FreeBSD is a rapidly developing operating system. Keeping up on the latest developments can be a chore! To keep on top of things, be sure and check this page periodically. Also, you may wish to subscribe to the freebsd-announce mailing list.
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For a detailed description of past, present, and future releases, see the Release Information page.
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11 August, 2003: The nascent FreeBSD Architecture Handbook is now available online for users who would like to know more about FreeBSD kernel internals. Much of the material has been split out from the Developers' Handbook, which now focuses exclusively on userland programming in FreeBSD. Both volumes are works in progress.
9 August, 2003: Luoqi Chen has begun the process of merging PAE support from FreeBSD 5 to FreeBSD 4-STABLE. The PAE support allows FreeBSD machines to make use of more than 4 gigabytes of RAM. This functionality was originally written by Jake Burkholder under contract with DARPA and Network Associates Laboratories. Additional changes for individual device drivers will follow in the coming weeks.
9 August, 2003: New committer: Bruce M. Simpson
24 July, 2003: New committer: Michael Nottebrock (Ports)
21 July, 2003: New committer: Kirill Ponomarew (Ports)
20 July, 2003: New committer: Simon L. Nielsen
24 June, 2003: New committer: Sean Kelly
23 June, 2003: New committer: Diomidis D. Spinellis
19 June, 2003: Ten years ago on this day the name "FreeBSD" was coined by David Greenman in this email message. Viva FreeBSD!
17 June, 2003: New committer: Lev Serebryakov (Ports)
13 June, 2003: Returning committer: John-Mark Gurney
9 June, 2003: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE is now available. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.1.
6 June, 2003: New committer: Sergey A. Osokin (Ports)
4 June, 2003: New committer: Erwin Lansing (Ports)
6 May, 2003: New committer: Oliver Lehmann (Ports)
5 May, 2003: New committer: Michael L. Hostbaek
14 April, 2003: New committer: Hiten M. Pandya
9 April, 2003: 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 freebsd-performance@ web interface.
8 April, 2003: Majordomo served its purpose well, but has been retired in favor of Mailman. It is now possible to browse through the authoritative list of mailing lists by heading over to http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo or by browsing through the handbook's section on mailing lists. A big thanks to Peter Wemm is in order for spending the time to seamlessly convert the various lists over to Mailman, thank you.
3 April, 2003: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE 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 news and/or issues with 4.8.
15 March, 2003: The January-February status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
6 March, 2003: New committer: Arun Sharma
21 February, 2003: New committer: David Schultz
30 January, 2003: New committer: Hartmut Brandt (Sparc and ATM)
23 January, 2003: The November-December status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
23 January, 2003: New committer: Hideyuki KURASHINA (Documentation Project)
19 January, 2003: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE 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 news and/or issues with 5.0.
13 January, 2003: New committer: Christian Brüffer (Documentation Project)
06 January, 2003: New committer: Michael Telahun Makonnen
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