From eb283287c06cd0fd297b0aeaa1aefa3968bab086 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 22:57:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Make some much-needed revisions to the history section. --- share/doc/handbook/history.sgml | 54 +++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) diff --git a/share/doc/handbook/history.sgml b/share/doc/handbook/history.sgml index a492e1ad6850..87bcf7f9240e 100644 --- a/share/doc/handbook/history.sgml +++ b/share/doc/handbook/history.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + A brief history of FreeBSD @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ released in December of 1993. This was based on the 4.3BSD-Lite 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 @@ -56,38 +56,34 @@ were "encumbered" code and the property of Novell, who had in turn acquired it from AT&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. Where to from here? -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.