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Make some much-needed revisions to the history section.

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<sect><heading>A brief history of FreeBSD<label id="history"></heading>
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success for a first offering, and we followed it with the highly successful
FreeBSD 1.1 release in May of 1994.
Around this time, some rather unexpected storm clouds formed on our
Around this time, some rather unexpected storm clouds formed on the
horizon as Novell and U.C. Berkeley settled their long-running lawsuit
over the legal status of the Berkeley Net/2 tape. A condition of that
settlement was U.C. Berkeley's concession that large parts of Net/2
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it from AT&amp;T some time previously. What Berkeley got in return was
Novell's "blessing" that the 4.4BSD-Lite release, when it was finally
released, would be declared unencumbered and all existing Net/2 users
would be strongly encouraged to switch. This included us, and we were
given until the end of July 1994 to stop shipping our own Net/2 based
product. Under the terms of that agreement, we were allowed one
last release before the deadline and that became FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, the
culmination of our year's work with Net/2 and generally considered by
many to be a significant project milestone for stability and general
performance..
would be strongly encouraged to switch. This included FreeBSD, and the
project was given until the end of July 1994 to stop shipping its own
Net/2 based product. Under the terms of that agreement, the project
was allowed one last release before the deadline, that release being
FreeBSD 1.1.5.1.
We then set about the arduous task of literally re-inventing ourselves
with a completely new and rather incomplete set of 4.4BSD-Lite bits. The
FreeBSD then set about the arduous task of literally re-inventing itself
from a completely new and rather incomplete set of 4.4BSD-Lite bits. The
"Lite" releases were light in part because Berkeley's CSRG had removed
large chunks of code required for actually constructing a bootable running
system (due to various legal requirements) and the fact that the Intel
port of 4.4 was highly incomplete. It took us until December of 1994
to make this transition, and in January of 1995 we
released FreeBSD 2.0 to the net and on CDROM. Despite being still
more than a little rough around the edges, the release was a
significant success and has since been followed by the more robust and
easier to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 release in June of 1995.
port of 4.4 was highly incomplete. It took the project until December of 1994
to make this transition, and in January of 1995 it released FreeBSD 2.0 to
the net and on CDROM. Despite being still more than a little rough around
the edges, the release was a significant success and was followed by the more
robust and easier to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 release in June of 1995.
<em>Where to from here?</em>
We just released FreeBSD 2.1.5 in August of 1996, and it appears to be
doing well enough for us that one last release along the -stable
branch, 2.1.6, is merited. This is scheduled for release some time in
November.
We released FreeBSD 2.1.5 in August of 1996, and it appeared to be
popular enough among the ISP and commercial communities that one last
release along the 2.1-stable branch, was merited. This was FreeBSD 2.1.6,
released in December 1996, and capped the end of mainstream development
on 2.1-stable. Now in maintenance mode, only security enhancements and other
critical bug fixes will be done on this branch.
2.2, our development branch where long term projects for everything
from NFS v3 to PCCARD support is currently taking place, will continue
to have snapshot releases made of it right up until initial 2.2 code
freeze, which is scheduled for January of 1997.
We also intend to focus on any remaining areas of weakness, like
documentation or missing drivers, and steadily increase the overall
quality and feature set of the system well into 1997 and beyond.
FreeBSD 2.2 is now on a release branch and heading for its first full
debut in January, 1997. Long term development projects for everything
from SMP to DEC ALPHA support will continue to take place in the
3.0-current branch, which departed from 2.2 in October of 1996.
SNAPshot releases of 3.0 are expected to resume in early 1997.