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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

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)

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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)

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