-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN months of tireless work by the FreeBSD developers, users, their children, and their pets. Significant features in this release: - - XFree86 3.3.3, the industry leader in support for cutting edge PCI graphics adapters and 2D acceleration. - - The 8GB barrier in IDE drive sizes has finally been broken. The wd(4) driver now supports unimaginable sizes of 137GB on a single drive! - - Support for all of the latest high-speed FAST-WIDE (20MB/s) SCSI-2 controllers. - - The Linux emulator is now able to run Quake2 out-of-the-box. A full description of the release can be found here: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/2.2.9-RELEASE/README.TXT ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/2.2.9-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT Availability ------------- FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE supports the i386 architecture and can be installed directly over the net using bootable media or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies will be offering FreeBSD 2.2.9 based products: ~ FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/ ~ Daemonnews, Inc. http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, 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 the following sites. FTP --- At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE available. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases 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 ---------------- The release engineering team for 2.2.9-RELEASE includes: Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> I386, creative director Sniffy The Wonder Cat Warrm lap, typing assistance Max The Dancing Cat Early morning wakeups, QA Sammy The Tiny Cat Face licks, QA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFELuG+HTr20QF8Xr8RAkoyAJ4nU4v9TK/Tjh8eEGbjNtGxmiVu0gCfcNtg oNz6FNHVuv87MSKJeXJcMAU=Z5hh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----