Regards, Vitor de Matos Carvalho System Network Administrator - Softinfo Network FreeBSD - The Power To Serve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 3:03 PM Subject: FreeBSD 5.0 Release Available > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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 overreeBSD.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 Nether 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.Flands, 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Release Engineering and > Building > Bruce A. Mah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Release Engineering, > Documentation > Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Release Engineering, Security > John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Release Engineering > Murray Stokely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Release Engineering > Marcel Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IA64 Release Building > Takahashi Yoshihiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PC98 Release Building > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package Building > Jacques A. Vidrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Security Officer > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQE+KtiHHTr20QF8Xr8RAsyzAKCwZfdBEC9DugY7BoyEir8Q0gGKmQCgh6a3 > AFd7IYb+eip9lR9rf8SYF7g= > =RXfN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. > The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, > important events and project milestones. > See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message > > _______________________________________________________________ Sair da Lista: http://www2.fugspbr.org/mailman/listinfo/fugspbr Historico: http://www4.fugspbr.org/lista/html/FUG-BR/
