The release announcement was handed to me in ASCII, and formatting all the lists into DocBook/XML was not so nice. For that job, I've used MoinMoinWiki, importing the ASCII text, fixing up the (wiki) markup and then doing the DocBook export that MoinMoin can do. Tidying up the output with "xmllint --format" and replacing manpage references with appropriate XML entities with sed(1) mostly finished the contents enough for cut & paste into the NetBSD XML release files.

Besides playing secretary, I've also fixed the "About NetBSD" paragraph to make it a bit(?) clearer that NetBSD is not only good for vintage hardware: ``NetBSD is a general-purpose Open Source operating system that provides interfaces for running a wide range of applications on a large number of different hardware platforms, all from one source tree. Applications can range from proprietary closed source applications to Open Source software, covering desktop environments, database servers, firewalls, routers, embedded appliances and many more, all made available easily through pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection, which currently contains over 6,300 packages. Picking up its ancestry from the Berkeley Networking Release 2 (Net/2) and the 4.4BSD-lite and 4.4BSD-Lite2 releases, the NetBSD project continues to provide its application platform on a wide range of hardware platforms - not only vintage hardware, but also modern desktop and server hardware with Intel and AMD Opteron CPUs as well as embedded systems with MIPS, PowerPC, Super-H, ARM and Xscale CPUs. More recently, NetBSD was also ported to "virtual" hardware provided by the Xen machine monitor ''

FWIW, I've played a bit with Sodipodi to illustrate the situation (click to enlarge):

Enjoy!

Update: I've applied some grammar and language updates sent in for the "About NetBSD" text.

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