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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/news/newsflash.sgml,v 1.283 2001/06/20 16:21:56 nik Exp $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD News Flash!">
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<img src="&base;/gifs/news.jpg" align="right" border="0" width="193"
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height="144" alt="FreeBSD News">
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<p>FreeBSD is a rapidly developing operating system. Keeping up on
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the latest developments can be a chore! To keep on top of things,
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be sure and check this page periodically. Also, you may wish to
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subscribe to the <a
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href="&base;/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL">freebsd-announce
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mailing list</a>.</p>
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<p>For latest news of FreeBSD Java Project please visit <a
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href="&base;/java/newsflash.html">FreeBSD/Java NewsFlash</a> page.</p>
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<p>For a detailed description of past, present, and future releases,
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see the <strong><a href="&base;/releases/index.html">Release
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Information</a></strong> page.</p>
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<p>For FreeBSD Security Advisories, please refer to the <a
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href="/security/#adv">Security Information</a> page.</p>
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<h2>June 2001</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>21-Jun-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:brooks@FreeBSD.org">Brooks Davis</a>
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(Networking, Mobile Computing)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>20-Jun-2001</b>
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<a href="mailto:john@kozubik.com">John Kozubik</a> has submitted
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an article explaining <a
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href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/solid-state/index.html">How
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to use FreeBSD with solid state media</a>.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>17-Jun-2001</b>
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<a href="mailto:benno@FreeBSD.org">Benno Rice</a> has completed enough
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work to allow FreeBSD to reach the mountroot prompt on the PowerPC
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processor. Please see the PowerPC platform <a
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href="&base;/platforms/ppc.html">page</a> and mailing list for more
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information.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>15-Jun-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:silby@FreeBSD.org">Mike Silbersack</a>
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(Networking)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>14-Jun-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:wjv@FreeBSD.org">Johann Visagie</a>
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(Ports)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>13-Jun-2001</b>
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<a href="mailto:rwatson@FreeBSD.org">Robert Watson</a> has compiled
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a <a
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href="http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=481962+0+archive/2001/freebsd-hackers/20010617.freebsd-hackers">status report</a>
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for the FreeBSD Project. These reports are scheduled to continue on a
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monthly basis.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>11-Jun-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:tobez@FreeBSD.org">Anton Berezin</a>
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(all things Perl)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>06-Jun-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:dwcjr@FreeBSD.org">David W. Chapman Jr.
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</a>(Ports)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>06-Jun-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:markp@FreeBSD.org">Mark Pulford</a>
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(Ports)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>01-Jun-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:cjc@FreeBSD.org">Crist J. Clark</a>
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(Networking, security)
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</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>May 2001</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>24-May-2001</b>
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The famous ftp site,
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<a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/">ftp.FreeBSD.org</a>, is now back in
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full operation. Many thanks to
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<a href="http://www.teledanmark.com/english/menu/start.htm">
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Tele Danmark</a>, who are supplying the machine as well as the network
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connection.
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</p></li>
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<li><p><b>16-May-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:pirzyk@FreeBSD.org">Jim Pirzyk</a>
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</p></li>
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<li><p><b>02-May-2001</b>
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The first May 2001 issue of the <a
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href="http://www.freebsdzine.org/">FreeBSD 'zine</a> is now
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available. Starting this month, there will be two issues
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per month; one on the 1st, and one on the 15th.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>April 2001</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>27-Apr-2001</b>
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FreeBSD now works with multiple processors on Alpha systems, thanks to
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the efforts of <a href="mailto:jhb@FreeBSD.org">John Baldwin</a>,
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<a href="mailto:gallatin@FreeBSD.org">Andrew Gallatin</a>, and
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<a href="mailto:dfr@FreeBSD.org">Doug Rabson</a>.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>25-Apr-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:tshiozak@FreeBSD.org">Takuya SHIOZAKI</a>
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(Internationalization)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>25-Apr-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:ue@FreeBSD.org">Udo Erdelhoff</a>
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(Docs)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>18-Apr-2001</b>
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The <a
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href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/index.html">Developer's
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Handbook</a> is now available on the web site. This is an evolving
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resource for people wanting to develop software for FreeBSD (and not
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just for the committers who are developing FreeBSD). Don't forget
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that a <a href="&base;/docs.html">complete list of documentation</a>
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available from this site is also available.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>17-Apr-2001</b>
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Addison Wesley have allowed us to republish <a
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href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/corp-net-guide/index.html">Chapter
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8</a> of the <a
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href="http://cseng.aw.com/book/0,,0201704811,00.html">FreeBSD
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Corporate Networker's Guide</a>. Chapter 8 provides an in-depth
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look at providing printing services to Windows, NT, and Novell
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clients using FreeBSD.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>16-Apr-2001</b>
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Yet another new committer: <a href="mailto:schweikh@FreeBSD.org">Jens
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Schweikhardt</a> (Standards compliance)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>12-Apr-2001</b>
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The April issue of <a href="http://www.freebsdzine.org/">The
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FreeBSD 'zine</a> is now available.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>10-Apr-2001</b>
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The <a href="&base;/ports/index.html">Ports Collection</a> now
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contains more than 5,000 individual entries!</p></li>
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<li><p><b>05-Apr-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:greid@FreeBSD.org">George Reid</a>
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(Sound support, ports)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>04-Apr-2001</b>
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Wind River to Acquire BSDi Software Assets. Please read the <a
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href="http://www.windriver.com/press/html/bsdi.html">Wind River
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Press Release</a>, the announcement from <a
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href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010404220529.E3AFE37B727">Jordan
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K. Hubbard</a>, and the <a
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href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010405211037.46990E-100000">FreeBSD
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Core Team statement</a>.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>March 2001</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>25-Mar-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:yar@FreeBSD.org">Yar Tikhiy</a>
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(Networking)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>24-Mar-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:eric@FreeBSD.org">Eric Melville</a>
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(System tools)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>13-Mar-2001</b>
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The March issue of <a href="http://www.freebsdzine.org/">The
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FreeBSD 'zine</a> is now available.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>09-Mar-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:dd@FreeBSD.org">Dima Dorfman</a>
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(Docs)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>07-Mar-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:keichii@FreeBSD.org">Michael C. Wu</a>
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(Internationalization, porting efforts)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>06-Mar-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:tmm@FreeBSD.org">Thomas Möstl</a>
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(POSIX.1e extensions)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>06-Mar-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:orion@FreeBSD.org">Orion Hodson</a>
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(Sound support)</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>February 2001</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>20-Feb-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:jesper@FreeBSD.org">Jesper
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Skriver</a></p></li>
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<li><p><b>16-Feb-2001</b>
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The February issue of <a href="http://www.freebsdzine.org/">The
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FreeBSD 'zine</a> is now available.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>05-Feb-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:mikeh@FreeBSD.org">Mike Heffner</a>
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(Audit project)</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>January 2001</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>24-Jan-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:olgeni@FreeBSD.org">Jimmy Olgeni</a>
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(Ports)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>23-Jan-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:dinoex@FreeBSD.org">Dirk Meyer</a>
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(Ports)</p></li>
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<li><p><b>20-Jan-2001</b>
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New committer: <a href="mailto:ijliao@FreeBSD.org">Ying-chieh Liao</a>
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(Ports)</p></li>
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</ul>
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<p>Older announcements:
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<a href="2000/index.html">2000</a>,
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<a href="1999/index.html">1999</a>,
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<a href="1998/index.html">1998</a>,
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<a href="1997/index.html">1997</a>,
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<a href="1996/index.html">1996</a></p>
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&newshome;
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