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<para>FreeBSD is a state of the art operating system for computer
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systems based on both the Intel CPU architecture, which includes the
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386 and 486 and Pentium processors (both SX and DX versions) and the DEC
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Alpha architecture. Intel compatible CPUs from AMD to Cyrix are
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supported as well. FreeBSD provides you with many advanced features
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previously available only on much more expensive computers.
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systems based on both the Intel CPU architecture, which includes
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the 386 and Pentium family of processors as well as Intel
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compatible CPUs from Cyrix and AMD, and the DEC Alpha
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architecture. FreeBSD provides you with many advanced features
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previously available only on much more expensive systems.
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priority adjustment to ensure smooth and fair sharing of the
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dynamic priority adjustment to ensure smooth and fair
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built for Linux, SCO, SVR4, BSDI and NetBSD.</para>
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memory.</para>
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course, on the net).</para>
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of course, on the net) are continually made available as work
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endeavor to replace such software with submissions under the more
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prefer software submitted under the more relaxed BSD copyright when it's
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a reasonable option to do so.</para>
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buffer cache that not only increases performance, but reduces FreeBSD's
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Other enhancements include full NIS client and server support,
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transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, an improved SCSI subsystem,
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ISDN support, support for ATM, FDDI and Fast Ethernet (100Mbit)
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adapters, improved support for the Adaptec 2940 (WIDE and narrow) and
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many hundreds of bug fixes.</para>
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transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, integrated DHCP support,
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an improved SCSI subsystem, ISDN support, support for ATM, FDDI, Fast
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and Gigabit Ethernet (1000Mbit) adapters, improved support for the latest
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The FreeBSD Documentation Project
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$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml,v 1.17 1999/09/06 06:52:59 peter Exp $
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$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml,v 1.18 1999/09/14 03:13:50 jim Exp $
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-->
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<para>FreeBSD is a state of the art operating system for computer
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systems based on both the Intel CPU architecture, which includes the
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386 and 486 and Pentium processors (both SX and DX versions) and the DEC
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Alpha architecture. Intel compatible CPUs from AMD to Cyrix are
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supported as well. FreeBSD provides you with many advanced features
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previously available only on much more expensive computers.
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systems based on both the Intel CPU architecture, which includes
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the 386 and Pentium family of processors as well as Intel
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compatible CPUs from Cyrix and AMD, and the DEC Alpha
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architecture. FreeBSD provides you with many advanced features
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previously available only on much more expensive systems.
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<itemizedlist>
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<para><emphasis>Preemptive multitasking</emphasis> with dynamic
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priority adjustment to ensure smooth and fair sharing of the
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computer between applications and users.</para>
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<para><emphasis>Preemptive multitasking</emphasis> with
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dynamic priority adjustment to ensure smooth and fair
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sharing of the computer between applications and users, even
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under the heaviest of loads.</para>
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<para><emphasis>Multiuser</emphasis> access means that many people can
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use a FreeBSD system simultaneously for a variety of things. System
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peripherals such as printers and tape drives are also properly
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SHARED BETWEEN ALL users on the system.</para>
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<para><emphasis>Multiuser</emphasis> access means that many
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people can use a FreeBSD system simultaneously for a variety
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of things. This means, for example, that system peripherals
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such as printers and tape drives are properly shared between
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all users on the system or the network and that individual
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resource limits can be placed on users or groups of users,
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protecting critical system resources from over-use.</para>
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<para>Complete <emphasis>TCP/IP networking</emphasis> including SLIP,
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PPP, NFS and NIS support. This means that your FreeBSD machine can
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server, providing vital functions such as NFS (remote file access)
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and e-mail services or putting your organization on the Internet
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with WWW, ftp, routing and firewall (security) services.</para>
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<para>Strong <emphasis>TCP/IP networking</emphasis> with
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support for industry standards such as SLIP, PPP, NFS, DHCP
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and NIS support. This means that your FreeBSD machine can
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inter-operate easily with other systems as well act as an
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enterprise server, providing vital functions such as NFS
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(remote file access) and e-mail services or putting your
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organization on the Internet with WWW, ftp, routing and
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firewall (security) services.</para>
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was designed as such from the ground up.</para>
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<para>FreeBSD is a <emphasis>32-bit</emphasis> operating
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system (<emphasis>64-bit</emphasis> on the Alpha) and was
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designed as such from the ground up.</para>
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<para><emphasis>Binary compatibility</emphasis> with many programs
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built for SCO, BSDI, NetBSD, Linux and 386BSD.</para>
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built for Linux, SCO, SVR4, BSDI and NetBSD.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Hundreds of <emphasis>ready-to-run</emphasis> applications are
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<para>Thousands of <emphasis>ready-to-run</emphasis> applications are
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available from the FreeBSD <emphasis>ports</emphasis> and
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<emphasis>packages</emphasis> collection. Why search the net when
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you can find it all right here?</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><emphasis>Shared libraries</emphasis> (the Unix equivalent of
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MS-Windows DLLs) provide for efficient use of disk space and
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memory.</para>
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<para><emphasis>SMP</emphasis> support for machines with multiple
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CPUs (Intel only).</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>World Wide Web servers</para>
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<para>World Wide Web servers (standard or secure [SSL])</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Gopher servers</para>
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<para>Firewalls and NAT ("IP masquerading") gateways.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>USENET News</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Bulletin Board Systems</para>
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<para>USENET News or Bulletin Board Systems</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>You can easily start out small with an inexpensive 386 class PC
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and upgrade as your enterprise grows.</para>
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<para>With FreeBSD, you can easily start out small with an
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inexpensive 386 class PC and upgrade all the way up to a
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quad-processor Xeon with RAID storage as your enterprise
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grows.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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(“-current”) in November 1996 as the RELENG_2_2 branch, and
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the first full release (2.2.1) was released in April, 1997. Further
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releases along the 2.2 branch were done in the Summer and Fall of '97,
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the latest being 2.2.7 which appeared in late July of '98. The first
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official 3.0 release appeared in October, 1998 and the last release on
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the 2.2 branch, 2.2.8, appeared in November, 1998.</para>
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the last of which (2.2.8) appeared in November, 1998. The first
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official 3.0 release appeared in October, 1998 and spelled the beginning
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of the end for the 2.2 branch.</para>
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<para>The tree branched again on Jan 20, 1999. This led to 4.0-current
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and a 3.x-stable branch, from which 3.1 was released on February
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15th, 1999 and 3.2 was released on May 15, 1999.</para>
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<para>The tree branched again on Jan 20, 1999, leading to the 4.0-current
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and 3.x-stable branches. From 3.x-stable, 3.1 was released on February
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15th, 1999 and 3.2 on May 15, 1999. The most current release on this
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branch is 3.3, which was released on September 16th, 1999.</para>
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<para>Long term development projects will continue to take place in the
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4.0-current branch and SNAPshot releases of 4.0 on CDROM (and, of
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course, on the net).</para>
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<para>Long term development projects continue to take place in the
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4.0-current branch, and SNAPshot releases of 4.0 on CDROM (and,
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of course, on the net) are continually made available as work
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progresses.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="goals">
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License (GPL) or Library General Public License (LGPL) comes with slightly
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more strings attached, though at least on the side of enforced access
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rather than the usual opposite. Due to the additional complexities that
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can evolve in the commercial use of GPL software, we do, however,
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endeavor to replace such software with submissions under the more
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relaxed BSD copyright when reasonable to do so.</para>
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can evolve in the commercial use of GPL software we do, however,
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prefer software submitted under the more relaxed BSD copyright when it's
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a reasonable option to do so.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="development">
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buffer cache that not only increases performance, but reduces FreeBSD's
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memory footprint, making a 5MB configuration a more acceptable minimum.
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Other enhancements include full NIS client and server support,
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transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, an improved SCSI subsystem,
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ISDN support, support for ATM, FDDI and Fast Ethernet (100Mbit)
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adapters, improved support for the Adaptec 2940 (WIDE and narrow) and
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many hundreds of bug fixes.</para>
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transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, integrated DHCP support,
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an improved SCSI subsystem, ISDN support, support for ATM, FDDI, Fast
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and Gigabit Ethernet (1000Mbit) adapters, improved support for the latest
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Adaptec controllers and many hundreds of bug fixes.</para>
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<para>We have also taken the comments and suggestions of many of our users
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to heart and have attempted to provide what we hope is a more sane and
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