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26-Jul-2001 + New committer: Mark Peek +
16-Jul-2001 New committer: Rob Braun
16-Jul-2001 New committer: Dave Zarzycki
16-Jul-2001 New committer: Mike Barcroft
13-Jul-2001 New committer: Chern Lee (Docs)
21-Jun-2001 New committer: Brooks Davis (Networking, Mobile Computing)
20-Jun-2001 John Kozubik has submitted an article explaining How to use FreeBSD with solid state media.
17-Jun-2001 Benno Rice has completed enough work to allow FreeBSD to reach the mountroot prompt on the PowerPC processor. Please see the PowerPC platform page and mailing list for more information.
15-Jun-2001 New committer: Mike Silbersack (Networking)
14-Jun-2001 New committer: Johann Visagie (Ports)
13-Jun-2001 Robert Watson has compiled a status report for the FreeBSD Project. These reports are scheduled to continue on a monthly basis.
11-Jun-2001 New committer: Anton Berezin (all things Perl)
06-Jun-2001 New committer: David W. Chapman Jr. (Ports)
06-Jun-2001 New committer: Mark Pulford (Ports)
01-Jun-2001 New committer: Crist J. Clark (Networking, security)
24-May-2001 The famous ftp site, ftp.FreeBSD.org, is now back in full operation. Many thanks to Tele Danmark, who are supplying the machine as well as the network connection.
16-May-2001 New committer: Jim Pirzyk
02-May-2001 The first May 2001 issue of the FreeBSD 'zine is now available. Starting this month, there will be two issues per month; one on the 1st, and one on the 15th.
27-Apr-2001 FreeBSD now works with multiple processors on Alpha systems, thanks to the efforts of John Baldwin, Andrew Gallatin, and Doug Rabson.
25-Apr-2001 New committer: Takuya SHIOZAKI (Internationalization)
25-Apr-2001 New committer: Udo Erdelhoff (Docs)
18-Apr-2001 The Developer's Handbook is now available on the web site. This is an evolving resource for people wanting to develop software for FreeBSD (and not just for the committers who are developing FreeBSD). Don't forget that a complete list of documentation available from this site is also available.
17-Apr-2001 Addison Wesley have allowed us to republish Chapter 8 of the FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide. Chapter 8 provides an in-depth look at providing printing services to Windows, NT, and Novell clients using FreeBSD.
16-Apr-2001 Yet another new committer: Jens Schweikhardt (Standards compliance)
12-Apr-2001 The April issue of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available.
10-Apr-2001 The Ports Collection now contains more than 5,000 individual entries!
05-Apr-2001 New committer: George Reid (Sound support, ports)
04-Apr-2001 Wind River to Acquire BSDi Software Assets. Please read the Wind River Press Release, the announcement from Jordan K. Hubbard, and the FreeBSD Core Team statement.
25-Mar-2001 New committer: Yar Tikhiy (Networking)
24-Mar-2001 New committer: Eric Melville (System tools)
13-Mar-2001 The March issue of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available.
09-Mar-2001 New committer: Dima Dorfman (Docs)
07-Mar-2001 New committer: Michael C. Wu (Internationalization, porting efforts)
06-Mar-2001 New committer: Thomas Möstl (POSIX.1e extensions)
06-Mar-2001 New committer: Orion Hodson (Sound support)
20-Feb-2001 New committer: Jesper Skriver
16-Feb-2001 The February issue of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available.
05-Feb-2001 New committer: Mike Heffner (Audit project)
24-Jan-2001 New committer: Jimmy Olgeni (Ports)
23-Jan-2001 New committer: Dirk Meyer (Ports)
20-Jan-2001 New committer: Ying-chieh Liao (Ports)