作者: [email protected] (Murray Stokely)
標題: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 4.8 Now Available
時間: Fri Apr 4 14:01:29 2003
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I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.8-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, dealt with known
security issues, and added initial support for Firewire,
HyperThreading, and other new hardware technologies.
For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
release notes and errata list, available here:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.8R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.8R/errata.html
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 :
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/
Availability
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FreeBSD 4.8-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.
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:
FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/
Daemonnews, Inc. http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html
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.
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:
ftp.FreeBSD.org
ftp12.FreeBSD.org
ftp14.FreeBSD.org
ftp.au.FreeBSD.org
ftp.es.FreeBSD.org
ftp2.de.FreeBSD.org
ftp4.de.FreeBSD.org
ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org
ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org
ftp6.tw.FreeBSD.org
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.
Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional
mirror(s) first by going to:
ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.
More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html
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:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html
Acknowledgments
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Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to
finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.8 including
The FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and
NTT/Verio.
In addition to myself, the release engineering team for 4.8-RELEASE
includes:
Scott Long <[email protected]> Release Engineering
Bruce A. Mah <[email protected]> Release Engineering, Documentation
Robert Watson <[email protected]> Release Engineering, Security
Wilko Bulte <[email protected]> Release Engineering, Alpha arch
David O'Brien <[email protected]> Release Engineering, Alpha arch
John Baldwin <[email protected]> Release Engineering
Ruslan Ermilov <[email protected]> Release Engineering
Kris Kennaway <[email protected]> Package Building
Will Andrews <[email protected]> Package Building, KDE
Jacques A. Vidrine <[email protected]> Security Officer
Joe Marcus Clarke <[email protected]> GNOME Integration
Julian Elischer <[email protected]> Release Testing
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 ([email protected]), without whom there would be
nothing to release, and thousands of FreeBSD users world-wide who have
contributed bug fixes, features, and suggestions.
Enjoy!
Murray Stokely
(For the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team)
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