Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 14:06:22 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, Docs Team <FreeBSD-Doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: [Fwd: Handbook nits (relnotes.sgml) (fwd)] Message-ID: <3516DCDE.565808B9@dal.net>
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I don't think this went through the first time.
Doug
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 12:48:05 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Handbook nits (relnotes.sgml) (fwd)
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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
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--- 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>
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