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authorjkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1995-01-27 23:15:31 +0000
committerjkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1995-01-27 23:15:31 +0000
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Update these to be a little more business-like in appearance.
Delete obsolete information.
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-rw-r--r--share/FAQ/CONTRIB.FreeBSD39
-rw-r--r--share/FAQ/RELNOTES.FreeBSD16
2 files changed, 38 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/share/FAQ/CONTRIB.FreeBSD b/share/FAQ/CONTRIB.FreeBSD
index eb55481..92a136a 100644
--- a/share/FAQ/CONTRIB.FreeBSD
+++ b/share/FAQ/CONTRIB.FreeBSD
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ Derived Software Contributors:
This software was originally derived from William F. Jolitz's 386BSD
release 0.1, though almost none of the original 386BSD specific code
-remains. This software has been essentially reimplemented on top of
-4.4 BSD Lite, from the Computer Science Research Group (CSRG) at
-the University of California, Berkeley and associated academic
+remains. This software has been essentially reimplemented from the
+4.4 BSD Lite release provided by the Computer Science Research Group
+(CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley and associated academic
contributors.
There are also portions of NetBSD that have been integrated into FreeBSD
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ wish the NetBSD group every success in their endevors.
Hardware Contributors:
-A special thank-you to Walnut Creek CDROM for providing two
-486/DX2-66 EISA/VL systems that are being used for our development work,
+A special thank-you to Walnut Creek CDROM for providing the Pentium P5-90
+and 486/DX2-66 EISA/VL systems that are being used for our development work,
to say nothing of the network access and other donations of hardware
resources. It would have been impossible to do this release without
their support.
@@ -36,13 +36,14 @@ Thanks also to Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM
drive. It's been most useful!
-The FreeBSD Core Team (in alphabetical order):
+The FreeBSD Core Team [Board of Directors, The FreeBSD Project]
+(in alphabetical order):
Andreas Schulz <ats@freebsd.first.gmd.de>
Andrew A. Chernov <ache@astral.msk.su>
Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>
David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
- Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@freefall.cdrom.com>
+ Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>
Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.org>
Geoff Rehmet <csgr@cs.ru.ac.za>
Jack Vogel <jackv@FreeBSD.org>
@@ -55,7 +56,26 @@ The FreeBSD Core Team (in alphabetical order):
Soren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org>
-Additional FreeBSD Contributors (in alphabetical order):
+Officers, The FreeBSD Project:
+
+ President: Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
+ Principle Architect: David Greenman <davidg@FreeBSD.org>
+
+
+Directors, The FreeBSD Project:
+
+ Documentation: John Fieber <jfieber@FreeBSD.org>
+ Internationalization: Andrew A. Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.org>
+ Networking: Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>
+ Release Coordinator: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
+ System Administration: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.org>
+ WEBMASTERS: John Fieber <jfieber@FreeBSD.org> and
+ James L. Robinson <jlrobin@FreeBSD.org>
+ XFree86 Project, Inc: (Liason) Rich Murphey <rich@FreeBSD.org>
+
+
+Additional FreeBSD Contributors
+(in alphabetical order):
Adam Glass <glass@postgres.berkeley.edu>
Andrew Herbert <andrew@werple.apana.org.au>
@@ -93,6 +113,7 @@ Martin Birgmeier
Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
Paul Mackerras <paulus@cs.anu.edu.au>
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dkuug.dk>
+Chris Provenzano <proven@athena.mit.edu>
Rob Shady <rls@id.net>
Sascha Wildner <swildner@channelz.GUN.de>
Scott Mace <smace@FreeBSD.org>
@@ -201,4 +222,4 @@ Last, but not least, the release engineer would like to thank:
His Wife, for chocolate chip cookies, and some other things.
The DGB project @ TFS, for patience and tolerance.
-$Id: CONTRIB.FreeBSD,v 1.3 1994/11/22 09:54:19 jkh Exp $
+$Id: CONTRIB.FreeBSD,v 1.4 1994/11/27 13:06:18 ats Exp $
diff --git a/share/FAQ/RELNOTES.FreeBSD b/share/FAQ/RELNOTES.FreeBSD
index 0c454b7..b86854a 100644
--- a/share/FAQ/RELNOTES.FreeBSD
+++ b/share/FAQ/RELNOTES.FreeBSD
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ xview 3.2, elm, nntp, mh, InterViews and dozens of other miscellaneous
utilities have been ported and are now available as add-ons. See the
ports collection (or the package collection) for a complete summary.
-For a list of contributors, please see the file "CONTRIB.FreeBSD",
-which should be bundled with your bindist distribution.
+For a list of contributors and a general project description, please see
+the file "CONTRIB.FreeBSD" which should be bundled with your binary
+distribution.
-Also see the new "REGISTER.FreeBSD" file for information on registering
-with the "Free BSD user counter". We've also provided a list of who's
-responsible for what (so that you may query them directly) in the
-"ROSTER.FreeBSD" file; use of this file is encouraged to ensure faster
-resolution of any problems you may have!
+Also see the "REGISTER.FreeBSD" file for information on registering
+with the "Free BSD user counter". This counter is for ALL freely
+available variants of BSD, not just FreeBSD, and we urge you to register
+yourself with it.
The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which would inhibit its
being exported outside the United States. There is an add-on package
@@ -621,4 +621,4 @@ hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD!
The FreeBSD Core Team
-$Id: RELNOTES.FreeBSD,v 1.20 1994/11/30 11:59:53 jkh Exp $
+$Id: RELNOTES.FreeBSD,v 1.21 1994/12/02 20:27:11 jkh Exp $
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