Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 12:50:40 -0800 (PST) From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Handbook nits (relnotes.sgml) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980323124911.18197A-100000@dt050n33.san.rr.com>
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Here's a patch to correct some small technical inaccuracies, style nits, etc. in relnotes.sgml. More changes might be desirable, however these were the things that leapt out at me. Doug --- relnotes.sgml.Dist Mon Mar 23 11:51:50 1998 +++ relnotes.sgml Mon Mar 23 12:29:41 1998 @@ -8,17 +8,17 @@ <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 + based release for Intel i386/i486/Pentium/PentiumPro/Pentium II + (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. + enhancements from NetBSD, OpenBSD, 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 + revamped virtual memory 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 @@ -36,20 +36,20 @@ In addition to the base distributions, FreeBSD offers a new ported software collection with hundreds of commonly - sought-after programs. At the beginning of July 97 there were - more than 1000 ports ! The list of ports ranges from + sought-after programs. At the end of March 1998 there were + more than 1300 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 + requires approximately 26MB 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 + dynamically off the 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 @@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ 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 + FreeBSD 2.1 or later. You may view the locally installed + manuals with any HTML capable browser using the following URLs: <descrip> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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