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<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1998-10-27 11:57:35 $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD 2.0.5 ALPHA Announcement">
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<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../../includes.sgml"> %includes;
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]>
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<html>
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&header;
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<p>
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<b>Date:</b> Tue, 30 May 1995 01:44:26 -0700<br>
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<b>From:</b> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com><br>
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<b>To:</b> announce@FreeBSD.org<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Announcing FreeBSD 2.0.5 ALPHA!
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</p>
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<p>It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.0.5-ALPHA!
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<p>2.0.5A represents a significant improvement over FreeBSD 2.0R and is our
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release-candidate for 2.0.5R later on this week. We're doing a short ALPHA
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release in order to shake out any glaring bugs before rolling 2.0.5R and
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moving on to 2.1R, which is the bigger goal. If you're looking for 2.1R,
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then THIS ISN'T IT. It's an interim release aimed at people who want
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something newer and better than 2.0R to run and don't feel like waiting
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for late July, which is when 2.1R is scheduled to go into BETA test.
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<p>That said, I think most people will enjoy 2.0.5 quite a bit, and while
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it's not up to the "full release quality" we hope to have for 2.1R, it's
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certainly more stable and generally nicer to use than 2.0R!
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<p>2.0.5A is currently available on the following sites:
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<dl>
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<dt>Primary:
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<dd><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA">ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA</a>
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<dt>Secondary: <dd><a href="ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA">ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA</a>
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</dl>
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<p>And should be up on the following MIRROR sites shortly:
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<dl>
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<dt>Australia <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.physics.usyd.edu.au/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.physics.usyd.edu.au/FreeBSD</a>
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<dawes@xfree86.org>
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<dt>Finland <dd><a href="ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD">ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD</a>
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<ftp@nic.funet.fi>
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<dt>France <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/FreeBSD</a>
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<Remy.Card@ibp.fr>
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<dt>Germany <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de/pub/unix/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de/pub/unix/FreeBSD</a>
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<ftp@ftp.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de>
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<dt>Germany <dd><a href="ftp://gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/FreeBSD</a>
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<kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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<dt>Germany <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/freebsd">ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/freebsd</a>
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<ftp@uni-paderborn.de>
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<dt>Israel <dd><a href="ftp://orgchem.weizmann.ac.il/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://orgchem.weizmann.ac.il/pub/FreeBSD</a>
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<serg@klara.weizmann.ac.il>
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<dt>Hong Kong <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.hk.super.net/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.hk.super.net/pub/FreeBSD</a>
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<ftp-admin@HK.Super.NET>
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<dt>Korea <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.cau.ac.kr/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.cau.ac.kr/pub/FreeBSD</a>
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<ftpadm@ftp.cau.ac.kr>
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<dt>Netherlands <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/os/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/os/FreeBSD</a>
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<archive@nl.net>
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<dt>Russia <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.kiae.su/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.kiae.su/FreeBSD</a>
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<ftp@ftp.kiae.su>
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<dt>Sweden <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/FreeBSD</a>
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<ragge@ludd.luth.se>
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<dt>Taiwan <dd><a href="ftp://netbsd.csie.nctu.edu.tw/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://netbsd.csie.nctu.edu.tw/pub/FreeBSD</a>
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<ftp@netbsd.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
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<dt>Thailand <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/FreeBSD</a>
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<ftpadmin@ftp.nectec.or.th>
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<dt>USA <dd><a href="ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/BSD/FreeBSD">ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/BSD/FreeBSD</a>
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<hubbard@gatekeeper.dec.com>
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<dt>USA <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.cybernetics.net/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.cybernetics.net/pub/FreeBSD</a>
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<michael@Cybernetics.NET>
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<dt>USA <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/systems/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/systems/FreeBSD</a>
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<smace@NeoSoft.COM>
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<dt>USA <dd><a href="ftp://kryten.atinc.com/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://kryten.atinc.com/pub/FreeBSD</a>
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<jmb@kryten.atinc.com>
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<dt>USA <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.dataplex.net/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.dataplex.net/pub/FreeBSD</a>
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<rkw@dataplex.net>
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<dt>Japan <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.tokyonet.ad.jp/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.tokyonet.ad.jp/pub/FreeBSD</a>
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<ftpadmin@TokyoNet.AD.JP>
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<dt>Japan <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.tut.ac.jp/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.tut.ac.jp/FreeBSD</a>
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Ashida Hiroyuki <ashida@ftp.tut.ac.jp>
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<dt>Japan <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/os/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/os/FreeBSD</a>
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<ftp-admin@sra.co.jp>
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<dt>Japan <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.ee.uec.ac.jp/pub/os/mirror/ftp.freebsd.org">ftp://ftp.ee.uec.ac.jp/pub/os/mirror/ftp.freebsd.org</a>
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<ftp-admin@ftp.ee.uec.ac.jp>
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<dt>Japan <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.mei.co.jp/free/PC-UNIX/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.mei.co.jp/free/PC-UNIX/FreeBSD</a>
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TANIGUCHI Syuuhei <tanig@isl.mei.co.jp>
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<dt>Japan <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.waseda.ac.jp/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.waseda.ac.jp/pub/FreeBSD</a>
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<ftp-admin@waseda.ac.jp>
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<dt>Japan <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.pu-toyama.ac.jp/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.pu-toyama.ac.jp/pub/FreeBSD</a>
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Yoshihiko USUI <usui@pu-toyama.ac.jp>
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<dt>Japan <dd><a href="ftp://ftpsv1.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/os/FreeBSD">ftp://ftpsv1.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/os/FreeBSD</a>
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<ftp-admin@u-aizu.ac.jp>
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<dt>UK <dd><a href="ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/unix/FreeBSD">ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/unix/FreeBSD</a>
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<wizards@doc.ic.ac.uk>
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<dt>UK <dd><a href="ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/pub/walnut.creek/FreeBSD">ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/pub/walnut.creek/FreeBSD</a>
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<archive-admin@unix.hensa.ac.uk>
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<dt>UK <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/BSD/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/BSD/FreeBSD</a>
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<uploads@demon.net>
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</dl>
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<hr>
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<p>NOTE: If you're installing directly from ftp you can simply grab the
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boot.flp image from the floppies directory, write it to a floppy
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and go from there. There is <em>no need</em> to grab any of the other files;
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the installation will perform this step automatically!
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<p>Please also read the various README and <a href=notes.html>RELNOTES</a> files in the release for
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more information on 2.0.5 - no sense in repeating it all here if most
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of you are simply going to download and read it anyway!
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<p>I'd like to also extend special thanks to Poul-Henning Kamp & Gary Palmer
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for exerting an especially large amount of effort this time in helping
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me get the new installation together. Thanks also to Rod Grimes for
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playing "source tree pit bull" when I needed him to, thus keeping the
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number of headaches I had to suffer in pulling in various last-minute
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changes to an absolute minimum. Thanks, guys! This couldn't have
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been done without you!
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<p> Jordan<br>
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for the FreeBSD Project.
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<p></p><a href="../index.html">Release Home</a>
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&footer;
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<html>
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&header;
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<pre>
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RELEASE NOTES
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FreeBSD
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Release 2.0.5
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1. Technical overview
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---------------------
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FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4 BSD Lite based release
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for Intel i386/i486/Pentium (or compatible) based PC's. It is based
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primarily on software from U.C. Berkeley's CSRG group, with some
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enhancements from NetBSD, 386BSD, and the Free Software Foundation.
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Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 some 8 months ago, the performance,
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feature set, and stability of FreeBSD has improved dramatically. The
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largest change is a revamped VM system with a merged VM/file buffer
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cache that not only increases performance, but reduces FreeBSD's
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memory footprint, making a 4MB configuration a more acceptable
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minimum. Other enhancements include full NIS client and server
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support, transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, an improved SCSI
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subsystem, early ISDN support, support for FDDI and Fast Ethernet
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(100Mbit) adapters, improved support for the Adaptec 2940 (WIDE and
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narrow) and many hundreds of bug fixes.
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We've also taken the comments and suggestions of many of our users to
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heart and have attempted to provide what we hope is a more sane and
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easily understood installation process. Your feedback on this
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(constantly evolving) process is especially welcome!
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In addition to the base distributions, FreeBSD offers a new ported
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software collection with some 270 commonly sought-after programs. The
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list of ports ranges from http (WWW) servers, to games, languages,
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editors and almost everything in between. The entire ports collection
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requires only 10MB of storage, all ports being expressed as "deltas"
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to their original sources. This makes it much easier for us to update
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ports, and greatly reduces the disk space demands made by the older
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1.0 ports collection. To compile a port, you simply change to the
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directory of the program you wish to install, type make and let the
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system do the rest. The full original distribution for each port you
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build is retrieved dynamically off of CDROM or a local ftp site, so
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you need only enough disk space to build the ports you want. Each
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port is also provided as a pre-compiled "package" which can be
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installed with a simple command (pkg_add) by those who do not wish to
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compile their own ports from source. See the file:
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/usr/share/FAQ/Text/ports.FAQ
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for a more complete description of the ports collection.
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Since our first release of FreeBSD 1.0 nearly two years ago, FreeBSD
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has changed almost entirely. A new port from the Berkeley 4.4 code
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base was done, which brought the legal status of the system out of the
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shadows with the blessing of Novell (the new owners of USL and UNIX). The
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port to 4.4 has also brought in a host of new features, filesystems
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and enhanced driver support. With our new unencumbered code base, we
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have every reason to hope that we'll be able to release quality
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operating systems without further legal encumbrance for some time to
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come!
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FreeBSD 2.0.5 represents the culmination of 2 years of work and many
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thousands of man hours put in by an international development team.
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We hope you enjoy it!
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For a list of contributors and a general project description, please see
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the file "CONTRIB.FreeBSD" which should be bundled with your binary
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distribution.
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Also see the "REGISTER.FreeBSD" file for information on registering
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with the "Free BSD user counter". This counter is for ALL freely
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available variants of BSD, not just FreeBSD, and we urge you to register
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yourself with it.
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The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which would inhibit its
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being exported outside the United States. There is an add-on package
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to the core distribution, for use only in the United States, that
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contains the programs that normally use DES. The auxiliary packages
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provided separately can be used by anyone. A freely (from outside the
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U.S.) exportable European distribution of DES for our non-U.S. users also
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exists and is described in the FreeBSD FAQ.
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If password security for FreeBSD is all you need, and you have no
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requirement for copying encrypted passwords from different hosts
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(Suns, DEC machines, etc) into FreeBSD password entries, then
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FreeBSD's MD5 based security may be all you require! We feel that our
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default security model is more than a match for DES, and without any
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messy export issues to deal with. If you're outside (or even inside)
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the U.S., give it a try!
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1.1 What's new in 2.0.5?
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----------------------
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The following features were added or substantially improved between
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the release of 2.0 and this 2.0.5 release. In order to facilitate
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better communication, the person, or persons, responsible for each
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enhancement is noted. Any questions regarding the new functionality
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should be directed to them first.
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KERNEL:
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Merged VM-File Buffer Cache
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A merged VM/buffer cache design greatly enhances overall system
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performance and makes it possible to do a number of more optimal
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memory allocation strategies that were not possible before.
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Owner: David Greenman (davidg@FreeBSD.org) and
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John Dyson (dyson@implode.root.com)
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Network PCB hash optimization
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-----------------------------
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For systems with a great number of active TCP connections (WEB and ftp
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servers, for example), this greatly speeds up the lookup time required
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to match an incoming packet up to its associated connection.
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Owner: David Greenman (davidg@FreeBSD.org)
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Name cache optimization
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-----------------------
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The name-cache would cache all files of the same name to the same bucket,
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which would put for instance all ".." entries in the same bucket. We added
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the parent directory version to frustrate the hash, and improved the
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management of the cache in various other ways while we were at it.
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Owner: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
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David GreenMan (davidg@FreeBSD.org)
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Less restrictive swap-spaces
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----------------------------
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The need to compile the names of the swap devices into the kernel has been
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removed. Now swapon will accept any block devices, up to the maximum
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number of swap devices configured in the kernel.
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Owner: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
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David GreenMan (davidg@FreeBSD.org)
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Hard Wired SCSI Devices
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-----------------------
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Prior to 2.0.5, FreeBSD performed dynamic assignment of unit numbers
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to SCSI devices as they were probed, allowing a SCSI device failure to
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possibly change unit number assignment and prevent filesystems on
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still functioning disks from mounting. Hard wiring allows static
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allocation of unit numbers (and hence device names) to scsi devices
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based on SCSI ID and bus. SCSI configuration occurs in the kernel
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config file. Samples of the configuration syntax can be found in the
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?scsi(4)">scsi(4)</a>>
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man page or the LINT kernel config file.
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Owner: Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com)
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Sources involved: sys/scsi/* usr.sbin/config/*
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Slice Support
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-------------
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FreeBSD now supports a "slice" abstraction which makes it more
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completely interoperable with other operating system partitions. This
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support will allow FreeBSD to inhabit DOS extended partitions.
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Owner: Bruce Evans (bde@FreeBSD.org)
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Sources involved: sys/disklabel.h sys/diskslice.h sys/dkbad.h
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kern/subr_diskslice.c kern/subr_dkbad.c
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i386/isa/diskslice_machdep.c
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i386/isa/wd.c scsi/sd.c dev/vn/vn.c
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Support for Ontrack Disk Manager Version 6.0
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--------------------------------------------
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Support has been added for disks which use Ontrack Disk Manager. The
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fdisk program does NOT know about it however, so make all changes
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using the install program on the boot.flp or the Ontrack Disk Manager
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tool under DOS.
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Owner: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
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Bad144 is back and working
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--------------------------
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Bad144 works again, though the semantics are slightly different than
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before in that the bad-spots are kept relative to the slice rather
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than absolute on the disk.
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Owner: Bruce Evans (bde@FreeBSD.org)
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Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
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NEW DEVICE SUPPORT:
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SCSI and CDROM Devices
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Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative) CD-ROM driver
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---------------------------------------------
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The Matsushita/Panasonic CR-562 and CR-563 drives are now supported
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when connected to a Sound Blaster or 100% compatible host adapter. Up
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to four host adapters are supported for a total of 16 CD-ROM drives.
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The audio functions are supported with the Karoke variable speed
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playback.
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Owner: Frank Durda IV bsdmail@nemesis.lonestar.org
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Sources involved: isa/matcd
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Adaptec 2742/2842/2940 SCSI driver
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-----------------------------
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The original 274x/284x driver has evolved considerably since the 2.0
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release. We now offer full support for the 2940 series as well as the
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||||
Wide models of these cards. The arbitration bug (as well as many
|
||||
others) that caused the driver problems with fast devices has been
|
||||
corrected and there is even experimental tagged queuing support
|
||||
(kernel option "AHC_TAGENABLE"). John Aycock has also released the
|
||||
sequencer code under a "Berkeley style" copyright making the driver
|
||||
entirely clean of the GPL.
|
||||
|
||||
Owner: Justin Gibbs (gibbs@FreeBSD.org)
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/aic7770.c pci/aic7870.c i386/scsi/*
|
||||
sys/dev/aic7xxx/*
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
NCR5380/NCR53400 SCSI ("ProAudio Spectrum") driver
|
||||
--------------------------------------------------
|
||||
Owner: core
|
||||
Submitted by: Serge Vakulenko (vak@cronyx.ru)
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/ncr5380.c
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Sony CDROM driver
|
||||
-----------------
|
||||
Owner: core
|
||||
Submitted by: Mikael Hybsch (micke@dynas.se)
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/scd.c
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Serial Devices
|
||||
|
||||
SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board Driver
|
||||
-----------------------------------------------
|
||||
Owner: Andrey Chernov (ache@FreeBSD.org)
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/rc.c isa/rcreg.h
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board Driver
|
||||
-------------------------------------
|
||||
Owner: Bruce Evans (bde@FreeBSD.org)
|
||||
Submitted by: Andrew Werple (andrew@werple.apana.org.au) and
|
||||
Heikki Suonsivu (hsu@cs.hut.fi)
|
||||
Obtained from: NetBSD
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/cy.c
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Cronyx/Sigma sync/async serial driver
|
||||
-------------------------------------
|
||||
Owner: core
|
||||
Submitted by: Serge Vakulenko
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/cronyx.c
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Networking
|
||||
|
||||
Diskless booting
|
||||
----------------
|
||||
Diskless booting in 2.0.5 is much improved. The boot-program is in
|
||||
src/sys/i386/boot/netboot, and can be run from an MSDOS system or
|
||||
burned into an EPROM. Local swapping is also possible. WD, SMC, 3COM
|
||||
and Novell ethernet cards are currently supported.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
DEC DC21140 Fast Ethernet driver
|
||||
--------------------------------
|
||||
This driver supports any of the numerous NICs using the DC21140 chipset
|
||||
including the 100Mb DEC DE-500-XA and SMC 9332.
|
||||
|
||||
Owner: core
|
||||
Submitted by: Matt Thomas (thomas@lkg.dec.com)
|
||||
Sources involved: pci/if_de.c pci/dc21040.h
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) driver
|
||||
-----------------------------
|
||||
Owner: core
|
||||
Submitted by: Matt Thomas (thomas@lkg.dec.com)
|
||||
Sources involved: pci/if_pdq.c pci/pdq.c pci/pdq_os.h pci/pdqreg.h
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3c505 (Etherlink/+) NIC driver
|
||||
-----------------------------------
|
||||
Owner: core
|
||||
Submitted by: Dean Huxley (dean@fsa.ca)
|
||||
Obtained from: NetBSD
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/if_eg.c
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Fujitsu MB86960A family of NICs driver
|
||||
-------------------------------------
|
||||
Owner: core
|
||||
Submitted by: M.S. (seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp)
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/if_fe.c
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Intel EtherExpress driver
|
||||
-------------------------
|
||||
Owner: Rodney W. Grimes (rgrimes@FreeBSD.org)
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/if_ix.c isa/if_ixreg.h
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3c589 driver
|
||||
-----------------
|
||||
Owner: core
|
||||
Submitted by: "HOSOKAWA Tatsumi" (hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp),
|
||||
Seiji Murata (seiji@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp) and
|
||||
Noriyuki Takahashi (hor@aecl.ntt.jp)
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/if_zp.c
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
IBM Credit Card Adapter driver
|
||||
------------------------------
|
||||
Owner: core
|
||||
Submitted by: "HOSOKAWA Tatsumi" (hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp),
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/pcic.c isa/pcic.h
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
EDSS1 and 1TR6 ISDN interface driver
|
||||
------------------------------------
|
||||
Owner: core
|
||||
Submitted by: Dietmar Friede (dfriede@drnhh.neuhaus.de) and
|
||||
Juergen Krause (jkr@saarlink.de)
|
||||
Sources involved: gnu/isdn/*
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Miscellaneous Drivers
|
||||
|
||||
Joystick driver
|
||||
---------------
|
||||
Owner: Jean-Marc Zucconi (jmz@FreeBSD.org)
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/joy.c
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
National Instruments "LabPC" driver
|
||||
-----------------------------------
|
||||
Owner: Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com)
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/labpc.c
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
WD7000 driver
|
||||
-------------
|
||||
Owner: Olof Johansson (offe@ludd.luth.se)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Pcvt Console driver
|
||||
-------------------
|
||||
Owner: Joerg Wunsch (joerg@FreeBSD.org)
|
||||
Submitted by: Hellmuth Michaelis (hm@altona.hamburg.com)
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/pcvt/*
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
BSD-audio emulator for VAT driver
|
||||
---------------------------------
|
||||
Owner: Amancio Hasty (ahasty@FreeBSD.org) and
|
||||
Paul Traina (pst@FreeBSD.org)
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/sound/vat_audio.c isa/sound/vat_audioio.h
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT GPIB driver
|
||||
--------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
Owner: core
|
||||
Submitted by: Fred Cawthorne (fcawth@delphi.umd.edu)
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/gpib.c isa/gpib.h isa/gpibreg.h
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Genius GS-4500 hand scanner driver
|
||||
----------------------------------
|
||||
Owner: core
|
||||
Submitted by: Gunther Schadow (gusw@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de)
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/gsc.c isa/gscreg.h
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
CORTEX-I Frame Grabber
|
||||
----------------------
|
||||
Owner: core
|
||||
Submitted by: Paul S. LaFollette, Jr. (
|
||||
Sources involved: isa/ctx.c isa/ctxreg.h
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Video Spigot video capture card
|
||||
-------------------------------
|
||||
Owner: Jim Lowe
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
1.2 Experimental features
|
||||
---------------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
The unionfs and LFS file systems are known to be severely broken in
|
||||
2.0.5. This is in part due to old bugs that we haven't had time to
|
||||
resolve yet and the need to update these file systems to deal with the
|
||||
new VM system. We hope to address these issues in a later release of
|
||||
FreeBSD.
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD now supports running iBCS2 compatible binaries (currently SCO
|
||||
UNIX 3.2.2 & 3.2.4 and ISC 2.2 COFF format are supported). The iBCS2
|
||||
emulator is in its early stages, but it is functional, we haven't been
|
||||
able to do exhaustive testing (lack of commercial apps), but almost
|
||||
all of SCO's 3.2.2 binaries are working, so is an old INFORMIX-2.10
|
||||
for SCO. Further testing is necessary to complete this project. There
|
||||
is also work under way for ELF & XOUT loaders, and most of the svr4
|
||||
syscall wrappers have been written.
|
||||
|
||||
Owner: Soren Schmidt (sos) & Sean Eric Fagan (sef)
|
||||
Sources involved: sys/i386/ibcs2/* + misc kernel changes.
|
||||
=======
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2. Supported Configurations
|
||||
---------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA 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.
|
||||
|
||||
Following is a list of all disk controllers and ethernet cards currently
|
||||
known to work with FreeBSD. Other configurations may very well work, and
|
||||
we have simply not received any indication of this.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2.1. Disk Controllers
|
||||
|
||||
WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
|
||||
WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
|
||||
WD7000
|
||||
IDE
|
||||
ATA
|
||||
|
||||
Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
|
||||
Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
|
||||
Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
|
||||
Adaptec 274X/284X/2940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI controllers
|
||||
Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes
|
||||
the AHA-152x and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
|
||||
|
||||
** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards
|
||||
as they have no on-board BIOS, which is necessary for mapping
|
||||
the boot device into the system BIOS I/O vectors.
|
||||
They're perfectly usable for external tapes, CDROMs, etc,
|
||||
however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card
|
||||
without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which
|
||||
is generally indicated by some sort of message when the system
|
||||
is first powered up or reset. Check your system/board documentation
|
||||
for more details.
|
||||
|
||||
[Note that Buslogic was formerly known as "Bustec"]
|
||||
Buslogic 545S & 545c
|
||||
Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
|
||||
Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
|
||||
Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
|
||||
Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller
|
||||
|
||||
NCR 53C810 and 53C825 PCI SCSI controller.
|
||||
NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller.
|
||||
|
||||
DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
|
||||
|
||||
UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
|
||||
|
||||
Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
|
||||
|
||||
Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
|
||||
|
||||
With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
|
||||
SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including
|
||||
DAT) and CD ROM drives.
|
||||
The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
|
||||
(cd) SCSI (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI)
|
||||
(mcd) Mitsumi proprietary interface
|
||||
(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative) proprietary interface
|
||||
(scd) Sony proprietary interface
|
||||
|
||||
Note: CD-Drives with IDE interfaces are not supported at this time.
|
||||
|
||||
Some controllers have limitations with the way they deal with >16MB of
|
||||
memory, due to the fact that the ISA bus only has a DMA address space
|
||||
of 24 bits. If you do your arithmetic, you'll see that this makes it
|
||||
impossible to do direct DMA to any address >16MB. This limitation is
|
||||
even true of some EISA controllers (which are normally 32 bit) when
|
||||
they're configured to emulate an ISA card, which they then do in *all*
|
||||
respects. This problem is avoided entirely by IDE controllers (which
|
||||
do not use DMA), true EISA controllers (like the UltraStor, Adaptec
|
||||
1742A or Adaptec 2742) and most VLB (local bus) controllers. In the
|
||||
cases where it's necessary, the system will use "bounce buffers" to
|
||||
talk to the controller so that you can still use more than 16Mb of
|
||||
memory without difficulty.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2.2. Ethernet cards
|
||||
|
||||
SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
|
||||
WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
|
||||
based clones. SMC Elite Ultra is also supported.
|
||||
|
||||
DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
|
||||
DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
|
||||
DEC DC21140 based NICs (SMC???? DE???)
|
||||
DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
|
||||
|
||||
Fujitsu MB86960A family of NICs
|
||||
|
||||
Intel EtherExpress
|
||||
|
||||
Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
|
||||
Isolink 4110 (8 bit)
|
||||
|
||||
Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3C501 cards
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA) Etherlink III
|
||||
|
||||
Toshiba ethernet cards
|
||||
|
||||
PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
|
||||
supported.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2.3. Misc
|
||||
|
||||
AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
|
||||
|
||||
ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
|
||||
|
||||
BOCA ATIO66 6 port serial card using shared IRQ.
|
||||
|
||||
Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
|
||||
|
||||
STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
|
||||
|
||||
Mitsumi (all models) CDROM interface and drive.
|
||||
|
||||
SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
|
||||
|
||||
Soundblaster SCSI and ProAudio Spectrum SCSI CDROM interface and drive.
|
||||
|
||||
Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) CDROM interface and drive.
|
||||
|
||||
Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
|
||||
and Roland MPU-401 sound cards.
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus, but
|
||||
support is apparently close to materializing. Details will be posted
|
||||
as the situation develops.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
3. Obtaining FreeBSD.
|
||||
---------------------
|
||||
|
||||
You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
|
||||
|
||||
1. FTP/Mail
|
||||
|
||||
You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
|
||||
`ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site.
|
||||
|
||||
For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
|
||||
MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the nearest site
|
||||
to you netwise.
|
||||
|
||||
If you do not have access to the internet and electronic mail is your
|
||||
only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
|
||||
`ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
|
||||
to get more information on how to fetch files from freebsd.cdrom.com.
|
||||
Note: This approach will end up sending many *tens of megabytes*
|
||||
through the mail, and should only be employed as an absolute LAST
|
||||
resort!
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2. CDROM
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD 2.0.5 may be ordered on CDROM from:
|
||||
|
||||
Walnut Creek CDROM
|
||||
4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
|
||||
Concord CA 94520
|
||||
1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax)
|
||||
|
||||
Or via the internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
|
||||
Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp as:
|
||||
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog.
|
||||
|
||||
Cost is $39.95. Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US,
|
||||
Canada, or Mexico and $10.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard,
|
||||
American Express, 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.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
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. 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.
|
||||
|
||||
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:
|
||||
|
||||
bugs@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to:
|
||||
|
||||
questions@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have
|
||||
extra hands willing to help - there are already far more enhancements
|
||||
to be done than we can ever manage to do by ourselves! To contact us
|
||||
on technical matters, or with offers of help, you may send mail to:
|
||||
|
||||
hackers@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
Since these mailing lists can experience significant amounts of
|
||||
traffic, if you have slow or expensive mail access and you are
|
||||
only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you may
|
||||
find it preferable to subscribe to:
|
||||
|
||||
announce@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
All but the freebsd-bugs groups 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. It would be very difficult, if not
|
||||
impossible, to enumerate everyone who's contributed to FreeBSD, but
|
||||
nonetheless we shall try (in alphabetical order, of course). If your
|
||||
name is not mentioned, please be assured that its omission is entirely
|
||||
accidental.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), U.C. Berkeley.
|
||||
|
||||
Bill Jolitz, for his initial work with 386BSD.
|
||||
|
||||
The FreeBSD Core Team
|
||||
(in alphabetical order by first name):
|
||||
|
||||
Andreas Schulz <ats@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
Andrey A. Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
David Greenman <davidg@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
Geoff Rehmet <csgr@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
Jack Vogel <jackv@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
John Dyson <dyson@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
Justin Gibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
Paul Richards <paul@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
Rich Murphey <rich@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
Rodney W. Grimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org>
|
||||
|
||||
Special mention to:
|
||||
|
||||
Walnut Creek CDROM, without whose help (and continuing support)
|
||||
this release would never have been possible.
|
||||
|
||||
Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM
|
||||
drive.
|
||||
|
||||
Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers:
|
||||
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J.T. Conklin Julian Elischer
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Frank Durda IV Peter Dufault
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Sean Eric Fagan Jeffrey Hsu
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Terry Lambert L Jonas Olsson
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Chris Provenzano Dave Rivers
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Guido van Rooij Steven Wallace
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Atsushi Murai Scott Mace
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Nate Williams
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And everyone at Montana State University for their initial support.
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Jordan would also like to give special mention to Poul-Henning Kamp
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and Gary Palmer, both of whom put in long hours helping him to
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construct the new installation utility. Poul, being a proud new
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father, was especially pressed for time yet somehow managed to put in
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significant amount of effort anyway and this release could not have
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happened without him. Thank you both!
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Thanks also to everyone else who helped, especially those not
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mentioned, and we sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD!
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The FreeBSD Core Team
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Id: RELNOTES.FreeBSD,v 1.7 1995/05/28 19:49:57 jkh Exp
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</pre>
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<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1998-10-27 11:57:35 $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD 2.0 ALPHA Announcement">
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<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../../includes.sgml"> %includes;
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]>
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<html>
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&header;
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<p>To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com<br>
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Subject: For those that didn't see this in announce - 2.0 ALPHA is released!<br>
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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 01:31:42 -0800<br>
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com></p>
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<p>The FreeBSD Project team is very pleased to announce their release of
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FreeBSD 2.0 ALPHA; a full 32 bit 4.4 BSD Lite based operating system
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for Intel PCs (i386, i486 and Pentium class).</p>
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<p>Since our first release of FreeBSD 1.0 some 18 months ago, FreeBSD has
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changed almost entirely. A new port from the Berkeley 4.4 code base
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was done, which brought the legal status of the system out of the
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shadows with the blessing of Novell (new owners of USL and UNIX). The
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port to 4.4 also brought in a host of new features, filesystems and
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enhanced driver support. With our new unencumbered code base, we have
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every reason to hope that we'll be able to release quality operating
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systems without further legal encumbrance for some time to come!</p>
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<p>FreeBSD 2.0 represents the culmination of almost 2 years of work and
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many thousands of man hours put in by an international development
|
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team. We hope you enjoy it!</p>
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<p>FreeBSD 2.0 ALPHA also features an advanced installation that enables
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one to install from tape, CD, SLIP or ethernet (NFS or FTP). FreeBSD
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2.0 BETA, planned for the 2nd week of November, will also support
|
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installation from floppy or DOS partition (sorry, it didn't quite make
|
||||
the ALPHA!) and offer even more "plug-n-play" features for editing
|
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disklabels and such. This is, nonetheless, our easiest to use
|
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installation yet, and we hope that with your feedback and suggestions,
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our final 2.0 Release version will be even nicer still!</p>
|
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<p>For more information on what's new with FreeBSD, or what general
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features it offers, we strongly suggest that you simply download our
|
||||
boot floppy and boot from it. You can easily read the release notes
|
||||
on it using a simple menu, and with no danger to the contents of your
|
||||
hard disk (unless you deliberately chose "proceed with installation",
|
||||
in which case your fate is in your own hands! :-).</p>
|
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|
||||
<p>Those truly wishing to wait for the final release version of 2.0 are,
|
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of course, encouraged to do so, but I think that many of you will find
|
||||
this to be our most polished "ALPHA" release yet! Give it a try! An
|
||||
upgrade path from ALPHA->RELEASE will also be provided, and we do NOT
|
||||
plan any major changes between now and the final release in December.
|
||||
We generally try to err on the side of conservatism in our releases,
|
||||
and the 2.0 release cycle is no exception. Those wishing to obtain
|
||||
2.0 on CDROM will have to wait until the 2.0 Release date, at which
|
||||
point it will be made available by Walnut Creek CDROM (info@cdrom.com)
|
||||
and other CDROM publishers.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>If you're currently running 1.x and are looking for an upgrade path,
|
||||
we're sorry to say that only full installations are supported at this
|
||||
time. Simply back up your password and user files before reinstalling
|
||||
from the 2.0 media, then bring them back. If public demand is high
|
||||
enough, and we can figure out a way of easily doing it, we'll offer
|
||||
something, but it should be understood that the differences between
|
||||
1.x and 2.0 are <em>large</em>, and it's not certain that we'll be able to do
|
||||
it at all.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Those unable or unwilling to download the boot floppy may also get the
|
||||
release notes by mail - send mail to <info@FreeBSD.org> for an
|
||||
automated reply. Updated information will also be provided on a more
|
||||
or less continuous basis in our <a href="/When">WEB pages</a></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FreeBSD 2.0A is available for ftp in <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0-ALPHA/">ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0-ALPHA/</a></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>It will also, no doubt, be available on a number of mirror sites as
|
||||
soon as they pick it up. However, ftp.freebsd.org is on a T3 line and
|
||||
supports 300 simultaneous users (it's a FreeBSD machine :-), so it's
|
||||
unlikely that you'll have too much trouble getting it from this site
|
||||
until the mirrors do so.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>If you are directly Internet connected, it is also NOT necessary to
|
||||
load the bindist from this site! Simply download the 2 boot floppies,
|
||||
begin the installation, and select the FTP installation method - it
|
||||
will do the rest for you, transparently.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Finally, we'd like to publically <em>thank</em> <a
|
||||
href="http://www.cdrom.com/">Walnut Creek CDROM</a>, without whos
|
||||
continuing support and extreme generousity, we'd probably be long
|
||||
gone! They've been of immense help to us. Thank you, Walnut
|
||||
Creek CDROM!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Thanks must also go to Poul-Henning Kamp, our fearless and long
|
||||
suffering release engineer for 2.0. While all of us have sacrificed
|
||||
much sleep to the cause, he has a new wife but has somehow managed to
|
||||
do so as well! :-)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>And to all of our users (this is probably starting to sound like the
|
||||
academy awards :-), a similar thank you! We couldn't have done it
|
||||
without your constant flow of commentary, patches, donations of code
|
||||
and moral support. As corny as it sounds, we do it all for you folks!
|
||||
[Though the ego gratification is nice too :-)]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Thanks to all, and we sincerely hope you enjoy this release!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Comments, as always, to hackers@FreeBSD.org.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Jordan<br>
|
||||
[on behalf of the FreeBSD Project team]
|
||||
</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p></p><a href="../index.html">Release Home</a>
|
||||
&footer;
|
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</body>
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</html>
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# $Id: Makefile,v 1.15 1998-11-29 12:27:50 jkh Exp $
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# $Id: Makefile,v 1.16 1998-11-30 23:46:17 jkh Exp $
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|
||||
.if exists(../Makefile.conf)
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.include "../Makefile.conf"
|
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|
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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
|
|||
|
||||
DOCS?= index.sgml snapshots.sgml
|
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|
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SUBDIR= 1.1 1.1.5 2.0 2.0.5A 2.0.5R 2.0A 2.1R 2.1.5R 2.1.6R 2.1.7R 2.2R
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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
|
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|
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.if defined $(NEW_BUILD)
|
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