diff --git a/en/news/news.xml b/en/news/news.xml index 2093cd1eb0..f0bc3fb24c 100644 --- a/en/news/news.xml +++ b/en/news/news.xml @@ -1,1060 +1,1069 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <!-- Simple schema for FreeBSD Project news. Divide time in to <year>, <month>, and <day> elements, each of which has a <name>. each <day> element contains one or more <event> elements. Each <event> contains an optional <title>, and then a <p>. <p> elements can contain <a> anchors. Within the "href" attribute of the anchor $base will be replaced with the base URI necessary to reach the FreeBSD document root, and should always be used to start URLs at www.FreeBSD.org or one of the mirrors. Use the <title> element if the <p> content is lengthy. When generating synopses of this information (e.g., for syndication using RDF files), the contents of <title> will be preferred over <p>. --> <news> <cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0"> <cvs:keyword name="freebsd"> - $FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.149 2003/06/09 17:22:55 bmah Exp $ + $FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.150 2003/06/13 17:16:12 jmg Exp $ </cvs:keyword> </cvs:keywords> <year> <name>2003</name> <month> <name>June</name> + <day> + <name>17</name> + <event> + <p>New committer: <a + href="mailto:lev@FreeBSD.org">Lev Serebryakov</a> + (Ports)</p> + </event> + </day> + <day> <name>13</name> <event> <p>Returning committer: <a href="mailto:jmg@FreeBSD.org">John-Mark Gurney</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>9</name> <event> <title>FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE is Now Available</title> <p><a href="$base/releases/5.1R/announce.html">FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE</a> is now available. Please see the <a href="$base/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for more details. Also be sure to check the <a href="$base/releases/5.1R/errata.html">release errata</a> for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.1.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>6</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:osa@FreeBSD.org">Sergey A. Osokin</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>4</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:erwin@FreeBSD.org">Erwin Lansing</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> </month> <month> <name>May</name> <day> <name>6</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:oliver@FreeBSD.org">Oliver Lehmann</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>5</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:mich@FreeBSD.org">Michael L. Hostbaek</a></p> </event> </day> </month> <month> <name>April</name> <day> <name>14</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:hmp@FreeBSD.org">Hiten M. Pandya</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>9</name> <event> <title>New performance@ mailing list</title> <p>The performance@ mailing list exists to provide a place for hackers, administrators, and/or concerned parties to discuss performance related topics pertaining to FreeBSD. Acceptable topics includes talking about FreeBSD installations that are either under high load, are experiencing performance problems, or are pushing the limits of FreeBSD. Concerned parties that are willing to work toward improving the performance of FreeBSD are highly encouraged to subscribe to this list. This is a highly technical list ideally suited for experienced FreeBSD users, hackers, or administrators interested in keeping FreeBSD fast, robust, and scalable. To subscribe, please visit the <a href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance">freebsd-performance@ web interface</a>.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>8</name> <event> <title>FreeBSD.org mailing lists use Mailman</title> <p>Majordomo served its purpose well, but has been retired in favor of <a href="http://www.list.org/">Mailman</a>. It is now possible to browse through the authoritative list of mailing lists by heading over to <a href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo">http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo</a> or by browsing through the <a href="/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL">handbook's section on mailing lists</a>. A big thanks to Peter Wemm is in order for spending the time to seamlessly convert the various lists over to Mailman, thank you.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>3</name> <event> <title>FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE is Now Available</title> <p><a href="$base/releases/4.8R/announce.html">FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE</a> has been released. Please see the <a href="$base/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for more details. Also be sure to check the <a href="$base/releases/4.8R/errata.html">release errata</a> after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.8.</p> </event> </day> </month> <month> <name>March</name> <day> <name>15</name> <event> <title>January 2003 - February 2003 Status Report</title> <p>The January-February status report is now available; see the <a href="$base/news/status/status.html">status reports Web page</a> for more information.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>6</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:arun@FreeBSD.org">Arun Sharma</a></p> </event> </day> </month> <month> <name>February</name> <day> <name>21</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:das@FreeBSD.org">David Schultz</a></p> </event> </day> </month> <month> <name>January</name> <day> <name>30</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:harti@FreeBSD.org">Hartmut Brandt</a> (Sparc and ATM)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>23</name> <event> <title>November 2002 - December 2002 Status Report</title> <p>The November-December status report is now available; see the <a href="$base/news/status/status.html">status reports Web page</a> for more information.</p> </event> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:rushani@FreeBSD.org">Hideyuki KURASHINA</a> (Documentation Project)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>19</name> <event> <title>FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE is now available</title> <p><a href="$base/releases/5.0R/announce.html">FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE</a> has been released. Please see the <a href="$base/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for more details. Also be sure to check the <a href="$base/releases/5.0R/errata.html">release errata</a> after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.0.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>13</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:brueffer@FreeBSD.org">Christian Brüffer</a> (Documentation Project)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>06</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:mtm@FreeBSD.org">Michael Telahun Makonnen</a></p> </event> </day> </month> </year> <year> <name>2002</name> <month> <name>November</name> <day> <name>25</name> <event> <title>September 2002 - October 2002 Status Report</title> <p>The September-October status report is now available; see the <a href="$base/news/status/status.html">status reports Web page</a> for more information.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>23</name> <event> <title>BSD Conference Japan 2002</title> <p><a href="http://bsdcon.jp/">BSD Conference Japan 2002</a> was held in Tokyo on November 23rd, 2002. During the conference FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD folks in Japan got together to discuss various topics of mutual interest. In addition, <a href="http://www.apple.com/">Apple Computer, Inc.</a> gave us excellent lectures about Mac OS X and Rendezvous. <a href="http://www.matsui.co.jp/">Matsui Securities Co.,Ltd</a>, <a href="http://www.yahoo.co.jp/">Yahoo Japan Corporation</a>, and <a href="http://www.sakura.ad.jp/">SRS SAKURA Internet Inc.</a> gave case studies of how FreeBSD is used in their production environments. <a href="http://www.brains.co.jp/eng-ver/e-index.html">Brains Corporation</a> gave a talk on <a href="http://www.brains.co.jp/eng-ver/e-mmeyedemo/index.html">mmEye</a>, which is equipped with 32bit RISC CPU SH-3 and runs NetBSD.</p> <p>The event report published by Mainichi Communications inc., can be found at <a href="http://pcweb.mycom.co.jp/news/2002/11/25/10.html">MYCOM PCWEB (but sorry, Japanese only)</a>. There were 172 attendees at the conference. We are pleased with this turnout, considering that this was the first attempt to hold such an event in Japan.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>18</name> <event> <title>FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #2 Now Available</title> <p>The second developer preview snapshot of 5.0-CURRENT is <a href="$base/releases/5.0R/DP2/announce.html">now available</a>. Please see the <a href="$base/releases/5.0R/DP2/relnotes.html">release notes</a>, <a href="$base/releases/5.0R/DP2/errata.html">errata</a>, and the new <a href="$base/releases/5.0R/DP2/early-adopter.html">Early Adopter's Guide</a> for more information.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>7</name> <event> <p>nVidia releases Geforce drivers for FreeBSD! Check out the <a href="ftp://download.nvidia.com/freebsd/1.0-3203/README.txt">README</a> for more information.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>1</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:stephane@FreeBSD.org">Stéphane Legrand</a> (Documentation Project)</p> </event> </day> </month> <month> <name>October</name> <day> <name>31</name> <event> <p>Opera is natively ported to FreeBSD! Read the official <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/press-rel-6.html">press release</a> for more information.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>22</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:edwin@FreeBSD.org">Edwin Groothuis</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>18</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:arved@FreeBSD.org">Tilman Linneweh</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>18</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:daichi@FreeBSD.org">Daichi GOTO</a> (Ports)</p> </event> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:maho@FreeBSD.org">Maho Nakata</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>16</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:adamw@FreeBSD.org">Adam Weinberger</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>11</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:cognet@FreeBSD.org">Olivier Houchard</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>10</name> <event> <title>FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE is now available</title> <p><a href="$base/releases/4.7R/announce.html">FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE</a> has been released. Please see the <a href="$base/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for more details. Also be sure to check the <a href="$base/releases/4.7R/errata.html">release errata</a> after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.7.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>9</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:emoore@FreeBSD.org">Eric Moore</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>4</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:mheinen@FreeBSD.org">Martin Heinen</a> (Documentation Project)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>3</name> <event> <title>July 2002 - August 2002 Status Report</title> <p>The July-August status report is now available; see the <a href="$base/news/status/status.html">status reports Web page</a> for more information.</p> </event> </day> </month> <month> <name>September</name> <day> <name>10</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:grehan@FreeBSD.org">Peter Grehan</a> (PowerPC)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>2</name> <event> <p>Notes from the USENIX ATC 2002 <a href="$base/events/2002/usenix-devsummit.html"> FreeBSD Developer Summit</a> are now available.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>1</name> <event> <title>FreeBSD-STABLE tree frozen in preparation for 4.7</title> <p>The FreeBSD-STABLE branch of the source tree has now been frozen in <a href="$base/releases/4.7R/schedule.html">preparation</a> for the release of FreeBSD 4.7. This means that any new commits to the -stable source tree must be approved by the <a href="$base/releng/">release engineering team</a> first. Our expected "ship" date for 4.7 is October 1, 2002.</p> </event> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:davidxu@FreeBSD.org">David Xu</a> (KSE)</p> </event> </day> </month> <month> <name>August</name> <day> <name>21</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:obraun@FreeBSD.org">Oliver Braun</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>20</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:thomas@FreeBSD.org">Thomas Quinot</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>15</name> <event> <title>May 2002 - June 2002 Status Report</title> <p>The May-June 2002 status report is now available; see the <a href="$base/news/status/status.html">status reports Web page</a> for more information.</p> </event> <event> <title>FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE is now available</title> <p><a href="$base/releases/4.6.2R/announce.html">FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE</a> has been released. Please see the <a href="$base/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for more details. Also be sure to check the <a href="$base/releases/4.6.2R/errata.html">release errata</a> after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.6.2.</p> </event> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:seanc@FreeBSD.org">Sean Chittenden</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>14</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:leeym@FreeBSD.org">Yen-Ming Lee</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>8</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:jennifer@FreeBSD.org">Jennifer Jihui Yang</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>7</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:njl@FreeBSD.org">Nate Lawson</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>1</name> <event> <title>The Open Group makes a generous donation to FreeBSD</title> <p><a href="http://www.opengroup.org">The Open Group</a> has generously donated several copies of the Authorized Guide to The Single UNIX Specification, Version 3, books and CD-ROMs to the <a href="$base/projects/c99/index.html">FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance Project</a>. We are greatly appreciative of their gift.</p> </event> </day> </month> <month> <name>July</name> <day> <name>19</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:kan@FreeBSD.org">Alexander Kabaev</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>1</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:johan@FreeBSD.org">Johan Karlsson</a></p> </event> </day> </month> <month> <name>June</name> <day> <name>25</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:perky@FreeBSD.org">Hye-Shik Chang</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>18</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:scop@FreeBSD.org">Ville Skytt�</a> (projects/cvsweb)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>16</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:blackend@FreeBSD.org">Marc Fonvieille</a> (Documentation Project)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>15</name> <event> <title>FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE is now available</title> <p><a href="$base/releases/4.6R/announce.html">FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE</a> has been released. Please see the <a href="$base/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for more details. Also be sure to check the <a href="$base/releases/4.6R/errata.html">release errata</a> after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.6.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>12</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:alane@FreeBSD.org">Alan Eldridge</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> </month> <month> <name>May</name> <day> <name>23</name> <event> <title>FreeBSD PR Handling Guidelines</title> <p>The <a href="$base/doc/en/articles/pr-guidelines/article.html"> FreeBSD PR Handling Guidelines provide recommended practices for working with FreeBSD problem reports.</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>18</name> <event> <title>February 2002 - April 2002 Status Report</title> <p>The February-April status report is now available; see the <a href="$base/news/status/status.html">status reports Web page</a> for more information.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>16</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:gordon@FreeBSD.org">Gordon Tetlow</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>7</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:fanf@FreeBSD.org">Tony Finch</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>1</name> <event> <title>FreeBSD-STABLE tree frozen in preparation for 4.6</title> <p>The FreeBSD-STABLE branch of the source tree has now been frozen in <a href="$base/releases/4.6R/schedule.html">preparation</a> for the release of FreeBSD 4.6. This means that any new commits to the -stable source tree must be approved by the release engineering team first. Our expected "ship" date for 4.6 is June 1, 2002.</p> </event> </day> </month> <month> <name>April</name> <day> <name>29</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:ikob@FreeBSD.org">Katsushi Kobayashi</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>21</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:anholt@FreeBSD.org">Eric Anholt</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>15</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:mini@FreeBSD.org">Jonathan Mini</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>12</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:tjr@FreeBSD.org">Tim Robbins</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>11</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>8</name> <event> <title>FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 now available</title> <p>A developer preview snapshot of 5.0-CURRENT is now <a href="$base/releases/5.0R/DP1/announce.html">available</a>. Please see the <a href="$base/releases/5.0R/DP1/relnotes.html">release notes</a> for more information. Also be sure to check the <a href="$base/releases/5.0R/DP1/errata.html">release errata</a> for a list of known problems.</p> </event> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:gerald@FreeBSD.org">Gerald Pfeifer</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>5</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:marcus@FreeBSD.org">Joe Marcus Clarke</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>1</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:nork@FreeBSD.org">Norikatsu Shigemura</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> </month> <month> <name>March</name> <day> <name>30</name> <event> <p>Notes from the BSDCon 2002 <a href="$base/events/2002/bsdcon-devsummit.html"> FreeBSD Developer Summit</a> are now available.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>28</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:trhodes@FreeBSD.org">Tom Rhodes</a> (Documentation Project)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>29</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:suz@FreeBSD.org">SUZUKI Shinsuke</a> (IPv6)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>19</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:netchild@FreeBSD.org">Alexander Leidinger</a> (Ports)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>17</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:ceri@FreeBSD.org">Ceri Davies</a> (Documentation)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>12</name> <event> <title>Updated release schedule now available</title> <p>A new area of the FreeBSD web site has been created dedicated to <a href="$base/releng/index.html">release engineering</a>. This new section contains information about future releases of FreeBSD, a specific schedule for the upcoming releases of FreeBSD 4.6 and 5.0, and more.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>9</name> <event> <title>SMP sparc64 now works</title> <p>FreeBSD now works with multiple processors on sparc64 systems, thanks to the efforts of <a href="mailto:jake@FreeBSD.org">Jake Burkholder</a>, and <a href="mailto:tmm@FreeBSD.org">Thomas Moestl</a>.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>3</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:mux@FreeBSD.org">Maxime Henrion</a> (VFS, SMP, ...)</p> </event> </day> </month> <month> <name>February</name> <day> <name>25</name> <event> <title>December 2001 - January 2002 Status Report</title> <p>The December/January status report is now available; see the <a href="$base/news/status/status.html">status reports Web page</a> for more information.</p> </event> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:jmallett@FreeBSD.org">J. Mallett</a></p> </event> </day> <day> <name>18</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:ticso@FreeBSD.org">Bernd Walter</a> (Alpha)</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>11</name> <event> <title>New GNOME section of the FreeBSD.org site</title> <p><a href="mailto:freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org">FreeBSD GNOME team</a> is proud to announce new section of the FreeBSD.org site devoted to various aspects of the GNOME desktop and development environment on the FreeBSD. Check it out <a href="$base/gnome/">here</a>. </p> </event> </day> <day> <name>7</name> <event> <p>New committer: <a href="mailto:maxim@FreeBSD.org">Maxim Konovalov</a></p> </event> </day> </month> <month> <name>January</name> <day> <name>31</name> <event> <title>BSDCon Europe 2002 - Call for Papers</title> <p>The <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon2002.org/cfp.html">announcement and call for papers</a> for BSDCon Europe 2002 has been released. This conference will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands some time in November 2002. Individuals interested in presenting a paper at the conference should submit an abstract by June 24, 2002.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>29</name> <event> <title>FreeBSD 4.5 is now available</title> <p><a href="$base/releases/4.5R/announce.html">FreeBSD 4.5</a> has been released. Please see the <a href="$base/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for more details. Also be sure to check the <a href="$base/releases/4.5R/errata.html">release errata</a> after installation for any late-breaking issues with 4.5 that may occur.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>12</name> <event> <title>Testing Guide now available for upcoming 4.5 release.</title> <p>The FreeBSD 4.5 Release Engineering Team has submitted a <a href="$base/releases/4.5R/qa.html">testing guide</a> for the upcoming FreeBSD 4.5 release. Please help us ensure that 4.5 is our most stable and highest performance release yet.</p> </event> </day> <day> <name>10</name> <event> <title>New tutorial: "The Euro symbol on FreeBSD"</title> <p>Aaron Kaplan has submitted a new article explaining how to adjust your system configuration to use the new <a href="$base/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/euro/article.html">Euro symbol on FreeBSD</a>.</p> </event> </day> </month> </year> </news>