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the now mandatory 'long' format. This should catch everything, with the exception of the release notes.
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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/news/1998/index.sgml,v 1.7 2002/03/16 08:09:21 murray Exp $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD News Flash! (1998)">
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<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../../includes.sgml"> %includes;
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<!ENTITY newshome '<a href="../news.html">News Home</a>'>
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&header;
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<h2>December 1998</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>28-Dec-98</b>
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Unless circumstances dictate otherwise, FreeBSD 3.0 will depart
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the -CURRENT branch late in the day on 15 January 1999. The 3.1
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release will follow 30 days later, on 15 February 1999.
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Developers should consider this as ADVANCE NOTICE of these
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events.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>13-Dec-98</b>
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Walnut Creek CDROM has opened the <a
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href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">FreeBSD Mall</a>, a site
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devoted to the commercial aspects of FreeBSD, including add-ons,
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hardware, and commercial tech-support. To advertise or sell your
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products or services at the FreeBSD Mall, contact BSDi.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>November 1998</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>30-Nov-98</b>
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<a href="&base;/releases/2.2.8R/announce.html">FreeBSD 2.2.8</a>
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has been released. Please see the <a
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href="&base;/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for
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more details. Also be sure to check the <a
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href="&base;/releases/2.2.8R/errata.html">release errata</a> after
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installation for any late-breaking issues with 2.2.8 that you
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might need to be aware of.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>26-Nov-98</b>
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<a href="http://www.freebsdrocks.com/">FreeBSD Rocks</a> is an
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initiative designed to provide the FreeBSD community with the
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latest FreeBSD news, software and resources. All areas include
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search facilities, making keyword searching of historical posts
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a breeze. The pages are updated daily and everyone is invited to
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sign up an post an article. If it happened today, you'll see it
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on FreeBSDRocks.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>October 1998</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>15-Oct-98</b>
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<a href="&base;/releases/3.0R/announce.html">FreeBSD 3.0</a> has
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been released. See the <a
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href="&base;/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for
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details. Also be sure to check the <a
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href="&base;/releases/3.0R/errata.html">release errata</a> after
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installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.0 that you might
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need to be aware of.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>September 1998</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>15-Sep-98</b>
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September 15th is the scheduled date for entering BETA with the
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3.0-CURRENT tree. As all of you already (should) know, 3.0 is
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scheduled for release on October 15th so this gives us a nice 30
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day BETA period. During this time, I don't expect anyone to drop
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in significant new work or otherwise perturb the 3.0-CURRENT tree
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in such a way that violates the general idea of a BETA (you're
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supposed to test what you have, not move the goalposts every
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couple of days :).</p></li>
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<li><p><b>13-Sep-98</b>
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After more than a year of development, the Common Access Method
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SCSI layer for FreeBSD will be integrated into 3.0-CURRENT on
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Sunday, September 13th. The CAM development team is currently
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busy ensuring that the integration process goes as smoothly as
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possible, so please understand that we may be slow to respond to
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questions about CAM during that time.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>09-Sep-98</b>
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Perl5 is now imported into the 3.0-CURRENT source
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tree.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>05-Sep-98</b>
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<a name="giveaway" href="http://visar.csustan.edu/">The BSD CD
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Giveaway List</a>. If somebody has a CD to give away (recipient
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pays for shipping) or to lend locally, they can put their email
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address on the list. Hardware and literature can also be given
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away. We encourage people to donate CDs to local libraries and
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put them on the list as well.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>01-Sep-98</b>
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First issue of Daemon News arrives day earlier. This ezine is
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by the BSD community for the BSD community. See <a
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href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">http://www.daemonnews.org/</a></p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>August 1998</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>31-Aug-98</b>
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FreeBSD -CURRENT branch (the future 3.0-RELEASE) has switched to
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ELF from a.out format. People involved did a great job;
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transition went smooth. Check the <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/search/search.html">freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org</a>
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mail archive for more information on the transition to
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ELF.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>23-Aug-98</b>
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Suidcontrol-0.1 utility has been released. The suidcontrol is an
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experimental utility for managing suid/sgid policy under FreeBSD.
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You can get more information at <a
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href="http://www.watson.org/fbsd-hardening/suidcontrol.html">http://www.watson.org/fbsd-hardening/suidcontrol.html</a></p></li>
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<li><p><b>09-Aug-98</b>
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FreeBSD Security How-To has been published. This work is
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currently in beta and can be found at <a
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href="http://www.best.com/~jkb/howto.txt">http://www.best.com/~jkb/howto.txt</a></p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>July 1998</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>22-Jul-98</b>
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FreeBSD 2.2.7 has been released. See the <a
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href="&base;/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for
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details. Also be sure to check the <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT">release errata</a>
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after installation for any late-breaking issues with 2.2.7 that you
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should know about.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>16-Jul-98</b>
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A ``FreeBSD for Linux users'' documentation effort has
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started. Please see the <a href="&base;/docproj/current.html">list of
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current documentation projects</a> for more
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information.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>13-Jul-98</b>
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<a href="mailto:jkh@FreeBSD.org">Jordan Hubbard</a> writes an <a
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href="http://editorials.freshmeat.net/jordan980713/">editorial</a>
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on the past and future of the Unix community.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>09-Jul-98</b>
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A <a href="http://www.es.FreeBSD.org/es/FAQ/FAQ.html">Spanish
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translation</a> of the <a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html">FAQ</a> has been
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completed by the <a href="http://www.es.FreeBSD.org/es/">Spanish
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Documentation Project</a>. More information can be found at the <a
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href="&base;/docproj/translations.html">translations
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page</a>.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>May 1998</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>30-May-98</b>
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FreeBSD and Apache are used in <a
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href="http://www.WebTechniques.com/features/1998/05/engelschall/engelschall.shtml">this
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very useful article</a> on implementing a web farm using round-robin
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DNS in <a
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href="http://www.WebTechniques.com/">WEBTechniques.com</a>.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>23-May-98</b>
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The second issue of the FreeBSD Newsletter is now available in <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/newsletter/issue2.pdf">Adobe
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PDF format</a> (also by <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/newsletter/issue2.pdf">FTP</a>).
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A <a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/newsletter/README.TXT">help
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file</a> is available to assist you in selecting and using a PDF
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viewer. Article submissions, advertisements, and letters to the
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editor should be sent to <a
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href="mailto:newsletter@FreeBSD.org">newsletter@FreeBSD.org</a>.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>01-May-98</b>
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The FreeBSD Project set up <a name="anoncvs"
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href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html#ANONCVS">Anonymous CVS</a> for the
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<a href="http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/">FreeBSD CVS
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tree</a>. Among other things, it allows users of FreeBSD to
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perform, with no special privileges, read-only CVS operations
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against one of the FreeBSD project's official anoncvs
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servers.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>April 1998</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>16-Apr-98</b>
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The new 4 CD set of FreeBSD 2.2.6 is now in stock and should start
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shipping to subscription and back-order customers tomorrow. More
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information on the CD contents are available from <a
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href="http://www.wccdrom.com/">http://www.wccdrom.com/</a>.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>11-Apr-98</b>
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The new FreeBSD project FreeBSD
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Mozilla Group is created. The FreeBSD Mozilla Group supports
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and improves the free available Netscape web browser, otherwise
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known as <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/">Mozilla</a>.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>March 1998</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>25-Mar-98</b>
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FreeBSD 2.2.6 has been released. See the <a
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href="&base;/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for
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details. Also be sure to check the <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.6-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT">release
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errata</a> after installation for any late-breaking issues with
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2.2.6 that you should know about.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>February 1998</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>08-Feb-98</b>
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A page detailing the <a href="&base;/y2kbug.html">FreeBSD Year 2000
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compliance statement</a> is now available, linked through the <a
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href="&base;/docs.html">Documentation</a> page.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>January 1998</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>08-Jan-98</b>
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Improved support for Plug-n-Play cards has now been integrated
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into both 3.0-CURRENT and 2.2-STABLE branches now. This is
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available in source form via the <a
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href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html#CVSUP">CVSup</a> utility or in
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binary release snapshots from <a
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href="ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD">current.FreeBSD.org</a></p></li>
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</ul>
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