Date: Sunday, 19 Jan 2003 09:00:00 -0800
+ From: scottl@FreeBSD.org (Scott Long)
+ To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
+ Subject: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE Now Available
It is my privilege and pleasure to announce the availability of FreeBSD +5.0-RELEASE. The culmination of nearly three years of work, this +release starts FreeBSD on the path of advanced multiprocessor and +application thread support and introduces support for the sparc64 and +ia64 platforms. Among the long list of new and improved features:
+ +Although FreeBSD 5.0 contains a number of new and exciting features, it +may not be suitable for all users. More conservative users may prefer +to continue using FreeBSD 4.X. Information on the various trade-offs +involved, as well as some notes on future plans for both FreeBSD 4.X +and 5.X, can be found in the Early Adopter's Guide, available here:
+ +http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopter.html
+ +For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the +release notes and errata list, available here:
+ +http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/relnotes.html
+http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/errata.html
+ +For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, +please see:
+ +http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/
+ +Availability
+ +
FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE supports the i386, pc98, alpha, sparc64, and +ia64 architectures and can be installed directly over the net using the +boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for +all architectures are available now.
+ +
Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media +from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies will be +offering FreeBSD 5.0 based products:
+ +| FreeBSD Mall, Inc. | +http://www.freebsdmall.com/ | +
| Daemonnews, Inc. | +http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html | +
If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to +use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO +images. We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the +larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from:
+ +FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the +following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, +China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, +Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, the +Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi +Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, +Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
+ +Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional +mirror(s) first by going to:
+ +ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
+ +Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.
+ +
More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:
+ +
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html
+ +For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The +FreeBSD Handbook. It provides a complete installation walk-through +for users new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at:
+ +
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html
+ +Acknowledgments
+ +Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to +finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 5.0 including +The FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and +NTT/Verio.
+ +
The release engineering team for 5.0-RELEASE includes:
+ +| Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> | +Release Engineering and Building | +
| Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | +Release Engineering, Documentation | +
| Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> | +Release Engineering, Security | +
| John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> | +Release Engineering | +
| Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> | +Release Engineering | +
| Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org> | +IA64 Release Building | +
| Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@FreeBSD.org> | +PC98 Release Building | +
| Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> | +Package Building | +
| Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar@FreeBSD.org> | +Security Officer | +