From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Mar 16 08:50:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA06267 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 08:50:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA06253 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 08:50:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA07757 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 08:50:29 -0800 (PST) To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE is now available from ftp.freebsd.org Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 08:50:28 -0800 Message-ID: <7753.858531028@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It is my great pleasure to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.2, the long-awaited first release of our 2.2 branch technology following lengthy ALPHA, BETA and GAMMA testing cycles. FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE is now available on ftp.freebsd.org and various FTP mirror sites throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD from Walnut Creek CDROM, from where it will be shipping shortly. FreeBSD 2.2 represents a rather large leap in functionality from the 2.1.x releases, everyone being is strongly encouraged to read the release notes below for a list of new features. The official sources for FreeBSD are available via anonymous FTP from: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD Or via the WEB at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html And on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek CDROM: Walnut Creek CDROM 4041 Pike Lane, #D Concord CA, 94520 USA Phone: +1 510 674-0783 Fax: +1 510 674-0821 Tech Support: +1 510 603-1234 Email: info@cdrom.com WWW: http://www.cdrom.com/ Additionally, FreeBSD is available via anonymous FTP from the following mirror sites. If you choose to obtain FreeBSD via FTP, please try to use the site nearest you: Argentina In case of problems, please contact the hostmaster for this domain. ftp://ftp.ar.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD Australia In case of problems, please contact the hostmaster for this domain. ftp://ftp.au.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp2.au.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp3.au.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp4.au.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD Brazil In case of problems, please contact the hostmaster for this domain. ftp://ftp.br.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp2.br.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp3.br.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp4.br.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp5.br.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp6.br.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp7.br.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD Canada In case of problems, please contact the hostmaster for this domain. ftp://ftp.ca.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD Czech Republic ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/FreeBSD Contact: jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz. 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USA In case of problems, please contact the hostmaster for this domain. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp4.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp6.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD UK In case of problems, please contact the hostmaster for this domain. ftp://ftp.uk.FreeBSD.ORG/packages/unix/FreeBSD ftp://ftp2.uk.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/walnut.creek/FreeBSD ftp://ftp3.uk.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/unix/FreeBSD The latest versions of export-restricted code for FreeBSD (2.0C or later) (eBones and secure) are being made available at the following locations. If you are outside the U.S. or Canada, please get secure (DES) and eBones (Kerberos) from one of the following foreign distribution sites: South Africa ftp://ftp.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp2.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD Brazil ftp://ftp.br.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD Finland ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD/eurocrypt Contact: count@nic.funet.fi. More information about this release: RELEASE NOTES FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE 1. What's new since 2.1.7 ------------------------- Lots of installation bugs fixed, more pc98 changes syncronized, geeze, what else? gdb 4.16 has been merged from -current, most of the third-party source now lives under /usr/src/contrib. Updated support for the DEC DEFPA/DEFEA FDDI hardware. The old ``HAVE_FPU'' Makefile option is now finally gone, the selection between the math library using the floating point emulator, and the version using the co-processor is now fully automatic. This will speed up floating-point using programs on sites that didn't like to recompile their `libm' previously. Javier Martin Rueda's `ex' driver has been merged, bringing support for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 network cards. The `de' driver now recognizes cards using the DE21140A chip, like the popular SMC9332BDT (10/100 Mbit/s) one. There's now a workaround for the brokeness of the frequently used CMD640 PCI IDE chip in the sources, albeit still disabled by default in 2.2. The number of EISA slots to probe is now a fully supported option, including the ability to save the value from a UserConfig session with dset(8). This helps owners of HP NetServer LC machines to install the system on their hardware. Support for the SDL RISCom N2pci sync serial card. Support for Cyclades Cyclom-Y (multi-port async serial) PCI adaptors as well as multiple controllers and the 32-Y (if you are currently using the Cyclades serial adapter, you should re-make your /dev entries and remove the old ones). Updated support for ethernet adaptors which use the DEC DC21X4X chipset. Update to gcc 2.7.2.1 & add support for weak symbols. Many things moved/brought into /usr/src/contrib, updating and cleaning up the source tree accordingly. Support for compiled-in shared library ld paths. Update sgmlfmt to `instant'. Support for SNMP-style interface MIBs, including full RFC 1650-compliant MIBs for the `de' (DEC 21x4x) and `ed' (SMC/WD/Novell) drivers. /stand/sysinstall moved even more towards becoming a more general system management tool. The syscons and psm drivers now have a new underlying shared keyboard driver, eliminating many of the previously existing problems with their mutual interaction. Syscons now supports cut & paste in textmode using the moused(8) utility. 2.2 is the first release that includes full CD-R support for the Plasmon RF41xx, HP4020i, HP6020i, and Philips CDD2000 drives. The driver is still under development (in particular to extend its usability for other devices), but it has been proved to be stable by now. Support for NFSv3 clients and servers went into the 2.2 sources shortly after branching off the 2.0.5/2.1.X tree. There are also other options available with NFS, like the ability to turn an NFSv2 server into asynchronous write mode (which is in violation of the specs, but has precedents e.g. in SGI Irix). Poul-Henning Kamp's phkmalloc replaced the old and blatant BSD malloc implementation. This usually saves a lot of virtual memory for the clients, and offers some neat features like aborting the program on detected malloc abuses, or filling the malloced and/or freed area with junk in order to detect semantical problems in programs that use malloc. The `netatalk' implementation of AppleTalk has been integrated into the sources, most of the integration work courtesy Wistle Communic- ations Corp. The mount option `async' allows asynchronous metadata updates on UFS file systems, something that is the default e.g. on Linux' ext2fs. This speeds up many i-node intensive filesystem operations (like rm -r) at the cost of an increased risk in case of a system crash. The installation itself makes use of this feature, and could be drastically accelerated by this. (A bindist-only installation from a SCSI CD-ROM can now complete in less than 5 minutes on a fast machine!) The ATAPI CD-ROM support is now reported to work for quite an impressive number of drives. In other words, all the drives that basically adhere to the ATAPI standard are likely to work. There are many new drivers available in the kernel, too many to keep them in mind. Tekram supplied a driver for their DC390 and DC390T controllers. These controllers are based on the AMD 53c974, and the driver is also able to handle other SCSI controllers based on that chip. Of course, with Tekram being generous enough to support the FreeBSD project with their driver, we'd like to encourage you to buy their product. The `ed' and `lnc' drivers now support auto-config- uration for the respective PCI ethernet cards, including many NE2000 clones and the AMD PCnet chips. The SDL RISCom N2 support is new, as well as the PCI version of the Cyclades driver. The Linux emulation is now fully functional, including ELF support. To make its use easier, there are even ports for the required shared libraries, and for the Slackware development environment. Along the same lines, the SysV COFF emulation (aka. SCO emulation) is reported to be working well now. FreeBSD also supports native ELF binaries, although it hasn't been decided yet whether, when, and how we might use this as the default binary format some day. A `brandelf' utility has been added to allow `branding' of non-shared linked ELF binaries where the kernel cannot guess which image activator (FreeBSD, Linux, maybe SysV some day) should be used. This works around one major flaw in the ELF object format, the missing field to mark the ABI it belongs to. Support for APM BIOSes is now in a much better shape. The manual section 9 has been started, describing `official' kernel programming interfaces. We are still seeking volunteers to document interfaces here! The kernel configuration option handling has been largely moved away from the old -D Makefile kludges, towards a system of "opt_foo.h" kernel include files, allowing Makefile dependencies to work again. We expect the old hack that blows the entire compile directory away on each run of config(8) to go away anytime soon. Unless you're changing weird options, you might now consider using the -n option to config(8), or setting the env variable NO_CONFIG_CLOBBER, if CPU time is costly for you. See also the comments in the handbook about how it works. 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the 386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is also provided. What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet received confirmation of this. 2.1. Disk Controllers --------------------- WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) IDE ATA Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices) Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI controllers. Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers. Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x and SoundBlaster SCSI cards. ** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the system BIOS I/O vectors. They're perfectly usable for external tapes, CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them. Check your system/board documentation for more details. Buslogic 545S & 545c Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller. Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C825, 53c860 and 53c875 PCI SCSI controllers: ASUS SC-200 Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants) NCR cards (all) Symbios cards (all) Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F Tyan S1365 Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the AMD 53c974 as well). NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller. DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode. UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers. Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers. Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers. WD7000 SCSI controller. With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including DAT and 8mm Exabyte) and CD ROM drives. The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time: (cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI) (mcd) Mitsumi proprietary interface (all models) (matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary interface (562/563 models) (scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models) (wcd) ATAPI IDE interface (experimental and should be considered ALPHA quality!). 2.2. Ethernet cards ------------------- Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974) SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E, WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT based clones. SMC Elite Ultra is also supported. DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205) DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422) DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc) DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A). Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability) Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) Isolink 4110 (8 bit) Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface. 3Com 3C501 cards 3Com 3C503 Etherlink II 3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+ 3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP 3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905 PCI and EISA (Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL Toshiba ethernet cards PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also supported. Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them. Any takers? 2.3. Misc --------- AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ. ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ. ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial. Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported) Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported) Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board. STB 4 port card using shared IRQ. SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board. SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards. Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64, ONboard 4/16 and Brumby. Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. Connectix QuickCam Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber Cortex1 frame grabber HP4020i, Philips CDD2000 and PLASMON WORM (CDR) drives. PS/2 mice Standard PC Joystick X-10 power controllers GPIB and Transputer drivers. Genius and Mustek hand scanners. FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus. 3. Obtaining FreeBSD -------------------- You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways: 3.1. FTP/Mail ------------- You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from `ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site. For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome! Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to become an official mirror site. If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to `ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism. Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute LAST resort! 3.2. CDROM ---------- FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE and 2.2-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from: Walnut Creek CDROM 4041 Pike Lane, Suite D Concord CA 94520 1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax) Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com. Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog. Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription. FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP CDs are $29.95 or $14.95 with a FreeBSD-SNAP subscription (-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely separate). With a subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they are released. Your credit card will be billed when each disk is shipped and you may cancel your subscription at any time without further obligation. Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax. Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an unconditional return policy. 4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 or use the CGI script at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html. Bug reports will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon as possible. Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to watch out for. 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: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Note that send-pr itself is a shell script that should be easy to move even onto a totally different system. We much prefer if you could use this interface, since it make it easier to keep track of the problem reports. However, before submitting, please try to make sure whether the problem might have already been fixed since. Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves! To contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send mail to: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant* amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you may find it preferable to subscribe instead to: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org All but the freebsd-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing to do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org 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! 5. Acknowledgements ------------------- FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very hard to bring you this release. For a complete list of FreeBSD project staffers, please see: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/staff.html or, if you've loaded the doc distribution: file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/staff.html Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers: Coranth Gryphon Dave Rivers Kaleb S. Keithley Terry Lambert David Dawes Don Lewis Special mention to: Walnut Creek CDROM, without whose help (and continuing support) this release would never have been possible. Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM drive. Chuck Robey for his donation of a floppy tape streamer for testing. Larry Altneu and Wilko Bulte for providing us with Wangtek and Archive QIC-02 tape drives for testing and driver hacking. CalWeb Internet Services for the loan of a P6/200 machine for speedy package building. Everyone at Montana State University for their initial support. And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible. We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD! The FreeBSD Project From owner-freebsd-announce Wed Mar 19 13:54:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA29257 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 13:54:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA29056 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 13:54:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA08113 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 13:54:49 -0800 (PST) To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: 2.1.7.1 point release now available on ftp.freebsd.org Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 13:54:49 -0800 Message-ID: <8109.858808489@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Those tracking the 2.1-stable branch via CTM or CVSup can probably ignore this message since you're already up-to-date with our post-2.1.7 fixes. There was essentially a bug found in the AHC 2940 driver which caused certain heavily loaded machines (like news servers) to fail intermittantly. Since both we and our customers prefer 2.1.7 machines to stay up 24/7, it was felt that a point release for new 2.1.7 installations and upgrades was in order. Sure, it's easy enough to load 2.1.7, CVSup it up to 2.1-stable and then make world & kernel on it, but that still takes time. If you're going to be installing or updating any new 2.1.7 machines, I therefore recommend using this more recent release. I've also included the changes between 2.1.7 and 2.1.7.1 sources as gzip'd unidiffs for patch(1) in the src distribution this time, for the convenience of those who already have 2.1.7 on CD and merely want to get up to 2.1.7.1 (the patch file is small enough to fit on a 1.2MB floppy). Those who curious to know exactly what changed in-between 2.1.7 and 2.1.7.1 may also find the diffs to be interesting reading. See: 2.1.7.1-RELEASE/src/2.1.7-2.1.7.1.diffs.gz The release notes for 2.1.7.1 basically say the rest, so without further ado: RELEASE NOTES FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 RELEASE 0. What is this release? ------------------------ FreeBSD 2.1.7[.1]R is the follow-on release to 2.1.6R and focuses primarily on fixing bugs and closing security holes, the most notable being the setlocale() bug (see ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/CERT) in 2.1.6R. 2.1.7.1 is an even smaller incremental fix release to 2.1.7, primarily aimed at fixing some problems with the Adaptec 2940 driver which could cause instability in very heavily loaded systems (like news servers). We essentially brought in all changes from the RELENG_2_1_0 branch between the release date of 2.1.7 and March 18th, 1997. Those fixes include: o 2940 driver bugs fixed. o Various buffer overflows in: date, ps, libc, route, ... o Various games fixed up. o System installation tool updated. o Intel Etherexpress Pro/100B now works in full-duplex mode. o Bug fixed in pkg_add which caused packages like xemacs to fail. For more information on this release of FreeBSD, please see: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook 0. What's New since 2.1.6-RELEASE? ---------------------------------- Since the setlocale() security hole forced us to do another release along the 2.1-STABLE branch, we focused on pulling in a lot of additional bug fixes and security enhancements as well, taking also some time to upgrade sysinstall to deal with the MSDOSFS installation bugs which have hosed so many people & to upgrade a few selected utilities. Aside from these, there are few functional changes in 2.1.7R. 1. What's New since 2.1.0-RELEASE? ---------------------------------- Quite a few things have changed since the last major release of FreeBSD. To make it easier to identify specific changes, we've broken them into several major categories: Device Drivers: --------------- Support for the Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI adapter. Support for Specialix SI and XIO serial cards. Support for the Stallion EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 and EasyConnection 8/64, as well as the older Onboard and Brumby serial cards. Support for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI ethernet card. Support for the 3COM 3C590 and 3C595 ethernet cards. Real PCI Buslogic support (new driver and probing order). Support for the ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570i high-speed serial card. Better support for the Matrox Meteor frame grabber card. Support for the Connectix Quickcam. Kernel features: ---------------- Various VM system enhancements and more than a few bugs fixed. A concatenated disk driver for simple types of RAID applications. See the man page for ccd(4) for more information. Real PCI bus probing (before ISA) and support for various PCI bridges. The Linux emulation is now good enough to run the Linux version of Netscape, with JAVA support (as well as a number of other Linux utilities). Userland code updates: ---------------------- The system installation tool has been revamped with slightly different menu behavior and a number of bugs have been fixed. It's hoped that this installation will be more intuitive for new users than previous ones (feedback welcomed, of course) as well as more useful in the post-install scenario (I know, I keep saying this :-). Many improvements to the NIS code. The ncftp program is no longer part of the default system - it has been replaced by a library (/usr/src/lib/libftpio) and a more powerful program which uses it called ``fetch'' (/usr/src/usr.bin/fetch). You may find ncftp as part of the ports collection (in /usr/ports/net/ncftp) if you still wish to use it, though fetch is slightly more capable in that it can fetch from both FTP and HTTP servers (ftp://... or http://... URLs). See the man page for more details. 2. Technical overview --------------------- FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4 BSD Lite based release for Intel i386/i486/Pentium (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 over a year ago, 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 3940 SCSI adaptors along with many hundreds of bug fixes. We've 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 over 420 commonly sought-after programs. 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 ports collection. To compile a port, you simply change to the directory of the program you wish to install, type make 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). See also the new Packages option in the Configuration menu for an especially convenient interface to the package collection. A number of additional documents which you may find helpful in the process of installing and using FreeBSD may now also be found in the /usr/share/doc directory. You may view the manuals with any HTML capable browser by saying: To read the handbook: file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html To read the FAQ: file:/usr/share/doc/FAQ/freebsd-faq.html You can also visit the master (and most frequently updated) copies at 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 distribution of DES for our non-U.S. users also exists at ftp://ftp.internat.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD. 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're outside (or even inside) the U.S., give it a try! This snapshot also includes support for mixed password files - either DES or MD5 passwords will be accepted, making it easier to transition from one scheme to the other. 3. Supported Configurations --------------------------- FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the 386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is also provided. What follows is a list of all disk controllers and ethernet cards currently known to work with FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, but we have simply not received any confirmation of this. 3.1. Disk Controllers --------------------- WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) IDE ATA Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI controllers. Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers. the AHA-152x and SoundBlaster SCSI cards. ** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the system BIOS I/O vectors. They're perfectly usable for external tapes, CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them. Check your system/board documentation for more details. [Note that Buslogic was formerly known as "Bustec"] Buslogic 545S & 545c Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller. Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller NCR 53C810 and 53C825 PCI SCSI controller. NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller. DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode. UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers. Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers. Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers. WD7000 SCSI controller. With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including DAT) and CD ROM drives. The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time: (cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI) (mcd) Mitsumi proprietary interface (all models) (matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary interface (562/563 models) (scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models) (wcd) ATAPI IDE interface (experimental and should be considered ALPHA quality!). 3.2. Ethernet cards ------------------- Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E, WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT based clones. SMC Elite Ultra is also supported. DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205) DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422) DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC???? DE???) DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability) Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) Isolink 4110 (8 bit) Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface. 3Com 3C501 cards 3Com 3C503 Etherlink II 3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+ 3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP 3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590 & 3C595 (PCI) Etherlink III Toshiba ethernet cards PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also supported. Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them. Any takers? 3.3. Misc --------- AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ. ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ. ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial. Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported) Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported) Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board. STB 4 port card using shared IRQ. SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board. Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus. 4. Obtaining FreeBSD -------------------- You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways: 4.1. FTP/Mail You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from `ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site. For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome! Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to become an official mirror site. If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to `ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism. Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute LAST resort! 4.2. CDROM FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE and 2.2-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from: Walnut Creek CDROM 4041 Pike Lane, Suite D Concord CA 94520 1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax) Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com. Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog. Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription. FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP CDs are $29.95 or $14.95 with a FreeBSD-SNAP subscription (-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely separate). With a subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they are released. Your credit card will be billed when each disk is shipped and you may cancel your subscription at any time without further obligation. Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax. Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an unconditional return policy. 4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 or use the CGI script at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html. Bug reports will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon as possible. Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to watch out for. 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: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Note that send-pr itself is a shell script that should be easy to move even onto a totally different system. We much prefer if you could use this interface, since it make it easier to keep track of the problem reports. However, before submitting, please try to make sure whether the problem might have already been fixed since. Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves! To contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send mail to: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant* amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you may find it preferable to subscribe instead to: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org All but the freebsd-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing to do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org 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! 5. Acknowledgements ------------------- FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very hard to bring you this release. For a complete list of FreeBSD project staffers, please see: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/staff.html or, if you've loaded the doc distribution: file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/staff.html Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers: Coranth Gryphon Dave Rivers Kaleb S. Keithley Terry Lambert David Dawes Don Lewis Special mention to: Walnut Creek CDROM, without whose help (and continuing support) this release would never have been possible. Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM drive. Chuck Robey for his donation of a floppy tape streamer for testing. Larry Altneu and Wilko Bulte for providing us with Wangtek and Archive QIC-02 tape drives for testing and driver hacking. CalWeb Internet Services for the loan of a P6/200 machine for speedy package building. Everyone at Montana State University for their initial support. And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible. We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD! The FreeBSD Project From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Mar 21 14:37:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA17956 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:37:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA17949 for freebsd-announce; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:37:50 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199703212237.OAA17949@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: new Adaptec ATM driver available To: freebsd-announce Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:37:50 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The Applied Research Lab (ARL) of Washington University and the ATOMIC-2 Project at USC/ISI are pleased to announce the availability of a BSD device driver for the Adaptec 590x series of PCI ATM host adaptors (eg ANA-5940) Written by Chuck Cranor of Washington University's ARL (chuck@ccrc.wustl.edu), the "MIDWAY" ATM device driver originally supported Efficient Network's PCI ATM 155Mbps cards under FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Working with Anne Hutton of USC/ISI, Chuck has recently added support for the Adaptec series of 155Mbps PCI ATM cards to the driver. The driver is currently in use at Washington University for several projects include the MARS video server project, the IP/ATM integration project, and the "QoS Guarantees Within Endsystems" project (see http://www.arl.wustl.edu/arl for details on these projects). USC/ISI is currently using the driver as part of their ATOMIC-2 project (http://www.isi.edu/atomic2/) for a PC-based ATM-ATOMIC gateway. The driver is also being used by researchers at Nokia, Sony, and Georgia Tech among other places. The driver is fully integrated into the NetBSD and OpenBSD source trees and can be obtained from those project's ftp servers. The FreeBSD version of the driver [partly contributed by Kenjiro Cho ] can be obtained from ftp://dworkin.wustl.edu/dist/bsd/bsdatm1.4.tar.gz Anne Hutton