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<li><b>Release Information</b>:
The latest RELEASE is 2.2.7-RELEASE. FreeBSD 2.2.8 is
scheduled to be released November 30th. FreeBSD 3.0 is scheduled to be
released October 15th. Start BETA Testing!!!
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<li><b>FreeBSD in the News</b>:
<A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,349576,00.html ">http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,349576,00.html </A>
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<li><b>Recent Improvements</b>:
CAM (Common Access Method) SCSI layer implemented into 3.0-Current.<br>
Perl5 now standard in 3.0-Current<br>
Support for IDE disks drives larger than 8G in 2.2<br>
3.0-CURRENT is now ELF!<br>
FreeBSD/alpha now self-hosting - both kernel and `make world' work!<br>
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<li><b>New FreeBSD JDK release</b>:
Download information is available at:
<A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/java/">http://www.freebsd.org/java</A>
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<li><b>Uniform Driver Interface</b>:
<A HREF="http://www.sco.com/udi/">http://www.sco.com/udi</A>
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/pub/hp_stds/udi/docs.html">ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/pub/hp_stds/udi/docs.html</A>
<A HREF="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980916.ecminer.htm">http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980916.ecminer.htm</A>
<A HREF="http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/Cn091698.htm">http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/Cn091698.htm</A>
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/pub/hp_stds/udi/Postscript/rules.ps.Z">ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/pub/hp_stds/udi/Postscript/rules.ps.Z</A>
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<li><b>RealTek 8139 Ethernet driver</b>: Testers Wanted.
<A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/RealTek/3.0/">http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/RealTek/3.0</A> source for FreeBSD 3.0
<A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/RealTek/2.2/">http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/RealTek/2.2</A> source for FreeBSD 2.2.x
Reply to: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu.
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<li><b>ThunderLAN Ethernet driver</b> (popular in Compaq machines) : Testers Wanted.
<A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/ThunderLAN/3.0/">http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/ThunderLAN/3.0</A> source for FreeBSD 3.0
<A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/ThunderLAN/2.2/">http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/ThunderLAN/2.2</A> source for FreeBSD 2.2.x
Reply to: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu.
<p></p></li>
<li><b>Commercial FreeBSD Products</b>:
Emerging Technologies, Inc.
ISA and PCI Sync Cards for FreeBSD
<A HREF="http://www.etinc.com/">http://www.etinc.com</A>
Bandwidth Manager
<A HREF="http://www.etinc.com/bwmgr.htm">http://www.etinc.com/bwmgr.htm</A><br>
Acadix Software Systems:
APE is a syntax-colorizing, language-independent, terminal-independent
integrated development environment for Unix.
<A HREF="http://www.execpc.com/~acadix/">http://www.execpc.com/~acadix</A>
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<li><b>BSD Online Magazine: Daemon News</b>!
Don't forget to check out the BSD online Magazine written by many
from the FreeBSD Community. Articles are due the 15th of each month,
and publish the 1st of the following month. Authors Wanted.
<A HREF="http://www.daemonnews.org/">http://www.daemonnews.org/</A>
<p></p></li>
<li><b>Quote</b>:
If you aim the gun at your foot and pull the trigger, it's UNIX's
job to ensure reliable delivery of the bullet to where you aimed
the gun (in this case, Mr. Foot). (Terry)
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