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FreeBSD Used to Generate Spectacular Special Effects

Concord, CA, April 22, 1999: 32 Dual-Processor FreeBSD systems were used to generate a large number of special effects in the cutting edge Warner Brothers film, The Matrix.

Manex Visual Effects used 32 Dell Precision 410 Dual P-II/450 Processor systems running FreeBSD as the core CG Render Farm. Charles Henrich, the senior systems administrator at Manex, says, "We came to a point in the production where we realized we just did not have enough computing power on our existing SGI infrastructure to get through the 3-D intensive sequences. It was at that point we decided on going with a FreeBSD based solution, due to the ability to get the hardware quickly as well as the reliability and ease of administration that FreeBSD provides us. Working with Dell, we purchased 32 of these systems on a Wednesday, and had them rendering in production by Saturday afternoon. It was truly an amazing effort on everyone's part, and I don't believe it would've been possible had we chosen to go with any other Operating System solution."

The FreeBSD operating system is a powerful, completely open-source system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution of UNIX. It is available free of charge from numerous Internet websites and also on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek CDROM, and includes thousands of ported applications including 3-D graphics rendering and many other equally powerful tools. FreeBSD is optimized for use on the Intel x86 processor line that is the heart of today's versatile commodity personal computers. Infinitely customizable, FreeBSD is at the heart of such Internet powerhouse applications as Yahoo! and U.S. West because it is unencumbered by commercial license restrictions and can be copied and modified freely.

For more information on FreeBSD, visit http://www.FreeBSD.org/ and http://www.cdrom.com/. For more information about Manex Visual Effects, please visit http://www.mvfx.com/ .

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Complete XML Development System Integrated with FreeBSD

Concord, CA, April 29, 1999: Included with FreeBSD 3.1 is a complete, integrated SGML/XML development system that installs with a simple, easy to use command sequence.

FreeBSD's Ports system and multitasking architecture makes it easy for an SGML/XML developer to download and install all the latest versions of the tools and reference material he needs to develop SGML and XML formatting languages and documents, and the online Internet mailing lists help him learn and keep up-to-date with the evolving XML implementation.

FreeBSD is a full-featured open-source operating system which runs on virtually all Intel x86-based personal computers. Its 580 page "Handbook" has recently been completely done over into DocBook format, and it is a living example of an evolving document built with SGML tools. The Handbook is available on the Internet at:

The FreeBSD Documentation Project is also making available the "FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer" to make it as painless as possible for newcomers to contribute to the FreeBSD Documentation Set. Much of the information in the primer is appropriate to all SGML/XML users, and is freely available. The primer, which is constantly being updated by the Documentation Project team, can be found at:

Features of the Document Project SGML/XML System include:

The FreeBSD Documentation Project is actively migrating from the LinuxDoc DTD to the DocBook DTD, and has been providing feedback to the DocBook maintainers regarding new features and possible implementations for the past year. For more information about the FreeBSD Documentation Project, please contact the freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org mailing list.

The FreeBSD operating system is available on the Internet from the master FreeBSD website and from various mirror systems around the world, and it can also be obtained on convenient CDROMs from Walnut Creek CDROM. Information on all of these options is available through:

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BSD Community Welcomes Apple's New Open Source Operating System

Concord, CA, June 7, 1999: Today, at the start of the UNIX development community's annual Usenix convention, operating system influentials embraced Apple Computer's Darwin (www.apple.com/darwin) as a new member of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) operating system family.

"We're very pleased to have Apple's participation in the BSD community," said Jordan Hubbard, chairman of the USENIX convention's Freenix track and co-founder of the FreeBSD Project. "As more smart businesses discover the incredible free resource that is BSD software, they'll realize that contributing to open source development is in their best interest."

According to Herb Peyerl of the NetBSD Project, "Our interaction with Apple on the Darwin project has been extremely rewarding for NetBSD and is the kind of open cooperation of which we would like to see more."

"Leveraging the twenty-year BSD heritage allows Apple developers to concentrate on adding a unique user experience to the solid, robust foundation of the BSD code," according to Avie Tevanian, Apple Computer's senior vice president of Software Engineering. "We believe that by embracing the open source movement with our Darwin software, the result will be better products for millions of Mac customers worldwide. The BSD code in Darwin is an essential part of our operating system strategy."

This type of reciprocation is a return to the original software development model that was universal in the early days of computing, before PCs. Wilfredo Sanchez, technical lead for the Darwin Project, will speak on Darwin at this week's Freenix track, a series of programs at Usenix devoted exclusively to this sort of open source software development.

About NetBSD and FreeBSD

NetBSD and FreeBSD are open source operating systems based on the last public release of BSD UNIX, 4.4BSDLite2. Each effort has kept up with the latest technologies in processors and software architectures. While having different priorities, the BSD development teams share a friendly competitive rivalry, spurring each other on to produce better product for their worldwide users. Over the twenty years of development, a huge base of software has been developed around BSD -- including much of the Internet infrastructure -- enabling the OS to be used effectively in almost any computing application. The open development model means there are no secrets, creating a worldwide understanding of the code which enables BSD developers to build on the efforts of prior developers without the hassles endemic to proprietary operating systems and applications.

For More Information, Contact:

The FreeBSD Project
Concord, California
925-682-7859
freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
http://www.FreeBSD.org

The NetBSD Project
C/O Charles M. Hannum
81 Bromfield Rd, #2
Somerville, MA 02144
mindshare@netbsd.org
http://www.netbsd.org

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BSD SUPPLIERS UNITE TO DELIVER THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR INTERNET OPERATING SYSTEMS

The New BSDI To Deliver Renowned BSD Operating System Technologies And Back The Rapidly Growing FreeBSD Open Source Community

Colorado Springs, Colo., March 9, 2000: Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI) announced today that it has merged with Walnut Creek CDROM, the distributor of the popular FreeBSD operating system. As a merged company, the new BSDI unites the leading developers and suppliers of the Berkeley Software Distribution operating system BSDI will develop and deliver advanced BSDŽ Internet operating systems and platforms, while providing the open source FreeBSD Project with technology, backing and expanded support.

BSD operating systems run some of the Internet's most highly trafficked sites and largest service providers, including Yahoo!, Microsoft's Hotmail and UUNET, an MCI WorldCom company. BSD and Linux are today's fastest-growing operating systems, according to Survey.com, the leading eResearch company.

BSD operating system, networking and Internet technologies have achieved widespread acceptance in the Internet infrastructure. Over 100,000 commercial Internet customers run BSD operating systems on more than 2,000,000 BSD-powered servers. It is estimated that nine out of 10 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Network Service Providers (NSPs) as well as 15 percent of all Internet sites run BSD systems. BSD operating systems are also embedded in innovative Internet appliances from Intel, IBM, Lucent, F5 Labs, Hitachi and many others.

BSDI also announced that Yahoo! Inc. will take an equity interest in the new company. BSDI will leverage the equity interest to execute on its plan to build a bridge between open source innovation and commercial requirements. The equity position will be used to grow BSDI's presence as a leading provider of the most advanced Internet operating systems for the Internet infrastructure.

BSDI intends to form a united front for the BSD operating systems. The company will deliver, support and enhance both BSD/OS and FreeBSD. BSDI and the FreeBSD Project are jointly evaluating the technology and market requirements for merging parts of the code bases for the two operating systems.

The New BSDI's Leadership

"BSD technologies have evolved from a long history of advanced computing at the core of the Internet," said Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick, BSDI's chairman of the board. "The new BSDI will further enrich the popular BSD computing platform, which is already widely deployed throughout the world." McKusick was a founding member of the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) and is widely acknowledged as a key early contributor to the open source movement.

To drive the new BSDI's vision, roadmap and continued profitable growth, Gary J. Johnson has been appointed chief executive officer. Johnson is an experienced technology executive who has served in a variety of senior management, sales, marketing and operations capacities with leading Silicon Valley companies including Tandem Computers (Compaq), Convergent Technologies (Unisys) and SCO. Johnson most recently served as president of ClickService Software, a leading provider of e-commerce, customer relationship management (CRM) software.

"Innovation in the operating systems arena relies heavily on work in the open source community," said Johnson. "To date, Linux suppliers, such as Red Hat Software and VA Linux, have captured impressive attention for the open source approach to development. At the core of the Internet, however, BSD technologies are pervasive. The new BSDI will be working closely with the open source community to ensure that advanced BSD Internet operating systems and platforms continue to meet the ever-increasing demands for Internet servers, applications, appliances and other elements vital to the Internet infrastructure."

In addition to his current responsibilities, Mike Karels, BSDI's vice president of engineering and the former chief system architect and principal programmer for the University of California at Berkeley's CSRG, plans to join the architectural team for the FreeBSD Project. Karels, who replaced Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy at the CSRG, is recognized as one of the world's foremost developers of Unix internals and TCP/IP networking software.

"BSD technologies have contributed to Yahoo!'s continued success by offering the reliability and level of service necessary to ensure the availability and scalability we need to keep Yahoo! up and running around the clock regardless of increasing user demand," said David Filo, co-founder and Chief Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc.

BSDI Continues To Deliver BSD/OS And FreeBSD; Expands And Accelerates FreeBSD Open Source Initiatives

The new BSDI will sell and support FreeBSD, BSD/OS, BSDI Internet Super Server and value-added BSD product lines through its worldwide sales channels to Internet infrastructure providers, appliance developers and business users. BSDI will offer commercially supported BSD operating systems and related applications, Internet appliance platforms, technical support and services, open source software development, and consulting services. The company will deliver its BSD Internet and networking technologies on leading microprocessor platforms, including Intel, SPARC, Alpha, PowerPC and StrongARM.

BSDI will continue to develop, enhance and distribute BSD/OS and FreeBSD according to the terms of the business-friendly, unencumbered Berkeley software license, which encourages development for open source software projects, embedded systems, specialized applications, information appliances and other operating system-enabled products.

BSDI will expand and accelerate Walnut Creek CDROM's FreeBSD open source initiatives by sharing BSD/OS technical innovations with the FreeBSD Project and by providing this open source project with operational and technical support, marketing and funding. BSDI will continue to distribute packaged versions of FreeBSD and also plans to develop value-added products based on FreeBSD as well as to provide technical support, consulting services, educational services and training for FreeBSD customers. These steps are expected to promote and invigorate the BSD open source computing movement. The FreeBSD Project develops the popular FreeBSD operating system and aggregates and integrates contributed software from more than 5,000 developers worldwide.

Internet and Open Source Leaders Support The New BSDI

"We are delighted that BSDI is backing the FreeBSD open source community," said Jordan Hubbard, chief evangelist and co-founder of the FreeBSD Project. "The new BSDI has considerable expertise in commercializing, maintaining, distributing and supporting the world's most advanced Internet operating systems. We are excited and greatly looking forward to partnering with BSDI's chief developers, especially Mike Karels and other original members of UC Berkeley's CSRG, to accelerate operating system, networking and Internet innovation."

"Open source operating systems like BSD offer better technology and more choices to the customer," said Eric Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative. "I expect BSDI to prove yet again that the open source and business communities can really to do great things together, driving the industry forward as dramatically as the Internet."

"Our research shows that BSD and Linux will increase their share of enterprise servers by between 100 percent and 500 percent over the next two years in the fundamental applications that run U.S. business," said Dave Trowbridge, senior analyst at Survey.com. "This new company will help ensure that BSD gets its place in the sun, which its rich heritage and solid technical foundations deserve."

About the Berkeley Software Distribution Operating System

Berkeley Software Distribution operating system technologies were originally developed from 1979 to 1992 by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley-derived operating system and networking technologies are at the heart of most modern Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Today, virtually every major Internet infrastructure provider uses BSD operating systems. BSD operating system technologies are used by leading mission-critical network computing environments and are embedded in Internet appliance platforms that require advanced Internet functionality, reliability and security.

About the FreeBSD Project

FreeBSD is a popular open source operating system developed by the FreeBSD Project and its worldwide team, consisting of more than 5,000 developers funneling their work to 185 "committer" developers. It is available free of charge from ftp.FreeBSD.org and also distributed as a shrink-wrap software product through CompUSA, Fry's, Borders, Ingram, FreeBSDmall.com and others. FreeBSD includes thousands of ported applications, including the most popular Web, Internet and E-mail applications. FreeBSD is distributed under the Berkeley Software Distribution license, which means that it can be copied and modified freely. For more information about the FreeBSD Project, visit www.FreeBSD.org.

About Walnut Creek CDROM

Walnut Creek CDROM was founded in 1991 and began publishing Linux software in 1992, and BSD software in 1993. The company has a long history of working closely with the free software community and providing funding, staffing and other resources for open source projects. Walnut Creek CDROM publishes numerous software titles, including FreeBSD and Slackware, the most BSD-like version of Linux.

About Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI)

Leading BSD developers founded Berkeley Software Design, Inc. in 1991 to commercialize BSD technologies and continue the Berkeley Unix tradition of robust, reliable and extremely secure Internet operating systems for network computing. By merging Berkeley Software Design, Inc. and Walnut Creek CDROM, BSDI becomes the world's leading supplier of advanced Internet operating systems for the Internet infrastructure. Contact BSDI at info@BSDI.com or at www.BSDI.com or call 1-719-593-9445 (toll free: 1-800-800-4273).

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BSD is a registered trademark and BSD/OS and BSDI are trademarks of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

Contact:
Kevin Rose
BSDI
801-553-8166
kgr@bsdi.com

Jordan Hubbard
FreeBSD Project
925-691-2863
jkh@FreeBSD.org

Brigid Fuller
ZNA Communications
831-425-1581
brigid@zna.com

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