As many of you are already aware, Wind River has indicated that they are no longer interested in producing FreeBSD CD sets. To quote them from a slashdot interview, "Future FreeBSD releases will probably not be produced or distributed by Wind River." In answer to this, Daemon News is taking on the responsibility of producing, supporting, and promoting FreeBSD. Starting with the release of FreeBSD 4.5 we will be producing the official 4 CD sets made from the official FreeBSD project ISOs. We will work to put FreeBSD boxed sets in stores and into the hands of our international distributors. Daemon News is fully comitted to the BSD community and has been for three years. We have plans to put the revenue from FreeBSD CD sales back into the FreeBSD project much the same way that Walnut Creek did, by paying developers to code and promoting FreeBSD at trade shows. We already have a booth and plans to be at several major conferences. We are also providing a subscription service to FreeBSD CD sets much like Walnut Creek did. If you are a current subscriber of a WC/BSDi/WRS FreeBSD subscription, you will need to transfer it to Daemon News. (We have no affiliation with Wind River.) Wind River has announced that subscriptions for FreeBSD 4.4 are being shipped out, so you will need to order a "Next Release" subscription from Daemon News to receive FreeBSD 4.5 when it comes out. You can order current and next release subscriptions here: http://mall.daemonnews.org/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=1020 The number of subscriptions we receive will directly affect how much we are able to devote to the FreeBSD project. So join Daemon News in our committment to BSD and transfer your subscription. Chris Coleman Editor in Chief Daemon News E-Zine http://www.daemonnews.org Print Magazine http://magazine.daemonnews.org Open Packages http://www.openpackages.org This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message