Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 21:52:42 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Phelip Cray" <phelipc@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: 4.x - 3.x - 2.x Message-ID: <001d01c09001$051e1b00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010205193807.6876.qmail@web12407.mail.yahoo.com>
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Here's a short rundown of stuff that was important to me, keep in mind that these days FreeBSD is incrementing the major version number much more rapidly, in the old days they were more conservative. 1.X First public releases, based on BSD code later ruled "encumbered" (ie: BSD 4.3) 2.0.X First major releases based on "unencumbered" code, ie: BSD 4.3 Lite (in actual practice well over 90% of the code was left alone in the conversion from encumbered to unencumbered) 2.1.X Releases finally reached the stability of the 1.X releases. Probably last release you could tolerate in 4MB of ram. 2.2.X Major variance included introduction of Divert Sockets (for natting and ipfw) 3.X Shredded the SCSI subsystem and replaced it with CAM, broke a lot of older drivers, (arguably of junky hardware) introduction of Symmectric Multiprocessing. Last releases to support ESDI disks. 4.X many new drivers, reworked VM system, vinum, softupdates, brought back a few old favorites (like the Adaptec 1520 driver) Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Phelip Cray > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 11:38 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: 4.x - 3.x - 2.x > > > > Hello everyone, > > > does anybody know what are the differences between the > 2.x , 3.x and 4.x series? > > Is it only the software and the minor changes in > sysinstall or are there diferences in kernel > aproaches, memory management, ports, speed etc. ? > > Is there anywhere I could research this information? > > Thank ou very much for your time, > > phelip > > __________________________________________________ > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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