Press release for 5.0-R.

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+<h3>FreeBSD Project announces FreeBSD 5.0</h3>
+
+  <p><b>Berkeley, CA - January 17, 2003 - The FreeBSD Project</b> The
+    FreeBSD Project announced today the availability of FreeBSD 5.0
+    after almost three years of continuous development.  The latest
+    version of the project's powerful open source operating system
+    includes several ground breaking features:</p>
+
+<ul>
+  <li><b>Multiprocessor support</b> has been extended and enhanced.
+    We support SMP on all platforms, and have the infrastructure in
+    place for extensive performance improvements.</li>
+
+   <li><b>Background filesystem checks</b> offer quicker start up in
+    disaster situations.</li>
+
+  <li><b>File system snapshots</b> permit administrators to
+    duplicate file systems in real time.</li>
+
+  <li><b>Experimental support for Mandatory Access Controls (MAC)</b>
+    provides an extensible and flexible means for administrators to
+    define system security policies.</li>
+
+  <li><b>Kernel Schedulable Entities</b> implement a high-performance
+    many-to-many multiprocessor threading model.</li>
+
+  <li><b>Expanded hardware support</b> now includes hardware
+    cryptographic acceleration, ACPI, Bluetooth, and FireWire.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+  <p>The release also includes new, reimplemented, and incremental
+    improvements in areas where FreeBSD already dominates, such as
+    network performance, stability, and reliability.</p>
+
+  <p><cite>"This release represents our largest engineering success to
+   date."</cite>, says Murray Stokely, Vice President of Engineering
+   at FreeBSD Mall Inc and member of the FreeBSD Release Engineering
+   Team.  <cite>" The new technologies present in FreeBSD 5.X will
+   provide our customers with exciting new functionality without
+   sacrificing our legendary reliability."</cite>
+
+<h3>About the FreeBSD Project</h3>
+
+  <p>The FreeBSD Project provides a free UNIX-like operating system
+    for the Intel-compatible, Alpha, and Sparc platforms, based on the
+    industry-standard Berkeley Software Distribution.  The FreeBSD
+    Project includes several thousand developers from dozens of
+    countries around the world, who funnel their work through a team
+    of several hundred committers.  FreeBSD is available for free on
+    the Internet, and as a shrink-wrap product through many different
+    retail vendors, listed at <a
+    href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/vendors.html">www.FreeBSD.org/vendors.html</a>.
+    For more information, please visit FreeBSD on the Web at <a
+    href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/">www.FreeBSD.org</a>.</p>
+
+<h3>Press Contact</h3>
+
+  <p><a href="mailto:press@FreeBSD.org"</a>press@FreeBSD.org, or phone
+    1-925-674-0783</p>
+
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