31 December, 2001: BSDCon will be hosted by the Usenix Association this year. The conference will run from February 11-14 in San Francisco. The FreeBSD Project will have a broad presence at this conference, and anyone interested in learning more about specific technologies or the FreeBSD Project in general is encouraged to attend.
28 December, 2001: New committer: Doug Ambrisko (Aironet)
27 December, 2001: New committer: Sergey Skvortsov (Ports)
21 December, 2001: The FreeBSD-stable branch of the source tree has now been frozen in preparation for the release of FreeBSD 4.5. 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 4.5 is January 20th, 2002.
21 December, 2001: The November 2001 status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
21 December, 2001: The FreeBSD Backports Collection is a new site created by D J Hawkey Jr. It contains patches that appeared in FreeBSD-stable that have not yet been merged in to older releases. Wider testing of these patches makes it more likely that they will be committed to earlier FreeBSD releases. So if your site relies on earlier releases of FreeBSD, and, for whatever reason, you do not wish to update to the most recent release, you are encouraged to visit this site frequently.
20 December, 2001: New committer: Martin Blapp (Ports)
7 December, 2001: BSDFreak is a new site that provides tutorials, articles, and journals covering BSD operating systems from a user's perspective.
30 November, 2001: New committer: Michael Lucas (Documentation Project)
28 November, 2001: New committer: Prafulla Deuskar (Intel gigabit device driver)
25 November, 2001: New committer: Yoichi NAKAYAMA (Ports)
23 November, 2001: Dag-Erling Smørgrav has written an article about writing FreeBSD problem reports.
20 November, 2001: New committer: Ernst de Haan (Ports)
20 November, 2001: The FreeBSD Core Team has appointed Dag-Erling Smørgrav as Bugmeister.
14 November, 2001: New committer: Patrick Li (Ports)
13 November, 2001: New committer: Cy Schubert (Ports)
6 November, 2001: New committer: Anders Nordby (Ports)
3 November, 2001: New committer: Christian Weisgerber (Ports)
3 November, 2001: Soren Schmidt, author of the ATA driver, tested a new 160 GB ATA harddisk provided kindly by Maxtor Corporation with the new ATA specification's 48-bit addressing mode support in FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. The results show that the code is stable and functions as it should and will be backported to STABLE.
2 November, 2001: New committer: MANTANI Nobutaka (Ports)
2 November, 2001: New committer: Andrew R. Reiter (SMPng, TrustedBSD)
30 October, 2001: "The FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd Edition" is now available in printed form! This is the primary source of documentation produced by the FreeBSD Documentation Project and is available now from, amongst other places, The FreeBSD Mall. For a complete list of changes in this edition, see the announce message from the editors. The ISBN for this book is 1571763031. 653 pages.
26 October, 2001: New committer: Makoto Matsushita (release building)
23 October, 2001: Bob Van Valzah has submitted an article introducing failure-resilient servers and step-by-step instructions for building one with Vinum.
23 October, 2001: Doug Rabson and Peter Wemm have been working non-stop on the FreeBSD/ia64 port in the past few weeks and said today that it boots into multi-user mode without any operator attendence. This is indeed a major milestone in continued FreeBSD porting efforts. Right now most work is concentrating on fixing any problems in the sourcetree which become exposed by this platform's porting effort.
19 October, 2001: Jake Burkholder and Thomas Moestl have been porting FreeBSD to the ultra sparc for the past few months and first booted a machine into single user mode on the 18th of October. The log from the serial console can be found at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jake/tip.single_user.
17 October, 2001: New committer: Akio Morita (PC98)
7 October, 2001: Benno Rice has committed a mega-patch which added support for OpenFirmware to the FreeBSD loader. The loader can now load a kernel over the network and execute it on an Apple iMac.
5 October, 2001: After a few months of development Doug Rabson and Peter Wemm have committed patches which extends the FreeBSD/ia64 port's functionality and adds the possibility to boot on real hardware.
5 October, 2001: New committer: Giorgos Keramidas (Docs)
18 September, 2001: The August 2001 Status Report is now available; see the Status Reports Web Page.
10 September, 2001: Many people, upon hearing of 5.0's untimely delay for a full year, have asked what they can do to help 5.0 get back on track. This email gives a list of outstanding projects for 5.0 and as much information as possible about how to get involved.
30 August, 2001: FreeBSD 5.0 has been delayed until November 2002. The complete announcement from Jordan is available here.
28 August, 2001: New committer: Robert Drehmel
22 August, 2001: New committer: Pete Fritchman (Ports)
17 August, 2001: Annelise Anderson, a frequent contributor to the FreeBSD mailing lists, has written "FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC", an introduction to FreeBSD aimed at the new user. Published by The Bit Tree Press, the ISBN is 0971204500, and it can be ordered from, amongst other places, the DaemonNews Mall.
16 August, 2001: The Installing FreeBSD section of the Handbook has been substantially improved and updated. The new documentation features "screenshots" of almost every stage of the installation process, and expanded text detailing what each stage of the install covers. The bulk of the work was carried out by Randy Pratt.
14 August, 2001: New committer: Max Khon
9 August, 2001: New committer: Randy Pratt (Docs)
9 August, 2001: The July 2001 status report is now available; see the Status Reports Web page.
8 August, 2001: An RDF file of the last 10 news headlines on the FreeBSD site is now available. The URL is http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/news.rdf. You can use this file to syndicate FreeBSD news headlines on to your own web site (as Daily DaemonNews and the FreeBSD Diary do), or on to your desktop, using applications such as KNewsTicker.
7 August, 2001: Pandaemonium, the BSD Users Group of Western Australia, has been added to the Support page.
6 August, 2001: New committer: Valentino Vaschetto (Docs)
30 July, 2001: A second edition of The FreeBSD Handbook will be in production shortly. A task list has been published for anyone who wants to help contribute to the state of available printed documentation about FreeBSD.
26 July, 2001: New committer: Mark Peek
16 July, 2001: New committer: Rob Braun
16 July, 2001: New committer: Dave Zarzycki
16 July, 2001: New committer: Mike Barcroft
13 July, 2001: New committer: Chern Lee (Docs)
21 June, 2001: New committer: Brooks Davis (Networking, Mobile Computing)
20 June, 2001: John Kozubik has submitted an article explaining How to use FreeBSD with solid state media.
17 June, 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 June, 2001: New committer: Mike Silbersack (Networking)
14 June, 2001: New committer: Johann Visagie (Ports)
13 June, 2001: Robert Watson has compiled a status report for the FreeBSD Project. These reports are scheduled to continue on a monthly basis.
11 June, 2001: New committer: Anton Berezin (all things Perl)
6 June, 2001: New committer: David W. Chapman Jr.(Ports)
6 June, 2001: New committer: Mark Pulford (Ports)
1 June, 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
2 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 April, 2001: FreeBSD now works with multiple processors on Alpha systems, thanks to the efforts of John Baldwin, Andrew Gallatin, and Doug Rabson.
25 April, 2001: New committer: Takuya SHIOZAKI (Internationalization)
25 April, 2001: New committer: Udo Erdelhoff (Docs)
18 April, 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 April, 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 April, 2001: Yet another new committer: Jens Schweikhardt (Standards compliance)
12 April, 2001: The April issue of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available.
10 April, 2001: The Ports Collection now contains more than 5,000 individual entries!
5 April, 2001: New committer: George Reid (Sound support, ports)
4 April, 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 March, 2001: New committer: Yar Tikhiy (Networking)
24 March, 2001: New committer: Eric Melville (System tools)
13 March, 2001: The March issue of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available.
9 March, 2001: New committer: Dima Dorfman (Docs)
7 March, 2001: New committer: Michael C. Wu (Internationalization, porting efforts)
6 March, 2001: New committer: Thomas Möstl (POSIX.1e extensions)
6 March, 2001: New committer: Orion Hodson (Sound support)
20 February, 2001: New committer: Jesper Skriver
16 February, 2001: The February issue of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available.
5 February, 2001: New committer: Mike Heffner (Audit project)
24 January, 2001: New committer: Jimmy Olgeni (Ports)
23 January, 2001: New committer: Dirk Meyer (Ports)
20 January, 2001: New committer: Ying-chieh Liao (Ports)