Author: ian Date: 2006-04-25 19:01:45 +0000 (Tue, 25 Apr 2006) New Revision: 8577
Modified: trunk/website/pages/news.php Log: clean up news a bit Modified: trunk/website/pages/news.php =================================================================== --- trunk/website/pages/news.php 2006-04-25 18:52:23 UTC (rev 8576) +++ trunk/website/pages/news.php 2006-04-25 19:01:45 UTC (rev 8577) @@ -15,12 +15,9 @@ <b>25th April, 2006: Video of Freenet 0.7 talk at 22C3 now available</b><br> The video of Ian and Oskar's talk at 22C3 is now available for download. -Grab it via <a -href="http://media.ccc.de/filez/congress/2005/lectures/video/mp4/22C3-videos-incomplete-20050423-torrents/22C3-492-en-freenet_new_version.mp4.torrent";>torrent</a>, -<a -href="http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/!final/22C3-492-en-freenet_new_version.mp4";>http</a>, -or <a -href="http://dijjer.org/get/http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/!final/22C3-492-en-freenet_new_version.mp4";>Dijjer</a>. +Grab the <a +href="http://media.ccc.de/filez/congress/2005/lectures/video/mp4/22C3-videos-incomplete-20050423-torrents/22C3-492-en-freenet_new_version.mp4.torrent";>torrent +here</a>. You can also download their <A href="http://freenetproject.org/papers/ccc/ccc-slideshow.pdf.bz2";>slideshow</a>, and the source for the Java <a href="<a @@ -34,55 +31,3 @@ running before it will work. Try it out by installing <a href="/index.php?page=download-new">Freenet 0.7</a>, and then <a href="http://jtcfrost.sourceforge.net/";>Frost</a>. -<p> -<b>3rd April, 2006: Freenet 0.7 Alpha 1</b><br> -<p>Freenet is a decentralised "peer-to-peer" system designed to allow the -anonymous sharing of information on the Internet. After many months of work, -the first alpha version of Freenet 0.7 is ready for testing.</p> -<p>Freenet 0.7 represents a major new approach to peer-to-peer network design. -To protect the network, and the user's anonymity, Freenet users will now have -the ability to connect directly to other people that they know and trust, -together forming a "global darknet" making it extremely difficult for any -third party, whether a government or another powerful organisation, to -determine that a user is participating in Freenet, let alone what they are -doing with it. This new version is a complete rewrite of the Freenet -software, representing numerous other improvements, including:</p><ul> -<li>Freenet now operates over UDP rather than TCP</li> -<li>Freenet can transparently operate through firewalls</li> -<li>Freenet's core architecture and algorithm has been redesigned for simplicity and efficiency</li> -<li>A new and even simpler API allowing the rapid development of third party software that interacts with Freenet</li> -</ul> -<p>The new Freenet employs a simpler and more flexible routing model than -previous versions, which in the future may allow diverse applications ranging -from efficient search, to near-real time instant messaging and chat between -anonymous participants. Initially Freenet 0.7 will be a "pure darknet" -model, in that all connections must be trusted, however future versions will -permit a mixed opennet/darknet approach where the user can opt to allow -untrusted connections to their node, which will improve connectivity and -convenience at the expense of security.</p> -<p>Note that this release is still a very early alpha; users should neither -expect it to be secure, nor user friendly. Rather, the purpose of this release -is to facilitate wider testing, to inform people of the progress we have made, -and to attract fresh development talent, both to Freenet itself, and to third -party applications that use Freenet as a platform.</p> -<p>This release would not have been possible without the work of numerous -volunteers, and Matthew Toseland, Freenet's full time developer. Matthew's work -is funded through donations via our website, we ask that anyone who can help us -to ensure Matthew's continued employment by visiting our donations page and -making a contribution at:</p> -<p><a href="http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=donate";>http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=donate</a></p> -<p>The new version of Freenet may be downloaded from:</p> -<p><a href="http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=download-new";>http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=download-new</a></p> -<br> -<b>18th February, 2006: Searching in a Small World</b><br> -Oskar Sandberg has made available his thesis <a href="http://www.math.chalmers.se/~ossa/lic.pdf";>Searching in a Small World</a>. -This describes a simple decentralized algorithm for creating small world networks that is inspired by Freenet's original -approach, along with the experimental and theoretical basis for this approach. This also provides an insight into why -small world networks might form naturally among human relationships. -<p> -<b>3rd January, 2006: Slides and Demo from Chaos Congress talk now online</b><br> -On Friday 30th Oskar Sandberg and I <a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/events/492.en.html";>spoke</a> -at the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, Germany. We were speaking about -the upcoming 0.7 redesign of Freenet. Now that I have thawed out -(it was -6°C!), I have had a chance to upload our <a href="http://freenetproject.org/papers/ccc/ccc-slideshow.pdf.bz2";>slideshow</a> (pdf.bz2 format), and a Java <a href="http://freenetproject.org/papers/ccc/ccc-freenet-demo.tar.bz2";>demo</a> -(requires Java 1.5).
