From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Oct 19 07:07:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA07731 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 07:07:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-announce) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA07721 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 07:07:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous219.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.219]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA25371 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 16:01:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id PAA00553; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 15:24:07 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 15:24:07 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199710191324.PAA00553@panke.panke.de> From: Wolfram Schneider To: announce@freebsd.org Reply-to: ports@freebsd.org Subject: New ports added/updated last two weeks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Introduction ------------ The FreeBSD Ports Collection offers a simple way for users and administrators to install applications. Each "port" listed here contains any patches necessary to make the original application source code compile and run on FreeBSD. Installing an application is as simple as downloading the port, unpacking it and typing make in the port directory. The Makefile automatically fetches the application source code, either from a local disk or via ftp, unpacks it on your system, applies the patches, and compiles. If all goes well, simply type make install to install the application. For more information about using ports, see the ports collection http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ports.html and http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ There are currently 1117 ports in the FreeBSD Ports Collection. New ports added last two weeks ------------------------------ Category chinese ================================================== zh-hztty-2.0 a translator between GuoBiao / Big5 and HZ Maintained by: ada@bsd.org zh-ted-3.6a A Small and Powerful Text Editor for X Window with big5 support Maintained by: vanilla@MinJe.com.TW Also listed in: editors Category comms ================================================== qpage-3.2 SNPP client/server for sending messages to an alphanumeric pager. Maintained by: joes@seaport.net Category databases ================================================== pgaccess-0.61 a Tcl/Tk interface to PostgreSQL Maintained by: andreas@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: postgresql-6.2 Category devel ================================================== SpecTcl-1.1 free drag-and-drop GUI builder for Tk and Java from Sun Maintained by: andreas@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: tcl-8.0, tk-8.0 ilu-2.0a11 Xerox PARC ILU - CORBA-compatible distributed objects for multiple languages Maintained by: cracauer@cons.org nana-1.09 Improved support for assertion checking and logging using GNU C and GDB. Maintained by: pjm@cs.ntu.edu.au Requires: gdb-4.16, gmake-3.76.1 Category games ================================================== xgolgo-1.0 Xgolgo watches what you are doing and whether you're hostile or not Maintained by: Nakai@Mlab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Category graphics ================================================== photopc-1.6 A utility to manage an Epson PhotoPC 500 digital camera. Maintained by: dcarmich@mcs.com Category japanese ================================================== ja-japaneseAFM-1.0 Japanese AFM fonts. Maintained by: kiri@kiri.toba-cmt.ac.jp Also listed in: print ja-platex2e-common-97.07.02.2 Character code independent files for ASCII Japanese pLaTeX2e. Maintained by: max@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: print Requires: gmake-3.76.1, ja-ptex-common-2.1.5 ja-platex2e-euc-97.07.02.2 ASCII Japanese pLaTeX2e with Japanese EUC code support. Maintained by: max@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: print Requires: gmake-3.76.1, ja-nkf-1.62, ja-platex2e-common-97.07.02.2, ja-ptex-common-2.1.5, ja-ptex-euc-2.1.5 ja-platex2e-jis-97.07.02.2 ASCII Japanese pLaTeX2e with JIS code support. Maintained by: max@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: print Requires: gmake-3.76.1, ja-platex2e-common-97.07.02.2, ja-ptex-common-2.1.5, ja-ptex-jis-2.1.5 ja-platex2e-sjis-97.07.02.2 ASCII Japanese pLaTeX2e with Shift-JIS code support. Maintained by: max@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: print Requires: gmake-3.76.1, ja-nkf-1.62, ja-platex2e-common-97.07.02.2, ja-ptex-common-2.1.5, ja-ptex-sjis-2.1.5 ja-ptex-common-2.1.5 Character code independent files for ASCII Japanese TeX Maintained by: max@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: print Requires: gmake-3.76.1 ja-ptex-euc-2.1.5 Japanese pTeX files to support EUC character set. Maintained by: max@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: print Requires: gmake-3.76.1, ja-ptex-common-2.1.5 ja-ptex-jis-2.1.5 Japanese pTeX files to support JIS character set. Maintained by: max@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: print Requires: gmake-3.76.1, ja-ptex-common-2.1.5 ja-ptex-sjis-2.1.5 Japanese pTeX files to support Shift-JIS character set. Maintained by: max@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: print Requires: gmake-3.76.1, ja-ptex-common-2.1.5 ja-samba-des-1.9.17.3 A LanManager(R)-compat. server suite w/ WinNT encrypted password + jp filename Maintained by: hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org Also listed in: net ja-samba-1.9.17.3 A LanManager(R)-compatible server suite for Unix (config w/ Japanese filename) Maintained by: hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: net Category lang ================================================== objc-1.6.8 Portable Object Compiler Maintained by: chuckr@freebsd.org tclX-7.5.2 Extended TCL Maintained by: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: tk41 Requires: tcl-7.5.1, tk-4.1.1 Category math ================================================== plplot-4.99j A scientific plotting package. Maintained by: tg@FreeBSD.ORG Category misc ================================================== cbb-0.73 Checkbook balancing tool Maintained by: kline@thought.org Requires: perl-5.00401, tcl-7.6, tk-4.2 Category net ================================================== choparp-971007 simple proxy arp daemon. Maintained by: itojun@itojun.org netpipes-3.2 A group of shell utilities to connect programs to sockets Maintained by: doconnor@ist.flinders.edu.au Category news ================================================== aub-2.0.5 assemble usenet binaries Maintained by: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Category textproc ================================================== info2html-1.1 Translate GNU info files into HTML pages. Maintained by: wosch@FreeBSD.org wdiff-0.5 Display word differences between text files. Maintained by: sanpei@yy.cs.keio.ac.jp Category www ================================================== momspider-1.00 WWW Spider for multi-owner maintenance. Maintained by: wosch@FreeBSD.org Category x11 ================================================== gtk-970925 General Toolkit for X11 GUI. Maintained by: vanilla@MinJe.com.TW Requires: gmake-3.76.1 xskyroot-920428 realtime sky drawer for X root window Maintained by: nkazushi@highway.or.jp Updated ports last two weeks ----------------------------------- Category archivers ================================================== unzip+crypt-5.3.2d List, test and extract compressed files in a ZIP archive, with encryption. Maintained by: ache@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: unzip-5.3.1 zip+crypt-2.2s Create/update ZIP files compatible with pkzip, passwords enabled Maintained by: ache@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: unzip-5.3.1 Category comms ================================================== ecu-4.08 Extended Call Utility Maintained by: ache@FreeBSD.ORG rzsz-3.47 Receive/Send files via X/Y/ZMODEM protocol. Maintained by: ache@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: unzip-5.3.1 Category databases ================================================== db-2.3.11 the Berkeley DB package, revision 2 Maintained by: josh@ican.net mysql-3.20.31e a multithreaded SQL database. Maintained by: josh@ican.net Requires: gmake-3.76.1, perl-5.00401 postgresql-6.2 a robust, next generation, object-relational DBMS Maintained by: andreas@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: gmake-3.76.1 Category devel ================================================== gmake-3.76.1 GNU version of 'make' utility Maintained by: jseger@freebsd.org portlint-1.55 a verifier for FreeBSD port directory. Maintained by: itojun@itojun.org prcs-1.2.1 The Project Revision Control System Maintained by: jmacd@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: gmake-3.76.1 Category editors ================================================== vim-5.0o A vi "workalike", with many additional features. Maintained by: obrien@FreeBSD.org Requires: gmake-3.76.1 Category emulators ================================================== wine-97.10.12 MS-Windows 3.1/95/NT emulator for Unix (Alpha release). Maintained by: se@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: x11 Requires: xpm-3.4j Category games ================================================== freeciv-1.0k A civilisation clone for x; multiplayer Maintained by: ada@bsd.org Requires: xpm-3.4j Category graphics ================================================== Mesa-2.2 A graphics library similar to SGI's OpenGL. Maintained by: ports@FreeBSD.ORG camediaplay-971009 digital camera downloading tool for Sanyo protocol (Epson/Sanyo/Olympus/Agfa) Maintained by: itojun@itojun.org fxtv-0.45 X-based TV-Card Display and Capture Application (for use with bt848 driver) Maintained by: rhh@ct.picker.com Requires: Xaw3d-1.3, gmake-3.76.1, mpeg_encode-1.5b, mpegaudio-3.9, mpg123-0.59k, mplex-1.1, sox-12.12, tiff-3.3, xpm-3.4j gimp-0.99.14 developer's beta release of the General Image Manipulation Program Maintained by: erich@FreeBSD.org Requires: gmake-3.76.1, gtk-970925, jpeg-6a, mpeg_lib-1.2.1, png-0.96, tcl-8.0, tiff-3.3, tk-8.0, xpm-3.4j mpeg_lib-1.2.1 A collection of C routines to decode MPEG movies. Maintained by: ports@FreeBSD.ORG xfractint-3.04 The Unix port of fractint. Maintained by: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Category japanese ================================================== ja-dvi2ps-2.0 DVI to PostScript converter Japanese version Maintained by: mita@jp.FreeBSD.org Also listed in: print Requires: ja-nkf-1.62, ja-vflib-2.22.10 ja-expect-5.25 A sophisticated scripter based on Japanized tcl/tk. Maintained by: taguchi@tohoku.iij.ad.jp Also listed in: lang Requires: ja-tcl-7.6, ja-tk-4.2 ja-vflib-2.22.10 Japanese Vector font library with free vector font. Maintained by: mita@jp.FreeBSD.org Also listed in: print Category lang ================================================== expect-5.25 A sophisticated scripter based on tcl/tk. Maintained by: ports@freebsd.org Also listed in: tcl80 tk80 Requires: tcl-8.0, tk-8.0 gcl-2.2.2 GNU Common Lisp Maintained by: jseger@freebsd.org Category mail ================================================== adcomplain-2.56 complain about inappropriate commercial use (f.e. SPAM) of usenet/e-mail Maintained by: ache@FreeBSD.org Also listed in: news exim-1.73 High performance MTA for Unix systems on the Internet. Maintained by: markm@FreeBSD.ORG fetchmail-4.3.1 batch mail retrieval/forwarding utility for pop2, pop3, apop, imap Maintained by: ve@sci.fi mutt-pgp-0.84 "The Mongrel of Mail User Agents" (part Elm, Pine, mh) Maintained by: obrien@FreeBSD.org mutt-0.84 "The Mongrel of Mail User Agents" (part Elm, Pine, mh) Maintained by: obrien@FreeBSD.org qpopper-2.4b2 Berkeley POP 3 server (now maintained by Qualcomm). Maintained by: ache@freebsd.org smail-3.2.0.97 A program used for receiving and delivering mail. Maintained by: torstenb@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: libident-0.20, tcp_wrappers-7.6 Category math ================================================== apc-1.0 An xforms based Auto Payment Calculator Maintained by: eagriff@global2000.net Requires: xforms-0.86 Category misc ================================================== colorls-2.2.5 An ls that can use color to display file attributes Maintained by: asami@FreeBSD.ORG git-4.3.16 GNU Interactive Tools - a file system browser for UNIX systems Maintained by: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Category net ================================================== bb-1.04 big brother Unix Network Monitor Maintained by: andreas@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: apache-1.2.4 delegate-4.3.4 General purpose TCP/IP proxy system Maintained by: max@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: www japanese gated-3.5.7 Routing protocol daemon. Maintained by: peter@FreeBSD.ORG rsync-1.6.3 A network file distribution/synchronisation utility. Maintained by: obrien@FreeBSD.org zircon-1.18.56 An X11 interface to Internet Relay Chat. Maintained by: ports@FreeBSD.org Also listed in: tk80 Requires: tcl-8.0, tk-8.0 Category news ================================================== plor-0.3.1 An alpha-release reader for reading SOUP and QWK packets. Maintained by: hoek@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: zip-2.1 suck-3.6.0 Receives/sends news to/from localhost via NNTP. Maintained by: jseger@freebsd.org Requires: gmake-3.76.1 tin-1.3.970930 TIN newsreader (termcap based) Maintained by: ache@FreeBSD.org Category print ================================================== a2ps--4.9.8 Formats an ascii file for printing on a postscript printer. Maintained by: chuckr@FreeBSD.org musixtex-T80 A set of TeX macros to typeset music. Maintained by: jmz@FreeBSD.org Requires: gmake-3.76.1, tex-3.14159 Category textproc ================================================== jade-1.0.1 An object-oriented SGML parser toolkit and DSSSL engine Maintained by: jfieber@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: unzip-5.3.1 sp-1.2.1 A free, object-oriented toolkit for SGML parsing and entity management Maintained by: jfieber@FreeBSD.ORG Category www ================================================== lynx-2.7.1ac-0.78 An alphanumeric display oriented World-Wide Web Client. Maintained by: ache@FreeBSD.ORG Category x11 ================================================== fvwm-2.0.46 Internationalized (not japanised) fvwm version 2, a window manager for X Maintained by: matusita@jp.freebsd.org Requires: xpm-3.4j tix-4.1.0.006 An extension to the Tk toolkit. Maintained by: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: tk80 Requires: tcl-8.0, tk-8.0 x3270-3.1.1.6 3270 Terminal emulator. Maintained by: volf@oasis.IAEhv.nl xlockmore-4.05 Like XLock session locker/screen saver, but just more. Maintained by: tg@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: xpm-3.4j _________________________________________________________________ © 1996-1997 by Wolfram Schneider. All rights reserved. Please direct questions about this service to wosch@FreeBSD.org General questions about FreeBSD ports should be sent to ports@FreeBSD.org Last database update: 1997-10-18 09:52:54 UTC _________________________________________________________________ This information was produced by http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/ From owner-freebsd-announce Wed Oct 22 12:07:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA19037 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:07:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-announce) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA19032 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:07:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA22075 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:07:51 -0700 (PDT) To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2.5 RELEASE now available from ftp.freebsd.org (and some mirrors) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:07:51 -0700 Message-ID: <22071.877547271@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It is my great pleasure, as always, to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.2.5, our next release on the 2.2-stable branch. Those folks who are still running 2.1.x and wish to upgrade to 2.2 technology are now encouraged to do so as 2.2.5 has reached an equivalent level of stability in all of our tests. A number of annoying problems with 2.2.2 have also been fixed (see the release notes appended for more information on this). FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE is 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 as a new 4 CD set containing a lot of extra stuff of interest to programmers and general users alike. The official FTP distribution site for FreeBSD is: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD Or via the WEB page at: http://www.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD 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 mirror sites in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand and the UK (among other countries :). Please check your regional mirrors first by going to: ftp://ftp..freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD since ftp.freebsd.org is itself rather overloaded at the present time (Id software and Slackware Linux chose the same time to release their latest products :). The latest versions of export-restricted code for FreeBSD (2.0C or later) (eBones and secure) are also 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 More information about this release: RELEASE NOTES FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE o For information about the layout of the release directory, see the ABOUT.TXT file. If you are installing from floppies, it is especially important that you *read this section!* o For installation instructions, see the INSTALL.TXT and HARDWARE.TXT files. For the most up-to-date releases along the RELENG_2_2 branch (which is now proceeding onwards toward release 2.2.6), please install from: ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ Or for the latest 3.0-current (HEAD branch) snapshot releases, please install from: ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD 1. What's new since 2.2.2 ------------------------- Better support for Cyrix and AMD processors. The "world" target in /usr/src/Makefile has been made more independent of the host system, allowing for easier bootstrapping via source from very old systems. Many many fixes to the documentation. Many security enhancements, as reported through CERT and other computer security organizations. The installation program was further updated and fixed, some year-old bogons finally eliminated for 2.2.5. Important subsystems such as BIND and sendmail updated. Support for ethernet media selection. Replacing the far more arcane "link" flag usage, a new media flag to ifconfig permits specific interfaces on multi-port ethernet cards to be selected by name (man ifconfig for more details). Significant improvements to the AHC (Adaptec 394x/294X) driver and AIC7xxx assembler. Enhancements to the serial boot code and GDB remote support. Make work-around available for CMD640 chipset (see /sys/i386/conf/LINT). Newer 3Com 3c589D PCMCIA cards are now supported. A new VGA library (/usr/src/lib/libvgl) now exists for doing simple VGA graphics to syscons ttys (sort of like Linux's libSVGA). The TCP connection timeout in lpd & friends can now be specified by a printcap(5) capability, preventing it from hanging for too long when working in an environment with many network printservers. User-mode ppp updated with various fixes and enhancements from 3.0-current. It's worth re-reading the manual page since some of the following changes may disturb peoples current configurations: o The "set debug" command is now "set log". o The LCP log has been split into an LCP, IPCP and CCP log, so any "set log LCP" lines will need to be changed to "set log LCP IPCP CCP" to see the same output as before. o Ppp now uses syslogd to write its log files. o Ppp now has LQR disabled and openmode active by default. o Ppp now installs as group "network", with mode 4550. You must add group 69 (network) to /etc/group. If you wish to allow users to run "ppp -direct ...", you must enable them by making them a member of group "network". Client-side ppp now requires user id 0. Refer to the ppp(8) man page and the relevent section of the handbook for full details. 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 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. Support for the following controllers is rather weak: Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices) Adaptec 152x series ISA 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. FreeBSD 2.2.5 will be accompanied by a contributed driver for the Future Domain 36C20 / Adaptec AHA2920 controller. This is not fully supported (yet), but basically functional. Look into the /xperimnt section of the CD-ROM. 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, driver is rather stale) (matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary interface (562/563 models) (scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models) (wcd) ATAPI IDE interface. 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 Various Frame grabbers based on Brooktree Bt848 chip. HP4020, HP6020, Philips CDD2000/CDD2660 and Plasmon CD-R drives. PS/2 mice Standard PC Joystick X-10 power controllers GPIB and Transputer drivers. Genius and Mustek hand scanners. Floppy tape drives (some rather old models only, driver rather stale) 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@ftpmail.vix.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. 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 Oct 22 13:28:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA24738 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:28:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-announce) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA24733 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:28:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA22714 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:29:19 -0700 (PDT) To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: Whoops! Typo in 2.2.5 release announcement. Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:29:18 -0700 Message-ID: <22709.877552158@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is what I get for cutting and pasting from old annoucements without looking closely enough at them. In my last announcement, I said: >3.2. CDROM >---------- >FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE and 2.2-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from: Which should, of course, have read "2.2.5-RELEASE and 3.0-SNAPSHOT CDs .." The 2.1.7 CD is no longer available from Walnut Creek CDROM, the current CD products being 2.2.5-RELEASE and 3.0-971006-SNAP. Thanks. Jordan