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  1. BSDCon 2003 - Call for Papers

    Bsd · Announcements · · posted by Hemos · from the get-your-papers-together dept. · 22 comments
    Dan writes "Usenix's Alex Walker announces that BSDCon 2003 Program Committee invites you to contribute original and innovative material on BSD and Open Source topics ranging from embedded BSD application development & deployment, BSD kernels & desktop, internet, security and network services, systems administration and much more. You can check here for more information and submission guidelines."

  2. Nov-Dec 2002 FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Status Report

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the stuff-to-read dept. · 27 comments
    Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Scott Long presents the FreeBSD November-December 2002 Bi-Monthly status report. Key highlights of the report include the anticipated FreeBSD 5.0 Release, Bluetooth stack development, busdma driver conversion project, DEVD, C99 & POSIX Conformance Project, FreeBSD Package Cluster work and much more!"

  3. Summary of Changes to NetBSD's Packages Collection

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by timothy · from the more-and-more-and-more dept. · 33 comments
    Dan writes "NetBSD's Alistair Crooks indicates in his December 2002 report that there are 3402 packages in the NetBSD Packages Collection, up from 3327 the previous month, a rise of 75. The Package of the Month award goes to pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgdepgraph, nominated by Andrew Brown - you'll need graphviz to look at the dependency graph that it produces, but the output is quite fascinating."

  4. FreeBSD 5.0 Available

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the still-has-a-better-mascot dept. · 353 comments
    Vegard writes "Although not yet officially announced, the 5.0 version of FreeBSD is beginning to appear on the FreeBSD FTP site and mirrors world wide." Congrats to the developers. Update: 01/19 17:44 GMT by T : Some more detail -- Dan writes "Scott Long of FreeBSD Release Engineering team has officially announced the availability of FreeBSD 5.0 release. Improvements include second generation UFS filesystem, GEOM, the extensible and flexible storage framework, DEVFS, the device virtual filesystem, Bluetooth, ACPI, CardBus, IEEE 1394 and many more! FreeBSD is also available on 64-bit sparc64 and ia64 platforms."

  5. FreeBSD 4.6 Release Delayed

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by michael · from the when-it's-ready dept. · 223 comments
    Dan writes "Bruce A. Mah from the FreeBSD Release Engineering team announced that due to some late-breaking issues, 4.6 will be released about a week later than originally planned."