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<p><b>Date:</b> Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:29:43 -0800 (PST)<br>
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<b>From:</b> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com><br>
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<b>To:</b> announce@FreeBSD.org<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> 4.0-RELEASE is now available</p>
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<p>Well, it's a bit late and hopefully all the better for it, but here
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it is. It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of FreeBSD
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4.0-RELEASE. This is our first release along the 4.x-stable (RELENG_4)
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branch and contains a number of significant advancements over FreeBSD
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3.4. Please see the release notes for further information as the list
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of new features is too long to list here.</p>
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<p>FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE is available from ftp.FreeBSD.org and various FTP
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mirror sites throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD from
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<a href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">The FreeBSD Mall</a>, from where
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it will be shipping soon on a 4 CD set. There will also be two such
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sets available for 4.0, one containing installation bits for the x86
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architecture (as well a lot of other material of general interest to
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programmers and end-users alike) and another for DEC Alpha architecture
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machines.</p>
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<p>As usual, disc #1 from Walnut Creek CDROM's official distribution (for
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both architectures) will also be available via anonymous FTP as soon
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as it's been compiled in its final form. Please monitor the master FTP
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site for details. We also can't promise that all the mirror sites will
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carry this rather large (660MB) installation image, but it will at least
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be available (once ready) from:</p>
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<p><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.0-install.iso">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.0-install.iso</a><br>
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<a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/4.0-install.iso">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/4.0-install.iso</a></p>
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<p>These files allow one to install the base system and all of its most
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important add-ons from a single bootable image, one which can be written
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as a raw ISO 9660 image by most CD creator software.</p>
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<p>Even though we make our installation CDs freely available, we also
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hope that you'll continue to support the FreeBSD project by purchasing
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one of its official CD releases from the FreeBSD mall. A portion of
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each sale goes to support FreeBSD's development and general infrastructure
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and is thus highly appreciated.</p>
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<p>The official FTP distribution site for FreeBSD is:</p>
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<p><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</a></p>
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<p>Or via the WEB pages at:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">http://www.freebsdmall.com/</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.wccdrom.com/">http://www.wccdrom.com/</a></p>
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<p>And directly from Walnut Creek CDROM:</p>
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<pre>
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Walnut Creek CDROM
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4041 Pike Lane, #F
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Concord CA, 94520 USA
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Phone: +1 925 674-0783
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Fax: +1 925 674-0821
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Tech Support: +1 925 603-1234
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Email: info@wccdrom.com
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WWW: http://www.wccdrom.com/
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</pre>
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<p>Additionally, FreeBSD is available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites
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in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria,
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Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France,
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Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea,
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Latvia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia,
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Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the Ukraine
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and the United Kingdom (and quite possibly several others which I've
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never even heard of :).</p>
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<p>Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional
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mirror(s) first by going to:</p>
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<p><kbd>ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</kbd></p>
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<p>Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.</p>
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<p>The latest versions of export-restricted code for FreeBSD (2.0C or
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later) (eBones and secure) are also being made available at the
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following locations. If you are outside the U.S. or Canada, please get
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secure (DES) and eBones (Kerberos) from one of the following foreign
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distribution sites:</p>
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<dl>
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<dt>South Africa</dt>
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<dd><p><a href="ftp://ftp.internat.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.internat.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</a><br>
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<a href="ftp://ftp2.internat.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp2.internat.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</a></p></dd>
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<dt>Brazil</dt>
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<dd><p><a href="ftp://ftp.br.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.br.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</a></p></dd>
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<dt>Finland</dt>
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<dd><p><a href="ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD/eurocrypt">ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD/eurocrypt</a></p></dd>
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</dl>
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<p>Thanks!</p>
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<p>- Jordan</p>
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<P></P><A HREF="../index.html">Release Home</A>
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&header;
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<pre>
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If you read no other documentation before installing this
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version of FreeBSD, you should at least by all means *READ
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THE ERRATA* for this release so that you don't stumble over
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problems which have already been found and fixed. This ERRATA.TXT
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file is obviously already out of date by definition, but other
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copies are kept updated on the net and should be consulted as
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the "current errata" for your release. These other copies of
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the errata are located at:
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1. <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/</a>
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2. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/<your-release>/ERRATA.TXT
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(and any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location).
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Any changes to this file are also automatically emailed to:
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<a href="mailto:freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org</a>
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For all CERT security advisories, see:
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<a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/</a>
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For the latest security incident information.
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---- Security Advisories:
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Current active security advisories: None
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---- System Update Information:
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</pre>
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<p></p><a href="../index.html">Release Home</a>
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD 4.0 Release Notes">
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<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../../includes.sgml"> %includes;
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]>
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&header;
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<pre>
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=== Platform specifics for i386
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RELEASE NOTES
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FreeBSD Release 4.0-RELEASE
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Any installation failures or crashes should be reported by using the
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send-pr command (those preferring a Web-based interface can also see
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http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html).
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For information about FreeBSD and the layout of the 4.0-RELEASE
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directory (especially if you're installing from floppies!), see
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ABOUT.TXT. For installation instructions, see the INSTALL.TXT and
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HARDWARE.TXT files.
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For the latest of these 4.0-current snapshots, you should always see:
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ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
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If you wish to get the latest post-3.x-RELEASE technology.
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Table of contents:
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------------------
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1. What's new since the 3.1/4.0 branch
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1.1 KERNEL CHANGES
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1.2 SECURITY FIXES
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1.3 USERLAND CHANGES
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2. Supported Configurations
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2.1 Disk Controllers
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2.2 Ethernet cards
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2.3 ATM
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2.4 Misc
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3. Obtaining FreeBSD
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3.1 FTP/Mail
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3.2 CDROM
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4. Upgrading from previous releases of FreeBSD
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5. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code
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6. Acknowledgements
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1. What's new since the 3.1/4.0 branch
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--------------------------------------
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All changes described here are unique to the 4.0 branch unless
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specifically marked as [MERGED] features.
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1.1. KERNEL CHANGES
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-------------------
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NFS has been immensely improved with bug fixes and performance tuning.
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Support for more than 32 signals has been added.
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POSIX 1003.1 conformant SA_SIGINFO signal handlers are now supported.
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SIGFPE signal handlers (both SA_SIGINFO and traditional BSD handlers)
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now get meaningful error codes describing the kind of error. See
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sigaction(2).
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IA32 hardware debug registers are now supported. See ptrace(2) and
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procfs(5).
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Jail(8) aware sysctl(8) variables have been added for Linux mode.
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A large number of bug fixes and performance improvements have been
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made to the VM system, including and most especially to mmap() and
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related functions. The MAP_NOSYNC option has been added to better support
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the use of shared files as an IPC mechanism. The VM system's swapper has
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been completely rewritten and performance has been greatly enhanced,
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especially when swapping over NFS.
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An emulator for SVR4 binaries has been added.
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Support has been added for direct access to NTFS filesystems.
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Support for the NWFS filesystem and NetWare client connections has
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been added. A variety of NetWare related tools, such as ipxping
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and ncprint, have been added in ports/net/ncplib.
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A new ATA/ATAPI driver has been implemented. The aim of this new
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subsystem is to maximise performance on modern ATA/ATAPI based
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systems. The "ata" driver supports all major chipsets including
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those used on PCI card based controllers like the Promise and the
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Abit/SIIG. There is support for busmaster DMA transfers upto and
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including the new ATA/66 mode. The 'ata' driver automatically
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setup the hardware for the maximum possible transfer mode to
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maximise system throughput. Supported devices are all ATA compliant
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disks and ATAPI CDROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, LS120, ZIP
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and tape drives. The ata driver also support PCCARD ATA devices.
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The 'ata' driver also sports error handling and timeout code, to
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avoid the problems of "hung" ATA/ATAPI devices.
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A new utility 'burncd' has been written to facilitate easy control
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of ATAPI CD-R and CD-RW drives, and allows burning of CD-R/RW
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media in a wide selction of formats, including multisession mode.
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Driver support has been added for PCI gigabit ethernet adapters
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based on the Alteon Networks Tigon 1 and Tigon 2 chipsets, including
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the Alteon AceNIC, 3Com 3c985 and Netgear GA620. [MERGED]
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Driver support has been added for IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA wireless network
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adapters based on the Lucent Hermes chipset, including the Lucent
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WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11, the Cabletron RoamAbout and Melco Aireconnect.
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Both 2Mbps and 6Mbps Turbo adapters are supported. [MERGED]
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Driver support has been added for PCI fast ethernet cards based
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on the ADMtek Inc. AL981 Comet chipset. [MERGED]
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Driver support has been added for PCI fast ethernet cards based
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on the ADMtek Inc. AL985 Centaur chipset. [MERGED]
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Support has been added for the Rise mP6 processor. [MERGED]
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Driver support has been added for SysKonnect SK-984x PCI gigabit
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ethernet adapters. [MERGED]
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Driver support has been added for Adaptec Duralink PCI ethernet adapters
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based on the Adaptec AIC-6915 fast ethernet controller. [MERGED]
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Driver support has been added for PCI fast ethernet adapters based on
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the Sundance Technologies ST201 controller, including the D-Link DFE-550TX.
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[MERGED]
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Driver support has been added for the 3Com 3c905C-TX. [MERGED]
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Driver support has been added for SMC SMC9xxx-based Ethernet adapters.
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Several IPFW improvements including stateful inspection, user- and
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group-based firewalling, dynamic logging with arbitrary logging
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limits, probabilistic rule match. [MERGED]
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IPv6 IPFW has been imported from the KAME project.
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The "dummynet" traffic shaper now handles efficiently thousands
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of independent queues. [MERGED]
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Several fixes to bridging, which now supports clusters of interfaces
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with bridging being done independently within each cluster. [MERGED]
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The top-level syslog(3) category "security" has been added, and IPFW now
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uses syslog(3) to log all messages to /var/log/security.
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Driver support has been added for PCI fast ethernet adapters based on
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the Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900 and SiS 7016 ethernet controllers.
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[MERGED]
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Driver support has been added for PCI fast ethernet adapters based on
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the Davicom DM9100 and DM9102 ethernet controllers, including the Jaton
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Corporation XpressNet.
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Support has been added for blocking incoming ICMP redirects, outgoing RST
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frames and incoming SYN|FIN frames in order to lessen or nullify the
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impact of certain kinds of DoS attacks. [MERGED]
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Support has been added for forwarding IP datagrams without inspecting or
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decreasing the TTL in order to make gateways and firewalls less visible
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and therefore less exposed to attacks. [MERGED]
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The old `sd' (SCSI Disk) backwards compatibility support has been removed.
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Any usage of "/dev/sd*" in ``/etc/fstab'' must be replaced by "/dev/da*".
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In addition, any useage of "/dev/*sd*" in scripts need to be changed.
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Even if you have old `sd' device entries in /dev, they will no longer work.
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The `al' `ax' `dm' `pn' and `mx' drivers have been removed and replaced
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with a single driver (`dc') in order to reduce code duplication. The
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new driver handles all chipsets supported by the older drivers, and it
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offers improved support for 10/100 cards based on the DEC/Intel 21143.
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Driver support has been added for the 3Com 3c450-TX HomeConnect
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PCI ethernet NIC. [MERGED]
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Driver support has been added for USB ethernet adapters based on
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the ADMtek AN986 Pegasus chip, including the LinkSys USB100TX,
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the Billionton USB100, the Melco Inc. LU-ATX, the D-Link 650TX
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and the SMC-2202USB.
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Driver support has been added for USB ethernet adapters based on
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the Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B chip, including the LinkSys USB10T,
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the Peracom USB Ethernet Adapter, the 3Com 3c19250, the Entrega
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NET-USB-E45, the ADS Technologies USB-10BT, the ATen UC10T, the
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Netgear EA101, the D-Link DSB-650, and the SMC 2102USB and 2104USB.
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IPfilter version 3.3.8 has been integrated.
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Driver support has been added for USB ethernet adapters based on
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the CATC USB-EL1210A chip, including the CATC Netmate and Netmate II,
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and the Belkin F5U111.
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Driver support has been added for Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless
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adapters. This includes PCMCIA, PCI and ISA models.
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IPv6 support has been imported from the KAME project. This includes the
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kernel IPv6 protocol stack (sys/netinet6), TCP IPv6 support, configurable
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IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling over IPv6 or IPv4, and IPv6 TCP to IPv4 TCP
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translation gateway support. Protocol-independent name resolution
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functions have been added to libc (getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, etc).
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Floating point exceptions for new processes (devide-by-zero,
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under/overflow, invalid range etc.) are now disabled by default. Use
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fpsetmask(3) to reenable those you need. Note that integer
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device-by-zero is not covered by the FPU and will still trap after
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this change. Also note that conversion of float/double to integer
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where the float variable is too big now doesn't trap as well (it can't
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be seperated from other operations we want masked).
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1.2. SECURITY FIXES
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-------------------
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Numerous security enhancements and fixes have been applied during the
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course of development of FreeBSD 4.0. Most of these have also been
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backported to the 3.x-STABLE series.
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A new jail(2) system call and admin command (jail(8)) have been added for
|
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additional flexibility in creating secure process execution environments.
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OpenSSL v0.9.4 (a general-purpose cryptography and SSL2/3/TLSv1 toolkit)
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has been integrated with the base system. In the future this will be used
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to provide strong cryptography for FreeBSD utilities out-of-the-box.
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OpenSSH 1.2 has been integrated with the base system. OpenSSH is a free
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(BSD-licensed), full-featured implementation of the SSH v1 protocol, which
|
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is completely interoperable with other SSH v1 clients and servers, such as
|
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the /usr/ports/security/ssh port. OpenSSH provides all of the features of
|
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this port - in fact it is based on an older release before the software
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became restrictively licensed. FreeBSD 4.0 provides SSH client/server
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functionality out-of-the-box if you choose to install the 'DES'
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||||
cryptography distribution in sysinstall.
|
||||
|
||||
Telnet has a new encrypted authentication mechanism called SRA. SRA
|
||||
uses a Diffie-Hellmen exchange to establish a session key, then uses
|
||||
that to DES encrypt the username and password. As a side effect the
|
||||
session key is used to DES encrypt the session. SRA is vulnerable to
|
||||
man-in-the-middle attacks, the DH parameters are on the small side,
|
||||
and DES is showing its age, but the benefits are that it requires
|
||||
absolutely no administrative changes to the machine to work, and is
|
||||
at the very least a step up from plaintext. To use it, you need to
|
||||
either use "telnet -ax" or set up a .telnetrc to enable it by default.
|
||||
|
||||
IPsec support has been imported from the KAME project. This includes IPsec
|
||||
tunnel mode to implement a Virtual Private Network via a security gateway,
|
||||
and IPsec transport mode to achieve secure socket-level communication.
|
||||
Also, kernel-internal crypto code has been imported to sys/crypto, and
|
||||
IPsec support has been added to the following userland applications:
|
||||
sbin/ping, usr.sbin/inetd, usr.sbin/rrenumd, usr.sbin/traceroute6,
|
||||
usr.sbin/rtadvd, usr.sbin/setkey
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
|
||||
---------------------
|
||||
|
||||
The base C/C++ compiler has been upgraded from GCC 2.7.2 to GCC 2.95.2.
|
||||
This gives users full ISO C++ support, and preliminary C9x support.
|
||||
|
||||
Various changes has been made to /bin/sh to improve POSIX 1003.2
|
||||
conformance, especially for scripting.
|
||||
|
||||
The f77 emulation via f2c has been replaced by a native F77 compiler.
|
||||
|
||||
The timezone database has been updated to catch all of the recent changes
|
||||
in Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Central and South America.
|
||||
The timezone data files now contain a magic number allowing for easy
|
||||
identification.
|
||||
|
||||
Groff/troff/eqn has been updated to version 1.15.
|
||||
|
||||
Gdb has been updated to version 4.18.
|
||||
|
||||
Numerous fixes have been applied to improve the security of FreeBSD code
|
||||
as part of the FreeBSD Auditing Project.
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD's threads library, libc_r, has had many features and performance
|
||||
improvements added, which makes it almost completely POSIX-compliant. In
|
||||
addition, Linux's kernel-supported LinuxThreads library is now available as
|
||||
a port (ports/devel/linuxthreads), which can be used for native FreeBSD
|
||||
programs.
|
||||
|
||||
The following dedicated IPv6 applications have been added:
|
||||
sbin/ping6, sbin/rtsol, usr.sbin/gifconfig, usr.sbin/ifmcstat,
|
||||
usr.sbin/pim6dd, usr.sbin/pim6sd, usr.sbin/prefix, usr.sbin/rip6query,
|
||||
usr.sbin/route6d, usr.sbin/rrenumd, usr.sbin/rtadvd, usr.sbin/rtsold,
|
||||
usr.sbin/traceroute6
|
||||
|
||||
The following applications have been updated to support IPv6:
|
||||
usr.bin/netstat, usr.bin/fstat, usr.bin/sockstat, usr.sbin/tcpdchk,
|
||||
usr.sbin/tcpdump, usr.sbin/trpt, libexec/ftpd, libexec/rlogind,
|
||||
libexec/rshd, libexec/telnetd
|
||||
|
||||
Many ports have been updated to support IPv6. See the 'ipv6' virtual ports
|
||||
category for a list.
|
||||
|
||||
Sysinstall enables PC-card controllers and pccardd(8) for PC-card
|
||||
installation media.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2. Supported Configurations
|
||||
---------------------------
|
||||
FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA, MCA and PCI
|
||||
bus based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
|
||||
386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
|
||||
configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
|
||||
also provided.
|
||||
|
||||
What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with
|
||||
FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet
|
||||
received confirmation of this.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2.1. Disk Controllers
|
||||
---------------------
|
||||
WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
|
||||
WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
|
||||
IDE
|
||||
ATA
|
||||
|
||||
Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers
|
||||
Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
|
||||
Adaptec 164x series MCA SCSI controllers
|
||||
Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
|
||||
Adaptec 274X/284X/2920C/294x/2950/3940/3950 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series
|
||||
EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI controllers.
|
||||
Adaptec AIC7850, AIC7860, AIC7880, AIC789x, on-board SCSI controllers.
|
||||
Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices)
|
||||
Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
|
||||
Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x
|
||||
and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
|
||||
|
||||
AdvanSys SCSI controllers (all models).
|
||||
|
||||
BusLogic MultiMaster controllers:
|
||||
|
||||
[ Please note that BusLogic/Mylex "Flashpoint" adapters are NOT yet supported ]
|
||||
|
||||
BusLogic MultiMaster "W" Series Host Adapters:
|
||||
BT-948, BT-958, BT-958D
|
||||
BusLogic MultiMaster "C" Series Host Adapters:
|
||||
BT-946C, BT-956C, BT-956CD, BT-445C, BT-747C, BT-757C, BT-757CD, BT-545C,
|
||||
BT-540CF
|
||||
BusLogic MultiMaster "S" Series Host Adapters:
|
||||
BT-445S, BT-747S, BT-747D, BT-757S, BT-757D, BT-545S, BT-542D, BT-742A,
|
||||
BT-542B
|
||||
BusLogic MultiMaster "A" Series Host Adapters:
|
||||
BT-742A, BT-542B
|
||||
|
||||
AMI FastDisk controllers that are true BusLogic MultiMaster clones are also
|
||||
supported.
|
||||
|
||||
The Buslogic/Bustek BT-640 and Storage Dimensions SDC3211B and SDC3211F
|
||||
Microchannel (MCA) bus adapters are also supported.
|
||||
|
||||
DPT SmartCACHE Plus, SmartCACHE III, SmartRAID III, SmartCACHE IV and
|
||||
SmartRAID IV SCSI/RAID controllers are supported. The DPT SmartRAID/CACHE V
|
||||
is not yet supported.
|
||||
|
||||
SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C810a, 53C815, 53C820, 53C825a,
|
||||
53C860, 53C875, 53C875j, 53C885, 53C895 and 53C896 PCI SCSI controllers:
|
||||
ASUS SC-200
|
||||
Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
|
||||
Diamond FirePort (all)
|
||||
NCR cards (all)
|
||||
Symbios cards (all)
|
||||
Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F
|
||||
Tyan S1365
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
QLogic 1020, 1040, 1040B, 1080 and 1240 SCSI Host Adapters.
|
||||
QLogic 2100 Fibre Channel Adapters (private loop only).
|
||||
|
||||
DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
|
||||
|
||||
With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
|
||||
SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including hard disks, optical disks,
|
||||
tape drives (including DAT and 8mm Exabyte), medium changers, processor
|
||||
target devices and CDROM drives. WORM devices that support CDROM commands
|
||||
are supported for read-only access by the CDROM driver. WORM/CD-R/CD-RW
|
||||
writing support is provided by cdrecord, which is in the ports tree.
|
||||
|
||||
The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
|
||||
(cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and
|
||||
SoundBlaster SCSI)
|
||||
(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary
|
||||
interface (562/563 models)
|
||||
(scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models)
|
||||
(acd) ATAPI IDE interface
|
||||
|
||||
The following drivers were supported under the old SCSI subsystem, but are
|
||||
NOT YET supported under the new CAM SCSI subsystem:
|
||||
|
||||
NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller.
|
||||
|
||||
UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
|
||||
|
||||
Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
|
||||
|
||||
Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
|
||||
|
||||
WD7000 SCSI controller.
|
||||
|
||||
[ Note: There is work-in-progress to port the UltraStor driver to
|
||||
the new CAM SCSI framework, but no estimates on when or if it will
|
||||
be completed. ]
|
||||
|
||||
Unmaintained drivers, they might or might not work for your hardware:
|
||||
|
||||
(mcd) Mitsumi proprietary CD-ROM interface (all models)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2.2. Ethernet cards
|
||||
-------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet adapters based on the Adaptec
|
||||
AIC-6915 fast ethernet controller chip, including the following:
|
||||
ANA-62011 64-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter
|
||||
ANA-62022 64-bit dual port 10/100baseTX adapter
|
||||
ANA-62044 64-bit quad port 10/100baseTX adapter
|
||||
ANA-69011 32-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter
|
||||
ANA-62020 64-bit single port 100baseFX adapter
|
||||
|
||||
Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards
|
||||
|
||||
Alteon Networks PCI gigabit ethernet NICs based on the Tigon 1 and Tigon 2
|
||||
chipsets, including the following:
|
||||
Alteon AceNIC (Tigon 1 and 2)
|
||||
3Com 3c985-SX (Tigon 1 and 2)
|
||||
Netgear GA620 (Tigon 2)
|
||||
Silicon Graphics Gigabit Ethernet
|
||||
DEC/Compaq EtherWORKS 1000
|
||||
NEC Gigabit Ethernet
|
||||
|
||||
AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)
|
||||
|
||||
SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
|
||||
WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
|
||||
based clones. SMC Elite Ultra. SMC Etherpower II.
|
||||
|
||||
RealTek 8129/8139 fast ethernet NICs including the following:
|
||||
Allied Telesyn AT2550
|
||||
Allied Telesyn AT2500TX
|
||||
Genius GF100TXR (RTL8139)
|
||||
NDC Communications NE100TX-E
|
||||
OvisLink LEF-8129TX
|
||||
OvisLink LEF-8139TX
|
||||
Netronix Inc. EA-1210 NetEther 10/100
|
||||
KTX-9130TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet
|
||||
Accton "Cheetah" EN1027D (MPX 5030/5038; RealTek 8139 clone?)
|
||||
SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI 1211-TX
|
||||
|
||||
Lite-On 82c168/82c169 PNIC fast ethernet NICs including the following:
|
||||
LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX
|
||||
NetGear FA310-TX Rev. D1
|
||||
Matrox FastNIC 10/100
|
||||
Kingston KNE110TX
|
||||
|
||||
Macronix 98713, 98713A, 98715, 98715A and 98725 fast ethernet NICs
|
||||
NDC Communications SFA100A (98713A)
|
||||
CNet Pro120A (98713 or 98713A)
|
||||
CNet Pro120B (98715)
|
||||
SVEC PN102TX (98713)
|
||||
|
||||
Macronix/Lite-On PNIC II LC82C115 fast ethernet NICs including the following:
|
||||
LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX Version 2
|
||||
|
||||
Winbond W89C840F fast ethernet NICs including the following:
|
||||
Trendware TE100-PCIE
|
||||
|
||||
VIA Technologies VT3043 "Rhine I" and VT86C100A "Rhine II" fast ethernet
|
||||
NICs including the following:
|
||||
Hawking Technologies PN102TX
|
||||
D-Link DFE-530TX
|
||||
AOpen/Acer ALN-320
|
||||
|
||||
Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900 and SiS 7016 PCI fast ethernet NICs
|
||||
|
||||
Sundance Technologies ST201 PCI fast ethernet NICs including
|
||||
the following:
|
||||
D-Link DFE-550TX
|
||||
|
||||
SysKonnect SK-984x PCI gigabit ethernet cards including the following:
|
||||
SK-9841 1000baseLX single mode fiber, single port
|
||||
SK-9842 1000baseSX multimode fiber, single port
|
||||
SK-9843 1000baseLX single mode fiber, dual port
|
||||
SK-9844 1000baseSX multimode fiber, dual port
|
||||
|
||||
Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI NICs, including the following:
|
||||
Compaq Netelligent 10, 10/100, 10/100 Proliant, 10/100 Dual-Port
|
||||
Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP, 10 T PCI UTP/Coax, 10/100 TX UTP
|
||||
Compaq NetFlex 3P, 3P Integrated, 3P w/ BNC
|
||||
Olicom OC-2135/2138, OC-2325, OC-2326 10/100 TX UTP
|
||||
Racore 8165 10/100baseTX
|
||||
Racore 8148 10baseT/100baseTX/100baseFX multi-personality
|
||||
|
||||
ADMtek Inc. AL981-based PCI fast ethernet NICs
|
||||
ADMtek Inc. AN985-based PCI fast ethernet NICs
|
||||
ADMtek Inc. AN986-based USB ethernet NICs including the following:
|
||||
LinkSys USB100TX
|
||||
Billionton USB100
|
||||
Melco Inc. LU-ATX
|
||||
D-Link DSB-650TX
|
||||
SMC 2202USB
|
||||
|
||||
CATC USB-EL1210A-based USB ethernet NICs including the following:
|
||||
CATC Netmate
|
||||
CATC Netmate II
|
||||
Belkin F5U111
|
||||
|
||||
Kawasaki LSI KU5KUSB101B-based USB ethernet NICs including
|
||||
the following:
|
||||
LinkSys USB10T
|
||||
Entrega NET-USB-E45
|
||||
Peracom USB Ethernet Adapter
|
||||
3Com 3c19250
|
||||
ADS Technologies USB-10BT
|
||||
ATen UC10T
|
||||
Netgear EA101
|
||||
D-Link DSB-650
|
||||
SMC 2102USB
|
||||
SMC 2104USB
|
||||
Corega USB-T
|
||||
|
||||
ASIX Electronics AX88140A PCI NICs, including the following:
|
||||
Alfa Inc. GFC2204
|
||||
CNet Pro110B
|
||||
|
||||
DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
|
||||
DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
|
||||
DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc)
|
||||
DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
|
||||
|
||||
Davicom DM9100 and DM9102 PCI fast ethernet NICs, including the
|
||||
following:
|
||||
Jaton Corporation XpressNet
|
||||
|
||||
Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A
|
||||
|
||||
HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A).
|
||||
|
||||
Intel EtherExpress 16
|
||||
Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
|
||||
Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet
|
||||
Intel InBusiness 10/100 PCI Network Adapter
|
||||
Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter
|
||||
|
||||
Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
|
||||
Isolink 4110 (8 bit)
|
||||
|
||||
Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
|
||||
|
||||
PCI network cards emulating the NE2000: RealTek 8029, NetVin 5000,
|
||||
Winbond W89C940, Surecom NE-34, VIA VT86C926.
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3C501 cards
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3C509, 3C529 (MCA), 3C579,
|
||||
3C589/589B/589C/589D/589E/XE589ET/574TX/574B (PC-card/PCMCIA),
|
||||
3C590/592/595/900/905/905B/905C PCI
|
||||
and EISA (Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3c980/3c980B Fast Etherlink XL server adapter
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3cSOHO100-TX OfficeConnect adapter
|
||||
|
||||
Toshiba ethernet cards
|
||||
|
||||
Crystal Semiconductor CS89x0-based NICs, including:
|
||||
IBM Etherjet ISA
|
||||
|
||||
NE2000 compatible PC-Card (PCMCIA) Ethernet/FastEthernet cards,
|
||||
including the following:
|
||||
AR-P500 Ethernet card
|
||||
Accton EN2212/EN2216/UE2216(OEM)
|
||||
Allied Telesis CentreCOM LA100-PCM_V2
|
||||
AmbiCom 10BaseT card
|
||||
BayNetworks NETGEAR FA410TXC Fast Ethernet
|
||||
CNet BC40 adapter
|
||||
COREGA Ether PCC-T/EtherII PCC-T
|
||||
Compex Net-A adapter
|
||||
CyQ've ELA-010
|
||||
D-Link DE-650/660
|
||||
Danpex EN-6200P2
|
||||
IO DATA PCLATE
|
||||
IBM Creditcard Ethernet I/II
|
||||
IC-CARD Ethernet/IC-CARD+ Ethernet
|
||||
Linksys EC2T/PCMPC100
|
||||
Melco LPC-T
|
||||
NDC Ethernet Instant-Link
|
||||
National Semiconductor InfoMover NE4100
|
||||
Network Everywhere Ethernet 10BaseT PC Card
|
||||
Planex FNW-3600-T
|
||||
Socket LP-E
|
||||
Surecom EtherPerfect EP-427
|
||||
Telecom Device SuperSocket RE450T
|
||||
|
||||
Megahertz X-Jack Ethernet PC-Card CC-10BT
|
||||
|
||||
2.3 ATM
|
||||
-------
|
||||
|
||||
o ATM Host Interfaces
|
||||
- FORE Systems, Inc. PCA-200E ATM PCI Adapters
|
||||
- Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM PCI Adapters
|
||||
|
||||
o ATM Signalling Protocols
|
||||
- The ATM Forum UNI 3.1 signalling protocol
|
||||
- The ATM Forum UNI 3.0 signalling protocol
|
||||
- The ATM Forum ILMI address registration
|
||||
- FORE Systems's proprietary SPANS signalling protocol
|
||||
- Permanent Virtual Channels (PVCs)
|
||||
|
||||
o IETF "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" model
|
||||
- RFC 1483, "Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5"
|
||||
- RFC 1577, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM"
|
||||
- RFC 1626, "Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5"
|
||||
- RFC 1755, "ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM"
|
||||
- RFC 2225, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM"
|
||||
- RFC 2334, "Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP)"
|
||||
- Internet Draft draft-ietf-ion-scsp-atmarp-00.txt,
|
||||
"A Distributed ATMARP Service Using SCSP"
|
||||
|
||||
o ATM Sockets interface
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2.4. Misc
|
||||
---------
|
||||
|
||||
AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
|
||||
|
||||
ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
|
||||
ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial.
|
||||
|
||||
Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
|
||||
Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported)
|
||||
Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
|
||||
Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported)
|
||||
|
||||
Comtrol Rocketport card.
|
||||
|
||||
Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
|
||||
|
||||
STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
|
||||
|
||||
SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
|
||||
SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards.
|
||||
|
||||
Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64,
|
||||
ONboard 4/16 and Brumby.
|
||||
|
||||
Specialix SI/XIO/SX ISA, EISA and PCI serial expansion cards/modules.
|
||||
|
||||
Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
|
||||
and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. (snd driver)
|
||||
|
||||
Most ISA audio codecs manufactured by Crystal Semiconductors, OPTi, Creative
|
||||
Labs, Avance, Yamaha and ENSONIQ. (pcm driver)
|
||||
|
||||
Connectix QuickCam
|
||||
Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber
|
||||
Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber
|
||||
Cortex1 frame grabber
|
||||
Hauppauge Wincast/TV boards (PCI)
|
||||
STB TV PCI
|
||||
Intel Smart Video Recorder III
|
||||
Various Frame grabbers based on Brooktree Bt848 / Bt878 chip.
|
||||
|
||||
HP4020, HP6020, Philips CDD2000/CDD2660 and Plasmon CD-R drives.
|
||||
|
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PS/2 mice
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Standard PC Joystick
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X-10 power controllers
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GPIB and Transputer drivers.
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Genius and Mustek hand scanners.
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Xilinx XC6200 based reconfigurable hardware cards compatible with
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the HOT1 from Virtual Computers (www.vcc.com)
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Support for Dave Mills experimental Loran-C receiver.
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Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA and ISA standard speed
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(2Mbps) and turbo speed (6Mbps) wireless network adapters and workalikes
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(NCR WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11, Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS, and Melco
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Airconnect). Note: the ISA versions of these adapters are actually PCMCIA
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cards combined with an ISA to PCMCIA bridge card, so both kinds of
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devices work with the same driver.
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Aironet 4500/4800 series 802.11 wireless adapters. The PCMCIA,
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PCI and ISA adapters are all supported.
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3. Obtaining FreeBSD
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--------------------
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You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
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3.1. FTP/Mail
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-------------
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You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
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`ftp.FreeBSD.org' - the official FreeBSD release site.
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For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
|
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MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in
|
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networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome!
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Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to
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become an official mirror site.
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If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your
|
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only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
|
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`ftpmail@ftpmail.vix.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
|
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to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism.
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Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of
|
||||
megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute
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||||
LAST resort!
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3.2. CDROM
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----------
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FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE and 2.2.x-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from:
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|
||||
Walnut Creek CDROM
|
||||
4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
|
||||
Concord CA 94520
|
||||
1-800-786-9907, +1-925-674-0783, +1-925-674-0821 (FAX)
|
||||
|
||||
Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
|
||||
Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from:
|
||||
|
||||
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog
|
||||
|
||||
Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription.
|
||||
FreeBSD SNAPshot CDs, when available, are $39.95 or $14.95 with a
|
||||
FreeBSD-SNAP subscription (-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely
|
||||
separate). With a subscription, you will automatically receive updates as
|
||||
they are released. Your credit card will be billed when each disk is
|
||||
shipped and you may cancel your subscription at any time without further
|
||||
obligation.
|
||||
|
||||
Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico
|
||||
and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American
|
||||
Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United
|
||||
States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
|
||||
|
||||
Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
|
||||
unconditional return policy.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
4. Upgrading from previous releases of FreeBSD
|
||||
----------------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
If you're upgrading from a previous release of FreeBSD, most likely
|
||||
it's 3.0 and some of the following issues may affect you, depending
|
||||
of course on your chosen method of upgrading. There are two popular
|
||||
ways of upgrading FreeBSD distributions:
|
||||
|
||||
o Using sources, via /usr/src
|
||||
o Using sysinstall's (binary) upgrade option.
|
||||
|
||||
[insert other notes here]
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
5. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code.
|
||||
-----------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always
|
||||
valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find
|
||||
(preferably with a fix attached, if you can!).
|
||||
|
||||
The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with
|
||||
Internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command or use the CGI
|
||||
script at http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html. Bug reports
|
||||
will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can
|
||||
be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon
|
||||
as possible. Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site
|
||||
in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports
|
||||
and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to
|
||||
watch out for.
|
||||
|
||||
If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to
|
||||
submit a bug report, you can try to send it to:
|
||||
|
||||
freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
Note that send-pr itself is a shell script that should be easy to move
|
||||
even onto a totally different system. We much prefer if you could use
|
||||
this interface, since it make it easier to keep track of the problem
|
||||
reports. However, before submitting, please try to make sure whether
|
||||
the problem might have already been fixed since.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Otherwise, for any questions or tech support issues, please send mail to:
|
||||
|
||||
freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have
|
||||
extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired
|
||||
enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves! To
|
||||
contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send
|
||||
mail to:
|
||||
|
||||
freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant*
|
||||
amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and
|
||||
are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you
|
||||
may find it preferable to subscribe instead to:
|
||||
|
||||
freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
All of the mailing lists can be freely joined by anyone wishing
|
||||
to do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword
|
||||
`help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This
|
||||
will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing
|
||||
archives, etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at
|
||||
special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo
|
||||
and ask about them!
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
6. Acknowledgements
|
||||
-------------------
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not
|
||||
hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very
|
||||
hard to bring you this release. For a complete list of FreeBSD
|
||||
project staffers, please see:
|
||||
|
||||
http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/staff.html
|
||||
|
||||
or, if you've loaded the doc distribution:
|
||||
|
||||
file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/staff.html
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Special mention to:
|
||||
|
||||
The donors listed at http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/donors.html
|
||||
|
||||
Justin M. Seger <jseger@FreeBSD.org> for almost single-handedly
|
||||
converting the ports collection to ELF.
|
||||
|
||||
Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org> and John Birrell <jb@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
for making FreeBSD/alpha happen and to the NetBSD project for
|
||||
substantial indirect aid.
|
||||
|
||||
Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> for the new kernel module system
|
||||
(with substantial aid from Doug Rabson).
|
||||
|
||||
And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the
|
||||
world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible.
|
||||
|
||||
We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD!
|
||||
|
||||
The FreeBSD Project
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
<p></p><a href="../index.html">Release Home</a>
|
||||
&footer;
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
</html>
|
|
@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
|
|||
# $FreeBSD: www/en/releases/Makefile,v 1.20 1999/09/17 12:34:46 jkh Exp $
|
||||
# $FreeBSD: www/en/releases/Makefile,v 1.21 1999/12/21 01:13:52 nik Exp $
|
||||
|
||||
.if exists(../Makefile.conf)
|
||||
.include "../Makefile.conf"
|
||||
|
@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ DOCS?= index.sgml snapshots.sgml
|
|||
|
||||
SUBDIR= 1.1 1.1.5 2.0 2.0.5R 2.1R 2.1.5R 2.1.6R 2.1.7R 2.2R
|
||||
SUBDIR+= 2.2.1R 2.2.2R 2.2.5R 2.2.6R 2.2.7R 2.2.8R 3.0R 3.1R 3.2R
|
||||
SUBDIR+= 3.3R 3.4R
|
||||
SUBDIR+= 3.3R 3.4R 4.0R
|
||||
|
||||
.if defined $(NEW_BUILD)
|
||||
SUBDIR=
|
||||
|
|
|
@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
|
|||
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN" [
|
||||
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
|
||||
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/releases/index.sgml,v 1.35 2000/02/21 19:32:31 chris Exp $">
|
||||
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/releases/index.sgml,v 1.36 2000/03/05 17:11:40 phantom Exp $">
|
||||
<!ENTITY title "Release Information">
|
||||
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
|
||||
]>
|
||||
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/releases/index.sgml,v 1.35 2000/02/21 19:32:31 chris Exp $ -->
|
||||
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/releases/index.sgml,v 1.36 2000/03/05 17:11:40 phantom Exp $ -->
|
||||
|
||||
<html>
|
||||
&header;
|
||||
|
@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ the <A HREF="&base/news/newsflash.html">Newsflash</A> page.</em></p>
|
|||
<a name="current"></A>
|
||||
<h2>Current Release(s)</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p><b>Release 3.4</b> (Dec, 1999)
|
||||
<p><b>Release 4.0</b> (March, 2000)
|
||||
<em>
|
||||
<A HREF="./3.4R/announce.html">Announcement</A> :
|
||||
<A HREF="./3.4R/notes.html">Release Notes</A> :
|
||||
<A HREF="./3.4R/errata.html">Errata</A>.
|
||||
<A HREF="./4.0R/announce.html">Announcement</A> :
|
||||
<A HREF="./4.0R/notes.html">Release Notes</A> :
|
||||
<A HREF="./4.0R/errata.html">Errata</A>.
|
||||
</em></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>This latest release from our <A
|
||||
|
@ -39,7 +39,14 @@ FreeBSD</A> for details.</p>
|
|||
<a name="past"></A>
|
||||
<h2>Past Releases</h2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li><b>3.3</b> (Sep, 1999)
|
||||
<li><b>3.4</b> (December, 1999)
|
||||
<em>
|
||||
<a href="./3.4R/announce.html">Announcement</a>:
|
||||
<a href="./3.4R/notes.html">Release Notes</a>:
|
||||
<a href="./3.4R/errata.html">Errata List</a>
|
||||
</em>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><b>3.3</b> (September, 1999)
|
||||
<em>
|
||||
<a href="./3.3R/announce.html">Announcement</a> :
|
||||
<a href="./3.3R/notes.html">Release Notes</a> :
|
||||
|
@ -81,14 +88,14 @@ FreeBSD</A> for details.</p>
|
|||
<A HREF="./2.2.7R/errata.html">Errata</A>.
|
||||
</em>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><b>2.2.6</b> (Mar, 1998)
|
||||
<li><b>2.2.6</b> (March, 1998)
|
||||
<em>
|
||||
<A HREF="./2.2.6R/announce.html">Announcement</A> :
|
||||
<A HREF="./2.2.6R/notes.html">Release Notes</A> :
|
||||
<A HREF="./2.2.6R/errata.html">Errata List</A>
|
||||
</em>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><b>2.2.5</b> (Oct, 1997)
|
||||
<li><b>2.2.5</b> (October, 1997)
|
||||
<em>
|
||||
<A HREF="./2.2.5R/announce.html">Announcement</A> :
|
||||
<A HREF="./2.2.5R/notes.html">Release Notes</A> :
|
||||
|
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