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 <!ENTITY title "The FreeBSD Project">
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+<!ENTITY date  "$FreeBSD: www/en/index.sgml,v 1.120 2001/05/15 20:10:08 ache Exp $">
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-		    <h2 align="center"><font
-					     color="#FFFFFF">IMPORTANT</font></h2>
-
-		    <p><font color="#FFFFFF">Due to technical difficulties at
-			our ISP you may find that <em>ftp.freebsd.org</em> is
-			unreachable, and/or does not contain the usual
-			content.  Unfortunately this will affect many of the
-			links from this site.  We do not have an ETA for the
-			return of normal service, but we are working as
-			quickly as possible to get a replacement up and
-			running.  In the meantime, we
-			<strong>strongly</strong> suggest you use a
-			<a
-			   href="&base;/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">mirror site</a>
-			, of the form
-			ftp.<em>country-code</em>.freebsd.org. Thank you for
-			your patience.</font></p>
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 	    <h2><font color="#990000">What is FreeBSD?</font></h2>
 
 	    <p>FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system for the
