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+<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
+
+<foilgroup id="freebsd-5.3">
+
+<foil id="freebsd-5.3-general"><title>What's new in FreeBSD 5.3</title>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>NDIS Binary Compatibility allows Windows XP network
+      device drivers to be used with FreeBSD.</listitem>
+
+    <listitem>IP Fast Forwarding for dramatic speedups in FreeBSD
+      based routers.</listitem>
+
+    <listitem>Continued locking and performance improvements to take
+      advanced of SMPng architecture.</listitem>
+
+  </itemizedlist>
+</foil>
+
+<foil id="freebsd-5.3-net"><title>FreeBSD 5.3 Network Changes</title>
+  <para>FreeBSD (i386) can use binary Ethernet and WLAN network
+  drivers written to the Windows XP NDIS 5.1 specification.  Windows
+  drivers are turned into FreeBSD Kernel Loadable Modules (KLDs) with
+  the <command>ndisvt</command> command :</para>
+
+  <screen># ndiscvt -O -i neti557x.inf -s neti557x.sys \
+	-n intel0
+# kldload intel0</screen>
+
+  <para>More information is available in ndis(4), ndisapi(9), and
+    ndiscvt(8).  This functionality was written by Bill Paul.</para>
+
+</foil>
+
+</foilgroup>
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides/common/freebsd-dev-model.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides/common/freebsd-dev-model.xml
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+<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
+
+<foilgroup id="freebsd-dev-model">
+
+  <foil id="freebsd-dev-model-general">
+    <title>FreeBSD Development Model</title>
+
+    <itemizedlist>
+
+      <listitem>FreeBSD development continues along two parallel
+        branches; FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE.</listitem>
+
+      <listitem>FreeBSD-CURRENT is the main trunk of our CVS
+        repository.  All new development should happen
+        here.</listitem>
+
+      <listitem>FreeBSD-STABLE is the branch from which major releases
+        are made.  Changes enter this branch at a different pace, and
+        with the general assumption that they have been well tested by
+        our user community running -CURRENT.</listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </foil>
+
+  <foil id="freebsd-dev-model-release-diagram">
+    <title>FreeBSD Release Diagram</title>
+
+    <para>Chart from releng paper goes here.</para>
+
+  </foil>
+
+
+  <foil id="freebsd-dev-model-organization">
+    <title>FreeBSD Development Model</title>
+
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>Thousands of developers around the world contribute
+        code to FreeBSD.</listitem>
+
+      <listitem>Only the <quote>committers</quote> have write access
+        to the CVS repository.</listitem>
+
+      <listitem>324 total committers in FreeBSD (includs source,
+        documentation, and ports committers).</listitem>
+
+      <listitem>212 active committers to src/ in the last 12
+        months.</listitem>
+
+      <listitem>165 active committers to src/sys in the last 12
+        months.</listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+  </foil>
+
+  <foil id="freebsd-dev-model-bugs">
+    <title>FreeBSD Development Model</title>
+
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>Users and external developers should submit bug fixes,
+        enhancements, or problem reports with GNATS.</listitem>
+
+      <listitem>Online submission forms, send-pr command installed by
+        default on FreeBSD systems, etc.</listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+  </foil>
+
+</foilgroup>
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides/common/freebsd-organization.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides/common/freebsd-organization.xml
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+<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
+
+  <foil id="freebsd-organization">
+    <title>FreeBSD Organization</title>
+
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>A number of committees with special responsibilities
+        have been created within the FreeBSD Project to ensure that
+        the project continues to move in a positive
+        direction.</listitem>
+
+      <listitem>The FreeBSD <emphasis>Core Team</emphasis> is a group
+        of 9 developers elected by the committers for 2 year
+        terms.</listitem>
+
+      <listitem>The FreeBSD <emphasis>Release Engineering
+        Team</emphasis> is a small group of developers responsible for
+        managing the release process.</listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </foil>
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides/common/freebsd-recent-releases.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides/common/freebsd-recent-releases.xml
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+<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
+
+<foil><title>Recent Releases</title>
+  <itemizedlist>
+
+    <listitem>FreeBSD 4.X-STABLE continues incremental feature,
+      performance, stability development.
+      <itemizedlist>
+	<listitem>FreeBSD 4.9 (October, 2003)</listitem>
+	<listitem>FreeBSD 4.10 (May, 2004)</listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>FreeBSD 5.X-CURRENT continues higher risk development,
+      approaches -STABLE.
+      <itemizedlist>
+	<listitem>FreeBSD 5.0 (January, 2003)</listitem>
+	<listitem>FreeBSD 5.1 (June, 2003)</listitem>
+	<listitem>FreeBSD 5.2 (January, 2004)</listitem>
+	<listitem>FreeBSD 5.2.1 (February, 2004)</listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</foil>
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides/common/freebsd-release-process.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides/common/freebsd-release-process.xml
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+<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
+
+  <foil id="freebsd-release-process-general">
+    <title>FreeBSD Release Process</title>
+
+    <itemizedlist>
+
+      <listitem><quote>Stable</quote> releases are made from the
+        -STABLE development branch at approximately 4 month
+        intervals.</listitem>
+
+      <listitem>Major new versions (3.0, 4.0, 5.0, etc..) are released
+        at much longer intervals when the main goals for that release
+        have been realized.
+
+      <itemizedlist>
+	<listitem>3.0 - October 1998</listitem>
+	<listitem>4.0 - March 2000</listitem>
+	<listitem>5.0 - January 2003</listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>In periods of transition, point releases from the
+	previous branch are still released while the next major
+	release branch stabilizes. (e.g., 4.8, 4.9, and 4.10 were
+	released after 5.0)</listitem>
+
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </foil>
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides/common/what-is-freebsd.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides/common/what-is-freebsd.xml
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+<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
+
+<foil><title>What is FreeBSD?</title>
+  <itemizedlist>
+
+    <listitem>FreeBSD is a production-quality operating system derived
+      from BSD UNIX.
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>Widely deployed as a component, and in its own right.
+	  <itemizedlist>
+	    <listitem>Workstation, server, and high-end embedded
+	      markets.</listitem>
+	  </itemizedlist>
+	</listitem>
+
+	<listitem>Berkeley permits broad commercial re-use in open and
+	  closed source products.</listitem>
+
+	<listitem>i386, ia64, amd64, sparc64, alpha</listitem>
+
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</foil>