* Announce GNOME 2.16.2 for FreeBSD

* Announce that the FreeBSD backend was committed upstream to HAL git

en/gnome/news.xml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ News//EN"
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   <cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS"
   version="1.0">
-    <cvs:keyword name="freebsd">$FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/news.xml,v 1.84 2004/12/28 06:33:00 marcus Exp $</cvs:keyword>
+    <cvs:keyword name="freebsd">$FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/news.xml,v 1.130 2006/11/18 07:51:00 marcus Exp $</cvs:keyword>
   </cvs:keywords>
 
   <year>
@@ -28,6 +28,51 @@ News//EN"
     <month>
       <name>November</name>
 
+      <day>
+        <name>29</name>
+
+        <event>
+          <title>FreeBSD backend committed to HAL git</title>
+
+          <p>After seven months of development by Jeav-Yves Lefort and
+          Joe Marcus Clarke in MarcusCom CVS, the FreeBSD backend for
+          <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal">
+          HAL</a>
+
+          was finally
+          <a
+          href="http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commit;h=76c310d0efb5d463f06291cb02100b3b3ce1da71">
+          committed</a>
+
+          upstream into the HAL git repository. This means that future
+          releases of HAL will have FreeBSD support out-of-the-box.
+          This is a major landmark in a project that started on April
+          14, 2006 with the goal of bringing a better desktop
+          experience to FreeBSD users.</p>
+        </event>
+      </day>
+
+      <day>
+        <name>23</name>
+
+        <event>
+          <title>GNOME 2.16.2 available for FreeBSD</title>
+
+          <p>GNOME 2.16 is maturing nicely with this
+          <a
+          href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2006-November/msg00062.html">
+          second</a>
+
+          bug fix and optimization installment. Additionally, thanks to
+          our users, we have worked out quite a few bugs in the new HAL
+          implementation. Don't just stand there! Upgrade already! Not
+          a big fan of ports? Then try GNOME 2.16.2 from
+          <a href="&base;/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q21">packages</a>
+
+          .</p>
+        </event>
+      </day>
+
       <day>
         <name>14</name>