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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/sou1999.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/sou1999.sgml index 796028d21f..657b5151b6 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/sou1999.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/sou1999.sgml @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ next. Neither one of those is really me, basically, so perhaps I'll just cut to the chase and focus on the most pertinent lessons (and objectives) to come out of the year 1998 for me.</p> - + <p>1998 was, of course, the year that the Internet got bigger (no surprise), various "internetpraneurs" (gag) got richer and FreeBSD's user base, as measured by the ftp download stats grew at its usual @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ are well past the point where we can do everything that needs to be done as a serious and "grown up" solution just on good will and volunteerism alone.</p> - + <p>With that in mind, sites like the <a href="http://www.freebsdmall.com">FreeBSD Mall</a> have been set up to try and market a wider variety of FreeBSD-related @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ it represent as diverse a set of hard-core FreeBSD evangelist/developers as we knew how to find and we've continued to add people using the same criteria.</p> - + <p>In bringing someone into core, we don't look at whether they've been winning popularity contests lately or won the Programming Olympiad 3 times in a row, we ask ourselves: "Does this person bring a unique @@ -197,9 +197,9 @@ whether or not to bring in some new member(s) at this time. That discussion is ongoing and I'll do my best to keep everyone up to date on that as things progress.</p> - + <h2>Release numbering:</h2> - + <p>Other decisions on the horizon concern returning to our former practice of using "major" version numbers for branches and "minor" numbers for releases, the revision number field only being used to @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ boot time. These are both powerful new mechanisms and, coupled with some new stuff which will be coming in 1999, should give us a far more dynamic and extensible system than we've ever had before.</p> - + <p>Not to be overlooked is also our new SCSI CAM system, giving us more robust behavior with large drive arrays and supporting more of the high-end SCSI controllers, or the support for multiple processors on @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ Those looking for actual FreeBSD employees should send mail to <a href="mailto:jobs@FreeBSD.org">jobs@FreeBSD.org</a> and indicate how much money they're willing to pay, otherwise don't do it.</p> - + <p>I don't mean to come across so harshly here that people don't even bother asking us for help, I'm simply saying that those users who avail themselves of the various FreeBSD volunteer tech support @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ older and hopefully a little wiser, needs to continue keeping a light but steady hand on the tiller, relying on our developers as usual to provide much of the actual motive force behind FreeBSD.</p> - + <p>Our users also need to become more involved and I'm hoping that 1999 will be the year when a lot more local user groups and other self-help type of organizations are formed. The Handbook and FAQ are documents @@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ just a few of the many things that can be done if you're truly interested in putting some energy into FreeBSD and ideas for what to do will be the least of your worries if you're truly motivated.</p> - + <p>Executive Summary: 1999, rah rah rah, let's do it! :)</p> </body> |