From 1f4be68571f4a6fc5d9230a24a2e03df028a4ebf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Lucas Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:41:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Press release for 5.0-R. Now, to see if I can get the wire to pick it up... Reviewed by: core@, re@ --- en/news/press-rel-7.sgml | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 75 insertions(+) create mode 100644 en/news/press-rel-7.sgml diff --git a/en/news/press-rel-7.sgml b/en/news/press-rel-7.sgml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f276dca04a --- /dev/null +++ b/en/news/press-rel-7.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ + + + %includes; +]> + + +&header; + +

FreeBSD Project announces FreeBSD 5.0

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Berkeley, CA - January 17, 2003 - The FreeBSD Project 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:

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The release also includes new, reimplemented, and incremental + improvements in areas where FreeBSD already dominates, such as + network performance, stability, and reliability.

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"This release represents our largest engineering success to + date.", says Murray Stokely, Vice President of Engineering + at FreeBSD Mall Inc and member of the FreeBSD Release Engineering + Team. " The new technologies present in FreeBSD 5.X will + provide our customers with exciting new functionality without + sacrificing our legendary reliability." + +

About the FreeBSD Project

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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 www.FreeBSD.org/vendors.html. + For more information, please visit FreeBSD on the Web at www.FreeBSD.org.

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Press Contact

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press@FreeBSD.org, or phone + 1-925-674-0783

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