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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-11-28 19:50:56 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-11-28 19:50:56 +0000 |
commit | 1b173b7d569663335bda81f8339f640d7c8dae3d (patch) | |
tree | cc8bdc627769d5f22dd6b2a7faa0dc1502ea0291 | |
parent | cdeea51f465d7a6b284af099f17e8c09471975e5 (diff) | |
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Misc. edits and cleanup.
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/early-adopter/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/early-adopter/article.sgml index 727532d..689b9db 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/early-adopter/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/early-adopter/article.sgml @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ <para>More information on &os; release engineering processes can be found on the <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/index.html">Release - Engineering Web pages</ulink> and in the &os; <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html">Release + Engineering Web pages</ulink> and in the &os; <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html">Release Engineering</ulink> article.</para> </sect1> @@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ </listitem> <listitem> - <para>GCC: The compiler toolchain is now based on GCC - 3.<replaceable>X</replaceable>, rather than GCC + <para>GCC: The compiler toolchain is now based on a GCC + 3.2.1 pre-release snapshot, rather than GCC 2.95.<replaceable>X</replaceable>.</para> </listitem> @@ -222,7 +222,9 @@ <listitem> <para>Because of changes in kernel data structures and ABIs/APIs, third-party binary device drivers will require - modifications to work correctly under &os; 5.0.</para> + modifications to work correctly under &os; 5.0. There is + a possibility of more minor ABI/API changes before the + 5-STABLE branch is created.</para> </listitem> <listitem> @@ -265,6 +267,14 @@ 5.2-RELEASE.)</para> </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>Documentation (such as the &os; <ulink + url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html">Handbook</ulink> + and <ulink + url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html">FAQ</ulink>) + may not reflect changes recently made to &os; 5.0.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> <para>Because a number of these drawbacks affect system stability, the @@ -335,14 +345,17 @@ <para>As of this time, the binary upgrade option in &man.sysinstall.8; has not been well-tested for cross-major-version upgrades. Using this feature is not - recommended.</para> + recommended. In particular, a binary upgrade will leave + behind a number of files that are present in &os; + 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> but not in 5.0. These obsolete + files may create some problems.</para> <para>On the i386 and pc98 platforms, a UserConfig utility exists on 4-STABLE to allow boot-time configuration of ISA devices when booting from installation media. Under &os; 5.0, this functionality has been replaced in part by the &man.device.hints.5; mechanism (it allows specifying the same - parameters, but is not interactive).</para> + parameters, but with a very different interface).</para> <para>Floppy-based binary installations may require downloading a third, new floppy image holding additional device drivers @@ -383,7 +396,15 @@ difficulties which made updates problematic. The base system utilities that used Perl have either been rewritten (if still applicable) or discarded (if - obsolete).</para> + obsolete).<para> + + <para>Some scripts expect to find a Perl interpreter at + <filename>/usr/bin/perl</filename>. The + <filename>use.perl</filename> command, a part of the Perl + port, can be used to create an appropriate set of symbolic + links for them. In particular, <command>use.perl + port</command> will generally set things up as + expected.</para> <para>It is generally possible to run old 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> executables under |