site and can be downloaded in postscript or RTF format for printing. The first thing many people need to set up is ppp, and there is a lot of documentation to help. You might start with at least those parts of the Pedantic PPP Primer that are relevant to your needs, and explore the ppp page for links to the other valuable information and the latest updates. The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey, published by BSDi. This book assumes minimal UNIX experience and takes the beginner step by step through each stage from installation to everything you need to know to set up and run a FreeBSD system. You also get to understand what you're doing and why. The FreeBSD Handbook and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) are the main documents for FreeBSD. Essential reading, they contain a lot of material for newbies as well as some pretty advanced stuff. Don't worry if you can't understand the advanced sections. The handbook contains the installation instructions and also provides lists of books and on line resources, and the FAQ has a troubleshooting section. Join the FreeBSD-Questions mailing list to see the questions you were too afraid to ask, and their answers. Subscribe by sending mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "subscribe freebsd-questions" on its own in the message body (the subject doesn't matter). You can look up old questions and answers via the search page. The main newsgroup for FreeBSD is comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc. You might want to keep an eye on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce as well. Man pages are good for reference but not always the best introduction for a novice. The more you work with man pages the more familiar they become. Some are very good for newbies, so always check them out. The ppp man page, for example, is more like a tutorial. Learning about UNIX Many of the problems we have as newbies come from being unfamiliar with the UNIX commands needed to fix our FreeBSD problems. Without a UNIX background you'll be faced with two things to learn at once. Fortunately a lot of resources are available to make this easier. There are many easy books, such as the "Dummies" guides, in any large book shop. If you want something really easy, take a look at what is available and pick one that seems to speak your language. Pretty soon you will want to move on to a book that gives more coverage. One book mentioned frequently by newbies is UNIX for the Impatient by Paul W. Abrahams and Bruce R. Larson, published by Addison-Wesley. It is intended both as a book for learning UNIX and a reference, and includes an introduction to UNIX concepts and handy chapter on using the X Window System. Another popular book is UNIX Power Tools by Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly and Mike Loukides, published by O'Reilly and Associates. It is organised as a series of short articles each of which solves a problem, and these articles are cross-referenced to other articles with related material. Though not specifically aimed at newbies, the design makes it ideal for a newbie with a burning question or the odd few minutes to browse. More elementary material is near the front of the book, but there are short easy articles throughout. A UNIX Introductory Course from Ohio State University is available online in HTML, postscript and Acrobat PDF formats. UNIXhelp for Users is another introductory guide which is available in HTML at a mirror site near you, or can be installed on your own system. UNIX questions are dealt with in the newsgroup comp.unix.questions and the associated Frequently Asked Questions. You can also get a copy of the FAQ from the RMIT FTP site. Newbies are likely to be most interested in sections 1 and 2 initially. Another interesting newsgroup is comp.unix.user-friendly which also has a FAQ. Although this newsgroup is for discussing user-friendliness, it can contain some good information for newbies. The FAQ is also available by FTP. Many other web sites hold lists of UNIX tutorials and reference material. One of the best places to start looking is the UNIX page at Yahoo!. Learning about the X Window System The X Window System is used with a number of operating systems, including FreeBSD. The documentation for X can be found at The XFree86 Project, Inc., including the XFree86 FAQ. Beware, much of this documentation is reference material which is likely to be difficult for newcomers to digest. For basic information about installing, configuring and using the X Window System, two of the books mentioned above have sections dealing with X at beginner level: The Complete FreeBSD and UNIX for the Impatient. There is an easy and informative section on using the X Window System in the Linux Users' Guide. Interesting material will be found elsewhere in that document too, but remember that Linux does not always work exactly the same as FreeBSD. Before you can get X running exactly the way you like, you will need to choose a window manager. Visit the Window Managers for X page and follow the link to the introduction to find out about window managers, then return and read "The Basics". Then go back and compare the different types that are available. (Bonus: there's another beginners guide to UNIX there too.) Most if not all of these window managers are available to install from the FreeBSD ports collection. Helping other people Everyone has something to contribute to the FreeBSD community, even newbies! Some are busy working with the new advocacy group and some have become involved with the Documentation Project as reviewers. Other FreeBSD newbies might have particular skills and experiences to share, either computer related or not, or just want to meet new newbies and make them feel welcome. There's always people around who help others simply because they like to. Write to FreeBSD Newbies for more information. Friends who run FreeBSD are a great resource. No book can replace chatting on the phone or across a pizza with someone who has the same interests, enjoys similar accomplishments, and faces the same challenges. If you don't have many friends who use FreeBSD, consider using your old FreeBSD CDs to create some more :-) User groups are good places to meet other FreeBSD users. If there's not one nearby, maybe you could start one. Before talking to real humans about your new skills, you might want to check the Pronunciation Guide and the Jargon File :-) On line we have the FreeBSD-Newbies mailing list for non-technical discussions about matters of interest to newbies. Another mailing list, FreeBSD-Questions, answers our questions about using FreeBSD. &footer; diff --git a/en/publish.sgml b/en/publish.sgml index d3ffd596cf..f19f33b08a 100644 --- a/en/publish.sgml +++ b/en/publish.sgml @@ -1,525 +1,524 @@ + %includes; ]> - &header; BOOKS CDROMS MAGAZINES NEWSLETTER PRESS Here you'll find the covers of many FreeBSD related publications. If you know of any additional FreeBSD publications/CDROMs let us know, at www@FreeBSD.org, so that they may be added to this site. The FreeBSD Handbook contains a considerably longer bibliography. Click on any of the graphics to see a larger version. Books This is a recent (May 1997) publication from Tatsumi Hosokawa and others. Among computer books, it is a top-seller in Japan and exceeded the sales of Bill Gates' "The Road Ahead" when published (it was #2, this book was #1). (Japanese FreeBSD book with 2.0.5, titled "FreeBSD: Fun and easy Installation") (Japanese FreeBSD book with 2.0.5, titled "FreeBSD Introductory Kit") This is BSDi's "The Complete FreeBSD" with installation guide, manual pages and installation CDs inside. This book was recently published (early 1997) in Taiwan. Its title is "FreeBSD: introduction and applications" and the author is Jian-Da Li. This is the "Getting Started with FreeBSD" from Fuki-Shuppan. Other than the standard installation guide and Japanese environment, it emphasizes system administration and low-level information (such as the boot process, etc.) FreeBSD-2.2.2R and XFree86-3.2 on CDROM. 264 pages, 3,400 yen. The "Personal Unix Starter Kit - FreeBSD" from ASCII. Includes history of Unix, a guide to build a Japanese documentation processing system and how to create ports. 2.1.7.1R and XFree86-3.2 in CDROM. 384 pages, 3,000 yen. BSD mit Methode, M. Schulze, B. Roehrig, M. Hoelzer und andere, C&L Computer und Literatur Verlag, 1998, 850 pages. 2 CDROMs, FreeBSD 2.2.6, NetBSD 1.2.1 and 1.3.2, OpenBSD 2.2 and 2.3. DM 98,-. This is the "FreeBSD Install and utilization manual" from Mainichi Communications. General introduction to FreeBSD from installation to utilization with troubleshooting under the supervision of the user group in Japan. 2.2.7-RELEASE FreeBSD(98)2.2.7-Rev01 PAO and distfiles in CDROM. 472 pages, 3,600yen. The "FreeBSD User's Reference Manual" from Mainichi Communications, under the supervision of "jpman project", the manual translation project by the user group in Japan. Japanese edition of the section 1 of the FreeBSD manual. 2.2.7-RELEASE FreeBSD(98)2.2.7-Rev01 and PAO in CDROM. 1,040 pages, 3,800yen. The "FreeBSD System Administrator's Manual" from Mainichi Communications, under the supervision of "jpman project", the manual translation project by the user group in Japan. Japanese edition of the section 5 and 8 of the FreeBSD manual. 756 pages, 3,300yen. This is "About FreeBSD" from Youngjin.com. It is first FreeBSD book in Korea, and covers several topics from installation to Korean environment. 3.5.1-RELEASE/PAO and 4.1-RELEASE in 3 CDROMs. 788 pages, 26,000 won. Onno W Purbo, Dodi Maryanto, Syahrial Hubbany, Widjil Widodo: Building Internet Server with FreeBSD (in Indonesia Language), published by Elex Media Komputindo, 2000. The Complete FreeBSD with CDs, 3rd Ed, FreeBSD 4.2. Everything you ever wanted to know about how to get your computer up and running FreeBSD. Includes 4 CDs containing the FreeBSD operating system! Released: November 2000 ISBN: 1-57176-246-9 CDROMs For more about recent releases go to FreeBSD release information page. This is InfoMagic's BSDisc, containing FreeBSD 2.0 and NetBSD 1.0 on a single CD. This is the only example I have which had cover art. This is the original 4.4 BSD Lite2 release from UC Berkeley, the core technology behind much of FreeBSD. The first of Laser5's "BSD" series. Contains FreeBSD-2.0.5R, NetBSD-1.0, XFree86-3.1.1 and FreeBSD(98) kernel. The second of Laser5's "BSD" series. From this version, the CDs come in a standard jewel box. Contains FreeBSD-2.1R, NetBSD-1.1, XFree86-3.1.2 and 3.1.2A, and FreeBSD(98) kernel (2.0.5). This is the Laser5 Japanese edition of the FreeBSD CDROM. It is a 4 CD set. This is the only FreeBSD CD Pacific Hitech produced before merging their product line with that of Walnut Creek CDROM. PHT now also produces the FreeBSD/J (Japanese) CD product. This is the cover disc from the Korean magazine. Note the creative cover art! The CD contains the FreeBSD 2.2.1 release with some local additions. This is it - the very first FreeBSD CD published! Both the FreeBSD Project and Walnut Creek CDROM were fairly young back then, and you'll probably have little difficulty in spotting the differences in production quality between then and now. This was the second FreeBSD CD published by Walnut Creek CDROM and also the very last on the 1.x branch (ref USL/Novell lawsuit and settlement). The next release, FreeBSD 1.1.5, was only available on the net. This unusual CD is something of a collector's item now given that almost all existing examples were systematically tracked down and destroyed. An artwork mishap has this CD dated for the wrong year, and on the spine "January" is also misspelled as "January", just to increase the embarrassment factor. Ah, the perils of turning in one's artwork just hours before leaving for a trade show. This is the fixed-up version of the FreeBSD 2.0 CD. Note that the color scheme has even been changed in the corrected version, something unusual for a fixup and perhaps done to distance it from the earlier mistake. The FreeBSD 2.0.5 release CD. This was the first CD to feature Tatsumi Hosokawa's daemon artwork. The FreeBSD 2.1 release CD. This was the first CD release on the 2.1 branch (the last being 2.1.7). The FreeBSD 2.1.5 release CD. The FreeBSD 2.1.6 release CD. The Japanese version of 2.1.6. This was the first and last Japanese localized version published by WC, responsibility for that product then transitioning to a team led by Tatsumi Hosokawa and sponsored by Pacific Hitech and Laser5. The FreeBSD 2.1.7 release CD. Also the last CD released on the 2.1.x branch. Done primarily as a security fixup for 2.1.6 An early release SNAPshot of 2.2 (done before 2.2.1 was released). The FreeBSD 2.2.1 release CD. This was the first CD on the 2.2 branch. The FreeBSD 2.2.2 release CD. The FreeBSD 3.0 snapshot CD. The FreeBSD mailing list and newsgroup archives, turned into HTML and semi-indexed by thread. This product ran for 2 releases and then stopped with a thud once it became obvious that there was simply too much data to deal with on one CD. Perhaps when DVD becomes more popular... FreeBSD Toolkit: Six disc set of resources to make your FreeBSD experience more enriching. FreeBSD Alpha 4.2 - The full version of the DEC Alpha 64-bit UNIX operating system. FreeBSD 4.2: The full version of the PC 32-bit UNIX operating system. FreeBSD 4.2 CD-ROM. Lehmanns CD-ROM Edition. January 2001, 4 CD-ROMs. Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung. Germany. ISBN 3-931253-72-4. Magazines Cover of Korean UNIX magazine, May 1997 issue. Also included FreeBSD 2.2.1 with cover CDs. UNIX User Magazine November 1996 issue. Also included FreeBSD 2.1.5 on cover CD. This is the "FreeBSD Full Course" special in April 1997's Software Design (published by Gijutsu Hyoron Sha). There are 80 pages of FreeBSD articles covering everything from installation to tracking -current. Quality Unix for FREE, by Brett Glass in Sm@rt Reseller Online September 1998 This is the "BSD magazine" published by ASCII corporation, the world's first publication specialized in BSD. BSD magazine covers FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and BSD/OS. The premiere issue features articles on the history of BSD, installation, and Ports/Packages; it also includes 4 CD-ROMs containing FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE, NetBSD 1.4.1 and OpenBSD 2.5. Newsletters This is issue #1 of the FreeBSD Newsletter, published and distributed free of charge by Walnut Creek CDROM. You can register to receive it. Submit articles/make comments by sending email to newsletter@FreeBSD.ORG. This is issue #2 of the FreeBSD Newsletter, published and distributed free of charge by Walnut Creek CDROM. You can register to receive it. 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Mirrors of the CVS Repository cgi script are available in California, Germany, Japan and Spain (English, Spanish). User Groups FreeBSD's widespread popularity has spawned a number of user groups around the world. If you know of a FreeBSD user group not listed here, let us know about it. Australia New South Wales. The BSD Users Group, Sydney (BUGS) meets in Sydney every two months and has mailing list members from all over NSW. To join the mailing list send a message to majordomo@bugs.au.FreeBSD.org with subscribe bugs in the body of the message. Queensland. The Home UNIX Users Group for Brisbane meets fortnightly at meeting rooms provided by the University of Queensland. More information, including how to join the mailing lists, is available at http://www.humbug.org.au South Australia. BUGA, the BSD User Group of Adelaide, meets at irregular intervals. Join the mailing list by sending a message to majordomo@lemis.com with the text subscribe BUGA in the body. Victoria. Victoria's FreeBSD Users Group (VicFUG) is based in Melbourne. You can join the mailing list by sending an empty message to general-subscribe@vicfug.au.FreeBSD.org Europe Austria. The BSD User Group Austria (BUGAT) is german-language oriented user group. Visit our server for more information. The Netherlands. The Dutch FreeBSD User Group (NLFUG) has had its first meeting on oct 2, 1999. On this day 30 years before that, the second IMP was installed in Doug Englebart's lab at SRI. This, as you all know, was the start of something that grew to be the Internet (thanks to Edwin Kremer for bringing this under our attention). Denmark BSD-DK. The Danish BSD user group. Promotion and support of BSD derived Operating Systems in Denmark. Mailing lists, lectures and workshops. Send mail subscription requests to bsd-dk-request@bsd-dk.dk. K�ln (Cologne), Germany The CBUG (Cologne BSD Usergroup) caters to BSD users in the K�ln area. Meetings are on the fourth Friday of each month at the ``Campi'' Italian restaurant in the Richard-Wallraff-Platz. Duisburg, Germany The Cosmo-Project is a user group with a difference. Instead of just meeting, they actively develop projects such as robots. Most users use FreeBSD, but it isn't a specifically FreeBSD-related group. France The French FreeBSD UG. Please follow the link for details. Frankfurt, Germany FrankfurtBSD is a user group for the Rhein-Main area. We are currently looking for new members. As soon as we've grown larger, we'd like to meet monthly and maintain minor projects. Hamburg, Germany The BSDHH (BSD User Group Hamburg) meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 7.00pm in the Chinese restaurant Lotosbl�te, L�wenstra�e 22 in Hamburg-Eppendorf. Most members are FreeBSD users, although users of all BSD flavors are welcome. Ireland The BUGI (BSD User Group Ireland) is currently a rather grandiose term for a mailing list and super-minimal web page. All BSD users and enthusiasts are welcome. Italia The GUFI (Gruppo Utenti FreeBSD Italia) is an "italian powered" FreeBSD User Group. It is intended to help Italian FreeBSD users to find support and articles on/about FreeBSD in the Italian language. Please follow this link to know more about us. Lublin, Poland The Lublin BSD Users Group. Please follow the link for details. Lund, Sweden The Lund Linux User Group (LFUG) has nearly 50 members and covers FreeBSD and Solaris in addition to Linux. To join, contact Omar Dedovic Mannheim, Germany The UUGRN (Unix Users Group Rhein-Neckar) provides a regional forum for users of all UNIX flavors, with a stress on Linux and BSD. Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month at the "Eichbaum Brauhaus" in Mannheim-Käfertal and the fourth Thursday of each month at the "Vater Rhein" in Heidelberg. M�nchen (Munich), Germany The BIM (Berkeley In Munich) group caters for users of BSD-based systems in Oberbayern. Regensburg, Germany The UNIX and Linux User Group is a general UNIX users group for anyone in Regensburg (Bavaria, Germany). We meet on every first Monday of the month in the Pub ``Filmb�hne'' in Regensburg. Visit the web site or send a message to m.suess@2use.org. Sweden The BSD Users Sweden (BUS) maintains a mailing list. To join, send mail to majordomo@stacken.kth.se with subscribe bus in the message. Turkey The Turkish FreeBSD Users Group (T�rkiye FreeBSD Kullanicilari Grubu) was founded in September 1999. TFUG is intended to help Turkish FreeBSD users to find support and articles on and about FreeBSD in the Turkish language. Contact M. Guven Mucuk for more info. United Kingdom The FreeBSD UKUG (FreeBSD UK User's Group) exists for the benefit of FreeBSD users in the United Kingdom. Please follow the link for details. North America Ames, Iowa The Ames Free-Unix Group aims to promote the use of Free UNIX. We meet on the campus of Iowa State University once a month and hold a presentation with an open question and answer session afterwards. You can join our mailing list by sending a blank email to aafugit-subscribe@aafugit.org. Berkeley, CA The Berkeley UNIX User Group is a general UNIX users group for anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area. We meet on a weekly basis in downtown Berkeley. Visit the web site or send a message to buug-request@weak.org with subscribe in the body. Chicago IL The Chicago FreeBSD Users Group (ChiFUG). The Connecticut Free Unix user's Group (CFUG) is devoted to free unix, but has resources for almost all Unixen. Their area of operation is Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. More information can be found at http://www.cfug.org. The Houston TX Houston FreeBSD Users Group formed March 1999. Our goal is to promote and educate Houston computer users on FreeBSD Unix. We meet on the fourth Thursday of the month. The group operates a mailing list at http://www.houfug.org/mailman/listinfo/hou-freebsd Visit our website or e-mail houfug@houfug.org for more information. Indianapolis IN Free Unix for Indianapolis is a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the use of Free Unix variants in and around Indianapolis. Essentially, we are a bunch of geeks who share a common passion: UNIX. Visit the web site or send a message to info@fufin.org for additional information. Kansas KULUA (Kansas Unix & Linux Users Association) is a Free Unix user group based in Lawrence, Kansas, but with users throughout eastern Kansas and western Missouri. We have about 120 members and meet biweekly. Visit the web site or email kulua@kulua.org for more information. Kansas Wichita Area FreeBSD Users Group (WAFUG) is a free users group provided to anyone in the Wichita area for support with FreeBSD and other UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. We meet twice a month, usually in a restaraunt where you can smoke or drink if you like. Please send us Email for more information or to find out how to get free shell account, www or ftp space on our system. Las Vegas, NV The Vegas Free UNIX User Group Los Angeles CA The Yahoo Club group is a foundation for a Los Angeles based BSD user group. New Mexico The NMLUG in Albuquerque meets once a month and supports both BSD and Linux users. To join the mailing list, send a message to majordomo@swcp.com with subscribe nmlug in the body. New Orleans LA The New Orleans *BSD User Group meets twice a month. Contact Konrad Rzeszutek for more details. A web page will be posted soon. New York NY D'Artagnan's FreeBSD Users Group. New York NY FUNY (FreeBSD Users of New York) had its inaugural meeting in February 1999. It is based in NYC and serves the surrounding metropolitan area. Northern Arizona Yavapai Free Unix Users Group is now forming for *BSD/Linux, etc., users in Northern Arizona. Please contact Russell Carter ( rcarter@consys.com) for details. Orlando, FL BUGO (BSD Users Group of Orlando) is a group based in Orlando, FL that aims to bring a friendly forum to all UNIX users in the central Florida area, and hopefully beyond. See the BUGO web page for further details. Phoenix AZ The Phoenix BSD Users group is fully open for business. Anyone from the Phoenix area please feel free to join in http://bsd.phoenix.az.us. Portland, OR The Portland (Oregon) FreeBSD Users group meets on the third Thursday of each month. Mail Rick Hamell. Reno NV RUUG (Reno Unix Users Group) meets monthly in Reno Nevada and discusses the use of FreeBSD and Linux. Contact Eric Blood or Todd Crenshaw for more information. Research Triangle, NC The Triangle Area BSD Users Group is a users group for BSD users in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, including the surrounding metropolitan areas of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. People interested in this group may subscribe to the mailing list by sending a message to majordomo@tribug.org with subscribe tribug-members in the body. Rhode Island The Rhode Island Free Unix Group supports every form of UNIX that can be obtained freely. They can be contacted at: http://users.tmok.com/~rifug or by e-mail at: rifug@entropy.tmok.com St. Louis, MO The St. Louis BSD User Group (STLBSD) has just formed on July 20, 2000 to promote BSD operating systems in the St. Louis area. We have strong ties to the 10 year old St. Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG) and expect to be a positive force within our community. Our membership is open to anyone interested in learning more about BSD, several mailing lists are available through our website. San Diego, California San Diego BSD Users Group for users of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. The meeting is first Thursday of every month at Borders Bookstore in Mission Valley Shopping Center. More information can be found here North San Francisco Bay Area The BABUG (Bay Area BSD Users Group) has monthly meetings, alternating between San Francisco and Berkeley. Those interested in attending should visit the web site or send mail to the BABUG Web Master Silicon Valley, CA The SVBUG (Silicon Valley BSD User Group), a forum for BSD and BSD embedded systems, meets on the First Thursday of the month. Meetings are held at the Carl's Jr. on First Street and Trimble Road in San Jose, California. For details on event or what's going on visit the website or send a message to webmaster@svbug.com. The Tampa Florida users group is now being formed. Interested parties can join the mailing list by sending mail to bsd-tug-request@bangheadhere.org with subscribe in the body. Greater Toronto Area, Ontario: The GTABUG usergroup welcomes all BSD users. Monthly meetings give attendees a chance to share ideas, discussion, and information. Installathons and other events help preach the good news of BSD to the community. Come drop by for a meeting! Tucson AZ TFUG: Tucson Free Unix Group, Arizona. Utah SLLUG-BUG is a BSD UNIX User Group affiliated with the Salt Lake Linux User Group (SLLUG). We meet in concert with SLLUG, since the BSD and Linux communities have so much in common. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month, check the web page for details. Vancouver, BC The VanBUG (Vancouver BSD Users Group) is a group of volunteers who are passionate about FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Their current goal is to raise awareness and also provide local assistance as much as we can. Washington DC (DC Metropolitan Area) FreeBSD User Group is now forming. Please contact Richard Cramer, Sytex Access Ltd. at 703-425-2515, or preferred, email at rcramer@sytex.net to be put on a member distribution list. Initial meeting to be held in May. Wichita, Kansas: A new FreeBSD users group has been created in Wichita, Ks. We are fairly new and working on our site, but we wanted to get it up as soon as we had it available. We do not currently meet. Visit our site http://wafug.dynip.com or E-mail the group organizer (ben177@yahoo.com) for more information! Windsor, Ontario The Windsor Unix Users Group (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) covers BSD, Solaris, SCO, and others. This is not specifically a FreeBSD user group, but we do already have members running FreeBSD. The group operates a mailing list (wuug-list@unixpower.org). More information can be found at http://www.wuug.org/. Wisconsin FreeBSD-Milwaukee Wisconsin meets occasionally and has a mailing list: freebsd-mke-l@ns.sol.net. send mail to freebsd-mke-l-request@ns.sol.net to subscribe. Rest of the world Ibaraki, Japan The Daibou East *BSD Users Group (DEBUG) is now forming for *BSD users in Tsukuba area. Indonesia The Jogja FreeBSD Users' Group is based in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia. Send email to 22961476@students.ukdw.ac.id for more information. Israel The Israeli BSD Users Group is an effort to promote the use of *BSD throughout the country, and to act as a center of information for all BSD users. It is currently run by FreeBSD users, but all users of bsd Variants are welcome aboard. We have a mailing list, hosted at bsd-il@osem.co.il. To subscribe, simply send mail to majordomo@osem.co.il, with the line "subscribe bsd-il" as the message body. Kansai, Japan The Kansai *BSD User's Group, K*BUG (sorry for Japanese only), was established on November 13, 1999. It is expected to promote communication of any of the BSD variants' users. Some of its activities are to hold friendly parties of the members, and to hold seminars covering wide variety of topics. Please mail here ( kbug-admin@kbug.gr.jp ). New Zealand The New Zealand FreeBSD User's group is located in Wellington. No meetings have been scheduled yet. Sao Paulo, Brazil The FUG_SP_BR (Brazilian FreeBSD User Group) is a Portuguese language oriented user group intended to help Brazilian FreeBSD users to find support and articles on and about FreeBSD in the Portuguese language. The group meets in Sao Paulo, Brazil, every month. To join FUG_SP_BR mailing list, send a blank message to fug_sp_br-subscribe@yahoogroups.com FreeBSD Development Projects In addition to the mainstream development path of FreeBSD, a number of developer groups are working on the cutting edge to expand FreeBSD's range of applications in new directions. FreeBSD Security Guide Security resources available to FreeBSD users: PGP Key for Security Officers, advisories, patches and mailing lists. Commercial Consulting Services Whether you are just starting out with FreeBSD, or need to complete a large project, a consultant or two might be your answer. General UNIX Information The UNIX Reference Desk by Mennifer Myers Jeff's Unix Vault Unix Guru Universe O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Unix Power The X Window System The XFree86 Project provides users of a variety of Intel based Unix systems, including FreeBSD, with an excellent X Window system. The WINE project is working to provide the ability to run MS-Windows software on Intel based Unix systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux. Hardware The comp.answers pc-hardware-faq is a great reference for people building their own machines. Laptop users looking for PCCARD (aka PCMCIA) support not already provided in the FreeBSD base distribution should see the PAO distribution page for the latest and greatest experimental laptop support. Intel Secrets -- What Intel Doesn't Want You To Know - lots of information about Intel chips. Aad Offerman's Chip List - reference material on chips used in PC clones. ASUS makes motherboards that work well with FreeBSD. Related Operating System Projects NetBSD is another free 4.4BSD-Lite based operating system which runs on several different architectures. OpenBSD is another 4.4BSD derivative. Linux is another free Unix-like system. Lites is a 4.4 BSD Lite based server and emulation library that provides free unix functionality to a Mach based system. xMach is a Lites and Mach4 derivative designed to be small and efficient with extended functionality. The GNU HURD project is another effort to develop a free Unix-like operating system. &footer; diff --git a/en/tutorials/index.sgml b/en/tutorials/index.sgml index e38f42378b..9eadaf6585 100644 --- a/en/tutorials/index.sgml +++ b/en/tutorials/index.sgml @@ -1,107 +1,106 @@ - + %includes; ]> - &header; Here is a list of documents on various aspects of FreeBSD, FreeBSD software, and hardware. If you have comments or would like to contribute a document, please contact us at freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org. For People New to Both FreeBSD and Unix (also as one large HTML file). An introduction to the MH mail software (also as one large HTML file). A User's Guide to FreeBSD Programming Tools (also as one large HTML file). Pedantic PPP primer - IP Aliasing (also as one large HTML file). Using FreeBSD with other operating systems (also as one large HTML file). Fonts and FreeBSD (also as one large HTML file). Installing the FreeBSD 2.2.x NTFS (NT file system) driver Installing the FreeBSD 3.1 NTFS driver FreeBSD Installation Details for Newbies FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer (also as one large HTML file). FreeBSD Porters Handbook (also as one large HTML file). Using FreeBSD as a diskless X server (also as one large HTML file). Formatting media (disks, cartridges, etc) on FreeBSD (also as one large HTML file). Using a firewall with a PPP connection (also as one large HTML file). ZIP Drives (also as one large html file). Documents related to FreeBSD on other servers: Dynamic Kernel Linker (KLD) Facility Programming Tutorial How to Write Kernel Drivers with Newbus Writing an ISA device driver FreeBSD Assembly Language Programming Tutorial &footer; diff --git a/en/usergroups.sgml b/en/usergroups.sgml index 6b2a05f3b6..bbed56c58f 100644 --- a/en/usergroups.sgml +++ b/en/usergroups.sgml @@ -1,937 +1,936 @@ + %includes; ]> - &header; Mailing lists Newsgroups IRC WEB Resources GNATS Problem Report Database CVS Repository User Groups FreeBSD Development Projects FreeBSD Security Guide Commercial Consulting Services General UNIX Information The X Window System Hardware Related Operating System Projects Mailing lists Mailing lists are the primary support channel for FreeBSD users, with numerous mailing lists covering different topic areas. When in doubt about what list to post a question to, post to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG. You can browse or search the mailing list archives at www.FreeBSD.org. The FreeBSD Conspectus is a summary of some of the mailing lists produced each week, giving you an at-a-glance overview of recent discussions and decisions. Several non-English mailing lists are also available: Traditional Chinese -- WWW, Big5 encoding. Simplified Chinese -- majordomo@cn.FreeBSD.org, GB2312 encoding. Czech -- majordomo@freebsd.cz German -- majordomo@de.FreeBSD.org or WWW. French -- listserver@freebsd-fr.org or WWW. French -- BSD.fr. Please contact Malartre for more information. Hungarian -- majordomo@hu.FreeBSD.org Indonesian -- id-freebsd-subscribe@egroups.com Italian -- minimalist@gufi.org or WWW. Japanese -- majordomo@jp.FreeBSD.org or WWW. Korean -- majordomo@kr.FreeBSD.org or WWW. Netherlands -- majordomo@nl.FreeBSD.org. Polish -- majordomo@pap.waw.pl Portuguese -- listproc@br.FreeBSD.org or WWW. Slovakian -- majordomo@sk.FreeBSD.org Spanish -- majordomo@es.FreeBSD.org If you create other FreeBSD mailing lists, let us know about them. Newsgroups There are a few FreeBSD specific newsgroups, along with numerous other newsgroups on topics of interest to FreeBSD users, though the mailing lists remain the most reliable way to get in touch with the FreeBSD developers. For miscellaneous FreeBSD discussion, see comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc. For important announcements, see comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce. The BSD Usenet News Searcher have archives of all BSD-related Usenet newsgroups from June 1992 onwards. IRC While #freebsd channels exist on various IRC networks, the FreeBSD project does not control them or endorse IRC as a support medium. You may be ignored, insulted, or kicked out if you ask questions on any channel in IRC, though you may have slightly better luck in channels named #freebsdhelp where such exist. If you want to try these or any other channels on IRC, it is nonetheless at your own risk and any complaints about conduct on those channels should not be directed to the FreeBSD project. See also the FAQ entry for more information. WEB Resources Our WEB pages remain one of the best sources of information, and are also mirrored at many sites around the world. Try connecting to www.yourcountry.FreeBSD.org (e.g. www.de.FreeBSD.org for Germany or www.au.FreeBSD.org for Australia), or select a mirror from the list on the home page. The same naming convention is also used for FTP servers. In addition to the mirrors, several non-English web resources are available: Czech Chinese FAQ German Hungarian India Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Polish Portuguese (mirror) Slovakian Spanish, FAQ Russian, FAQ For information on recent FreeBSD progress and releases, see the Newsflash page. To register to receive the FreeBSD Newsletter and/or subscribe to the announcement mailing list, please see the Registration page. GNATS Problem Report Database Current FreeBSD problem reports are tracked using the GNATS database. View the open problem reports. View a problem report by tracker id. Formulate a specific query. Submit a Problem Report. Problem reports may also be submitted to the development team using the send-pr(1) command on a FreeBSD system or by sending an email message to freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG. Please note that send-pr is preferred since messages sent to the mailing list are not tracked as official problem reports! CVS Repository CVS (the Concurrent Version System) is the tool we use for keeping our sources under control. Every change (with accompanying log message explaining its purpose) from FreeBSD 2.0 to the present is stored here, and can be easily viewed from here (click on the link). To obtain a complete copy of the FreeBSD CVS repository or any of the development branches inside it, you may choose any one of following options: cvsup if you're looking for on-demand, low overhead access using a custom utility (written in Modula-3 no less). anoncvs if you're looking for on-demand access that has higher overhead than cvsup (in terms of wall time and bytes transferred) but is easier to use for checking out small pieces of the tree and requires nothing more than the cvs tools already bundled with FreeBSD. CTM if you're looking for very low overhead, batch-mode access (basically, patches through email). The web interface if you're looking to simply browse the repository in search of a specific change or file revision. Finally, if you've got bandwidth to burn or you prefer / are forced to use FTP, you can simply mirror the CVS repository from ftp.FreeBSD.org. Mirrors of the CVS Repository cgi script are available in California, Germany, Japan and Spain (English, Spanish). User Groups FreeBSD's widespread popularity has spawned a number of user groups around the world. If you know of a FreeBSD user group not listed here, let us know about it. Australia New South Wales. The BSD Users Group, Sydney (BUGS) meets in Sydney every two months and has mailing list members from all over NSW. To join the mailing list send a message to majordomo@bugs.au.FreeBSD.org with subscribe bugs in the body of the message. Queensland. The Home UNIX Users Group for Brisbane meets fortnightly at meeting rooms provided by the University of Queensland. More information, including how to join the mailing lists, is available at http://www.humbug.org.au South Australia. BUGA, the BSD User Group of Adelaide, meets at irregular intervals. Join the mailing list by sending a message to majordomo@lemis.com with the text subscribe BUGA in the body. Victoria. Victoria's FreeBSD Users Group (VicFUG) is based in Melbourne. You can join the mailing list by sending an empty message to general-subscribe@vicfug.au.FreeBSD.org Europe Austria. The BSD User Group Austria (BUGAT) is german-language oriented user group. Visit our server for more information. The Netherlands. The Dutch FreeBSD User Group (NLFUG) has had its first meeting on oct 2, 1999. On this day 30 years before that, the second IMP was installed in Doug Englebart's lab at SRI. This, as you all know, was the start of something that grew to be the Internet (thanks to Edwin Kremer for bringing this under our attention). Denmark BSD-DK. The Danish BSD user group. Promotion and support of BSD derived Operating Systems in Denmark. Mailing lists, lectures and workshops. Send mail subscription requests to bsd-dk-request@bsd-dk.dk. K�ln (Cologne), Germany The CBUG (Cologne BSD Usergroup) caters to BSD users in the K�ln area. Meetings are on the fourth Friday of each month at the ``Campi'' Italian restaurant in the Richard-Wallraff-Platz. Duisburg, Germany The Cosmo-Project is a user group with a difference. Instead of just meeting, they actively develop projects such as robots. Most users use FreeBSD, but it isn't a specifically FreeBSD-related group. France The French FreeBSD UG. Please follow the link for details. Frankfurt, Germany FrankfurtBSD is a user group for the Rhein-Main area. We are currently looking for new members. As soon as we've grown larger, we'd like to meet monthly and maintain minor projects. Hamburg, Germany The BSDHH (BSD User Group Hamburg) meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 7.00pm in the Chinese restaurant Lotosbl�te, L�wenstra�e 22 in Hamburg-Eppendorf. Most members are FreeBSD users, although users of all BSD flavors are welcome. Ireland The BUGI (BSD User Group Ireland) is currently a rather grandiose term for a mailing list and super-minimal web page. All BSD users and enthusiasts are welcome. Italia The GUFI (Gruppo Utenti FreeBSD Italia) is an "italian powered" FreeBSD User Group. It is intended to help Italian FreeBSD users to find support and articles on/about FreeBSD in the Italian language. Please follow this link to know more about us. Lublin, Poland The Lublin BSD Users Group. Please follow the link for details. Lund, Sweden The Lund Linux User Group (LFUG) has nearly 50 members and covers FreeBSD and Solaris in addition to Linux. To join, contact Omar Dedovic Mannheim, Germany The UUGRN (Unix Users Group Rhein-Neckar) provides a regional forum for users of all UNIX flavors, with a stress on Linux and BSD. Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month at the "Eichbaum Brauhaus" in Mannheim-Käfertal and the fourth Thursday of each month at the "Vater Rhein" in Heidelberg. M�nchen (Munich), Germany The BIM (Berkeley In Munich) group caters for users of BSD-based systems in Oberbayern. Regensburg, Germany The UNIX and Linux User Group is a general UNIX users group for anyone in Regensburg (Bavaria, Germany). We meet on every first Monday of the month in the Pub ``Filmb�hne'' in Regensburg. Visit the web site or send a message to m.suess@2use.org. Sweden The BSD Users Sweden (BUS) maintains a mailing list. To join, send mail to majordomo@stacken.kth.se with subscribe bus in the message. Turkey The Turkish FreeBSD Users Group (T�rkiye FreeBSD Kullanicilari Grubu) was founded in September 1999. TFUG is intended to help Turkish FreeBSD users to find support and articles on and about FreeBSD in the Turkish language. Contact M. Guven Mucuk for more info. United Kingdom The FreeBSD UKUG (FreeBSD UK User's Group) exists for the benefit of FreeBSD users in the United Kingdom. Please follow the link for details. North America Ames, Iowa The Ames Free-Unix Group aims to promote the use of Free UNIX. We meet on the campus of Iowa State University once a month and hold a presentation with an open question and answer session afterwards. You can join our mailing list by sending a blank email to aafugit-subscribe@aafugit.org. Berkeley, CA The Berkeley UNIX User Group is a general UNIX users group for anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area. We meet on a weekly basis in downtown Berkeley. Visit the web site or send a message to buug-request@weak.org with subscribe in the body. Chicago IL The Chicago FreeBSD Users Group (ChiFUG). The Connecticut Free Unix user's Group (CFUG) is devoted to free unix, but has resources for almost all Unixen. Their area of operation is Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. More information can be found at http://www.cfug.org. The Houston TX Houston FreeBSD Users Group formed March 1999. Our goal is to promote and educate Houston computer users on FreeBSD Unix. We meet on the fourth Thursday of the month. The group operates a mailing list at http://www.houfug.org/mailman/listinfo/hou-freebsd Visit our website or e-mail houfug@houfug.org for more information. Indianapolis IN Free Unix for Indianapolis is a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the use of Free Unix variants in and around Indianapolis. Essentially, we are a bunch of geeks who share a common passion: UNIX. Visit the web site or send a message to info@fufin.org for additional information. Kansas KULUA (Kansas Unix & Linux Users Association) is a Free Unix user group based in Lawrence, Kansas, but with users throughout eastern Kansas and western Missouri. We have about 120 members and meet biweekly. Visit the web site or email kulua@kulua.org for more information. Kansas Wichita Area FreeBSD Users Group (WAFUG) is a free users group provided to anyone in the Wichita area for support with FreeBSD and other UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. We meet twice a month, usually in a restaraunt where you can smoke or drink if you like. Please send us Email for more information or to find out how to get free shell account, www or ftp space on our system. Las Vegas, NV The Vegas Free UNIX User Group Los Angeles CA The Yahoo Club group is a foundation for a Los Angeles based BSD user group. New Mexico The NMLUG in Albuquerque meets once a month and supports both BSD and Linux users. To join the mailing list, send a message to majordomo@swcp.com with subscribe nmlug in the body. New Orleans LA The New Orleans *BSD User Group meets twice a month. Contact Konrad Rzeszutek for more details. A web page will be posted soon. New York NY D'Artagnan's FreeBSD Users Group. New York NY FUNY (FreeBSD Users of New York) had its inaugural meeting in February 1999. It is based in NYC and serves the surrounding metropolitan area. Northern Arizona Yavapai Free Unix Users Group is now forming for *BSD/Linux, etc., users in Northern Arizona. Please contact Russell Carter ( rcarter@consys.com) for details. Orlando, FL BUGO (BSD Users Group of Orlando) is a group based in Orlando, FL that aims to bring a friendly forum to all UNIX users in the central Florida area, and hopefully beyond. See the BUGO web page for further details. Phoenix AZ The Phoenix BSD Users group is fully open for business. Anyone from the Phoenix area please feel free to join in http://bsd.phoenix.az.us. Portland, OR The Portland (Oregon) FreeBSD Users group meets on the third Thursday of each month. Mail Rick Hamell. Reno NV RUUG (Reno Unix Users Group) meets monthly in Reno Nevada and discusses the use of FreeBSD and Linux. Contact Eric Blood or Todd Crenshaw for more information. Research Triangle, NC The Triangle Area BSD Users Group is a users group for BSD users in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, including the surrounding metropolitan areas of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. People interested in this group may subscribe to the mailing list by sending a message to majordomo@tribug.org with subscribe tribug-members in the body. Rhode Island The Rhode Island Free Unix Group supports every form of UNIX that can be obtained freely. They can be contacted at: http://users.tmok.com/~rifug or by e-mail at: rifug@entropy.tmok.com St. Louis, MO The St. Louis BSD User Group (STLBSD) has just formed on July 20, 2000 to promote BSD operating systems in the St. Louis area. We have strong ties to the 10 year old St. Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG) and expect to be a positive force within our community. Our membership is open to anyone interested in learning more about BSD, several mailing lists are available through our website. San Diego, California San Diego BSD Users Group for users of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. The meeting is first Thursday of every month at Borders Bookstore in Mission Valley Shopping Center. More information can be found here North San Francisco Bay Area The BABUG (Bay Area BSD Users Group) has monthly meetings, alternating between San Francisco and Berkeley. Those interested in attending should visit the web site or send mail to the BABUG Web Master Silicon Valley, CA The SVBUG (Silicon Valley BSD User Group), a forum for BSD and BSD embedded systems, meets on the First Thursday of the month. Meetings are held at the Carl's Jr. on First Street and Trimble Road in San Jose, California. For details on event or what's going on visit the website or send a message to webmaster@svbug.com. The Tampa Florida users group is now being formed. Interested parties can join the mailing list by sending mail to bsd-tug-request@bangheadhere.org with subscribe in the body. Greater Toronto Area, Ontario: The GTABUG usergroup welcomes all BSD users. Monthly meetings give attendees a chance to share ideas, discussion, and information. Installathons and other events help preach the good news of BSD to the community. Come drop by for a meeting! Tucson AZ TFUG: Tucson Free Unix Group, Arizona. Utah SLLUG-BUG is a BSD UNIX User Group affiliated with the Salt Lake Linux User Group (SLLUG). We meet in concert with SLLUG, since the BSD and Linux communities have so much in common. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month, check the web page for details. Vancouver, BC The VanBUG (Vancouver BSD Users Group) is a group of volunteers who are passionate about FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Their current goal is to raise awareness and also provide local assistance as much as we can. Washington DC (DC Metropolitan Area) FreeBSD User Group is now forming. Please contact Richard Cramer, Sytex Access Ltd. at 703-425-2515, or preferred, email at rcramer@sytex.net to be put on a member distribution list. Initial meeting to be held in May. Wichita, Kansas: A new FreeBSD users group has been created in Wichita, Ks. We are fairly new and working on our site, but we wanted to get it up as soon as we had it available. We do not currently meet. Visit our site http://wafug.dynip.com or E-mail the group organizer (ben177@yahoo.com) for more information! Windsor, Ontario The Windsor Unix Users Group (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) covers BSD, Solaris, SCO, and others. This is not specifically a FreeBSD user group, but we do already have members running FreeBSD. The group operates a mailing list (wuug-list@unixpower.org). More information can be found at http://www.wuug.org/. Wisconsin FreeBSD-Milwaukee Wisconsin meets occasionally and has a mailing list: freebsd-mke-l@ns.sol.net. send mail to freebsd-mke-l-request@ns.sol.net to subscribe. Rest of the world Ibaraki, Japan The Daibou East *BSD Users Group (DEBUG) is now forming for *BSD users in Tsukuba area. Indonesia The Jogja FreeBSD Users' Group is based in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia. Send email to 22961476@students.ukdw.ac.id for more information. Israel The Israeli BSD Users Group is an effort to promote the use of *BSD throughout the country, and to act as a center of information for all BSD users. It is currently run by FreeBSD users, but all users of bsd Variants are welcome aboard. We have a mailing list, hosted at bsd-il@osem.co.il. To subscribe, simply send mail to majordomo@osem.co.il, with the line "subscribe bsd-il" as the message body. Kansai, Japan The Kansai *BSD User's Group, K*BUG (sorry for Japanese only), was established on November 13, 1999. It is expected to promote communication of any of the BSD variants' users. Some of its activities are to hold friendly parties of the members, and to hold seminars covering wide variety of topics. Please mail here ( kbug-admin@kbug.gr.jp ). New Zealand The New Zealand FreeBSD User's group is located in Wellington. No meetings have been scheduled yet. Sao Paulo, Brazil The FUG_SP_BR (Brazilian FreeBSD User Group) is a Portuguese language oriented user group intended to help Brazilian FreeBSD users to find support and articles on and about FreeBSD in the Portuguese language. The group meets in Sao Paulo, Brazil, every month. To join FUG_SP_BR mailing list, send a blank message to fug_sp_br-subscribe@yahoogroups.com FreeBSD Development Projects In addition to the mainstream development path of FreeBSD, a number of developer groups are working on the cutting edge to expand FreeBSD's range of applications in new directions. FreeBSD Security Guide Security resources available to FreeBSD users: PGP Key for Security Officers, advisories, patches and mailing lists. Commercial Consulting Services Whether you are just starting out with FreeBSD, or need to complete a large project, a consultant or two might be your answer. General UNIX Information The UNIX Reference Desk by Mennifer Myers Jeff's Unix Vault Unix Guru Universe O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Unix Power The X Window System The XFree86 Project provides users of a variety of Intel based Unix systems, including FreeBSD, with an excellent X Window system. The WINE project is working to provide the ability to run MS-Windows software on Intel based Unix systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux. Hardware The comp.answers pc-hardware-faq is a great reference for people building their own machines. Laptop users looking for PCCARD (aka PCMCIA) support not already provided in the FreeBSD base distribution should see the PAO distribution page for the latest and greatest experimental laptop support. Intel Secrets -- What Intel Doesn't Want You To Know - lots of information about Intel chips. Aad Offerman's Chip List - reference material on chips used in PC clones. ASUS makes motherboards that work well with FreeBSD. Related Operating System Projects NetBSD is another free 4.4BSD-Lite based operating system which runs on several different architectures. OpenBSD is another 4.4BSD derivative. Linux is another free Unix-like system. Lites is a 4.4 BSD Lite based server and emulation library that provides free unix functionality to a Mach based system. xMach is a Lites and Mach4 derivative designed to be small and efficient with extended functionality. The GNU HURD project is another effort to develop a free Unix-like operating system. &footer; diff --git a/en/where.sgml b/en/where.sgml index c4e9c1b009..0aa72e78cb 100644 --- a/en/where.sgml +++ b/en/where.sgml @@ -1,138 +1,137 @@ + %includes; ]> - &header; Release Information Detailed descriptions of past, present, and future releases. Look here first to determine what the latest version of FreeBSD is. Installing FreeBSD There are many options for installing FreeBSD, including installation from CDROM, floppy disk, an MS-DOS partition, magnetic tape, anonymous ftp, and NFS. Please read through the installation guide before downloading the entire FreeBSD distribution. If you are installing on a machine connected to the Internet, you may only need to download a single installation disk image! Distribution Sites The official sources for FreeBSD are: Anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD: FreeBSD &rel.current;-RELEASE/alpha FreeBSD &rel.current;-RELEASE/i386 FreeBSD ISO-IMAGES/i386 FreeBSD ISO-IMAGES/alpha Anonymous ftp from one of the numerous mirror sites On CDROM from BSDi If you plan on getting FreeBSD via ftp, please check the listing of mirror sites in the handbook to see if there is a site closer to you. For more information about past, present and future releases in general, please visit the release information page. If you're interested in a purely experimental snapshot release of FreeBSD-current (AKA 5.0-current), aimed at developers and bleeding-edge testers only, then please see the daily snapshot server FTP site. Applications and Utility Software The Packages collection The FreeBSD packages collection is a diverse collection of utility and application software that has been ported to FreeBSD. The packages are pre-compiled binaries ready to drop into your system and run. Packages for FreeBSD-current Packages for FreeBSD 2.2-stable Packages for FreeBSD 3-stable Packages for FreeBSD 4-stable The Ports collection The Ports collection is like the packages collection, but the necessary patches and makefiles to compile the source code are provided instead of compiled binaries. For software with important configuration that must be done at compile time, the "port" version may be more useful than the "package" version. FreeBSD Ports collection WWW interface to Ports collection For information about how you can contribute your favorite piece of software to the port collection, have a look at Porting applications and Contributing to FreeBSD in the FreeBSD handbook. Commercial software Beginning with FreeBSD Release 2.0.5, FreeBSD includes demo versions of some commercial as well as some shareware products. In addition to the demos available in the FreeBSD distribution, a number of other commercial vendors offer software products specifically for FreeBSD. Commercial vendors supporting FreeBSD &footer; diff --git a/en/y2kbug.sgml b/en/y2kbug.sgml index e49eb83445..60bd95fcda 100644 --- a/en/y2kbug.sgml +++ b/en/y2kbug.sgml @@ -1,402 +1,401 @@ + %includes; ]> - &header; As management understanding of the Year 2000 problem (aka, "The Millennium Bug") increases, more and more companies are demanding official statements from the vendors of their hardware and software as to how their product will handle the year 2000 date rollover. Organizations that use unix and unix like operating systems such as FreeBSD are already one step ahead of the problem. FreeBSD will properly maintain time long after year 2000 passes. Background information (This section based on the text from the Linux Y2K compliance page) As with all Unix and Unixlike operating systems, time and dates in FreeBSD are represented internally as the number of seconds since the 1st of January 1970 (the Unix "epoch"). Currently, that figure is stored as a 32 bit integer, and will run out part way through 2038. By then we should (hopefully) be using a counter of 64 bits (or greater) which should be good until the end of the universe. Note that the OS being Y2K compliant will not fix errant applications that are not Y2K compliant. Note also that the OS expects to read the current date and time from the CMOS clock of your computer. Not all of these devices correctly handle the year 2000. You are advised to test each platform individually to ensure that your hardware clock behaves correctly when going from 1999 to 2000, and that it correctly interprets the year 2000 as a leap year. What you can do FreeBSD will continue to properly maintain time well into the next century. Third party applications, however, might not. Your best defense against year 2000 issues is a good offense. Listening to stories claiming the coming meltdown of the world as we know it are not the way to solve the millennium bug. Nor is waiting until the last minute. The FreeBSD Project recommends that your organization apply sound system administration principles as the millennium approaches. There are tests that you can perform to see how your system will respond. Set your clock to a few minutes before midnight on New Year's Eve and watch the system time. Your system should display the year as 2000 and not 1900. If the year is displayed incorrectly, then you will have plenty of time to update your hardware. Operating your organizations information systems under their normal daily load with the clock set forward can provide valuable insight into your vulnerability to year 2000 issues. Important: Do not do this on a live production system. You may confuse any applications you have which rely on dates (billing systems, backup regimes, and so on). Always conduct tests like this on development systems which can not affect any live data you may have. FreeBSD Year 2000 Statement "After extensive analysis and testing, we believe that FreeBSD is 100% Y2K compliant. In the unlikely event that something has been overlooked, we will do our best to fix it as soon as possible." David Greenman Principal Architect, The FreeBSD project Fixed problems The following Y2K problems have been identified and fixed in FreeBSD. misc/1380 Several programs have a hardcoded 19%d in responses for the year. Affected programs include: yacc, ftpd, and make. [Fixed: yacc v1.2 1999/01/18; ftpd v1.7 1996/08/05; make v1.4 1996/10/06; fixes in FreeBSD-2.2 and above] conf/1382 The sed script in /etc/rc.local that builds the host/kernel ID line for the message of the day relies on the year not going past 1999. [Fixed v1.21 1996/10/24; fixes in FreeBSD-2.2 and above] misc/3465 The etc/namedb/make-localhost command generates the DNS serial number as YYMMDD. In the year 2000, this will be generated as 1YYMMDD. [Fixed v1.2 1997/08/11; fixes in FreeBSD-2.2.5 and above] gnu/4930 and gnu/8321 groff tmac macros have hardcoded 19 for generating some dates. [Fixed: tmac.e v1.3 1998/12/06; doc-common v1.10 1999/01/19; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above] bin/9323 In its obsolescent form, touch doesn't treat the two digit year specification correctly. Years in the range 00-68 are treated as 1900-1968 instead of 2000-2068. [Fixed v1.7 1999/01/05; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above] xntpd/parse/util/dcfd.c The leap year calculations for the number of days in a year, and the conversion of DCF77 time to seconds since the Epoch were wrong. These errors affected all years. [Fixed v1.6 1999/01/12; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above] tar/getdate.y Function Convert() was hard-coded for two digit years in range 70-99. Now adjusted to allow two digit years for 1970-2069. The function does not allow for century non-leap years - y2k1 alert! [Fixed v1.4 1999/01/12; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above] fetch/http.c The HTTP protocol includes an obsolete date format which uses a two-digit year. Previous versions of fetch would interpret all such dates in the 1900s; subsequent to this revision, the pivot described in RFC 2068 is employed, which causes two-digit years to be interpreted as always belonging to the current century unless they would be 50 or more years in the future. Since the HTTP servers which use this obsolete format are no longer widespread, this is not expected to have a significant impact. [Fixed v1.24 1999/01/15; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above] misc/9500 The `edithook' script in the CVSROOT directory uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 01/01/100 for 2000-JAN-01. [Fixed v1.2 1999/01/17; not relevant to FreeBSD releases] bin/9501 Several cvs contrib files are not Y2K compliant. The log.pl and sccs2rcs.csh scripts prepend `19' to the year resulting in a display of 19100 for 2000. The log_accum.pl script uses a two digit year in one place and in another place assumes that the tm_year is year within century rather than years since 1900. [Fixed: log.pl v1.2 1999/01/15; sccs2rcs.csh v1.3 1999/01/15; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above] bin/9502 The groff number register `yr' is assigned from a (struct tm).tm_year and therefore represents the number of years since 1900, not the year within the century (see definition in troff/input.cc). [Fixed, now set mod 100, troff/input.cc V1.2 1999/06/03; fixed in FreeBSD-3.3] bin/9503 PicoBSD's simple_httpd uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 01/01/100 for 2000-JAN-01. [Fixed v1.2 1999/01/16; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above] bin/9505 Adduser uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 100/01/01 for 2000-JAN-01. [Fixed v1.42 1999/01/15; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above] bin/9506 Cron uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 100 for 2000. [Fixed v1.7 1999/01/16; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above] bin/9507 tcpslice(8) uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 100y01m01d... for 2000-JAN-01. For compatibility, use a two-digit year until 2000.[Fixed v1.8 1999/01/20; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above] bin/14472 Date command does not take thousand/hundred digits. [Fixed v1.31 1999/11/10] misc/14511 Chpass has a problem using 00 for expiration year. bin/15852 and gnu/16045 and bin/16207 Groff predefined \*(DT [\*(td] string has Y2K bug. [Fixed with import of version 1.15 2000/01/12] bin/15872 at(1) has a problem with valid time specifications if tm_year is 100, reports `garbled time'. misc/16238 KerberosIV install does not work properly because there is a hard-wired expiration date of 12/31/99 in the Kerberos source for the ticket granter. [Fixed v1.24 1999/09/19] Problematic applications ports/7681 TkDesk 1.0 uses a hardcoded 19 in the file listing window. A file with a date > 2000 is displayed with a year looking like "191xx" where xx is the last two numbers of the real date. This bug has been fixed in version 1.1. [Port updated 1998/10/10; fixes in FreeBSD-3.0 and above] ports/9295 INN 1.7.2 suffers from 2 Y2K related problems. One occurs when pulling news (-f option to nntpget) and the other relates to the Expire header with relative dates past 2000. [Both INN ports upgraded to INN 2.2 1999/05/02; fixes in FreeBSD-3.2 and above] ports/9298 Knews suffers from 2 Y2K related problems. One occurs during the generation of the NNTP NEWGROUPS command. The other occurs because knews doesn't think that 2000 is a leap year. Both are fixed in knews-1.0b.1. [Port updated 1999/01/07; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above] ports/9300 Nntp-t5 suffers from a Y2K problem during the generation of the NEWNEWS command. [Port patched 1999/01/05; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above] ports/11144 The tiff port has a hardcoded 19xx. While this is in the contrib section (for converting Sun rasterfile format to TIFF), and not installed by default, this should be patched. [Port patched 1999/04/18, followed by upgrade 1999/05/11; fixes in FreeBSD-3.2 and above] ports/11145 The dgs port suffers from the same TIFF related problem as the tiff port. [contrib routine for converting Sun rasterfiles to TIFF] [Port patched 1999/04/18; fixes in FreeBSD-3.2 and above] ports/13694 The slurp port has a problem generating a correctly formatted host file name when tm_year is greater than 100. [Port patched 1999/10/27; fixes in FreeBSD-3.3-STABLE and above] ports/15477 wwwstat port has a hardcoded 19. ports/15789 proftpd has a minor Y2K problem. [Port patched 1999/12/22] ports/15820 sendfile has a problem not setting the atime and mtime properly for files sent after year 1999. ports/15854 dclock uses localtime and in particular the references to tm_year do not take into account the year 2000. [Port patched 2000/01/04] ports/15868 The reporting function of hylafax (xferstats) is not y2k compatible. [Port patched 2000/01/24] ports/15926 A y2k bug in leafnode+ 2.9 considers incoming news articles with the (arguably bogus) Date: header like `Wed, 05 Jan 00 15:01:40 GMT' to be too old, so these incoming articles are dropped. [Fixed by upgrading port to version 2.10 2000/01/24] ports/16062 Japanese e2ps port has hardcoded 19. [Port patched 2000/01/24] ports/16073 nntp port 1.5.11.5 has Y2K related problems. [Port upgraded to version 1.5.12.2 2000/01/12] ports/16167 This is a bug-fix release that corrects a y2k bug in INN 2.2.1 that will show up in the NEWNEWS and NEWGROUPS commands after 2000-01-01 00:00:00 when the date specified to the command is before 2000-01-01 00:00:00. [Port upgraded to version 2.2.2 2000/01/28] NetHack 3.2.2 and earlier versions are not Y2K compliant (the score file used 2 digit years and will be corrupted if added to in the year 2000). [Port updated to version 3.2.3 2000/01/05] Japanese mnews port has Y2K problems. [Port updated to version 1.22 1999/12/26] More information If you have further questions about FreeBSD's year 2000 compliance, or you have discovered an application running under FreeBSD that is not Y2K compliant, please contact the project at freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG. &footer;

Host	OS	Purpose	Owner(s)
builder	5.0-current	Build server for -current packages	ports team
beast	5.0-current	Alpha box for FreeBSD/alpha testing	jkh
bento	4-stable	Package build master	ports team
eatmorepie	OS X	PPC for OS X/Darwin testing	jkh
freefall	4-stable	CVS master repository	committers
gohan10-17	3-stable/4-stable/5-current	Ports building cluster	ports team
hub	4-stable	Mail & WWW services	post/webmaster
mx1	4-stable	Mail services	postmaster
ref4	4-stable	Reference machine for testing 4-stable changes	committers
ref5	5-current	Reference machine for testing 5-current changes	committers

Host	Type	Hardware
builder	Intel x86	400MHz Pentium II, 256MB mem, NCR 53c875, 9GB IBM SCSI drive, Winbond 100bTX NIC.
beast	Aspen Durango	500MHz Alpha 21164A on DEC PCI64 MB, 128MB mem, NCR 53c875 SCSI controller, 2x4GB SCSI WIDE drives (one NetBSD/alpha, one FreeBSD/alpha), DEC 21140 NIC.
eatmorepie	Power Macintosh G4	500MHz PowerPC G4, 256MB mem, 30GB IDE drive
bento	Intel x86 MP	2x733MHz Pentium III, 1024MB mem, 2xLSI53C1010, 1x18GB SCSI U160 drive, 5x36GB SCSI U160 drives. Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B NIC.
freefall	Intel x86	800MHz Pentium III, 1024MB mem, Mylex DAC960 PCI SCSI RAID controller, 5x18GB SCSI U2W drives, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B NIC.
gohan10-17	Intel x86	800MHz Pentium III, 512MB mem, Intel ICH ATA66 controller, 1x30GB ATA66 drive, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B NIC.
hub	Intel x86	400MHz Pentium II, 256MB mem, Mylex DAC960 PCI SCSI RAID controller, 3x9GB SCSI WIDE drives, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B NIC.
mx1	Intel x86	800MHz Pentium III, 512MB mem, Intel ICH ATA66 controller, 1x30GB ATA66 drive, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B NIC.
ref4	Intel x86	400MHz Pentium II, 128MB mem, 1x20GB IDE drive, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B NIC.
ref5	Intel x86	400MHz Pentium II, 128MB mem, 1x20GB IDE drive, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B NIC.

	This is a recent (May 1997) publication from Tatsumi Hosokawa and others. Among computer books, it is a top-seller in Japan and exceeded the sales of Bill Gates' "The Road Ahead" when published (it was #2, this book was #1).
	(Japanese FreeBSD book with 2.0.5, titled "FreeBSD: Fun and easy Installation")
	(Japanese FreeBSD book with 2.0.5, titled "FreeBSD Introductory Kit")
	This is BSDi's "The Complete FreeBSD" with installation guide, manual pages and installation CDs inside.
	This book was recently published (early 1997) in Taiwan. Its title is "FreeBSD: introduction and applications" and the author is Jian-Da Li.
	This is the "Getting Started with FreeBSD" from Fuki-Shuppan. Other than the standard installation guide and Japanese environment, it emphasizes system administration and low-level information (such as the boot process, etc.) FreeBSD-2.2.2R and XFree86-3.2 on CDROM. 264 pages, 3,400 yen.
	The "Personal Unix Starter Kit - FreeBSD" from ASCII. Includes history of Unix, a guide to build a Japanese documentation processing system and how to create ports. 2.1.7.1R and XFree86-3.2 in CDROM. 384 pages, 3,000 yen.
	BSD mit Methode, M. Schulze, B. Roehrig, M. Hoelzer und andere, C&L Computer und Literatur Verlag, 1998, 850 pages. 2 CDROMs, FreeBSD 2.2.6, NetBSD 1.2.1 and 1.3.2, OpenBSD 2.2 and 2.3. DM 98,-.
	This is the "FreeBSD Install and utilization manual" from Mainichi Communications. General introduction to FreeBSD from installation to utilization with troubleshooting under the supervision of the user group in Japan. 2.2.7-RELEASE FreeBSD(98)2.2.7-Rev01 PAO and distfiles in CDROM. 472 pages, 3,600yen.
	The "FreeBSD User's Reference Manual" from Mainichi Communications, under the supervision of "jpman project", the manual translation project by the user group in Japan. Japanese edition of the section 1 of the FreeBSD manual. 2.2.7-RELEASE FreeBSD(98)2.2.7-Rev01 and PAO in CDROM. 1,040 pages, 3,800yen.
	The "FreeBSD System Administrator's Manual" from Mainichi Communications, under the supervision of "jpman project", the manual translation project by the user group in Japan. Japanese edition of the section 5 and 8 of the FreeBSD manual. 756 pages, 3,300yen.
	This is "About FreeBSD" from Youngjin.com. It is first FreeBSD book in Korea, and covers several topics from installation to Korean environment. 3.5.1-RELEASE/PAO and 4.1-RELEASE in 3 CDROMs. 788 pages, 26,000 won.
	Onno W Purbo, Dodi Maryanto, Syahrial Hubbany, Widjil Widodo: Building Internet Server with FreeBSD (in Indonesia Language), published by Elex Media Komputindo, 2000.
	The Complete FreeBSD with CDs, 3rd Ed, FreeBSD 4.2. Everything you ever wanted to know about how to get your computer up and running FreeBSD. Includes 4 CDs containing the FreeBSD operating system! Released: November 2000 ISBN: 1-57176-246-9

	This is InfoMagic's BSDisc, containing FreeBSD 2.0 and NetBSD 1.0 on a single CD. This is the only example I have which had cover art.
	This is the original 4.4 BSD Lite2 release from UC Berkeley, the core technology behind much of FreeBSD.
	The first of Laser5's "BSD" series. Contains FreeBSD-2.0.5R, NetBSD-1.0, XFree86-3.1.1 and FreeBSD(98) kernel.
	The second of Laser5's "BSD" series. From this version, the CDs come in a standard jewel box. Contains FreeBSD-2.1R, NetBSD-1.1, XFree86-3.1.2 and 3.1.2A, and FreeBSD(98) kernel (2.0.5).
	This is the Laser5 Japanese edition of the FreeBSD CDROM. It is a 4 CD set.
	This is the only FreeBSD CD Pacific Hitech produced before merging their product line with that of Walnut Creek CDROM. PHT now also produces the FreeBSD/J (Japanese) CD product.
	This is the cover disc from the Korean magazine. Note the creative cover art! The CD contains the FreeBSD 2.2.1 release with some local additions.
	This is it - the very first FreeBSD CD published! Both the FreeBSD Project and Walnut Creek CDROM were fairly young back then, and you'll probably have little difficulty in spotting the differences in production quality between then and now.
	This was the second FreeBSD CD published by Walnut Creek CDROM and also the very last on the 1.x branch (ref USL/Novell lawsuit and settlement). The next release, FreeBSD 1.1.5, was only available on the net.
	This unusual CD is something of a collector's item now given that almost all existing examples were systematically tracked down and destroyed. An artwork mishap has this CD dated for the wrong year, and on the spine "January" is also misspelled as "January", just to increase the embarrassment factor. Ah, the perils of turning in one's artwork just hours before leaving for a trade show.
	This is the fixed-up version of the FreeBSD 2.0 CD. Note that the color scheme has even been changed in the corrected version, something unusual for a fixup and perhaps done to distance it from the earlier mistake.
	The FreeBSD 2.0.5 release CD. This was the first CD to feature Tatsumi Hosokawa's daemon artwork.
	The FreeBSD 2.1 release CD. This was the first CD release on the 2.1 branch (the last being 2.1.7).
	The FreeBSD 2.1.5 release CD.
	The FreeBSD 2.1.6 release CD.
	The Japanese version of 2.1.6. This was the first and last Japanese localized version published by WC, responsibility for that product then transitioning to a team led by Tatsumi Hosokawa and sponsored by Pacific Hitech and Laser5.
	The FreeBSD 2.1.7 release CD. Also the last CD released on the 2.1.x branch. Done primarily as a security fixup for 2.1.6
	An early release SNAPshot of 2.2 (done before 2.2.1 was released).
	The FreeBSD 2.2.1 release CD. This was the first CD on the 2.2 branch.
	The FreeBSD 2.2.2 release CD.
	The FreeBSD 3.0 snapshot CD.
	The FreeBSD mailing list and newsgroup archives, turned into HTML and semi-indexed by thread. This product ran for 2 releases and then stopped with a thud once it became obvious that there was simply too much data to deal with on one CD. Perhaps when DVD becomes more popular...
	FreeBSD Toolkit: Six disc set of resources to make your FreeBSD experience more enriching.
	FreeBSD Alpha 4.2 - The full version of the DEC Alpha 64-bit UNIX operating system.
	FreeBSD 4.2: The full version of the PC 32-bit UNIX operating system.
	FreeBSD 4.2 CD-ROM. Lehmanns CD-ROM Edition. January 2001, 4 CD-ROMs. Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung. Germany. ISBN 3-931253-72-4.

	Cover of Korean UNIX magazine, May 1997 issue. Also included FreeBSD 2.2.1 with cover CDs.
	UNIX User Magazine November 1996 issue. Also included FreeBSD 2.1.5 on cover CD.
	This is the "FreeBSD Full Course" special in April 1997's Software Design (published by Gijutsu Hyoron Sha). There are 80 pages of FreeBSD articles covering everything from installation to tracking -current.
	Quality Unix for FREE, by Brett Glass in Sm@rt Reseller Online September 1998
	This is the "BSD magazine" published by ASCII corporation, the world's first publication specialized in BSD. BSD magazine covers FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and BSD/OS. The premiere issue features articles on the history of BSD, installation, and Ports/Packages; it also includes 4 CD-ROMs containing FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE, NetBSD 1.4.1 and OpenBSD 2.5.

	This is issue #1 of the FreeBSD Newsletter, published and distributed free of charge by Walnut Creek CDROM. You can register to receive it. Submit articles/make comments by sending email to newsletter@FreeBSD.ORG.
	This is issue #2 of the FreeBSD Newsletter, published and distributed free of charge by Walnut Creek CDROM. You can register to receive it. Submit articles/make comments by sending email to newsletter@FreeBSD.ORG.

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ATM	Using ATM networking with FreeBSD
Audit	Source code audit project
Commit	Changes made to the FreeBSD source tree
Config	Development of FreeBSD installation and configuration tools
Current	Use of FreeBSD-current sources
Database	Discussing database use and development under FreeBSD
Doc	Discussions concerning documentation
Emulation	Emulating other systems on FreeBSD
Fs	Discussions concerning FreeBSD filesystems
Hackers	General technical discussions
I18n	FreeBSD Internationalization
ia64	Porting FreeBSD to Intel's upcoming IA64 systems
ipfw	Technical discussion concerning the redesign of the IP firewall code
ISDN	Development of ISDN support for FreeBSD
Java	JDK porting and application development
libh	The second generation installation and package system
Multimedia	Discussions about FreeBSD as a multimedia platform
Mobile	Using FreeBSD in a mobile environment
Mozilla	Porting mozilla to FreeBSD
Net	Networking discussion and TCP/IP source code
New Bus	Technical discussions on Bus Architecture
Platforms	Cross-platform FreeBSD issues (non-Intel FreeBSD ports)
Policy	FreeBSD core team policy decisions.
Ports	Discussions concerning FreeBSD's ports collection
PPC	Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC
Realtime	Development of realtime extensions to FreeBSD
SCSI	Discussions about FreeBSD's SCSI support
Small	Using FreeBSD in embedded applications
SMP	FreeBSD on multi-processor platforms
SPARC	Porting FreeBSD to the SPARC
Tokenring	Support Token Ring in FreeBSD

Hubs	People running mirror sites (infrastructural support)
Install	Installation system development
WWW	Web site maintainers