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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/4.8R/announce.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/4.8R/announce.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 0f507eefde..0000000000 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/4.8R/announce.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,200 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" -"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/share/xml/xhtml10-freebsd.dtd" [ -<!ENTITY local.rel "4.8"> -<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD &local.rel;-RELEASE Announcement"> -]> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> -<head> - <title>&title;</title> - - <cvs:keyword xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS">$FreeBSD$</cvs:keyword> - </head> - - <body class="navinclude.download"> - -<p><b>Date:</b> Thu, 3 Apr 2003 21:43:09 -0800<br/> - <b>From:</b> "Murray Stokely" <murray@FreeBSD.org><br/> - <b>To:</b> freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org<br/> - <b>Subject:</b> FreeBSD &local.rel;-RELEASE is now available</p> - -<p>I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD &local.rel;-RELEASE, the - latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since - FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE in October 2002, we have made conservative - updates to a number of software programs in the base system, added - initial support for Firewire and other new hardware technologies, - and dealt with known security issues.</p> - -<p>For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see - the release notes and errata list, available here:</p> - -<p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/&local.rel;R/relnotes.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/&local.rel;R/relnotes.html</a></p> -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/&local.rel;R/errata.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/&local.rel;R/errata.html</a></p> - -<p>This release does not include all of the new technologies that were - introduced with FreeBSD 5.0 in January. FreeBSD 4.X releases offer - a more conservative platform than FreeBSD 5.0 at this time. For - more information about the distinctions between FreeBSD 4.X and 5.0, - or for general information about the FreeBSD release engineering - activities, please see :</p> - -<p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/</a></p> - -<h1>Availability</h1> - -<p>FreeBSD &local.rel;-RELEASE supports the i386 and alpha architectures and - can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or - copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for the i386 are - available now. As of this writing, the final builds for the alpha - architecture are in progress and will be made available shortly.</p> - -<p>Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media - from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies have - contributed substantially to the development of FreeBSD:</p> - -<table border="0"> - <tbody> - <tr> - <td align="left">FreeBSD Mall, Inc.</td> - <td align="left"><a href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">http://www.freebsdmall.com/</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td align="left">Daemon News</td> - <td align="left"><a href="http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html">http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html</a></td> - </tr> - </tbody> -</table> - -<p>Each CD or DVD set contains the FreeBSD installation and - application package bits for the i386 ("PC") architecture. For a set - of distfiles used to build ports in the ports collection, please see - the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing extra bits which no - longer fit on the 4 CD set, or the DVD distribution.</p> - -<p>If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, 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:</p> - -<ul> - <li><a - href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> - <li><a - href="ftp://ftp12.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp12.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> - <li><a - href="ftp://ftp14.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp14.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> - <li><a - href="ftp://ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> - <li><a href="ftp://ftp6.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp6.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> - <li><a href="ftp://ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp{2,4,7}.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> - <li><a href="ftp://ftp.es.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.es.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> - <li><a href="ftp://ftp.au.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.au.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> -</ul> - -<p>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, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, - Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, - Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United - Kingdom.</p> - -<p>Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional - mirror(s) first by going to:</p> - -<p>ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</p> - -<p>Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so - on.</p> - -<p>More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:</p> - -<p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html</a></p> - -<p>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:</p> - -<p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html</a></p> - -<h1>Acknowledgments</h1> - -<p>Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to - finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD &local.rel; including - The FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and - NTT/Verio.</p> - -<p>In addition to myself, the release engineering team for - &local.rel;-RELEASE includes:</p> - -<table border="0"> - <tbody> - <tr> - <td>Scott Long <<a href="mailto:scottl@FreeBSD.org">scottl@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> - <td>Release Engineering</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Bruce Mah <<a href="mailto:bmah@FreeBSD.org">bmah@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> - <td>Release Engineering, Documentation</td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td>Wilko Bulte <<a href="mailto:wilko@FreeBSD.org">wilko@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> - <td>Release Engineering, alpha builds</td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td>Robert Watson <<a href="mailto:rwatson@FreeBSD.org">rwatson@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> - <td>Release Engineering, Security</td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td>John Baldwin <<a href="mailto:jhb@FreeBSD.org">jhb@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> - <td>Release Engineering</td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td>Ruslan Ermilov <<a href="mailto:ru@FreeBSD.org">ru@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> - <td>Release Engineering</td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td>Kris Kennaway <<a href="mailto:kris@FreeBSD.org">kris@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> - <td>Package Building</td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td>Will Andrews <<a href="mailto:will@FreeBSD.org">will@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> - <td>Package Building, KDE</td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td>Joe Marcus Clarke <<a href="mailto:marcus@FreeBSD.org">marcus@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> - <td>GNOME Integration</td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td>Julian Elischer <<a href="mailto:julian@FreeBSD.org">julian@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> - <td>Release Testing</td> - </tr> - - </tbody> -</table> - -<p>Please join me in thanking them for all the hard work which went - into making this release. Many thanks are also due to the FreeBSD - committers (committers@FreeBSD.org), without whom there would be - nothing to release, and thousands of FreeBSD users world-wide who - have contributed bug fixes, features, and suggestions.</p> - -<p>Enjoy!</p> - -<p>Murray Stokely<br/> -(For the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team)</p> - - -</body> -</html> |