FreeBSD News Flash! (1999)
December 1999
30-Dec-1999 A new committer: Gerard Roudier (Symbios SCSI driver)
20-Dec-1999 FreeBSD 3.4 has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.4 that occur.
18-Dec-1999 A new committer: Robert Watson (Coda, POSIX.1e ACLs/Capabilities/Auditing/MAC, FFS extended attributes, Jail code improvements/documentation, IPFW/BPF cleanup)
16-Dec-1999 Remove a committer: James Raynard, "I have decided to resign as a committer as it's been a very long time since I last had the time to work on FreeBSD and things have now got to the point where not even "speed reading" can help me keep up with the commit mail." Our thanks to James for the time and effort he has contributed to FreeBSD.
A new committer: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (Docs, in particular mdoc, low-level interfaces, and other source tree related documentation)
15-Dec-1999 A new committer: Chris D. Faulhaber
14-Dec-1999 A new committer: Neil Blakey-Milner (Docs)
October 1999
24-Oct-1999 The FreeBSD Con '99 event this year was a big success! Over 350 people attended, and both the vendors and attendees alike said they found the event to be both entertaining and valuable. Many thanks to Walnut Creek CDROM for producing this event and to Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick for teaching two kernel internals tutorials and giving his History of BSD talk at the conference.
10-Oct-1999 A new committer: Josef Karthauser
September 1999
27-Sep-1999 A new committer: Yukihiro Nakai (Ports)
26-Sep-1999 A new committer: Dan Moschuk (Ports)
17-Sep-1999 FreeBSD 3.3 has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.3 that occur.
08-Sep-1999 New committers: Boris Popov (Netware) and Wilfredo Sanchez (FreeBSD/Apple Darwin collaboration)
05-Sep-1999 A new committer: Jose M. Alcaide (Docs/Spanish translation)
03-Sep-1999 New committers: R. Imura (Ports/KDE), Andrey Zakhvatov (Docs/Russian translation) and Sebastien Gioria (Docs/French translation)
02-Sep-1999 A new committer: Alexey Zelkin (Localization/Docs/Russian translation)
August 1999
23-Aug-1999 A new committer: John Baldwin (Docs)
11-Aug-1999 New committers: Alfred Perlstein (SMP) and Jim Mock (Docs)
10-Aug-1999 C-Forge, an Integrated Development Environment, has been released (beta) for FreeBSD, supporting C, C++, Perl, Tcl, and many other languages.
06-Aug-1999 A new committer: Chris Costello (Docs)
04-Aug-1999 A new committer: Peter Holm (Docs)
July 1999
29-Jul-1999 New committers: Yoshinobu Inoue and Munechika Sumikawa (KAME/IPv6)
27-Jul-1999 A new committer: Matthew N. Dodd (EISA/PCI/newbus)
14-Jul-1999 A new committer: Seigo Tanimura (MIDI)
07-Jul-1999 A new committer: Cameron Grant (PCM)
03-Jul-1999 A new committer: Marcel Moolenaar (Linux compat)
01-Jul-1999 New committers: Takahashi Yoshihiro (PC98) and Masahide MAEKAWA
June 1999
30-Jun-1999 New committers: Larry Lile (Token Ring), Daniel Baker (Ports), and Daniel Eischen
19-Jun-1999 A new committer: Chris Piazza
18-Jun-1999 A new committer: Mitsuru IWASAKI
17-Jun-1999 A new committer: Brian Feldman
14-Jun-1999 A new committer: Sheldon Hearn
10-Jun-1999 FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE CDs are shipping. Subscribers who did not make any special shipping arrangements should be receiving their CDs soon. Anyone who wishes to order 3.2-RELEASE or to subscribe may do so via The FreeBSD Mall.
08-Jun-1999 A new Australian FreeBSD Web Mirror now exists. Thanks to ITworks Consulting for providing the host.
May 1999
28-May-1999 A new committer: Kevin Lo
27-May-1999 A new committer: Ruslan Ermilov
26-May-1999 A new committer: Mark J. Taylor
18-May-1999 FreeBSD 3.2 has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.2 that you might need to be aware of.
April 1999
30-Apr-1999 A new committer: Tom Hukins (Docs)
22-Apr-1999 The FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer is now available (in the tutorials section) for people who want to learn the technical details of the Documentation Project.
15-Apr-1999 A new committer: Richard Seaman
13-Apr-1999 A new committer: Michael Haro
March 1999
30-Mar-1999 A new committer: Nick Sayer
10-Mar-1999 A new committer: Jason Evans
05-Mar-1999 The USENIX Association has announced the 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, scheduled for 06-11 June 1999 in Monterey, CA, USA. Our own Jordan Hubbard is chairing the FREENIX Track, devoted to open source software's latest developments and interesting applications.
02-Mar-1999 A new committer: Satoshi TAOKA (Ports)
01-Mar-1999 A secure server has been set up to accept monetary donations to the FreeBSD Project. For more information, see: http://www.freebsdmall.com/donate/.
01-Mar-1999 FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE CDs are now shipping. Subscribers should receive their CDs soon. See http://www.wccdrom.com/ to order.
February 1999
25-Feb-1999 A new committer: Shigeyuki FUKUSHIMA
23-Feb-1999 A new committer: Alan Cox (VM)
19-Feb-1999 A new committer: Kris Kennaway
17-Feb-1999 The Gartner Group has released a report, Divorcing Thin Server Software from the Hardware, examining the trend in the OEM market of using software and hardware from different vendors.
15-Feb-1999 FreeBSD 3.1 has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.1 that you might need to be aware of.
04-Feb-1999 The FreeBSD Diary, a collection of how-to entries aimed at Unix novices, is now available.
03-Feb-1999 A new committer: Daniel Sobral (Bootloader)
January 1999
21-Jan-1999 A new committer: Roger Hardiman (bt8x8 driver)
20-Jan-1999 3.0-STABLE has now departed the -CURRENT branch. The next release on this branch will be 3.1-RELEASE, in mid-February 1999.
15-Jan-1999 A new committer: Andrew Gallatin (Alpha)
13-Jan-1999 The FreeBSD ezine is a monthly collection of easy to read (we hope) articles written by FreeBSD users and administrators just like you.
10-Jan-99 Jordan Hubbard's "State of the Union", a look back at 1998, and a look forward to the future.
02-Jan-1999 A new committer: Hidetoshi Shimokawa (Alpha/Ports)