From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Mar 23 14:06:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22497 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 14:06:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22484; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 14:06:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19199; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 14:06:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <3516DCDE.565808B9@dal.net> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 14:06:22 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-BETA-0316 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Docs Team Subject: [Fwd: Handbook nits (relnotes.sgml) (fwd)] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------2529895624CD58CEA959D5A6" Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------2529895624CD58CEA959D5A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I don't think this went through the first time. Doug --------------2529895624CD58CEA959D5A6 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 12:48:05 -0800 (PST) From: Studded X-Sender: dougdougdougdoug@dt050n33.san.rr.com Subject: Handbook nits (relnotes.sgml) (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Status: 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 -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) --- relnotes.sgml.Dist Mon Mar 23 11:51:50 1998 +++ relnotes.sgml Mon Mar 23 12:29:41 1998 @@ -8,17 +8,17 @@ About the Current Release

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 /usr/share/doc 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: --------------2529895624CD58CEA959D5A6-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message