Article 52 of comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce: Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Path: jac.zko.dec.com!crl.dec.com!pa.dec.com!decwrl!enews.sgi.com!sgiblab!swrinde!news.uh.edu!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Announcing FreeBSD 2.0.5 ALPHA! Approved: peter@taronga.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: FreeBSD project Message-ID: Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 08:44:26 GMT Lines: 133 It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.0.5-ALPHA! 2.0.5A represents a significant improvement over FreeBSD 2.0R and is our release-candidate for 2.0.5R later on this week. We're doing a short ALPHA release in order to shake out any glaring bugs before rolling 2.0.5R and moving on to 2.1R, which is the bigger goal. If you're looking for 2.1R, then THIS ISN'T IT. It's an interim release aimed at people who want something newer and better than 2.0R to run and don't feel like waiting for late July, which is when 2.1R is scheduled to go into BETA test. That said, I think most people will enjoy 2.0.5 quite a bit, and while it's not up to the "full release quality" we hope to have for 2.1R, it's certainly more stable and generally nicer to use than 2.0R! 2.0.5A is currently available on the following sites: Primary: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA Secondary: ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA And should be up on the following MIRROR sites shortly: Australia ftp://ftp.physics.usyd.edu.au/FreeBSD Finland ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD France ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/FreeBSD Germany ftp://ftp.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de/pub/unix/FreeBSD Germany ftp://gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/FreeBSD Germany ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/freebsd Israel ftp://orgchem.weizmann.ac.il/pub/FreeBSD Hong Kong ftp://ftp.hk.super.net/pub/FreeBSD Korea ftp://ftp.cau.ac.kr/pub/FreeBSD Netherlands ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/os/FreeBSD Russia ftp://ftp.kiae.su/FreeBSD Sweden ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/FreeBSD Taiwan ftp://netbsd.csie.nctu.edu.tw/pub/FreeBSD Thailand ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/FreeBSD USA ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/BSD/FreeBSD USA ftp://ftp.cybernetics.net/pub/FreeBSD USA ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/systems/FreeBSD USA ftp://kryten.atinc.com/pub/FreeBSD USA ftp://ftp.dataplex.net/pub/FreeBSD Japan ftp://ftp.tokyonet.ad.jp/pub/FreeBSD Japan ftp://ftp.tut.ac.jp/FreeBSD Ashida Hiroyuki Japan ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/os/FreeBSD Japan ftp://ftp.ee.uec.ac.jp/pub/os/mirror/ftp.freebsd.org Japan ftp://ftp.mei.co.jp/free/PC-UNIX/FreeBSD TANIGUCHI Syuuhei Japan ftp://ftp.waseda.ac.jp/pub/FreeBSD Japan ftp://ftp.pu-toyama.ac.jp/pub/FreeBSD Yoshihiko USUI Japan ftp://ftpsv1.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/os/FreeBSD UK ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/unix/FreeBSD UK ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/pub/walnut.creek/FreeBSD UK ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/BSD/FreeBSD --- NOTE: If you're installing directly from ftp you can simply grab the boot.flp image from the floppies directory, write it to a floppy and go from there. There is _no need_ to grab any of the other files; the installation will perform this step automatically! Please also read the various README and RELNOTES files in the release for more information on 2.0.5 - no sense in repeating it all here if most of you are simply going to download and read it anyway! :-) I'd like to also extend special thanks to Poul-Henning Kamp & Gary Palmer for exerting an especially large amount of effort this time in helping me get the new installation together. Thanks also to Rod Grimes for playing "source tree pit bull" when I needed him to, thus keeping the number of headaches I had to suffer in pulling in various last-minute changes to an absolute minimum. Thanks, guys! This couldn't have been done without you! Jordan for the FreeBSD Project. Article 57 of comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce: Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Path: jac.zko.dec.com!pa.dec.com!decuac.dec.com!haven.umd.edu!purdue!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!news.ecn.bgu.edu!newspump.wustl.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Announcing FreeBSD 2.0.5 RELEASE! Approved: peter@taronga.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 20:55:25 GMT Lines: 55 It is my usual pleasure (and, to a small degree, relief! :) to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.0.5R - the final release in the 2.0.5 series. This release provides both what I hope will be an exciting glimpse of some of the new technologies and directions we have planned for 2.1R and a stable and much easier-to-install alternative to 2.0R. Highlights of this release are: o Multi-lingual documentation files. o Completely menu driven installation. o More installation media types. o Support for a much larger range of PC hardware. o Easy mounting of DOS partitions and CD devices mounted automatically. o "Canned" installation types for easy installs. o Easy post-configuration menu And many other new features and bug fixes. The ports and packages collection has also been bundled with 2.0.5R to prevent synchronization errors. While this does result in a larger overall distribution, it at least ensures more consistent results when installing ports and packages. More information on the release may be found in the RELNOTES and README files, so I'll simply leave you all to see for yourself! The usual locations: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE As well as the usual mirrors, once they pick it up. It is also available on CD from Walnut Creek CDROM, the project's principle sponsors. Please see the release notes for ordering information. Any feedback should be sent to hackers@freebsd.org. I will be leaving the country shortly (about 3 hours :) and will try to read my email as often as possible, but for quicker replies please send to the mailing list. Thank you! Jordan -- Kitsunebi ya dokuro ni ame no tamaru yo ni