diff --git a/en/news/Makefile b/en/news/Makefile index 89b33f0712..e5fa9b53af 100644 --- a/en/news/Makefile +++ b/en/news/Makefile @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/Makefile,v 1.43 2005/09/19 20:18:28 hrs Exp $ +# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/Makefile,v 1.44 2005/11/05 13:10:53 ceri Exp $ .if exists(../Makefile.conf) .include "../Makefile.conf" @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ DOCS+= press-rel-5.sgml DOCS+= press-rel-6.sgml DOCS+= press-rel-7.sgml DOCS+= press-rel-8.sgml +DOCS+= press-rel-9.sgml # The yearly State of the Union address DOCS+= sou1999.sgml diff --git a/en/news/press-rel-9.sgml b/en/news/press-rel-9.sgml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ceba9c1170 --- /dev/null +++ b/en/news/press-rel-9.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [ +<!ENTITY base CDATA ".."> +<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/news/press-rel-9.sgml,v 1.0 2005/12/26 01:50:00 somebody Exp $"> +<!ENTITY title "Hewlett-Packard donates blade cluster to FreeBSD"> +<!ENTITY % navincludes SYSTEM "../includes.navabout.sgml"> %navincludes; +<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes; +<!ENTITY % newsincludes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %newsincludes; +]> + +<html> +&header; + +<!-- +<img src="../gifs/news.jpg" align="right" border="0" alt="FreeBSD News"> +--> + +<p></p> + +<p><b>The FreeBSD Foundation received a donation of a blade system from +Hewlett-Packard for use as a third-party software build cluster. +This 20-node HP BladeSystem cluster triples the speed of the build +process for i386 packages.</b></p> + +<p><i>"With this generous donation from HP, we are able to continuously +produce up-to-date packages from more than 13000 ports of third-party +software available in the FreeBSD Ports Collection, at about three +times the rate of the previous hardware cluster,"</i> said Kris Kennaway, +member of the FreeBSD Port Management Team.</p> + +<p><i>"This directly benefits the users of FreeBSD through the rapid +availability of new and updated software packages, and through the +increased testing and QA of FreeBSD that the new hardware allows."</i></p> + +<p><i>"We at HP recognize the important role of FreeBSD in the Internet's +global network infrastructure, and we are happy that the HP +BladeSystem cluster can contribute to the on-going success of the +FreeBSD Foundation,"</i> said Mark Potter, vice president of the +Hewlett-Packard BladeSystem division.</p> + +<p><i>"They're just standard i386 systems, architecturally, with a very +nice ssh- and serial-based management server,"</i> said Kennaway, who +maintains the FreeBSD Ports cluster.</p> + +<p>Kennaway said FreeBSD has a few dozen other machines scattered +around the globe for package builds. A big concentration of sparc +machines hosted by Hiroki Sato in Japan include some large +multiprocessor e4500's (10, 12 and 14 CPUs) that have been extremely +valuable for SMP testing. Also, a couple of machines hosted by ISC, +an amd64 hosted by Scott Long, three i386 machines at Yahoo! Korea, +and sometimes Kennaway's own machines in Canada are used for the +official package builds.</p> + +<p>The HP BladeSystem cluster is hosted at the Yahoo! datacenter in +the San Francisco Bay area. In addition to Kennaway, Paul Saab +and Peter Wemm from the FreeBSD project, and John Cagle from HP +helped with blade system setup.</p> + +<h3>About The FreeBSD Project</h3> + +<p>The FreeBSD Project provides an up-to-date and scalable modern operating +system that offers high-performance, security, and advanced networking for +personal workstations, Internet servers, routers, and firewalls. The +FreeBSD packages collection includes popular software like Apache Web +Server, Gnome, KDE, X.org X11 Window System, Python, Mozilla, and over +13,000 software suites. FreeBSD can be found on the Internet at +<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/">http://www.FreeBSD.org</a>.</p> + +<h3>More Information:</h3> + +<p>FreeBSD Ports webpage<br> +<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/</a> +<br><br> +FreeBSD Package building logs and errors webpage<br> +<a href="http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/">http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/</a></p> + +&footer; +</body> +</html> diff --git a/en/news/pressreleases.sgml b/en/news/pressreleases.sgml index df6715bce5..6df4ae88e4 100644 --- a/en/news/pressreleases.sgml +++ b/en/news/pressreleases.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [ <!ENTITY base CDATA ".."> -<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/news/pressreleases.sgml,v 1.10 2005/10/04 19:43:48 hrs Exp $"> +<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/news/pressreleases.sgml,v 1.11 2005/11/05 13:10:53 ceri Exp $"> <!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Press Releases"> <!ENTITY % navincludes SYSTEM "../includes.navabout.sgml"> %navincludes; <!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes; @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ <dl> +<dt>November 25, 2005</dt> +<dd> +<a href="press-rel-9.html">Hewlett-Packard donates blade cluster to FreeBSD</a> +<p></p> +<dd> + <dt>November 4, 2005</dt> <dd> <a href="press-rel-8.html">FreeBSD Project Launches FreeBSD 6.0</a>