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    <h2>December 2000</h2>

    <ul>
      <li><p><b>28-Dec-2000</b>
	New committer: <a href="mailto:sf@FreeBSD.org">FUJISHIMA Satsuki</a>
	(ports)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>06-Dec-2000</b>
	New committer: <a href="mailto:clive@FreeBSD.org">Clive T.
	Lin</a></p></li>

      <li><p><b>04-Dec-2000</b>
	New committers: <a href="mailto:chm@FreeBSD.org">Christoph
	Herrmann</a> and <a href="mailto:tomsoft@FreeBSD.org">Thomas-Henning
	von Kamptz</a> (growfs)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>01-Dec-2000</b>
	New committer: <a href="mailto:iedowse@FreeBSD.org">Ian
	Dowse</a></p></li>
    </ul>

    <h2>November 2000</h2>

    <ul>
      <li><p><b>30-Nov-2000</b>
	Individual porting efforts were moved into the <a
	href="&base;/platforms/index.html">platforms</a> directory.  Separate
	pages for the Alpha, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC porting projects
	can be found there.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>22-Nov-2000</b>
	<a href="&base;/releases/4.2R/announce.html">FreeBSD 4.2</a> has
	been released.  Please see the <a
	href="&base;/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for
	more details.  Also be sure to check the <a
	href="&base;/releases/4.2R/errata.html">release errata</a> after
	installation for any late-breaking issues with 4.2 that
	occur.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>22-Nov-2000</b>
	And yet another new committer: <a
	href="mailto:roam@FreeBSD.org">Peter Pentchev</a> (ports)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>13-Nov-2000</b>
	Yet another new committer: <a
	href="mailto:okazaki@FreeBSD.org">OKAZAKI Tetsurou</a>
	(ports)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>13-Nov-2000</b>
	Another new committer: <a href="mailto:kiri@FreeBSD.org">Kazuhiko
	Kiriyama</a> (ports)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>13-Nov-2000</b>
	New committer: <a href="mailto:demon@FreeBSD.org">Dmitry
	Sivachenko</a> (Mainly ports)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>12-Nov-2000</b>
	Another new committer: <a href="mailto:issei@FreeBSD.org">Issei
	Suzuki</a> (Ports)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>06-Nov-2000</b>
	Another new committer: <a
	href="mailto:keith@FreeBSD.org">Jing-Tang Keith Jang</a> (ports,
	mostly in the chinese category)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>02-Nov-2000</b>
	Another new committer: <a href="mailto:benno@FreeBSD.org">Benno
	Rice</a> (PowerPC port and OpenFirmware /boot/loader)</p></li>
    </ul>

    <h2>October 2000</h2>

    <ul>
      <li><p><b>26-Oct-2000</b>
	Yet another new committer: <a
	href="mailto:DougB@FreeBSD.org">Doug Barton</a> (mergemaster,
	and whatever other trouble I can get into)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>26-Oct-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:gad@FreeBSD.org">Garance A
	Drosehn</a> (lpr and friends)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>18-Oct-2000</b>
	<b>New FreeBSD Core Team Elected!</b> Read the official
	<a href="&base;/news/press-rel-5.html">press release</a> for
	more information.</p></li>
      
      <li><p><b>16-Oct-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:jon@FreeBSD.org">Jonathan
	Chen</a> (newcard cardbus)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>03-Oct-2000</b>
	The complete track <a
	href="http://www.bsdcon.com/schedule.php3">schedule</a> for <a
	href="http://www.bsdcon.com">BSDCon</a> has been released.
	BSDCon is the premiere annual technical conference for BSD
	users and will be held from October 14-20 in Monterey,
	CA.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>02-Oct-2000</b> <a href="mailto:dfr@FreeBSD.org">Doug
	Rabson</a> 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.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>01-Oct-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:trevor@FreeBSD.org">Trevor
	Johnson</a> (sundry ports, mostly in the audio category)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>01-Oct-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:jeh@FreeBSD.org">James
	Housley</a> (ports, especially RTEMS.  Side interest in
	IPv6)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>01-Oct-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:lioux@FreeBSD.org">M&aacute;rio
	S&eacute;rgio Fujikawa Ferreira</a></p></li>
    </ul>

    <h2>September 2000</h2>

    <ul>
      <li><p><b>29-Sep-2000</b>
	<a href="http://www.terasolutions.com/">TeraSolutions, Inc.</a>
	and Lightning Internet Services <a
	href="http://www.terasolutions.com/pr092900.html">announced</a>
	today that a popular OpenSource software archive at
	<a href="ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/"> ftp.freesoftware.com</a>
	(also known as <a
	href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/">ftp.FreeBSD.org</a>) has surpassed
	the two trillion bytes (<b>two terabytes</b>) milestone of files
	downloaded per day from a single server machine.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>27-Sep-2000</b>
	<a href="&base;/releases/4.1.1R/announce.html">FreeBSD 4.1.1</a> has
	been released.  Please see the <a
	href="&base;/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for
	more details.  Also be sure to check the <a
	href="&base;/releases/4.1.1R/errata.html">release errata</a> after
	installation for any late-breaking issues with 4.1.1 that
	occur.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>21-Sep-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:bmilekic@FreeBSD.org">Bosko
	Milekic</a></p></li>
    </ul>

    <h2>August 2000</h2>

    <ul>
      <li><p><b>22-Aug-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:bmah@FreeBSD.org">Bruce A.
	Mah</a> (docs, pkg_version, assorted ports)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>15-Aug-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:rv@FreeBSD.org">Rajesh
	Vaidheeswarran</a> (ports/devel/cons)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>05-Aug-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:onoe@FreeBSD.org">Atsushi
	Onoe</a> (awi driver)</p></li>
    </ul>

    <h2>July 2000</h2>

    <ul>
      <li><p><b>27-July-2000</b>
	<a href="&base;/releases/4.1R/announce.html">FreeBSD 4.1</a> has
	been released.  Please see the <a
	href="&base;/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for
	more details.  Also be sure to check the <a
	href="&base;/releases/4.1R/errata.html">release errata</a> after
	installation for any late-breaking issues with 4.1 that
	occur.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>12-July-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:marko@FreeBSD.org">Mark
	Ovens</a></p></li>

      <li><p><b>11-July-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:kbyanc@FreeBSD.org">Kelly
	Yancey</a></p></li>

      <li><p><b>11-July-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:dwmalone@FreeBSD.org">David
	Malone</a></p></li>

      <li><p><b>11-July-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:non@FreeBSD.org">Noriaki
	Mitsunaga</a> (PC-Card)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>10-July-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:ben@FreeBSD.org">Ben
	Smithurst</a> (Docs)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>08-July-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:dannyboy@FreeBSD.org">Daniel
	Harris</a> (Docs)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>07-July-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:takawata@FreeBSD.org">Takanori
	Watanabe</a> (ACPI)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>06-July-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:hrs@FreeBSD.org">Hiroki
	Sato</a> (Japanese Docs)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>05-July-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:horikawa@FreeBSD.org">Kazuo
	Horikawa (Japanese Online Manuals)</a></p></li>

      <li><p><b>03-July-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:adrian@FreeBSD.org">Adrian
	Chadd</a></p></li>
    </ul>

    <h2>June 2000</h2>
    
    <ul>
      <li><p><b>30-June-2000</b>
	<a href="http://freshports.org/">http://freshports.org/</a> 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.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>29-June-2000</b>
	<a href="http://www.tucows.com/">Tucows</a> has added a
	<a href="http://bsd.tucows.com/">BSD section</a>.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>26-June-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:akiyama@FreeBSD.org">Shunsuke
	Akiyama</a> (Optical disk driver)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>24-June-2000</b>
	<a href="&base;/releases/3.5R/announce.html">FreeBSD 3.5</a> has
	been released.  Please see the <a
	href="&base;/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for
	more details.  Also be sure to check the <a
	href="&base;/releases/3.5R/errata.html">release errata</a> after
	installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.5 that
	occur.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>20-June-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:sanpei@FreeBSD.org">MIHIRA
	Sanpei Yoshiro</a> (PC-Card)</p>

	<p>A new committer: <a href="mailto:cokane@FreeBSD.org">Coleman 
	  Kane</a> (3dfx voodoo for glide/Mesa)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>19-June-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:cjh@FreeBSD.org">CHOI
	Junho</a> (Ports)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>08-June-2000</b>
	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 <a
	href="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/">http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/</a>.</p>

	<p>A new article is available, explaining how to <a 
	  href="&base;/tutorials/dialup-firewall/index.html">use PPP, natd,
	  and ipfw</a> to implement a firewall with a PPP dialup
	  connection.</p>

	<p>A new committer: <a href="mailto:alex@FreeBSD.org">Alexander
	  Langer</a> (Ports, Docs)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>06-Jun-2000</b>
	The first <a href="&base;/conspectus/index.html">FreeBSD
	Conspectus</a> has been added, providing a summary of events on
	the <tt>-stable</tt> mailing list over the past week.</p></li>
    </ul>

    <h2>May 2000</h2>

    <ul>
      <li><p><b>19-May-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:cp@FreeBSD.org">Chuck
	Paterson</a> (SMP)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>18-May-2000</b>
	A hardcopy version of the <a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html">FreeBSD
	Handbook</a> is now available.  If you would like to order a
	copy, please visit the <a
	href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">FreeBSDMall</a>, or <a
	href="http://www.osd.bsdi.com/">BSDi's web site</a>.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>15-May-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:jake@FreeBSD.org">Jake
	Burkholder</a> (legacy drivers)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>14-May-2000</b>
	Issue #04 of <a href="http://www.freebsdzine.org/">The FreeBSD
	'zine</a> is now available.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>09-May-2000</b>
	<a href="http://freshports.org/">Freshports</a>:  Similar in
	nature to <a href="http://freshmeat.net/">Freshmeat</a>, this site
	deals exclusively with FreeBSD ports, and allows you to create
	your own ``watch lists'' for your favorite ports.</p></li>
    </ul>

    <h2>April 2000</h2>

    <ul>
      <li><p><b>16-Apr-2000</b>
	New mailing lists available:  <strong>freebsd-i18n</strong>
	(FreeBSD Internationalization) and <strong>freebsd-ppc</strong>
	(Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>04-Apr-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:murray@FreeBSD.org">Murray
	Stokely</a> (sysinstall)</p></li>
    </ul>

    <h2>March 2000</h2>

    <ul>
      <li><p><b>22-Mar-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:knu@FreeBSD.org">Akinori
	MUSHA</a> (Ports)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>21-Mar-2000</b>
	<a href="mailto:unfurl@FreeBSD.org">Bill Swingle</a> has written
	an <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200003/bsdports&amp;page=1">
	article on the Ports and Packages System</a> for <a
	href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/">32bitsonline.com</a></p></li> 

      <li><p><b>20-Mar-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:will@FreeBSD.org">Will
	Andrews</a> (Ports)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>15-Mar-2000</b>
	Issue #2 of <a href="http://www.freebsdzine.org/">The FreeBSD
	'zine</a> is now available.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>13-Mar-2000</b>
	<a href="&base;/releases/4.0R/announce.html">FreeBSD 4.0</a> has
	been released.  Please see the <a
	href="&base;/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for
	more details.  Also be sure to check the <a
	href="&base;/releases/4.0R/errata.html">release errata</a> after
	installation for any late-breaking issues with 4.0 that
	occur.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>09-Mar-2000</b>
	<a href="http://www.wccdrom.com/">Walnut Creek CDROM</a> and <a
	href="http://www.BSDI.com/">BSDI</a> merge!  Read the official
	<a href="&base;/news/press-rel-4.html">press release</a> for more
	information.</p></li>
    </ul>

    <h2>February 2000</h2>

    <ul>
      <li><p><b>26-Feb-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:ume@FreeBSD.org">Hajimu
	UMEMOTO</a> (IPv6)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>23-Feb-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:ps@FreeBSD.org">Paul
	Saab</a></p></li>

      <li><p><b>22-Feb-2000</b>
	<a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/">32BitsOnline.com</a> has a
	<a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&amp;page=1">review</a>
	of FreeBSD 3.4 by <a href="mailto:csmith@medullas.com">Clifford
	Smith</a> available on their web site.  All in all, a good
	review.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>18-Feb-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:bsd@FreeBSD.org">Brian S Dean</a>
	(Kernel support for IA32 hardware debug registers, misc
	fixes/feature enhancements in other areas)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>17-Feb-2000</b>
	A new issue of <a href="http://www.freebsdzine.org/">The FreeBSD
	'zine</a> 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.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>10-Feb-2000</b>
	<a href="mailto:mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org">Michael Lucas</a>
	has written an excellent <a
	href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/20000210/282/">
	article</a> on the differences between the BSD license and the
	GPL.  This article is definitely worth reading.</p>

      <p>New committers:  <a href="mailto:gsutter@FreeBSD.org">Greg
	Sutter</a> and <a href="mailto:unfurl@FreeBSD.org">Bill
	Swingle</a> (Docs)</p></li>
    </ul>

    <h2>January 2000</h2>

    <ul>
      <li><p><b>22-Jan-2000</b>
	The <a href="http://www.freebsddiary.org/">FreeBSD Diary</a>, 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.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>13-Jan-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:wilko@FreeBSD.org">Wilko
	Bulte</a></p></li>

      <li><p><b>04-Jan-2000</b>
	The <a href="http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/">Compaq Testdrive
	program</a> 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.</p></li>

      <li><p><b>03-Jan-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:patrick@FreeBSD.org">Patrick
	Gardella</a> (JDK/WWW)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>02-Jan-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:ade@FreeBSD.org">Ade Lovett</a>
	(Ports)</p></li>

      <li><p><b>01-Jan-2000</b>
	A new committer: <a href="mailto:reg@FreeBSD.org">Jeremy Lea</a>
	(Ports)</p></li>
    </ul>

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