Name Pentium Pro Support.

Changed an expression "one year ago", which is in fact only valid
for a short period of time.
Updated the section about ports. Make this more general, "hundreds of
ports" and give a concrete number of ports (over 710) with a timestamp
"at end of November 96".

I reformatted the "ports" paragraph using fmt, because I think it looks
nicer now in sgml source. So the diff shows more changed lines than was
actually changed. If this isn't suitable for you, then I'll do my best
in the future, to avoid this. My intention was, to make the source look
nicer as well.
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<sect><heading>About the current release<label id="relnotes"></heading> <sect><heading>About the current release<label id="relnotes"></heading>
<p>FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4BSD-Lite <p>FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4BSD-Lite
based release for Intel i386/i486/Pentium (or based release for Intel i386/i486/Pentium/PentiumPro (or
compatible) based PC's. It is based primarily on compatible) based PC's. It is based primarily on
software from U.C. Berkeley's CSRG group, with some software from U.C. Berkeley's CSRG group, with some
enhancements from NetBSD, 386BSD, and the Free Software enhancements from NetBSD, 386BSD, and the Free Software
Foundation. Foundation.
Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 one year ago, the Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 in January of 95, the
performance, feature set, and stability of FreeBSD has performance, feature set, and stability of FreeBSD has
improved dramatically. The largest change is a improved dramatically. The largest change is a
revamped VM system with a merged VM/file buffer cache revamped VM system with a merged VM/file buffer cache
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(constantly evolving) process is especially welcome! (constantly evolving) process is especially welcome!
In addition to the base distributions, FreeBSD offers a In addition to the base distributions, FreeBSD offers a
new ported software collection with some 350 commonly new ported software collection with hundreds of commonly
sought-after programs. The list of ports ranges from sought-after programs. At the end of November 96 there was
an amount of 710 ports ! The list of ports ranges from
http (WWW) servers, to games, languages, editors and http (WWW) servers, to games, languages, editors and
almost everything in between. The entire ports almost everything in between. The entire ports collection
collection requires only 10MB of storage, all ports requires only 10MB of storage, all ports being expressed
being expressed as ``deltas'' to their original sources. as ``deltas'' to their original sources. This makes it
This makes it much easier for us to update ports, and much easier for us to update ports, and greatly reduces
greatly reduces the disk space demands made by the the disk space demands made by the older 1.0 ports
older 1.0 ports collection. To compile a port, you collection. To compile a port, you simply change to the
simply change to the directory of the program you wish directory of the program you wish to install, type ``make
to install, type make and let the system do the rest. all'' followed by ``make install'' after successfull
The full original distribution for each port you build compilation and let the system do the rest. The full
is retrieved dynamically off of CDROM or a local ftp original distribution for each port you build is retrieved
site, so you need only enough disk space to build the dynamically off of CDROM or a local ftp site, so you need
ports you want. (Almost) every port is also provided only enough disk space to build the ports you want.
as a pre-compiled "package" which can be installed with (Almost) every port is also provided as a pre-compiled
a simple command (pkg_add) by those who do not wish to "package" which can be installed with a simple command
compile their own ports from source. (pkg_add) by those who do not wish to compile their own
ports from source.
A number of additional documents which you may find A number of additional documents which you may find
very helpful in the process of installing and using very helpful in the process of installing and using