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RELEASE NOTES
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FreeBSD
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Release 2.0
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1. Technical overview
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---------------------
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FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4 BSD Lite based release
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for Intel i386/i486/Pentium (or compatable) based PC's. It is based
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primarily on software from U.C. Berkeley's CSRG group, with some
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enhancements from NetBSD, 386BSD, and the Free Software Foundation.
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Since our first release of FreeBSD 1.0 almost 18 months ago, FreeBSD
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has changed almost entirely. A new port from the Berkeley 4.4 code
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base was done, bringing the legal status of the system out of the
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shadows with the blessing of Novell (new owners of USL and UNIX). The
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port to 4.4 has also brought in a host of new features, filesystems
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and networking support. With our new code base, we have every hope of
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being able to confidently release quality operating systems without
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further legal encumbrance for some time to come!
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FreeBSD 2.0 represents the culmination of almost 2 years of work and
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many thousands of man hours put in by our all-volunteer working group.
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We hope you enjoy it!
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Many packages have also been upgraded or added, such as XFree86 3.1,
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xview 3.2, elm, nntp, mh, InterViews and dozens of other miscellaneous
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utilities have been ported and are now available as add-ons. See the
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next section of this document for more details.
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For a list of contributors, please see the files "CONTRIB.FreeBSD" and
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"CONTRIB.386BSD", which should be bundled with your distribution.
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Also see the new "REGISTER.FreeBSD" file for information on registering
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with the "Free BSD user counter". We've also provided a list of who's
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responsible for what (so that you may query them directly) in the
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"ROSTER.FreeBSD" file; use of this file is encouraged to ensure faster
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resolution of an problems you may have!
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The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which would inhibit its
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being exported outside the United States. There is an add-on package
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to the core distribution, for use only in the United States, that
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contains the programs that normally use DES. The auxilliary packages
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provided separately can be used by anyone. A freely (from outside the U.S.)
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exportable European distribution of DES for our non U.S. users also exists
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and is described in the FreeBSD FAQ.
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2. Supported Configurations
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---------------------------
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FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, EISA and PCI bus based
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PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the 386sx is
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not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive configurations,
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various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is also provided.
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Following is a list of all currently known disk controllers and
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ethernet cards known to work with FreeBSD. Other configurations may
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very well work, and we have simply not received any indication of
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this.
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2.1. Disk Controllers
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WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
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WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
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Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
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Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
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[Note that Buslogic was formerly known as "Bustec"]
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Buslogic 545S & 545c
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Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
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Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
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Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
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NCR 53C810 PCI SCSI controller.
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DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
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Ultra Store 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
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Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
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Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
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With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
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SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including
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DAT) and CD ROM drives. Note: This and the mcd driver (Mitsumi CDROM
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interface card) is the only way a CD ROM drive may be currently
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attached to a FreeBSD system; we do not support SoundBlaster CDROM
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interface, or other "non-SCSI" adapters. The ProAudio Spectrum
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SCSI and SoundBlaster SCSI controllers are supported.
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Some controllers have limitations with the way they deal with >16MB of
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memory, due to the fact that the ISA bus only has a DMA address space
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of 24 bits. If you do your arithmetic, you'll see that this makes it
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impossible to do direct DMA to any address >16MB. This limitation is
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even true of some EISA controllers (which are normally 32 bit) when
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they're configured to emulate an ISA card, which they then do in *all*
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respects. This problem is avoided entirely by IDE controllers (which
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do not use DMA), true EISA controllers (like the UltraStor or Adaptec
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1742A) and most VLB (local bus) controllers. In the cases where it's
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necessary, the system will use "bounce buffers" to to talk to the
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controller so that you can still use more than 16Mb of memory without
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difficulty.
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2.2. Ethernet cards
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SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
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WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
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based clones. SMC Elite Ultra is also supported.
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Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
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Isolink 4110 (8 bit)
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Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
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3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
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3Com 3C509 Ethernet cards
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Toshiba ethernet cards
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PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
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supported.
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2.3. Misc
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AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
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ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
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BOCA ATIO66 6 port serial card using shared IRQ.
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STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
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Mitsumi (all models) CDROM interface and drive.
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Soundblaster SCSI and ProAudio Spectrum SCSI CDROM interface and drive.
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Adlib, Soundblaster, Soundblaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
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and Roland MPU-401 sound cards.
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FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus, but
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support is apparently close to materializing. Details will be posted
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as the situation develops.
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3. Obtaining FreeBSD.
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---------------------
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You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
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1. FTP/Mail
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You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
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`freebsd.cdrom.com' - the offical FreeBSD release site.
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For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
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MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the nearest site
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to you netwise.
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If you do not have access to the internet and electronic mail is your
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only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
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`ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
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to get more information on how to fetch files from freebsd.cdrom.com.
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Note: This approach will end up sending many *tens of megabytes*
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through the mail, and should only be employed as an absolute LAST
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resort!
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2. CDROM
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FreeBSD 2.0 may be ordered on CDROM from:
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Walnut Creek CDROM
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4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
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Concord CA 94520
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1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax)
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Or via the internet from orders@cdrom.com. There current catalog can
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be obtained via ftp as ftp.cdrom.com:/cdrom/catalog.
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Cost is $39.95. Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada,
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or Mexico and $10.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, American
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Express, and ship COD to the United States. California residents please
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add 8.25% sales tax.
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Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
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unconditional return policy.
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Note that Walnut Creek CDROM does NOT provide technical support for FreeBSD,
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you need to contact the FreeBSD team for that. Please see section 4 for
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more information.
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It should be noted, lest you get the wrong impression that "FreeBSD"
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is anything but, that almost no one in the "core team" makes money
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from distributions or anything else connected with FreeBSD. We simply
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provide this information as a public service for those wishing to get
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their releases from somewhere other than the net (and the easier it
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is for you to obtain our software, the happier we are).
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4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code.
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-----------------------------------------------------------
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Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always
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valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find
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(preferably with a fix attached if you can!).
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The prefered method to submit bug reports from a machine with internet
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mail connectivity is to use the sendbug command. Bug reports will be
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dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can be sure
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that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon as
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possible.
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If, for some reason, you are unable to use the sendbug command to
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submit a bug report, you can try to send it to:
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bugs@FreeBSD.org
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Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to:
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questions@FreeBSD.org
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Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have
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extra hands willing to help - there are already far more enhancements
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to be done than we can ever manage to do by ourselves! To contact us
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on technical matters, or with offers of help, you may send mail to:
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hackers@FreeBSD.org
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Since these mailing lists can experience significant amounts of
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traffic, if you've got slow or expensive mail access and you're
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only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you may
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find it preferable to subscribe to:
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announce@FreeBSD.org
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All but the FreeBSD-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing
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to do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword
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`help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This
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will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing
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archives, etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at
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special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo
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and ask about them!
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5. Acknowledgements
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-------------------
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FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not
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hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very
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hard to bring you this release. It would be very difficult, if not
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impossible, to enumerate everyone who's contributed to FreeBSD, but
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nonetheless we shall try (in alphabetical order, of course). If your
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name is not mentioned, please be assured that its omission is entirely
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accidental.
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The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), U.C. Berkeley.
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Bill Jolitz, for his extensive work with 386BSD.
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The FreeBSD "core" team:
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Andrew A. Chernov
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John Dyson
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Bruce Evans
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David Greenman
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Rodney W. Grimes
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Jordan K. Hubbard
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Poul-Henning Kamp
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Rich Murphey
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Gary Palmer
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Geoff Rehmet
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Paul Richards
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Andreas Schulz
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Jack Vogel
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Garrett A. Wollman
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Special mention to:
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Robert Bruce and Jack Velte of Walnut Creek CDROM, without
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whose help (and continuing support) this release would never
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have been possible.
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Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM
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drive.
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The NetBSD group for their frequent assistance and commentary.
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Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers:
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J.T. Conklin Julian Elischer
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Sean Eric Fagan Jeffrey Hsu
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Terry Lambert L Jonas Olsson
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Chris Provenzano Dave Rivers
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Guido van Rooij Steven Wallace
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Atsushi Murai Scott Mace
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Andrew Moore Nate Williams
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And everyone at Montana State University for their initial support.
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Thanks to everyone, especially those not mentioned, and we sincerely
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hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD!
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The FreeBSD Core Team
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$Id: RELNOTES.FreeBSD,v 1.1 1994/11/04 02:22:41 jkh Exp $
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