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August 2001
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)
July 2001
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)
June 2001
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)
May 2001
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.
April 2001
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.
March 2001
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)
February 2001
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)
January 2001
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)
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