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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-10-29 00:59:36 +0000
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@@ -20,17 +20,17 @@
<article>
<articleinfo>
- <title>Early Adopter's Guide to FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE</title>
+ <title>Early Adopter's Guide to &os; 5.0-RELEASE</title>
<authorgroup>
- <corpauthor>The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team</corpauthor>
+ <corpauthor>The &os; Release Engineering Team</corpauthor>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2002</year>
- <holder role="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Release
+ <holder role="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Release
Engineering Team</holder>
</copyright>
</articleinfo>
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
<sect1>
<title>Introduction</title>
- <para>FreeBSD 5.0 marks the first new major version of FreeBSD in
+ <para>&os; 5.0 marks the first new major version of &os; in
over two years. Besides a number of new features, it also
contains a number of major developments in the underlying system
architecture.
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
functionality.</para>
<para>For these reasons, the &a.re; does <emphasis>not</emphasis>
- encourage users to blindly update from older FreeBSD releases to
+ encourage users to blindly update from older &os; releases to
5.0. Specifically, for more conservative users, we recommend
running 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> releases (such as
4.7-RELEASE or the upcoming 4.8-RELEASE) for the near-term
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
5-STABLE development branch has been created; this may be around
the time of 5.1-RELEASE or 5.2-RELEASE.</para>
- <para>(FreeBSD 5.0 suffers from what has been described as a
+ <para>(&os; 5.0 suffers from what has been described as a
<quote>chicken and egg</quote> problem. The entire project has
a goal of producing a 5.0-RELEASE that is as stable and reliable
as possible. This stability and reliability requires widespread
@@ -69,9 +69,9 @@
release first!)</para>
<para>This article describes some of the issues involved in
- installing and running FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE. We begin with a
- brief overview of the FreeBSD release process. We then present
- some of the more noteworthy new features in FreeBSD 5.0, along
+ installing and running &os; 5.0-RELEASE. We begin with a
+ brief overview of the &os; release process. We then present
+ some of the more noteworthy new features in &os; 5.0, along
with some areas that may prove troublesome for unwary users.
For those users choosing to remain with 4-STABLE-based releases,
we give some of the short- to medium-term plans for this
@@ -81,9 +81,9 @@
</sect1>
<sect1>
- <title>An Overview of the FreeBSD Release Process</title>
+ <title>An Overview of the &os; Release Process</title>
- <para>FreeBSD employs a model of development that relies on multiple
+ <para>&os; employs a model of development that relies on multiple
development branches within the source code repository. The main branch is called
<quote>CURRENT</quote>, and is referred to in the CVS repository
with the <literal>HEAD</literal> tag. New features are
@@ -92,21 +92,21 @@
occasionally suffers from breakages as new features are
added and debugged.</para>
- <para>Most FreeBSD releases are made from one of several
+ <para>Most &os; releases are made from one of several
<quote>STABLE</quote> branches. Features are only added to
these branches after some amount of testing in CURRENT. At the
moment, only one STABLE branch is under active development; this
branch is referred to as <quote>4-STABLE</quote>, and all of the
- FreeBSD 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> releases were based on
+ &os; 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> releases were based on
it. This branch has the tag <literal>RELENG_4</literal> in the
CVS repository.</para>
- <para>FreeBSD 5.0 will be based on the CURRENT branch. This
+ <para>&os; 5.0 will be based on the CURRENT branch. This
will be the first release from this branch in over two years (the
- last was FreeBSD 4.0, in March 2000).</para>
+ last was &os; 4.0, in March 2000).</para>
- <para>At some point after the release of FreeBSD 5.0, a
- <quote>5-STABLE</quote> branch will be created in the FreeBSD
+ <para>At some point after the release of &os; 5.0, a
+ <quote>5-STABLE</quote> branch will be created in the &os;
CVS repository with the branch tag <literal>RELENG_5</literal>.
The past two stable branches (3-STABLE and 4-STABLE) were
created immediately after their respective <quote>dot-oh</quote>
@@ -124,10 +124,10 @@
that the 5-STABLE branch will be created sometime after
5.1-RELEASE or 5.2-RELEASE.</para>
- <para>More information on FreeBSD release engineering processes can be found
+ <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 FreeBSD <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>
@@ -135,10 +135,10 @@
<sect1>
<title>New Features</title>
- <para>A large attraction of FreeBSD 5.0 is a number of new
+ <para>A large attraction of &os; 5.0 is a number of new
features. These new features and functionality generally involve
large architectural changes that were not feasible to port back to
- the FreeBSD 4-STABLE development branch. (By contrast, many
+ the &os; 4-STABLE development branch. (By contrast, many
self-contained enhancements, such as new device drivers or
userland utilities, have already been ported.) A brief, but not
exhaustive list includes:</para>
@@ -199,14 +199,14 @@
</itemizedlist>
<para>A more comprehensive list of new features can be found in
- the release notes for FreeBSD 5.0.</para>
+ the release notes for &os; 5.0.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Drawbacks to Early Adoption</title>
- <para>Along with the new features of FreeBSD 5.0 come some areas
+ <para>Along with the new features of &os; 5.0 come some areas
that can cause problems, or at least can lead to unexpected
behavior. Generally, these come from the fact that a number of
features are works-in-progress. A partial list of these
@@ -222,11 +222,11 @@
<listitem>
<para>Because of changes in kernel data structures and
ABIs/APIs, third-party binary device drivers will require
- modifications to work correctly under FreeBSD 5.0.</para>
+ modifications to work correctly under &os; 5.0.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Several parts of FreeBSD's base system functionality
+ <para>Several parts of &os;'s base system functionality
have been moved to the Ports Collection. Notable examples
include <application>Perl</application>,
<application>UUCP</application>, and most (but not all)
@@ -236,13 +236,13 @@
<listitem>
<para>A number of ports and packages do not build or do not
- run correctly under FreeBSD 5.0, whereas they did under FreeBSD
+ run correctly under &os; 5.0, whereas they did under &os;
4-STABLE. Generally these problems are caused by compiler
toolchain changes or cleanups of header files.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Because FreeBSD 5.0 is the first release from the
+ <para>Because &os; 5.0 is the first release from the
CURRENT branch in over two years, many of its features are
seeing wide exposure for the first time. Many of these
features (such as SMPng) have broad impacts on the
@@ -251,15 +251,15 @@
<listitem>
<para>A certain amount of debugging and diagnostic code is
- still in place to help track down problems in FreeBSD 5.0's new
- features. This may cause FreeBSD 5.0 to perform more slowly
+ still in place to help track down problems in &os; 5.0's new
+ features. This may cause &os; 5.0 to perform more slowly
than 4-STABLE.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Features are only added to the 4-STABLE development
branch after a <quote>settling time</quote> in -CURRENT.
- FreeBSD 5.0 does not have the stabilizing influence of a
+ &os; 5.0 does not have the stabilizing influence of a
-STABLE branch. (It is likely that the 5-STABLE development
branch will be created sometime after 5.1-RELEASE or
5.2-RELEASE.)</para>
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@
<sect1>
<title>Plans for the 4-STABLE Branch</title>
- <para>The release of FreeBSD 5.0 does not mean the end of the
+ <para>The release of &os; 5.0 does not mean the end of the
4-STABLE branch. There will be at least one more release on
this branch, namely 4.8-RELEASE, currently scheduled for 1
February 2003.</para>
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@
made from the 4-STABLE branch in accordance with their published
policies, which can be found on the <ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/index.html">Security
- page</ulink> on the FreeBSD web site. Generally, the two most
+ page</ulink> on the &os; web site. Generally, the two most
recent releases from any branch will be supported with respect
to security advisories and security fixes. At its discretion,
the team may support other releases.</para>
@@ -315,10 +315,10 @@
<sect1>
<title>Notes on Upgrading</title>
- <para>For those users with existing FreeBSD systems, this section
- offers a few notes on upgrading a FreeBSD
+ <para>For those users with existing &os; systems, this section
+ offers a few notes on upgrading a &os;
4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> system to
- 5.<replaceable>X</replaceable>. As with any FreeBSD upgrade, it
+ 5.<replaceable>X</replaceable>. As with any &os; upgrade, it
is crucial to read the release notes and the errata for the
version in question, as well as
<filename>src/UPGRADING</filename> for source upgrades.</para>
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@
<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 FreeBSD
+ 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>
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@
other things, the use of a <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel,
rather than the stripped-down kernel on the floppy images. In
theory, any system capable of booting the Microsoft Windows NT
- 4 installation CDROMs should be able to cope with the FreeBSD
+ 4 installation CDROMs should be able to cope with the &os;
5.0 CDROMs.</para>
</sect2>
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@
<title>Summary</title>
- <para>While FreeBSD 5.0 contains a number of new and exciting
+ <para>While &os; 5.0 contains a number of new and exciting
features, it may not be suitable for all users at this time. In
this document, we presented some background on release
engineering, some of the more notable new features of the 5.0
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