[olug] Fw: [FreeBSD-Announce] Resend: FreeBSD 5.2 Released!

Brian Roberson roberson at olug.org
Tue Jan 13 07:21:45 UTC 2004 

FYI.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Long" <scottl at freebsd.org>
To: <freebsd-announce at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 12:12 AM
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Resend: FreeBSD 5.2 Released!


> Due to the unacceptable binary encoding that happened in the earlier
> announcement, I am resending the announcement in a hopefully more
> acceptable format.  My apologies for the inconvenience.
>


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> It is once again my great privilege and pleasure to announce the
> availability of FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE.  Building upon the success of
> FreeBSD 5.1, this release includes:
>
>  - Full Tier-1 support for single and multiprocessor AMD Athlon64 and
>    Opteron systems.
>  - Dynamically linked root partition for a smaller installation footprint
>    and better integration with the Name Service Switch subsystem.
>  - New and improved driver support for IDE, SATA, and 802.11a/b/g devices,
>    and significantly better integration with the ACPI power management
>    subsystem.
>  - Client support for the Network File System version 4 protocol.
>  - Experimental first-stage support for multithreaded filtering and
>    forwarding of IP traffic.  This also provides the foundation for a
>    fully multi-threaded network stack in the next release of FreeBSD.
>  - In-box support for the latest Gnome 2.4 and KDE 3.1 desktops.
>
> FreeBSD 5.2 also contains a number of significant stability and
performance
> improvements over FreeBSD 5.1.  However, it is still considered a 'New
> Technology' release and might not be suitable for all users.  Those with
> more conservative needs 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/5.2R/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/5.2R/relnotes.html
>       http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.2R/errata.html
>
> For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities,
> please see:
>
>       http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/
>
> Availability
> - -------------
>
> FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE supports the i386, pc98, alpha, sparc64, amd64, and
> ia64 architectures and can be installed directly over the net using
> bootable media 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 5.2 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 the
> following sites.  MD5 checksums for the release images are included at
> the bottom of this message.
>
>     ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp4.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp6.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp7.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp9.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp11.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp12.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp2.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp4.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp5.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp1.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>     ftp://ftp2.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>
> FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the
> following countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria,
> Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,
> Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Amylonia,
> 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.html
>
> 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 5.2 including
> The FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and
> NTT/Verio.
>
> The release engineering team for 5.2-RELEASE includes:
>
>   Scott Long <scottl at FreeBSD.org>         Release Engineering,
>                                           I386 and Alpha Release 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
>   Ken Smith <kensmith at FreeBSD.org>        Sparc64 Release Building,
>                                           Mirror Site Coordination
>   Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at FreeBSD.org>   IA64 Release Building
>   David O'Brien <obrien at FreeBSD.org>      AMD64 Release Building
>   Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan at FreeBSD.org>  PC98 Release Building
>   Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>        Package Building
>   Joe Marcus Clarke (marcus at FreeBSD.org>  Package Building
>   Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar at FreeBSD.org> Security Officer
>
> CD Image Checksums
> - ------------------
>
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> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso) = cc2c9f647850df2bf96a478f0cbf18b6
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso) = ae5e15ee38e3f4f2a05c9355fa0a1aed
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso) = 40c9a789d7d8e472914f9bc1e34ea04f
>
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-alpha-bootonly.iso) = 75f19aa7c24ac91af9bc21376a1d980b
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-alpha-disc1.iso) = 727785cb6485828db5e7f6b75217ed55
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-alpha-disc2.iso) = b83e38a9cd698051fc05915932b03b82
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-alpha-miniinst.iso) = 87042a14d0de3979667bb9d41bd84d45
>
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = e08fe8cf77549c7404acf7ee03eeeb0e
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 2373f5bd491a15cfc8fa856fe92b75b9
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 2fb598c20873f79fcf1afc112de06641
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-sparc64-miniinst.iso) = f6f064e3785367f1b2d673502f59565a
>
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-ia64-bootonly.iso) = b8ac4103a1703df9dba00f14a7c7557c
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-ia64-disc1.iso) = d473c7fc79f8e40b3e331300ead5b90e
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-ia64-disc2.iso) = c2a59d77bac522e7f8dee0460423cc2a
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-ia64-miniinst.iso) = a545b3974d18f0fd7796bff84b50825f
>
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 4cefddd4dd3f1b67e9f78380a058de81
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) = 308af2fa0e96a394d445e8e89c1cbece
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc2.iso) = b00834c97fbab12d3ea4b159134a8f63
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-amd64-miniinst.iso) = 06f19271f985ca1acbd45fe9a6b13204
>
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-pc98-disc2.iso) = b167880c4e644f16f7377b715ccbf7c6
> MD5 (5.2-RELEASE-pc98-miniinst.iso) = 3b6ca2637d41e7052c028a41a1cefc6d
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