This page lists user visible changes at the FreeBSD Web Server.

October 1999

• 30-Oct-1999
  /index.html Added Singapore web mirror.

• 25-Oct-1999
  /news/press.html Add ServerWatch article reviewing FreeBSD 3.2. Add upside.com report on the recent FreeBSDCon.
  /projects/ Added BSD Driver Database - Device Drivers In Development
  /commercial/consulting.html Add Camtech Pty Ltd

• 23-Oct-1999
  /commercial/software.html Add CobolScript entry.

• 19-Oct-1999
  /publish.html Add Japanese new magazine: BSD magazine, published by ASCII.

• 11-Oct-1999
  /support.html Added Unix Users Group Rhein-Neckar.

• 10-Oct-1999
  /news/press.html Add article from `First Monday' by Nikolai Bezroukov: ``Open source software as a special kind of academic research''.

• 5-Oct-1999
  /news/press.html Entera press release about their free FreeBSD based streaming quicktime server.
  

• 2-Oct-1999
  /commercial/software.html Add Vital, Inc. to list of software vendors.
  /commercial/misc.html Add ScotGold Products.

• 1-Oct-1999
  /releases/3.3R/errata.html Add new errata item.
  /projects/ Added Enteruser: A Replacement for Adduser.

September 1999

• 28-Sep-1999
  /internet.html Reflect wcarchive's increased FTP server load.

• 27-Sep-1999
  /news/press.html Add CAMPnet report. The winner during the "Linux Death March" contest used FreeBSD to win out over Linux attackers.

• 26-Sep-1999
  /news/press.html Add link to FAST Company's announcement. The world's biggest web search engine uses FreeBSD.

• 25-Sep-1999
  /commercial/consulting.html Added innominate AG to consulting list.
  /support.html New user groups: DEBUG, Add LFUG and VanBUG

• 22-Sep-1999
  /news/qnewsletter.html Added: FreeBSD Really-Quick(TM) NewsLetter, September 1999
  /projects/ The FreeBSD Advocacy homepage is back.

• 21-Sep-1999
  /releases/3.2R/errata.html Add latest errata.
  /support.html Added Jogja FreeBSD Users Group.

• 19-Sep-1999
  /support.html Add New Orleans *BSD users group.

• 16-Sep-1999
  /news/press.html Add 10th September Wall Street Journal article. Add Boston Globe article "Even better than Linux".
  /support.html Add CBUG (Cologne BSD Usergroup).

• 12-Sep-1999
  /support.html Added BIM (Berkeley in München).

August 1999

• 30-Aug-1999
  /availability.html Update minimum requirements - this is more in-line with today's needs.

• 21-Aug-1999
  /support.html Added Jogja FreeBSD Users Group.
  /docproj/translations.html Added new french mailing lists.
  

• 11-Aug-1999
  /projects/projects.html Remove the link to the splashscreen kit. This functionality has been included in FreeBSD for some time (see splash(4) for more information).
  /commercial/hardware.html Added Znyx.
  

• 10-Aug-1999
  /commercial/software.html, /news/newsflash.html List the new release of C-Forge for FreeBSD.
  /news/press.html Add Sysadmin September 1999 article on keeping upto-date with the BSDs. Add link to Nov 1996 SysAdmin article on assorted security tips for Unix.

• 8-Aug-1999
  /news/press.html Add reference to one more userfriendly.org comic strip.

• 4-Aug-1999
  /news/press.html Add Userfriendly cartoons for the 3rd and 4th of August.

• 3-Aug-1999
  /news/press.html Add pair Networks press release. Add Performance Computing article "Embed Together: The Case for BSD". Add the Texas A&M radio interview.

• 2-Aug-1999
  /news/press.html Add Duke University press release.

July 1999

• 29-Jul-1999
  /news/press.html Add TechWeb UK article on FreeBSD.

• 28-Jul-1999
  /docproj/translations.html Updated the address of the Russian Translation Team.
  /search/search.html Included a link to GeoCrawler's collection of mailing list archives.
  /projects/projects.html Included a link to the Xircom CEM driver development mailing list.

• 24-Jul-1999
  /news/press.html Add two articles mentioned in the press: The Net's stealth operating system (MSNBC), BSD a better OS than Linux? (ZDNET), both by Bob Sullivan.

• 15-Jul-1999
  /releases/3.2R/errata.html Update FreeBSD 3.2R errata.
  

• 14-Jul-1999
  /commercial/software.html Add Sendmail Pro.
  /commercial/hardware.html Add Dynamic Network Factory.
  /commercial/consulting.html Add Connections USA, add MindStep Corp., add Essenz Consulting

• 9-Jul-1999
  /releases/3.2R/errata.html Update FreeBSD 3.2R errata: gdb broken.
  /commercial/software.html Added Network Security Wizards.

• 7-Jul-1999
  /support.html Add FUNY and GTAFUG users groups.
  /news/press.html Add news articles: FreeBSD in Ireland, interview with Michael Doyle, GPL vs BSD license comparision, Wired interview with Rob Malda
  

• 6-Jul-1999
  /support.html Added chinese mailing list.

• 4-Jul-1999
  /support.html Add CFUG (Conneticut Free Unix user's Group).
  /y2kbug.html Add a warning about not changing dates to test for the Y2K bug on live production systems.

• 3-Jul-1999
  /index.html A new FreeBSD Web Mirror in China
  

June 1999

• 25-Jun-1999
  /support.html Add BUGO (BSD Users Group of Orlando) and the Portland Oregon FreeBSD Users group.

• 20-Jun-1999
  /news/press.html Add Network Week Online article by David Cartwright.

• 17-Jun-1999
  /news/press.html Add the ServerWatch artile reviewing FreeBSD 3.2

• 10-Jun-1999
  /news/newsflash.html 3.2 CDs are shipping

• 8-Jun-1999
  /index.html Added a link to a new Australian FreeBSD Web Mirror
  /news/press.html Pioneer Planet article introducing `alternate' OSes

• 6-Jun-1999
  /news/press.html Add C|Net review of FreeBSD 3.2
  

• 5-Jun-1999
  /projects/ Add FreeBSDCon '99, the first annual FreeBSD Conference and Expo

• 3-Jun-1999
  /news/press.html Add C|Net review of FreeBSD 3.2
  /y2kbug.html Explain troff y2k bugfix
  

May 1999

• 26-May-1999
  /news/press.html Add Windows NT Systems article on thin servers
  /news/press.html Add TechWeb article on thin servers.
  /internal/statistic.html New record for ftp.freebsd.org FTP traffic.
  

• 25-May-1999
  /releases/3.2R/errata.html Update FreeBSD 3.2R errata.

• 24-May-1999
  /support.html Add VicFUG, the FreeBSD user's group in Victoria Australia.
  

• 23-May-1999
  /projects/ BUDS: BSD Unix Distributed Simple-ly
  /projects/ Soundblaster Awe64 configuration
  

• 20-May-1999
  /news/press.html Add BBC news article
  /news/press.html Article on "Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix" from O'Reilly's ``opensources'' book by Marshall Kirk McKusick.
  

• 18-May-1999
  /releases/3.2R New release FreeBSD 3.2R
  

• 17-May-1999
  /support.html Added User Group entry for NYC FreeBSD Users's Group
  /gallery/ Update FreeBSD Gallery entries through 17 May 1999.

• 13-May-1999
  /news/press.html Added: link to Inktomi press release about Traffic Server 3.0.
  /news/press.html Add link to Data Communications April 99 article.
  

• 12-May-1999
  /news/press.html Added: XML: Complete XML Development System Integrated with FreeBSD, By Jordan Hubbard
  /news/press.html Added: The Matrix: FreeBSD Used to Generate Special Effects, By Jordan Hubbard
  

• 8-May-1999
  /news/press.html Added: SunWorld: Silicon Carny: Why I run FreeBSD, by Rich Morin
  /commercial/consulting.html Add and entry for Adimus GmbH & Co. KG, Bochum, Germany
  /projects/ Added V9FS: Memory-based file system for FreeBSD
  /projects/ Added the FreeBSD Advocacy Project
  

• 6-May-1999
  /commercial/consulting.html Add an entry for the FreeBSD Mall
  

• 5-May-1999
  /news/press.html Added: Add pcweek article The other open-source OS: FreeBSD
  /support.html Add Cosmo-Project
  

• 4-May-1999
  /news/press.html Added: Press release about ftp.freebsd.org upgrade.
  

• 2-May-1999
  /projects/ Added The FreeBSD Cook Book
  /internal/developer.html Added the page Resources for FreeBSD Committers
  

• 1-May-1999
  /commercial/software.html Added Polyhedra, a main memory object-relational database
  /commercial/consulting.html Added DaemonWare
  

April 1999

• 26-Apr-1999
  /tutorials/ Added: The FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer
  /docproj/translations.html Update Russian documentation project.
  /y2kbug.html Update Y2K page
  /support.html Added Indonesian mailing list.

• 25-Apr-1999
  /commercial/consulting.html Added MediaCenter, a swedish consulting company
  /commercial/consulting.html Added OpenWorld
  /commercial/consulting.html Added Pine Internet
  /commercial/consulting.html Added InterACT
  /commercial/hardware.html Added ADCOMTEC
  /copyright/daemon.html Added BSD Daemon badges from ScotGold
  /support.html Added Phoenix BSD Users Group
  /projects/ The FreeBSD Programmer's Documentation Project
  

• 22-Apr-1999
  /support.html Added FreeBSD Indonesia.

• 20-Apr-1999
  /news/press.html Added: Add osOpinion article "Let's Get More Educated About FreeBSD"

• 18-Apr-1999
  /internal/photos.html Add link to photos taken at the AUUG spring conference in Sydney.

• 17-Apr-1999
  /support.html Added spain cvsweb.cgi mirror
  

• 15-Apr-1999
  /support.html Added South Australian FreeBSD Users Group (SAFUG)
  /news/press.html Added: the ZDNet article.

• 14-Apr-1999
  /news/press.html Added: Refer to an article on FreeBSD in "Internet World"
  /news/press.html Added: upside.com article.
  

• 12-Apr-1999
  /docproj/sgml.html Added paper Build and update of the FreeBSD Web pages.

• 11-Apr-1999
  /news/press.html Added: Fairfax IT News - Rising support for BSD

• 9-Apr-1999
  /news/press.html Added: CNN - Serious FTP: Behind the scenes of Walnut Creek CDROM, by Rich Morin.

• 4-Apr-1999
  /commercial/software.html Add a DEV subcategory to the software section, for development tools (programmers editors, IDEs, debuggers, etc).
  /commercial/software.html Added Acadix Software's "Another Programmers Editor"
  /commercial/consulting.html Added CodeGen, Inc.
  /commercial/software.html Added DBMaker.
  /commercial/consulting.html Added Boulder Labs.
  /commercial/software.html Added WebEvent, by Matador Design
  /commercial/software.html Added NetBeans, Inc.
  /docproj/translations.html Update French documentation project.
  

March 1999

• 30-Mar-1999
  /y2kbug.html Add fix information to Y2K page; includes the fixed version number and date.

• 27-Mar-1999
  /news/press.html Added: A FreeBSD Comic Strip, from March 27
  /handbook/ Handbook conversion from LinuxDoc to DocBook finished
  

• 26-Mar-1999
  /news/press.html Added: A FreeBSD Comic Strip, from User Friendly, serial from March 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
  

• 24-Mar-1999
  /news/press.html Added: A FreeBSD Comic Strip, from User Friendly
  

• 14-Mar-1999
  /projects/ Added: The Open Directory Project
  /projects/ Added: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows NT
  /projects/ Added: The Internet Operating System Counter
  /news/press.html Added: O'Reilly Open Source - Whence the Source: Untangling the Open Source/Free Software Debate, By Thomas Scoville
  

• 13-Mar-1999
  /projects/ Added: The FreeBSD WebBoard is a place where the FreeBSD community can help eachother out.
  /releases/3.1R/errata.html Update FreeBSD 3.1R errata.

• 11-Mar-1999
  /ports/ Added: Y2k Statements
  

February 1999

• 27-Feb-1999
  /news/qnewsletter.html Added: FreeBSD Really-Quick(TM) NewsLetter, Volume #2 Issue #2
  

• 21-Feb-1999
  /projects/ Added: The Rio (RAM I/O) project.
  /projects/ Added: The OSKit.
  /news/press.html Added: The Economist - Hackers rule
  /news/press.html Added: LWN interviews Alan Cox

• 18-Feb-1999
  /news/press.html Added: GartnerGroup: Divorcing Thin Server Software from the Hardware, by J. Staten
  /news/newsflash.html, /send-pr.html, /docs.html, /releases/ More cute pictures for the web pages.

• 14-Feb-1999
  /releases/3.1R/announce.html FreeBSD 3.1 has been released

• 11-Feb-1999
  /es/ Spanish FreeBSD Web pages

• 9-Feb-1999
  /projects/ Added: FreeBSD cross reference. A hypertext cross referenced presentation of the FreeBSD kernel sourecode.

• 7-Feb-1999
  /news/qnewsletter.html Added: FreeBSD Really-Quick(TM) NewsLetter, Volume #2 Issue #1

• 6-Feb-1999
  /handbook/internals-vm.html Added new Handbook section: The FreeBSD VM System

• 3-Feb-1999
  /zh/FAQ/ Added: Chinese FAQ
  /news/ Added: The FreeBSD Diary
  

January 1999

• 27-Jan-1999
  /commercial/ Added: Aaronsen Group, Ltd - advises on and implements a wide range of internetworking technologies.

• 26-Jan-1999
  /tutorials/index.html Added: Installing the FreeBSD NTFS driver tutorial.
  /handbook/pgpkeys.html has a new section containing FreeBSD Developers's PGP keys.
  /FAQ/networking.html answers the often asked 'bpf' (Berkeley Packet Filter) questions.

• 25-Jan-1999
  /news/press.html Added: Linux Journal, January 1999: Installation and Configuration of FreeBSD, by Sean Eric Fagan.

• 23-Jan-1999
  /news/press.html Added: Nature Web Matters, 7 January 1999: Internet Tomograph, by K.C. Claffy, Tracie Monk & Daniel McRobb, UCSD/CAIDA, USA.

• 22-Jan-1999
  /commercial/ Added: Metro Link - produces accelerated and enhanced replacement X servers, and more! Updated: Sleepycat Software - makes Berkeley DB, an embeddable database system with full source. Offers high-end data management services, including full transaction support, and very large databases.

• 21-Jan-1999
  /commercial/ The Commercial Gallery's Consulting and Software sections are now divided into sub-categories!

• 15-Jan-1999
  /y2kbug.html Add a note regarding date issues in fetch(1) and the HTTP protocol.

• 12-Jan-1999
  /news/news.html Added: FreeBSD ezine.

• 8-Jan-1999
  /commercial/consulting.html Added: Collective Technologies - offering client/server systems management consulting.

• 7-Jan-1999
  /news/press.html Added: SunWorld January 1999: The return of BSD - What are the BSD flavors and why might you use them? By Greg Lehey.

• 5-Jan-1999
  /commercial/consulting.html Added: Infinitum Singapore - provides network security solutions using FreeBSD and other Unix platforms.

• 3-Jan-1999
  /support.html Added Chicago FreeBSD Users Group.

• 2-Jan-1999
  /commercial/consulting.html Added: Roble Systems - Unix, network and security consulting. Offering installation of turnkey and custom FreeBSD firewalls, network, and web servers. Removed: Duplicate ASG Technologies entry.

December 1998

• 30-Dec-1998
  /commercial/software.html Added: InterBase - The Perfect Embedded Database. Behind every great client/server Xapplication you'll find a great database.
  /ru/FAQ/FAQ.html Added Russian translation of the FAQ.
  

• 29-Dec-1998
  /gallery/ Update FreeBSD Gallery entries through 29 Dec 1998.

• 28-Dec-1998
  http://www.freebsd.org/mail/ A new mail index for the FreeBSD mailing lists.
  /news/newsflash.html Added notice about 3.0's move from -current to -stable.
  /releases/2.2.8R/errata.html Update FreeBSD 2.2.8R errata.

• 27-Dec-1998
  /commercial/software.html Added: Sleepycat Software offers the Berkeley Database product. Berkeley DB is a programmatic toolkit that provides high-performance embedded database support.
  /support.html New name and home for the San Francisco users group.

• 21-Dec-1998
  /news/webchanges.html Added this page.

• 19-Dec-1998
  /news/press.html Update URL for: DV Live Magazine: April 98, Who's Serving Who?, by Nels Johnson
  Update URL for: SysAdmin May 1998 Volume 7 Number 5 Security Tools in FreeBSD, by Guy Helmer
  /security/security.html Bring in the new security guide

• 18-Dec-1998
  /cgi/ports.cgi Move the links 'Sources' and 'Package' after 'Description'.
  /news/press.html Add pointer to Linuxworld article.

• 17-Dec-1998
  /index.html Remove index.html, replace with index.sgml
  Reordered the two main columns. A new row has been added at the top, and the second column (as it appears in a graphical browser) is in this row. The left hand side bar is in the second row. Text browsers should then display the main text first, with the quick links afterwards. The display on graphical browsers should be almost identical to how it was before.
  /releases/2.2.8R/errata.html Better errata fix.

• 16-Dec-1998
  /commercial/software.html Added: Software2Go, LLC is proud to announce the availability of Motif 2.1.10 for FreeBSD versions 2.2.x (a.out) and 3.0 (ELF).
  /projects/projects.html Added: Linux Threads under FreeBSD.

• 15-Dec-1998
  /internal/photos.html Added a link to page about the FreeBSD-UK meet in Oxford.

• 14-Dec-1998
  /cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi Quote arguments to query-pr so that multi-word arguments can be used in the query.

• 13-Dec-1998
  /news/newsflash.html Added entry for the FreeBSD Mall.
  /news/press.html Added: Mercury Center October 26, 1998 Unix back in the fight with NT, by Miguel Helft.
  Added: News.com February 2, 1998 Source code for the masses, by Alex Lash.
  /mailto.html Added the FreeBSD Mall to the snail mail section.
  /support.html Added Los Angeles based BSD user group.

• 12-Dec-1998
  /docs.html Added FreeBSD 2.2.8 manual pages.

• 9-Dec-1998
  /commercial/consulting.html Added HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH.

• 8-Dec-1998
  /ports/ Due a bug in INDEX parsing only the run dependencies where printed.
  /news/press.html Added: RELEASE 1.0 November 1998 The Open-Source Revolution, by Tim O'Reilly, with an introduction by Esther Dyson.
  /commercial/hardware.html Update for Apache Digital Corporation.

• 6-Dec-1998
  /y2kbug.html Update info about Y2K fix in groff.
  /internal/statistic.html New record for ftp.freebsd.org FTP traffic.
  /news/press.html Added: NET News.com November 16, 1998 Ellison plans hardware, bashes Bill, By Tim Clark Larry Ellsion talking about their new dedicated Oracle servers, mentions FreeBSD as one of a list of candidate OSs for the platform.
  Added: Linux Today November 20th, 1998 Report from Comdex--Walnut Creek CDROM, FreeBSD and Slackware by Dwight Johnson.
  Added: CNET News.com June 14, 1998 Nader urges Windows probe, By Jeff Pelline Consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader mentioned FreeBSD by name.
  /commercial/software.html Added the Network shell.
  /ports/ Bugfix in ur.cgi: Dots valid parts of a port name (shudder). E.g.: ports/russian/elm.language.
  /commercial/consulting.html Added ASG Technologies.

• 4-Dec-1998
  /news/qnewsletter.html Added Quick NewsLetter Volume #1 Issue #7.

• 3-Dec-1998
  /news/newsflash.html Announce 2.2.8R.