For a detailed description of past, present, and future releases, - see the Release + see the Release Information page.
21-Sep-2000 A new committer: Bosko @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 4.1 that - occur.
12-July-2000 A new committer: Mark @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.5 that - occur.
20-June-2000
A new committer: MIHIRA
@@ -344,22 +344,22 @@
15-Mar-2000
Issue #2 of The FreeBSD
- 'zine is now available.
13-Mar-2000 FreeBSD 4.0 has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 4.0 that - occur.
09-Mar-2000 Walnut Creek CDROM and BSDI merge! Read the official press release for more - information.
22-Feb-2000 32BitsOnline.com has a review of FreeBSD 3.4 by Clifford Smith available on their web site. All in all, a good - review.
18-Feb-2000 A new committer: Brian S Dean (Kernel support for IA32 hardware debug registers, misc fixes/feature enhancements in other areas)
17-Feb-2000 A new issue of The FreeBSD 'zine 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.
10-Feb-2000 Michael Lucas has written an excellent article on the differences between the BSD license and the - GPL. This article is definitely worth reading.
+ GPL. This article is definitely worth reading.New committers: Greg
Sutter and Bill
@@ -406,20 +406,20 @@
22-Jan-2000
The FreeBSD Diary, 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.January 2000
-
13-Jan-2000 A new committer: Wilko Bulte
04-Jan-2000 The Compaq Testdrive program is now making testdrives available of the the latest FreeBSD 4.0-20000101-CURRENT release running on an Alpha XP1000 @@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ 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.
03-Jan-2000 A new committer: Patrick @@ -452,14 +452,14 @@ A new committer: Gerard Roudier (Symbios SCSI driver)
20-Dec-1999 FreeBSD 3.4 has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.4 that - occur.
18-Dec-1999
A new committer: Robert
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@
24-Oct-1999
The FreeBSD Con '99 event
this year was a big success! Over 350 people attended, and both
the vendors and attendees alike said they found the event to be
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@
Kirk McKusickOctober 1999
-
for teaching two kernel internals tutorials and
giving his History of
- BSD talk at the conference.
10-Oct-1999 A new committer: Josef @@ -520,14 +520,14 @@ A new committer: Dan Moschuk (Ports)
17-Sep-1999 + FreeBSD 3.3 has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.3 that - occur.
08-Sep-1999 New committers: Boris Popov @@ -561,11 +561,11 @@ href="mailto:alfred@FreeBSD.org">Alfred Perlstein (SMP) and Jim Mock (Docs)
10-Aug-1999 C-Forge, an Integrated Development Environment, has been released (beta) for FreeBSD, supporting C, C++, Perl, Tcl, and many other - languages.
06-Aug-1999 A new committer: Chris @@ -631,18 +631,18 @@ A new committer: Sheldon Hearn
10-Jun-1999 FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE CDs are shipping. Subscribers who did not make any special shipping arrangements should be receiving their CDs soon. Anyone who wishes to order 3.2-RELEASE or to subscribe may do so via The FreeBSD - Mall.
08-Jun-1999 A new Australian FreeBSD Web Mirror now exists. Thanks to ITworks Consulting for - providing the host.
18-May-1999 + FreeBSD 3.2 has been released. Please see the Release Information page for + href="../releases/index.html">Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after + href="../releases/3.2R/errata.html">release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.2 that you might - need to be aware of.
22-Apr-1999 The FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer is now available (in the tutorials section) for people who want to learn the technical details of the Documentation - Project.
15-Apr-1999 A new committer: Richard @@ -705,29 +705,29 @@ A new committer: Jason Evans
05-Mar-1999 The USENIX Association has announced the 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, scheduled for 06-11 June 1999 in Monterey, CA, USA. Our own Jordan Hubbard is chairing the FREENIX Track, devoted to open source software's latest developments and - interesting applications.
02-Mar-1999 A new committer: Satoshi TAOKA (Ports)
01-Mar-1999 A secure server has been set up to accept monetary donations to the FreeBSD Project. For more information, see: http://www.freebsdmall.com/donate/.
01-Mar-1999 FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE CDs are now shipping. Subscribers should receive their CDs soon. See http://www.cdrom.com/ to - order.
17-Feb-1999 The Gartner Group has released a report, Divorcing Thin Server Software from the Hardware, examining the trend in the OEM market of using software and hardware from different - vendors.
15-Feb-1999 + FreeBSD 3.1 has been released. Please see the Release Information page for + href="../releases/index.html">Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after + href="../releases/3.1R/errata.html">release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.1 that you might - need to be aware of.
04-Feb-1999 The FreeBSD Diary, a collection of how-to entries aimed at Unix novices, is now - available.
03-Feb-1999 A new committer: Daniel @@ -777,22 +777,22 @@ A new committer: Roger Hardiman (bt8x8 driver)
20-Jan-1999 3.0-STABLE has now departed the -CURRENT branch. The next release on this branch will be 3.1-RELEASE, - in mid-February 1999.
15-Jan-1999 A new committer: Andrew Gallatin (Alpha)
13-Jan-1999 The FreeBSD ezine is a monthly collection of easy to read (we hope) articles written by - FreeBSD users and administrators just like you.
10-Jan-99 Jordan Hubbard's "State of the Union", - a look back at 1998, and a look forward to the future.
13-Dec-98 Walnut Creek CDROM has opened the FreeBSD Mall, a site devoted to the commercial aspects of FreeBSD, including add-ons, hardware, and commercial tech-support. To advertise or sell your - products or services at the FreeBSD Mall, contact BSDi.
30-Nov-98 + FreeBSD 2.2.8 has been released. Please see the Release Information page for + href="../releases/index.html">Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after + href="../releases/2.2.8R/errata.html">release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 2.2.8 that you - might need to be aware of.
26-Nov-98 FreeBSD Rocks is an initiative designed to provide the FreeBSD community with the latest FreeBSD news, software and resources. All areas include search facilities, making keyword searching of historical posts a breeze. The pages are updated daily and everyone is invited to sign up an post an article. If it happened today, you'll see it - on FreeBSDRocks.
15-Oct-98 + FreeBSD 3.0 has been released. See the Release Information page for + href="../releases/index.html">Release Information page for details. Also be sure to check the release errata after + href="../releases/3.0R/errata.html">release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.0 that you might - need to be aware of.
15-Sep-98 September 15th is the scheduled date for entering BETA with the 3.0-CURRENT tree. As all of you already (should) know, 3.0 is scheduled for release on October 15th so this gives us a nice 30 @@ -863,99 +863,99 @@ in significant new work or otherwise perturb the 3.0-CURRENT tree in such a way that violates the general idea of a BETA (you're supposed to test what you have, not move the goalposts every - couple of days :).
13-Sep-98 After more than a year of development, the Common Access Method SCSI layer for FreeBSD will be integrated into 3.0-CURRENT on Sunday, September 13th. The CAM development team is currently busy ensuring that the integration process goes as smoothly as possible, so please understand that we may be slow to respond to - questions about CAM during that time.
09-Sep-98 Perl5 is now imported into the 3.0-CURRENT source - tree.
05-Sep-98 The BSD CD Giveaway List. If somebody has a CD to give away (recipient pays for shipping) or to lend locally, they can put their email address on the list. Hardware and literature can also be given away. We encourage people to donate CDs to local libraries and - put them on the list as well.
01-Sep-98 First issue of Daemon News arrives day earlier. This ezine is by the BSD community for the BSD community. See http://www.daemonnews.org/
31-Aug-98 FreeBSD -CURRENT branch (the future 3.0-RELEASE) has switched to ELF from a.out format. People involved did a great job; transition went smooth. Check the freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org mail archive for more information on the transition to - ELF.
23-Aug-98 Suidcontrol-0.1 utility has been released. The suidcontrol is an experimental utility for managing suid/sgid policy under FreeBSD. You can get more information at http://www.watson.org/fbsd-hardening/suidcontrol.html
09-Aug-98 FreeBSD Security How-To has been published. This work is currently in beta and can be found at http://www.best.com/~jkb/howto.txt
22-Jul-98 FreeBSD 2.2.7 has been released. See the Release Information page for + href="../releases/index.html">Release Information page for details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 2.2.7 that you - should know about.
16-Jul-98 A ``FreeBSD for Linux users'' documentation effort has started. Please see the list of current documentation projects for more - information.
13-Jul-98 Jordan Hubbard writes an editorial - on the past and future of the Unix community.
09-Jul-98 A Spanish translation of the FAQ has been completed by the Spanish Documentation Project. More information can be found at the translations - page.
30-May-98 FreeBSD and Apache are used in this very useful article on implementing a web farm using round-robin DNS in WEBTechniques.com.
23-May-98 The second issue of the FreeBSD Newsletter is now available in Adobe PDF format (also by is available to assist you in selecting and using a PDF viewer. Article submissions, advertisements, and letters to the editor should be sent to newsletter@FreeBSD.org.
01-May-98 The FreeBSD Project set up Anonymous CVS for the FreeBSD CVS tree. Among other things, it allows users of FreeBSD to perform, with no special privileges, read-only CVS operations against one of the FreeBSD project's official anoncvs - servers.
16-Apr-98 The new 4 CD set of FreeBSD 2.2.6 is now in stock and should start shipping to subscription and back-order customers tomorrow. More information on the CD contents are available from http://www.cdrom.com/.
11-Apr-98 The new FreeBSD project FreeBSD Mozilla Group is created. The FreeBSD Mozilla Group supports and improves the free available Netscape web browser, otherwise - known as Mozilla.
25-Mar-98 FreeBSD 2.2.6 has been released. See the Release Information page for + href="../releases/index.html">Release Information page for details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with - 2.2.6 that you should know about.
08-Feb-98 A page detailing the FreeBSD Year 2000 compliance statement is now available, linked through the Documentation page.
08-Jan-98 Improved support for Plug-n-Play cards has now been integrated into both 3.0-CURRENT and 2.2-STABLE branches now. This is available in source form via the CVSup utility or in binary release snapshots from current.FreeBSD.org
Previous announcements for 1997 and