From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Nov 17 22:41:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24CDA37B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 22:20:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from charon.ilion.eu.org (silico.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.197.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C40B43E6E for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 22:20:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pat@siliconbreeze.com) Received: from localhost (mycenae [203.35.206.129]) by charon.ilion.eu.org (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA51544 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:20:21 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from pat@siliconbreeze.com) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:20:27 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <20021118.172027.74670031.pat@jantar.org> To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Subject: BSD Christmas From: Patryk Zadarnowski X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We have received a lot of enquires from people wondering if we can still deliver our BSD Daemon Statuettes (see: http://www.bsdsouvenirs.com/beastie/ for photos) in time for Christmas. Yes, all orders placed in November should arrive in time. In the Christmas gift-giving spirit, and to encourage people to get their orders in early, we will include a surprise (a freebie) with every Beastie ordered until the end of November. I cannot reveal what the surprise is, but I can tell you that it's BSD, is made from sterling silver, has been VERY frequently requested by people in the past, and is NOT in our catalogue. We've been working on this new design for over a year, and it's finally available in this very limited run. The surprise is worth around US$25. The BSD Daemon Statuette is available from the Beastie home page at Linux Jewellery/BSD Souvenirs: http://www.bsdsouvenirs.com/beastie/ As a reminder, please remember that we can only guarantee delivery by Christmas for orders placed in November. After that, international delivery delays may cause your Beastie to be delayed until January. Pat. -- Patryk Zadarnowski Silicon Breeze Pty Limited http://www.siliconbreeze.com/ tel. +61 418 261 203 fax. +61 2 94400396 Sydney, Australia 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 Nov 18 16:39:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056EF37B401; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:39:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EFB843E3B; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:39:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org (12-240-204-110.client.attbi.com[12.240.204.110]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <20021119003912053003baj6e>; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:39:12 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAJ0dDIQ033088; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:39:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAJ0dDff033087; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:39:13 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200211190039.gAJ0dDff033087@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Cc: bmah@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #2 Now Available From: bmah@freebsd.org (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@freebsd.org X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1742306475P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:39:13 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_1742306475P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The FreeBSD Project is proud to announce the availability of the second Developer Preview snapshot of FreeBSD 5.0 (5.0-DP2). This snapshot, intended for widespread testing purposes, is the latest milestone towards the eventual release of FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE, currently scheduled for mid-December 2002. Since the release of 5.0-DP1, a number of new features have been added on the CURRENT development branch. A few of these include: o The GEOM disk geometry module and the GBDE on-disk encryption system. o A compiler toolchain based on GCC 3.2. o A new extensible Mandatory Access Control framework, the TrustedBSD MAC Framework. o The new UFS2 on-disk format, with support for larger filesystems and extended file attributes. o Support for Firewire devices. o Experimental support for the RAIDframe software RAID disk driver. Much more information can be found in the release documentation, as described below. WARNING This snapshot is not a supported release, and has not undergone any of the usual quality assurance checking that is a part of normal FreeBSD releases. It may include serious software bugs. Do not install this software on a machine where important data may be put at risk. The purpose of this snapshot is to get wider exposure to FreeBSD 5.0's new features, in advance of the release. As such, we expect that testers of 5.0-DP2 will follow the technical discussions on the freebsd-current@ mailing list. AVAILABILITY FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 is being released for the alpha, ia64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. As of this writing, 5.0-DP2/i386 is available, with other architectures to follow soon. The checksums for the two i386 ISO images are as follows: MD5 (5.0-DP2-disc1.iso) = 997ef9ed5aa3e0721678f5482d2fc664 MD5 (5.0-DP2-disc2.iso) = 425718dbf1b771c8317556b7a13842c6 Before trying the central FTP site, we strongly recommend that you check FTP mirror sites in your country or region, such as: ftp://ftp..FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ Any additional mirror sites will be named ftp2, ftp3, and so forth. Appendix A of the FreeBSD Handbook has additional information about FreeBSD mirror sites; it is available on-line at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html Some of the mirror sites known to carry 5.0-DP2 (in alphabetical order by country code) are: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp2.at.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.au.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp4.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.dk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ Release documentation is available in the distributions, as well as on the FreeBSD Web site: Release notes: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/relnotes.html Hardware notes: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/hardware.html Errata: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/errata.html Early Adopter's Guide: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/early-adopter.html LATE-BREAKING NEWS Certain parts of the KDE and GNOME desktop environments did not make it to the package sets in the i386 ISO images. The sparc64 and ia64 snapshots may or may not have package sets associated with them. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The FreeBSD Project wishes to thank the companies, developers, and users who continue to make FreeBSD releases possible. Many companies donated equipment, network access, or person-hours to finance our ongoing release engineering activities, including The FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, NTT/Verio, and Packet Design. We greatly appreciate their contributions. The release engineering team for 5.0-DP2 includes: Murray Stokely Release Engineering Team Lead John Baldwin Release Engineering, alpha and sparc64 Builds Scott Long Developer Communications Bruce A. Mah Release Documentation, i386 Build Robert Watson Release Engineering, Security Marcel Moolenaar ia64 Build TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro pc98 Build Kris Kennaway i386 and alpha Package Builds FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 is, as with every release, a cooperative effort of all of the FreeBSD committers , as well as FreeBSD users all over the world who have submitted new features, bug fixes, and suggestions. Please join us in thanking everyone for their hard work in polishing and improving the state of the FreeBSD -CURRENT development branch. We'd like to emphasize once again that this snapshot represents a work-in-progress. Please help us by testing it now, so that we can make FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE as stable and useful as possible. Thanks! Bruce A. Mah (For the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team) --==_Exmh_1742306475P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE92Ygx2MoxcVugUsMRAhQ8AJ9wUt4UVo3XQMu4jLddkY8RqAn2IwCgnmWO k95fTvxZ4rdBiU+bmGgMqWk= =1PrS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1742306475P-- 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 Nov 19 11:32:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B71E37B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:09:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from gvr.gvr.org (gvr.gvr.org [212.61.40.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8065943E97 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:09:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from guido@gvr.org) Received: by gvr.gvr.org (Postfix, from userid 657) id 55FC429B; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 20:09:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 20:09:57 +0100 From: Guido van Rooij To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Subject: FREENIX 2003 official deadline extension Message-ID: <20021119190957.GA43395@gvr.gvr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, this is to notify you that we have officially extended the submission deadline for FREENIX 2003 by seven more days. The new deadline is Monday, 11/25/2002, 11:59pm EST. FreeNIX is a very nice opportunity to inform the world about cool developments going on in the FreeBSD world! You do not have to have a full paper ready by this time: an extended abstract is enough. Please look at http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/cfp/freenix-2003-ea.html for what a good extended abstract should contain. See http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/cfp/freenix.html for more information on the FreeNIX refereed track. -Guido 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