Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 20:27:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r41755 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction Message-ID: <201305272027.r4RKR3Bv045154@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Mon May 27 20:27:03 2013 New Revision: 41755 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41755 Log: - Throwing a bunch of random dates and numbers is largely uninteresting so just give some historical background. - Remove attribution as the section has been changed and modified many times since then (and should be some more) - Change from <quote> to "s where not used as an attribution. - Simplify text surrounding snapshots. Reviewed by: trhodes Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml Mon May 27 20:04:01 2013 (r41754) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml Mon May 27 20:27:03 2013 (r41755) @@ -541,16 +541,6 @@ the development model of the project.</para> <sect2 id="intro-history"> - <sect2info role="firstperson"> - <authorgroup> - <author> - <firstname>Jordan</firstname> - <surname>Hubbard</surname> - <contrib>Contributed by </contrib> - </author> - </authorgroup> - </sect2info> - <title>A Brief History of &os;</title> <indexterm><primary>386BSD Patchkit</primary></indexterm> @@ -562,24 +552,24 @@ <secondary>history</secondary> </indexterm> <para>The &os; Project had its genesis in the early part - of 1993, partially as an outgrowth of the <quote>Unofficial - 386BSDPatchkit</quote> by the patchkit's last 3 - coordinators: Nate Williams, Rod Grimes and myself.</para> + of 1993, partially as an outgrowth of the Unofficial + 386BSDPatchkit by the patchkit's last 3 + coordinators: Nate Williams, Rod Grimes and Jordan + Hubbard.</para> <indexterm><primary>386BSD</primary></indexterm> - <para>Our original goal was to produce an intermediate snapshot + <para>The original goal was to produce an intermediate snapshot of 386BSD in order to fix a number of problems with it that - the patchkit mechanism just was not capable of solving. Some - of you may remember the early working title for the project - being <quote>386BSD 0.5</quote> or <quote>386BSD - Interim</quote> in reference to that fact.</para> + the patchkit mechanism just was not capable of solving. The + early working title for the project was + 386BSD 0.5 or 386BSD Interim in + reference of that fact.</para> <indexterm><primary>Jolitz, Bill</primary></indexterm> <para>386BSD was Bill Jolitz's operating system, which had been up to that point suffering rather severely from almost a year's worth of neglect. As the patchkit swelled ever more - uncomfortably with each passing day, we were in unanimous - agreement that something had to be done and decided to assist + uncomfortably with each passing day, they decided to assist Bill by providing this interim <quote>cleanup</quote> snapshot. Those plans came to a rude halt when Bill Jolitz suddenly decided to withdraw his sanction from the project @@ -588,12 +578,12 @@ <indexterm><primary>Greenman, David</primary></indexterm> <indexterm><primary>Walnut Creek CDROM</primary></indexterm> - <para>It did not take us long to decide that the goal remained - worthwhile, even without Bill's support, and so we adopted the - name <quote>&os;</quote>, coined by David Greenman. Our + <para>The trio thought that the goal remained + worthwhile, even without Bill's support, and so they adopted the + name "&os;" coined by David Greenman. The initial objectives were set after consulting with the system's current users and, once it became clear that the project was - on the road to perhaps even becoming a reality, I contacted + on the road to perhaps even becoming a reality, Jordan contacted Walnut Creek CDROM with an eye toward improving &os;'s distribution channels for those many unfortunates without easy access to the Internet. Walnut Creek CDROM not only supported @@ -615,7 +605,7 @@ on the 4.3BSD-Lite (<quote>Net/2</quote>) tape from U.C. Berkeley, with many components also provided by 386BSD and the Free Software Foundation. It was a fairly reasonable success - for a first offering, and we followed it with the highly + for a first offering, and they followed it with the highly successful &os; 1.1 release in May of 1994.</para> <indexterm><primary>Novell</primary></indexterm> @@ -654,83 +644,13 @@ more robust and easier to install &os; 2.0.5 release in June of 1995.</para> - <para>We released &os; 2.1.5 in August of 1996, and it - appeared to be popular enough among the ISP and commercial - communities that another release along the 2.1-STABLE branch - was merited. This was &os; 2.1.7.1, released in February - 1997 and capping the end of mainstream development on - 2.1-STABLE. Now in maintenance mode, only security - enhancements and other critical bug fixes will be done on this - branch (RELENG_2_1_0).</para> - - <para>&os; 2.2 was branched from the development mainline - (<quote>-CURRENT</quote>) in November 1996 as the RELENG_2_2 - branch, and the first full release (2.2.1) was released in - April 1997. Further releases along the 2.2 branch were done - in the summer and fall of '97, the last of which (2.2.8) - appeared in November 1998. The first official 3.0 release - appeared in October 1998 and spelled the beginning of the end - for the 2.2 branch.</para> - - <para>The tree branched again on Jan 20, 1999, leading to the - 4.0-CURRENT and 3.X-STABLE branches. From 3.X-STABLE, 3.1 was - released on February 15, 1999, 3.2 on May 15, 1999, 3.3 on - September 16, 1999, 3.4 on December 20, 1999, and 3.5 on - June 24, 2000, which was followed a few days later by a minor - point release update to 3.5.1, to incorporate some last-minute - security fixes to Kerberos. This will be the final release - in the 3.X branch.</para> - - <para>There was another branch on March 13, 2000, which saw the - emergence of the 4.X-STABLE branch. There have been several - releases from it so far: 4.0-RELEASE was introduced in March - 2000, and the last 4.11-RELEASE came out in January - 2005.</para> - - <para>The long-awaited 5.0-RELEASE was announced on January 19, - 2003. The culmination of nearly three years of work, this - release started &os; on the path of advanced multiprocessor - and application thread support and introduced support for the - &ultrasparc; and <literal>ia64</literal> platforms. This - release was followed by 5.1 in June of 2003. The last 5.X - release from the -CURRENT branch was 5.2.1-RELEASE, introduced - in February 2004.</para> - - <para>The RELENG_5 branch, created in August 2004, was followed - by 5.3-RELEASE, which marked the beginning of the 5-STABLE - branch releases. The most recent 5.5-RELEASE release came out - in May 2006. There will be no additional releases from the - RELENG_5 branch.</para> - - <para>The tree was branched again in July 2005, this time for - RELENG_6. 6.0-RELEASE, the first release of the 6.X branch, - was released in November 2005. The most recent 6.4-RELEASE - came out in November 2008. There will be no additional - releases from the RELENG_6 branch. This branch is the last - branch to support the Alpha architecture.</para> - - <para>The RELENG_7 branch was created in October 2007. The - first release of this branch was 7.0-RELEASE, which came - out in February 2008. The most recent 7.4-RELEASE came out - in February 2011. There will be no additional releases from - the RELENG_7 branch.</para> - - <para>The tree was branched again in August 2009, this time for - RELENG_8. 8.0-RELEASE, the first release of the 8.X branch, - was released in November 2009. The most recent - &rel2.current;-RELEASE came out in &rel2.current.date;. There - will be additional releases from the RELENG_8 branch.</para> - - <para>The RELENG_9 branch was created in September 2011. The - first release of this branch was 9.0-RELEASE, which came - out in January 2012. The most recent &rel.current;-RELEASE - came out in &rel.current.date;. There will be additional - releases from the RELENG_9 branch.</para> + <para>Since that time, &os; has made a series of releases each + time improving the stability, speed, and feature set of the + previous version.</para> <para>For now, long-term development projects continue to take - place in the 10.X-CURRENT (trunk) branch, and SNAPshot - releases of 10.X on CD-ROM (and, of course, on the net) are - continually made available from <ulink + place in the 10.X-CURRENT (trunk) branch, and snapshot + releases of 10.X are continually made available from <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/">the snapshot server</ulink> as work progresses.</para> </sect2>
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