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diff --git a/share/doc/handbook/relnotes.sgml b/share/doc/handbook/relnotes.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 6c339ca..0000000 --- a/share/doc/handbook/relnotes.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,587 +0,0 @@ -<!-- $Id$ --> -<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project --> - -<!-- -<!DOCTYPE linuxdoc PUBLIC '-//FreeBSD//DTD linuxdoc//EN'> -<linuxdoc><book><chapt>foo ---> - <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 - software from U.C. Berkeley's CSRG group, with some - enhancements from NetBSD, 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 - FreeBSD's memory footprint, making a 5MB configuration - a more acceptable minimum. Other enhancements include - full NIS client and server support, transaction TCP - support, dial-on-demand PPP, an improved SCSI - subsystem, early ISDN support, support for FDDI and - Fast Ethernet (100Mbit) adapters, improved support for - the Adaptec 2940 (WIDE and narrow) and many hundreds of - bug fixes. - - We have also taken the comments and suggestions of many - of our users to heart and have attempted to provide - what we hope is a more sane and easily understood - installation process. Your feedback on this - (constantly evolving) process is especially welcome! - - In addition to the base distributions, FreeBSD offers a - new ported software collection with hundreds of commonly - sought-after programs. At the beginning of December 96 there were - more than 700 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 - 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 - 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 - (pkg_add) by those who do not wish to compile their own - ports from source. - - A number of additional documents which you may find - 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 - following URLs: - - <descrip> - <tag>The FreeBSD handbook</tag> - <htmlurl url="file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html"> - - <tag>The FreeBSD FAQ</tag> - <htmlurl url="file:/usr/share/doc/FAQ/FAQ.html"> - </descrip> - - You can also visit the master (and most frequently - updated) copies at <htmlurl - url="http://www.freebsd.org" - name="http://www.freebsd.org">. - - The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which - would inhibit its being exported outside the United - States. There is an add-on package to the core - distribution, for use only in the United States, that - contains the programs that normally use DES. The - auxiliary packages provided separately can be used by - anyone. A freely (from outside the U.S.) exportable - European distribution of DES for our non-U.S. users - also exists and is described in the <htmlurl - url="../FAQ/FAQ.html" name="FreeBSD FAQ">. - - If password security for FreeBSD is all you need, and - you have no requirement for copying encrypted passwords - from different hosts (Suns, DEC machines, etc) into - FreeBSD password entries, then FreeBSD's MD5 based - security may be all you require! We feel that our - default security model is more than a match for DES, - and without any messy export issues to deal with. If - you are outside (or even inside) the U.S., give it a - try! - -<![ IGNORE [ - <p>Since our first release of FreeBSD 1.0 nearly two - years ago, FreeBSD has changed dramatically. Since - release 2.0, FreeBSD has been based on the Berkeley - 4.4BSD-Lite code rather than the Net2 code used for - previous versions. In addition to clearing the legal - issues that surrounded the Net2 code, the port to 4.4 - has also brought in numerous new features, filesystems - and enhanced driver support. - - Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 in November of 1994, - the performance, feature set, and stability of FreeBSD - has improved dramatically. The largest change is a - revamped Virtual Memory (VM) system with a merged - virtual memory and file buffer cache. This increases - performance while reducing FreeBSD's memory footprint, - making a system with 4 megabytes of RAM a more - acceptable minimum. Other enhancements include full - NIS client and server support, transaction TCP support, - dial on demand PPP, an improved SCSI subsystem, early - support for ISDN, support for FDDI and 100Mbit Fast - Ethernet adapters, improved support for the Adaptec - 2940 and hundreds of bug fixes. - - We have also taken the comments and suggestions of many - of our users to heart and have attempted to provide - what we hope is a more sane and easily understood - installation process. Your feedback on this constantly - evolving process is especially welcome! - - In addition to the base distributions, FreeBSD offers a - new ported software collection with some 270 commonly - sought-after programs. The list of ports ranges from - World Wide Web (http) servers, to games, languages, - editors and almost everything in between. The entire - ports collection requires only 10MB of storage because - each port contains only the changes required for the - source code to compile on FreeBSD and the information - necessary to automatically retrieve the original - sources. The original distribution for each port you - build is automatically retrieved off of CD-ROM or a via - anonymous ftp, so you need only enough disk space to - build the ports you want. Each port is also provided - as a pre-compiled package which can be installed with - the <tt>pkg_add(1)</tt> command for those who do not - wish to compile their own ports from source. See <ref - id="ports" name="The Ports Collection"> for a more - complete description. - -<!-- XXX make xref - For a list of contributors and a general project - description, please see the file "CONTRIB.FreeBSD" - which should be bundled with your binary distribution. - - Also see the "REGISTER.FreeBSD" file for information on - registering with the "Free BSD user counter". This - counter is for ALL freely available variants of BSD, - not just FreeBSD, and we urge you to register yourself - with it. ---> - - The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which - would inhibit its being exported outside the United - States. An add-on package, for use only in the United - States, contains the programs that normally use DES. - The auxiliary packages provided separately can be used - by anyone. A freely exportable European distribution - of DES for our non-U.S. users also exists and is - described in the <url - url="http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ" name="FreeBSD - FAQ">. If password security for FreeBSD is all you - need, and you have no requirement for copying encrypted - passwords from other hosts using DES into FreeBSD - password entries, then FreeBSD's MD5 based security may - be all you require. We feel that our default security - model is more than a match for DES, and without any - messy export issues to deal with. - - FreeBSD 2.0.5 represents the culmination of 2 years of - work and many thousands of man hours put in by an - international development team. We hope you enjoy it! - - <sect1><heading>New feature highlights</heading> - - <p>The following features were added or substantially - improved between the release of 2.0 and this 2.0.5 - release. In order to facilitate better - communication, the person, or persons, responsible - for each enhancement is noted. Any questions - regarding the new functionality should be directed to - them first. - - <sect2><heading>Kernel</heading> - - <p> - <descrip> - - <tag>Merged VM-File Buffer Cache</tag> A merged - VM/buffer cache design greatly enhances overall - system performance and makes it possible to do - a number of more optimal memory allocation - strategies that were not possible before. - - Owner: &a.davidg; and &a.dyson; - - <tag>Network PCB hash optimization</tag> For - systems with a great number of active TCP - connections (WEB and ftp servers, for example), - this greatly speeds up the lookup time required - to match an incoming packet up to its - associated connection. - - Owner: &a.davidg; - - <tag>Name cache optimization</tag> The name-cache - would cache all files of the same name to the - same bucket, which would put for instance all - ".." entries in the same bucket. We added the - parent directory version to frustrate the hash, - and improved the management of the cache in - various other ways while we were at it. - - Owner: &a.phk; and &a.davidg; - - <tag>Less restrictive swap-spaces</tag> The need - to compile the names of the swap devices into - the kernel has been removed. Now - <tt>swapon(8)</tt> will accept any block - devices, up to the maximum number of swap - devices configured in the kernel. - - Owner: &a.phk; and &a.davidg; - - <tag>Hard Wired SCSI Devices</tag> Prior to - 2.0.5, FreeBSD performed dynamic assignment of - unit numbers to SCSI devices as they were - probed, allowing a SCSI device failure to - possibly change unit number assignment. This - could cause filesystems other disks in the - system to be incorrectly mounted, or not - mounted at all. Hard wiring allows static - allocation of unit numbers (and hence device - names) to scsi devices based on SCSI ID and - bus. SCSI configuration occurs in the kernel - config file. Samples of the configuration - syntax can be found in the <tt>scsi(4)</tt> man - page or the LINT kernel config file. - - Owner: &a.dufault; - - Sources involved: <tt>sys/scsi/*</tt> - <tt>usr.sbin/config/*</tt> - - <tag>Slice Support</tag> FreeBSD now supports a - <em>slice</em> abstraction which enhances - FreeBSD's ability to share disks with other - operating systems. This support will allow - FreeBSD to inhabit DOS extended partitions. - - Owner: &a.bde; - - Sources involved: <tt>sys/disklabel.h</tt> - <tt>sys/diskslice.h</tt> <tt>sys/dkbad.h</tt> - <tt>kern/subr_diskslice.c</tt> <tt>kern/subr_dkbad.c</tt> - <tt>i386/isa/diskslice_machdep.c</tt> <tt>i386/isa/wd.c</tt> - <tt>scsi/sd.c</tt> <tt>dev/vn/vn.c</tt> - - <tag>Support for Ontrack Disk Manager Version 6.0</tag> - Support has been added for disks - which use Ontrack Disk Manager. The fdisk - program does <em>not</em> know about it - however, so make all changes using the install - program on the boot.flp or the Ontrack Disk - Manager tool under MS-DOS. - - Owner: &a.phk; - - <tag>Bad144 is back and working</tag> Bad144 - works again, though the semantics are slightly - different than before in that the bad-spots are - kept relative to the slice rather than absolute - on the disk. - - Owner: &a.bde; and &a.phk; - - </descrip> - - <sect2><heading>New device support</heading> - - <sect3><heading>SCSI and CDROM devices</heading> - - <p><descrip> - - <tag>Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative) CD-ROM driver</tag> - The Matsushita/Panasonic CR-562 and - CR-563 drives are now supported when connected to - a Sound Blaster or 100% compatible host adapter. - Up to four host adapters are supported for a - total of 16 CD-ROM drives. The audio functions - are supported with the Karoke variable speed - playback. - - Owner: &a.uhclem; - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/matcd</tt> - - <tag>Adaptec 2742/2842/2940 SCSI driver</tag> The - original 274x/284x driver has evolved - considerably since the 2.0 release of FreeBSD. - We now offer full support for the 2940 series as - well as the Wide models of these cards. The - arbitration bug that caused problems with fast - devices has been corrected and - <em>experimental</em> tagged queuing support has - been added (kernel option - <tt>AHC_TAGENABLE</tt>). John Aycock has also - released the sequencer code under a Berkeley - style copyright making the driver entirely clean - of the GPL. - - Owner: &a.gibbs; - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/aic7770.c</tt> <tt>pci/aic7870.c</tt> - <tt>i386/scsi/*</tt> <tt>sys/dev/aic7xxx/*</tt> - - <tag>NCR5380/NCR53400 SCSI (ProAudio Spectrum) driver</tag> - Owner: &a.core; - - Submitted by: Serge Vakulenko (vak@cronyx.ru) - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/ncr5380.c</tt> - - <tag>Sony CDROM driver</tag> Owner: &a.core; - - Submitted by: Mikael Hybsch (micke@dynas.se) - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/scd.c</tt> - - </descrip> - - <sect3><heading>Serial devices</heading> - - <p><descrip> - - <tag>SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board Driver</tag> - Owner: &a.ache; - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/rc.c</tt> <tt>isa/rcreg.h</tt> - - <tag>Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board Driver</tag> - Owner: &a.bde; - - Submitted by: Andrew Werple - (andrew@werple.apana.org.au) and Heikki Suonsivu - (hsu@cs.hut.fi) - - Obtained from: NetBSD - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/cy.c</tt> - - <tag>Cronyx/Sigma sync/async serial driver</tag> - Owner: &a.core; - - Submitted by: Serge Vakulenko - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/cronyx.c</tt> - - </descrip> - - <sect2><heading>Networking</heading> - - <p><descrip> - - <tag>Diskless booting</tag> Diskless booting in 2.0.5 - is much improved over previous releases. The boot - program is in <tt>src/sys/i386/boot/netboot</tt>, - and can be run from an MS-DOS system or burned into - an EPROM. WD, SMC, 3COM and Novell ethernet cards - are currently supported. Local swapping is also - supported. - - <tag>DEC DC21140 Fast Ethernet driver</tag> This - driver supports any of the numerous NICs using the - DC21140 chipset including the 100Mb DEC DE-500-XA - and SMC 9332. - - Owner: &a.core; - - Submitted by: Matt Thomas (thomas@lkg.dec.com) - - Sources involved: <tt>pci/if_de.c</tt> <tt>pci/dc21040.h</tt> - - - <tag>DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) driver</tag> Owner: &a.core; - - Submitted by: Matt Thomas (thomas@lkg.dec.com) - - Sources involved: <tt>pci/if_pdq.c</tt> <tt>pci/pdq.c</tt> - <tt>pci/pdq_os.h</tt> <tt>pci/pdqreg.h</tt> - - - <tag>3Com 3c505 (Etherlink/+) NIC driver</tag> Owner: - &a.core; - - Submitted by: Dean Huxley (dean@fsa.ca) - - Obtained from: NetBSD - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/if_eg.c</tt> - - - <tag>Fujitsu MB86960A family of NICs driver</tag> - Owner: &a.core; - - Submitted by: M.S. (seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp) - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/if_fe.c</tt> - - - <tag>Intel EtherExpress driver</tag> Owner: Rodney - W. Grimes (rgrimes@FreeBSD.org) - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/if_ix.c</tt> <tt>isa/if_ixreg.h</tt> - - - <tag>3Com 3c589 driver</tag> Owner: &a.core; - - Submitted by: "HOSOKAWA Tatsumi" - (hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp), Seiji Murata - (seiji@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp) and Noriyuki Takahashi - (hor@aecl.ntt.jp) - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/if_zp.c</tt> - - - <tag>IBM Credit Card Adapter driver</tag> Owner: &a.core; - - Submitted by: "HOSOKAWA Tatsumi" - (hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp), - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/pcic.c</tt> <tt>isa/pcic.h</tt> - - - <tag>EDSS1 and 1TR6 ISDN interface driver</tag> - Owner: &a.core; - - Submitted by: Dietmar Friede - (dfriede@drnhh.neuhaus.de) and Juergen Krause - (jkr@saarlink.de) - - Sources involved: <tt>gnu/isdn/*</tt> - - </descrip> - - <sect2><heading>Miscellaneous drivers</heading> - - <p><descrip> - - <tag>Joystick driver</tag> Owner: &a.jmz; - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/joy.c</tt> - - <tag>National Instruments ``LabPC'' driver</tag> Owner: - &a.dufault; - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/labpc.c</tt> - - <tag>WD7000 driver</tag> Owner: Olof Johansson - (offe@ludd.luth.se) - - <tag>Pcvt Console driver</tag> Owner: &a.joerg; - - Submitted by: &a.hm; - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/pcvt/*</tt> - - <tag>BSD-audio emulator for VAT driver</tag> Owner: - Amancio Hasty (ahasty@FreeBSD.org) and - &a.pst; - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/sound/vat_audio.c</tt> - <tt>isa/sound/vat_audioio.h</tt> - - <tag>National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT GPIB driver</tag> - Owner: &a.core; - - Submitted by: Fred Cawthorne - (fcawth@delphi.umd.edu) - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/gpib.c</tt> <tt>isa/gpib.h</tt> - <tt>isa/gpibreg.h</tt> - - <tag>Genius GS-4500 hand scanner driver</tag> Owner: - &a.core; - - Submitted by: Gunther Schadow - (gusw@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de) - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/gsc.c</tt> <tt>isa/gscreg.h</tt> - - <tag>CORTEX-I Frame Grabber</tag> Owner: &a.core; - - Submitted by: Paul S. LaFollette, Jr. ( - - Sources involved: <tt>isa/ctx.c</tt> <tt>isa/ctxreg.h</tt> - - - <tag>Video Spigot video capture card</tag> Owner: Jim - Lowe - - </descrip> - - <sect1><heading>Experimental features</heading> - - <p><descrip> - - <tag>UNIONFS and LFS</tag> The unionfs and LFS file - systems are known to be severely broken in FreeBSD - 2.0.5. This is in part due to old bugs that we - have not had time to resolve yet and the need to - update these file systems to deal with the new VM - system. We hope to address these issues in a later - release of FreeBSD. - - <tag>iBCS2 Support</tag> FreeBSD now supports running - iBCS2 compatible binaries. Currently SCO UNIX 3.2.2 - and 3.2.4, and ISC 2.2 COFF are supported. The iBCS2 - emulator is in its early stages and has not been - extensively tested, but it is functional. Most of - SCO's 3.2.2 binaries work, as does an old - INFORMIX-2.10 for SCO. Further testing is necessary - to complete this project. There is also work under - way for ELF and XOUT loaders, and most of the svr4 - syscall wrappers are written. - - Owner: &a.sos; and &a.sef; - - Sources involved: <tt>sys/i386/ibcs2/*</tt> and misc - kernel changes. - - </descrip> -<!-- - <sect1><heading>Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code</heading> - - <p>Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code - are always valued - please do not hesitate to report any - problems you may find (preferably with a fix attached if - you can!). - - The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine - with Internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr - command. Bug reports will be dutifully filed by our - faithful bug-filer program and you can be sure that we will - do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon as - possible. - - If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr - command to submit a bug report, you can try to send it - to: <tscreen>bugs@FreeBSD.org</tscreen> Otherwise, for - any questions or suggestions, please send mail to: - <tscreen>questions@FreeBSD.org</tscreen> - - Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always - happy to have extra hands willing to help - there are - already far more enhancements to be done than we can ever - manage to do by ourselves! To contact us on technical - matters, or with offers of help, you may send mail to: - <tscreen>hackers@FreeBSD.org</tscreen> - - Since these mailing lists can experience significant - amounts of traffic, if you have slow or expensive mail - access and you are only interested in keeping up with - significant FreeBSD events, you may find it preferable to - subscribe to: <tscreen>announce@FreeBSD.org</tscreen> - - All but the freebsd-bugs groups can be freely joined by - anyone wishing to do so. Send mail to &a.majordomo - and include the keyword `help' on a - line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. - This will give you more information on joining the - various lists, accessing archives, etc. There are a - number of mailing lists targeted at special interest - groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo and - ask about them! - ---> -]]> |
