From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Mar 24 15:40:58 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA24888 for announce-outgoing; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 15:40:58 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA24880; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 15:40:57 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: announce@freefall.cdrom.com cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Announcing the March 22nd, 1995 snapshot of FreeBSD! Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 15:40:57 -0800 Message-ID: <24879.796088457@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: announce-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well folks, it's snapshot time again.. A little late, but what the heck. This is a full FreeBSD distribution, like all previous snapshots, and incorporates a LOT of very important enhancements to the system. While I certainly woulnd't go so far as to say that this is 2.1 quality yet (for one thing, the installation system is still the old 2.0 stuff), it's certainly a major improvement over 2.0 both in general reliability and feature set. I'd recommend that anyone doing a new system installation, or having any sorts of problems with their old one (including weird or random system failures, sig 10's and sig 11's, etc), start with this snapshot. USUAL DISCLAIMER: This is a SNAPSHOT, not a release. This means that we didn't take weeks to test it and your mileage may therefore vary. While we clearly take every effort to ensure that snapshots are of the highest possible quality, we don't spent weeks of testing on each one (as we plan to do with 2.1 itself) and therefore beg your indulgence in any (hopefully small) errors you may encounter. If you're looking for a fully production quality release then don't run these snapshots! Wait for 2.1R! Thanks! >From the README: ---- Latest snapshot from March 22nd, 1995. WHATS NEW [not a complete list] ------------------------------- o NIS (YP) server/client support for FreeBSD much improved. o A number of panic bugs fixed. o Merged VM/Buffer cache much improved - hopefully last of the bugs fixed! o Faster wd.c driver o Driver for Intel EtherExpress card o Driver for Matsushita CDROM ("Sound blaster" CDROM) o Better disk access algorithms ("clustering"). o PCI support much improved. Interrupt sharing now works. o Driver for Adaptec 294x much improved o Boot -c writeback/save program (customized info saved across reboots) o Soundcard support greatly cleaned up o Prototype support for ISDN o Support for the Creative Labs Video Spigot(tm) video card. o FDDI network interface support (DEC cards). o TCP/IP Firewall code much improved. o GCC 2.6.3 integrated PROBLEMS -------- If you want to run programs linked under 2.0, you will need the file libgcc.so.261.0 too (which you'll find in this directory). Install it in /usr/lib. Comments to: current@freebsd.org. Bugs to: bugs@freebsd.org use the "send-pr" command To subscribe to the "current", "hackers", "questions" or any of the other FreeBSD mailing lists, send mail to "majordomo@freebsd.org" and say "help" somewhere in the text of your message. For other general FreeBSD information, send mail to "info@freebsd.org" or feed your WEB browser the URL: http://www.freebsd.org/ Please identify the version of this snapshot (950322-SNAP) as what you're running when reporting problems or making comments. Thanks! Poul-Henning --- I'd also like to thank, in addition to Poul-Henning who put all this together (if it fails miserably, you know who to blame :-): David Greenman & John Dyson for putting in an inhuman amount of work stress-testing the system and finding many obscure bugs, some of which have been with us since before 2.0R. Without them, this release would not be much to talk about. Frank Durda IV, who contributed the long-awaited Matsushita/Panasonic ("Sound blaster") CDROM support. Steven Wallace, who took the greatly confusing sound driver code and turned it into something that actually makes some degree of sense in the BSD paradigm (e.g. sound configuration is now both a LOT easier and a LOT more understandable!). See the new /sys/i386/conf/LINT file. Poul-Henning's wife, Rita, who somehow puts up with a husband who spends more time with his "mistress" than is generally considered appropriate.. :-) Everyone else who contributed in thousands of ways to the evolving product that we call FreeBSD. If your name wasn't mentioned here then it has far more to do with my lousy memory than the value of your contribution! I apologise in advance to anyone who deserved special recognition and didn't get it. I'll mention you TWICE next time! :-) Thank you for your attention, and we certainly hope you enjoy this snapshot of FreeBSD! Problems, as always, to bugs@FreeBSD.org. Jordan for the FreeBSD Project