From owner-freebsd-announce Mon Dec 20 10:45:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0980B14BB7 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:45:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: (from jkh@localhost) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA01421 for announce@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:45:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:45:47 -0800 (PST) From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Message-Id: <199912201845.KAA01421@zippy.cdrom.com> To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE is now available Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just in under the wire for the current millenium, I'm happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, the very latest in 3.x-STABLE branch technology. Following the release of FreeBSD 3.3 in Sept, 1999, a lot of new features have been added, many bugs were fixed and even more important security issues were dealt with. Please see the release notes for more information. FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE is available at ftp.freebsd.org and various FTP mirror sites throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD from The FreeBSD Mall, from where it will be shipping soon on a 4 CD set containing installation bits for x86 architecture, as well a lot of other material of general interest to programmers and end-users alike (3.4-RELEASE for the Alpha architecture is available from the FTP site and will also be available on CDROM several weeks after the x86 product is released). NOTE: All of the profits from the sales of this CD set go to support the FreeBSD Project! We are also continuing our new tradition (started with 3.3-RELEASE) of making disc #1 from Walnut Creek CDROM's official distribution available via anonymous FTP. This is the most important CD of their 4 set, one which will allow users to install the base system and all of its most important add-ons from a single ISO 9660 image. We are doing this because the ISO image is rapidly becoming the preferred format for distributing operating system releases and we're certainly not going to go out of our way to make FreeBSD harder to "test drive" if providing the standard NFS/FTP network installation methods is no longer enough. This is a fully-bootable ISO 9660 (with RockRidge extentions) image and can be written as a raw ISO image by most CD creator software. We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the rather large installation (660MB) image, but it will at least be available from: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/3.4-install.cd0 along with the more traditional 3.4-RELEASE bits. If you can't afford the CDs, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO, otherwise please do continue to support the FreeBSD project by purchasing one of its official CD releases from Walnut Creek CDROM. The official FTP distribution site for FreeBSD is: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD Or via the WEB pages at: http://www.freebsdmall.com and http://www.cdrom.com And directly from Walnut Creek CDROM: Walnut Creek CDROM 4041 Pike Lane, #F Concord CA, 94520 USA Phone: +1 925 674-0783 Fax: +1 925 674-0821 Tech Support: +1 925 603-1234 Email: info@cdrom.com WWW: http://www.cdrom.com/ Additionally, FreeBSD is available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the Ukraine and the United Kingdom (and quite possibly several others which I've never even heard of :). Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to: ftp://ftp..freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on. The latest versions of export-restricted code for FreeBSD (2.0C or later) (eBones and secure) are also being made available at the following locations. If you are outside the U.S. or Canada, please get secure (DES) and eBones (Kerberos) from one of the following foreign distribution sites: South Africa ftp://ftp.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp2.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD Brazil ftp://ftp.br.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD Finland ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD/eurocrypt Thanks! - Jordan This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-announce Mon Dec 20 18:29: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EBD615386 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:28:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA10101 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:28:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA32973 for freebsd-announce@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:28:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:28:56 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Anonymous CVS server is back in operation Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The FreeBSD anonymous CVS server "anoncvs.freebsd.org" is back in service now. Usage has changed slightly. In particular, you'll need to set your CVSROOT environment variable to ":pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs" and use "cvs login" with the password "anoncvs" to gain initial access. See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/synching.html#ANONCVS for details. John Polstra FreeBSD Source Tree Distributionmeister This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-announce Tue Dec 21 18:23:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC9DF14DF4 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:23:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA06453 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:23:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: 3.4-RELEASE ISO image now available. Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:23:38 -0800 Message-ID: <6449.945829418@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Apologies to those who went to ftp.freebsd.org and found the 3.4-RELEASE ISO image to be unreadable. A problem with the packages/All/INDEX file was found on the first image and this was bad enough to require regeneration and re-transferring of the image to ftp.freebsd.org. The old image, having already been transferred over, simply never had its read bit set since that's something I only do once I'm totally sure the image is correct (it's hard on the mirror sites otherwise). This is not an issue for those installing 3.4 via FTP since the packages directory in that case is a symlink to a collection without this problem. In any case, the new image is there and ready for download. I've also fixed the first item in the 3.4 ERRATA (custom install problem) and put new installation boot floppies in 3.4-RELEASE/floppies/updates/ on ftp.freebsd.org, where they should be mirrored shortly. The ISO image still has this problem since it was not deemed serious enough to justify re-rolling the entire ISO image - see the ERRATA for fuller details. I'd also like to note that 3.4 looks like a pretty good release otherwise and I hope that nobody takes this easily-avoided (and now fixed) installation bogon as indicative of any lack of quality in the work that other people have done to bring you this release. As the release notes show, there's quite a bit of really good work which has gone into 3.4 and I beg your forbearance for our little pre-Christmas rush to get it out on time. Regards (and happy holidays), - Jordan P.S. Yes I KNOW the current millennium ends on Dec 31, 2000 and not this year. A million math-aware individuals could not, however, stand against the inspirational might of those three little zeros and we all know it, so just consider yourselves outnumbered and give up, OK? :-) This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. 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