Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 02:24:14 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Mike Pritchard <mpp@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: old BSD manpages (Re: cvs commit: www/data docs.sgml) Message-ID: <199703210224.CAA13198@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Mar 1997 22:22:04 %2B0100." <199703202122.WAA00646@campa.panke.de>
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> Mike Pritchard writes: > >Wolfram Schneider wrote: > >> > >> wosch 97/03/16 16:04:54 > >> > >> Modified: data docs.sgml > >> Log: > >> Add link to a new man page script. > > > >What an understatement! Wolfram's new script has man pages > >for EVERY FreeBSD release past and present. Good job! > > Not all releases. I'm still seeking the manual pages for NET/1, > 386BSD 0.0, FreeBSD 1.0, and FreeBSD 1.1. > > Wolfram How about the release of FreeBSD-1.1-GAMMA (not too big) ? From: jkh@smspde.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce Subject: FreeBSD 1.1 GAMMA is released Followup-To: poster Date: 20 Apr 1994 10:32:23 -0700 Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Distribution: world NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu After some delay, the FreeBSD group is very pleased to announce the release of FreeBSD 1.1 GAMMA! Q. WHAT IS 1.1 GAMMA? A. FreeBSD 1.1 GAMMA represents the BETA release with a small (but important) number of bug fixes and enhanced documentation. We have taken great pains to focus only on bug fixing so as not to destabilize what people have been running from the 1.1 BETA release. GAMMA is also the `Release Candidate', meaning that these are the bits which we'll be sending out as FreeBSD 1.1 RELEASE, modulo any final problems that are found and fixed. Q. WHY SHOULD I RUN GAMMA AND NOT SIMPLY WAIT FOR 1.1 RELEASE? A. Because you're a kind and thoughtful person and you're keen to help us do one last little bit of release testing! :-) Seriously speaking, it is very important that people help us shake these bits out ASAP since we're only going to take a week between GAMMA and RELEASE, our emphasis being on getting the RELEASE bits out as soon as possible. In order to avoid unduly penalizing folks who install GAMMA, we will also be providing BOTH BINARY AND SOURCE UPGRADES for 1.1 RELEASE! Sorry to shout, but this is the first time we've done this and I just thought I'd make sure it was known. So, if you install GAMMA now then you can look forward to two small tar files (binary and source), an update script and a README file that will make going from GAMMA to RELEASE quick and easy. Go for it! :) Q. HOW DO I UPGRADE FROM 1.0.2? A. Given that 1.1 represents a MAJOR upgrade over 1.0, we cannot provide a binary upgrade strategy (it would be larger than the entire release!) and must regrettably make the same stipulation that the "big boys" do, namely, `please back up your user files and reinstall.' That said, if you've got space for the _source distribution_ then you can skip grabbing the 1.1 binary distribution altogether and simply use the upgrade script provided to fully upgrade to 1.1 from source. This is the easiest way of going about it if you've got the disk space to spare. Q. WHAT ABOUT THE LEGAL PROBLEMS I HEARD ABOUT? A. Thanks to an exceptional willingness on USL's part to negotiate on this (when they could have simply said "No" and left it at that), we are now able to do this 1.1 Release. NOTE: ** FreeBSD 1.1 will be the LAST Net/2 based release of FreeBSD **. Subsequent releases of FreeBSD will based on the BSD 4.4 LITE code and all future releases of FreeBSD will be completely `unencumbered'. The terms of this are mandated by the recent UCB/USL settlement and are non-negotiable. This is not to say that FreeBSD users will be due for an enormous shock as their favorite OS mutates beyond all recognition, far from it. We will be approaching the port with great conservatism, taking care to finely balance the needs of legality (4.4 lite) and stability (unencumbered portions of the old code base), and we are very optimistic about FreeBSD's future as a stable, high performance operating system with all the features (and Internet support) that people have come to expect from us. Folks who are interested in knowing more about (or, even better, participating in) this process are encouraged to write to us at: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Q. SOUNDS GREAT, WHERE DO I GET IT? A. As always, you may grab the release from: freebsd.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-1.1-GAMMA However, I'd like to STRONGLY urge you to look on one of the mirror sites first! Poor little freebsd.cdrom.com is sitting at the end of a T1 line and tends to SWAMP when too many folks beat up on it at once! The FreeBSD release is being mirrored at the following locations, and if you don't see the GAMMA bits there yet, please allow some time to elapse for the mirror to properly grab it and try again. FREEBSD MIRROR SITES -------------------- Austria ftp.tu-graz.ac.at:/pub/FreeBSD Finland ftp.funet.fi:/pub/unix/FreeBSD France ftp.ibp.fr:/pub/FreeBSD Germany ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:/pub/comp/os/bsd/FreeBSD ftp.uni-duisburg.de:/pub/unix/FreeBSD gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/FreeBSD Hong Kong ftp.cs.cuhk.hk:/pub/FreeBSD Netherlands ftp.nl.net:/pub/os/FreeBSD Russia ftp.kiae.su:/FreeBSD UK src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/FreeBSD USA ftp.dsu.edu:/pub/FreeBSD You will also want to grab a copy of the new FAQ, the most up-to-date copy of which is always in: freebsd.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/FAQ This contains very useful information about our mailing lists, hardware supported and a host of other things. As always, we hope you enjoy FreeBSD as much as we have enjoyed producing it! The FreeBSD Team
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