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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/4.9R/announce.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/4.9R/announce.sgml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3ed6db3854 --- /dev/null +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/4.9R/announce.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,212 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" [ +<!ENTITY base CDATA "../.."> +<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/releases/4.9R/announce.sgml,v 1.5 2005/10/04 06:52:22 murray Exp $"> +<!ENTITY local.rel "4.9"> +<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD &local.rel;-RELEASE Announcement"> +<!ENTITY % navinclude.download "INCLUDE"> +]> +<html> +&header; + +<p><b>Date:</b> Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:19:08 -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 4.9-RELEASE, the + latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since + FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE in April 2003, we have made conservative updates + to a number of software programs in the base system, dealt with + known security issues, and merged support for large memory i386 + machines with Page Address Extensions (PAE) from 5.1.</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 5.1 in June. Most developer resources are + focused on improving the FreeBSD 5.X branch, and this may very well + be the last major release of FreeBSD 4.X. The security officer team + will continue to actively support the 4.X branch according to the + normal policy. Additional 4.9.X releases may be made available when + necessitated by security vulnerabilities or high-impact + bugfixes.</p> + +<p>We encourage all our users to evaluate FreeBSD 5.1 and the upcoming +5.2. Because PAE support has only been a feature in 4.X for a few +months, it has not received wide-spread testing, and our most +conservative users may wish to stay with FreeBSD 4.8 until they choose +to migrate to 5.X.</p> + +<p>For more information about the distinctions between FreeBSD 4.X and +5.X, 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.</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://ftp3.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp3.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.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> Mike Silbersack <<a + href="mailto:silby@silby.com">silby@silby.com</a>></td> + <td>PAE Testing</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td> Luoqi Chen <<a + href="mailto:luoqi@freebsd.org">luoqi@freebsd.org</a>></td> + <td>PAE Merge</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Joe Marcus Clarke <<a href="mailto:marcus@FreeBSD.org">marcus@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> + <td>Package Building, GNOME</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> + + </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> + +<tt> +MD5 (4.9-i386-disc1.iso) = 9195be15a4c8c54a6a6a23272ddacaae<br> +MD5 (4.9-i386-disc2.iso) = 51d28c35308cc916b9a9bfcacb3146b8<br> +MD5 (4.9-RELEASE-alpha-miniinst.iso) = 51e189a32a5f1bb058adc7627b673ae6<br> +MD5 (4.9-RELEASE-alpha-disc2.iso) = ec316dcfb33ca76ba2a240e50d7c9fce<br> +</tt> + +&footer; + +</body> +</html> |