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Here's a patch to correct some small technical inaccuracies, style

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nits, etc. in relnotes.sgml. More changes might be desirable, however
these were the things that leapt out at me.

Submitted by:	Doug <Studded@dal.net>
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Jordan K. Hubbard 1998-03-23 23:48:32 +00:00
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<!-- $Id: relnotes.sgml,v 1.23 1997-08-12 09:18:19 asami Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: relnotes.sgml,v 1.24 1998-03-23 23:48:32 jkh Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
<!--
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<sect><heading>About the Current Release<label id="relnotes"></heading>
<p>FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4BSD-Lite
based release for Intel i386/i486/Pentium/PentiumPro (or
compatible) based PC's. It is based primarily on
based release for Intel i386/i486/Pentium/PentiumPro/Pentium II
(or compatible) based PC's. It is based primarily on
software from U.C. Berkeley's CSRG group, with some
enhancements from NetBSD, 386BSD, and the Free Software
Foundation.
enhancements from NetBSD, OpenBSD, 386BSD, and the Free
Software Foundation.
Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 in January of 95, the
performance, feature set, and stability of FreeBSD has
improved dramatically. The largest change is a
revamped VM system with a merged VM/file buffer cache
that not only increases performance, but reduces
revamped virtual memory system with a merged VM/file buffer
cache that not only increases performance, but reduces
FreeBSD's memory footprint, making a 5MB configuration
a more acceptable minimum. Other enhancements include
full NIS client and server support, transaction TCP
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In addition to the base distributions, FreeBSD offers a
new ported software collection with hundreds of commonly
sought-after programs. At the beginning of July 97 there were
more than 1000 ports ! The list of ports ranges from
sought-after programs. At the end of March 1998 there were
more than 1300 ports! The list of ports ranges from
http (WWW) servers, to games, languages, editors and
almost everything in between. The entire ports collection
requires only 10MB of storage, all ports being expressed
as ``deltas'' to their original sources. This makes it
much easier for us to update ports, and greatly reduces
requires approximately 26MB of storage, all ports being
expressed as ``deltas'' to their original sources. This makes
it much easier for us to update ports, and greatly reduces
the disk space demands made by the older 1.0 ports
collection. To compile a port, you simply change to the
directory of the program you wish to install, type ``make
all'' followed by ``make install'' after successful
compilation and let the system do the rest. The full
original distribution for each port you build is retrieved
dynamically off of CDROM or a local ftp site, so you need
dynamically off the CDROM or a local ftp site, so you need
only enough disk space to build the ports you want.
(Almost) every port is also provided as a pre-compiled
"package" which can be installed with a simple command
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very helpful in the process of installing and using
FreeBSD may now also be found in the
<bf>/usr/share/doc</bf> directory on any machine running
FreeBSD 2.1 or later. You may view the
manuals with any HTML capable browser with the
FreeBSD 2.1 or later. You may view the locally installed
manuals with any HTML capable browser using the
following URLs:
<descrip>