[olug] Fw: FreeBSD 5.0 Release Available

Mon Jan 20 15:26:40 UTC 2003

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From: "Scott Long" <scottl at freebsd.org>
To: <freebsd-announce at freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 11:03 AM
Subject: FreeBSD 5.0 Release Available


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> It is my privilege and pleasure to announce the availability of FreeBSD
> 5.0-RELEASE.  The culmination of nearly three years of work, this
> release starts FreeBSD on the path of advanced multiprocessor and
> application thread support and introduces support for the sparc64 and
> ia64 platforms.  Among the long list of new and improved features:
> 
>   - UFS2, the second generation UFS filesystem, shatters the current 1TB
>     filesystem barrier.
>   - Background filesystem checking (bgfsck) and filesystem snapshots
>     eliminate the need for downtime to do filesystem repair and backup
>     tasks.
>   - Experimental support for Mandatory Access Controls (MAC) provide
>     an extensible and flexible means for administrators to define system
>     security policies.
>   - Fine-grained locking in the kernel paves the road for much higher
>     efficiency of multi-processor systems.
>   - Support for Bluetooth, ACPI, CardBus, IEEE 1394, and experimental
>     hardware crypto acceleration keeps FreeBSD at the forefront of new
>     technology.
>   - The GCC 3.2.1 compiler provides the latest installment of the
>     ever-improving GNU Compiler Collection.
>   - GEOM, the extensible and flexible storage framework, and DEVFS,
>     the device virtual filesystem, simplify storage and device
>     management while opening the door for new enterprise storage
>     technologies.
>   - Support for the sparc64 and ia64 platforms expands FreeBSD's
>     support of advanced 64-bit computing platforms.
> 
> Although FreeBSD 5.0 contains a number of new and exciting features, it
> may not be suitable for all users.  More conservative users may prefer
> to continue using FreeBSD 4.X.  Information on the various trade-offs
> involved, as well as some notes on future plans for both FreeBSD 4.X
> and 5.X, can be found in the Early Adopter's Guide, available here:
> 
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopter.html
> 
> For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
> release notes and errata list, available here:
> 
>       http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/relnotes.html
>       http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/errata.html
> 
> For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities,
> please see:
> 
>       http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/
> 
> Availability
> - ------------
> 
> FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE supports the i386, pc98, alpha, sparc64, and
> ia64 architectures and can be installed directly over the net using the
> boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/FTP server.  Distributions for
> all architectures are available now.
> 
> Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media
> from one of our supporting vendors.  The following companies will be
> offering FreeBSD 5.0 based products:
> 
>    FreeBSD Mall, Inc.        http://www.freebsdmall.com/
>    Daemonnews, Inc.          http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html
> 
> If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to
> use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO
> images.  We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the
> larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from:
> 
>    ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>    ftp://ftp12.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>    ftp://ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>    ftp://ftp{2,3,4,5}.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>    ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>    ftp://ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>    ftp://ftp.lt.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>    ftp://ftp2.za.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>    ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>    ftp://ftp{1,2,4}.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
> 
> FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the
> following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada,
> China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,
> Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Lithuania,
> Mitchistan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
> Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain,
> Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
> 
> Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional
> mirror(s) first by going to:
> 
> ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
> 
> Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.
> 
> More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:
> 
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.ht
> ml
> 
> For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The
> FreeBSD Handbook.  It provides a complete installation walk-through
> for users new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at:
> 
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html
> 
> Acknowledgments
> - ---------------
> 
> Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to
> finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 5.0 including
> The FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and
> NTT/Verio.
> 
> The release engineering team for 5.0-RELEASE includes:
> 
>   Scott Long <scottl at FreeBSD.org>         Release Engineering and
> Building
>   Bruce A. Mah <bmah at FreeBSD.org>         Release Engineering,
> Documentation
>   Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org>     Release Engineering, Security
>   John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>          Release Engineering
>   Murray Stokely <murray at FreeBSD.org>     Release Engineering
>   Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at FreeBSD.org>   IA64 Release Building
>   Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan at FreeBSD.org>  PC98 Release Building
>   Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>        Package Building
>   Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar at FreeBSD.org> Security Officer
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