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Changed an expression "one year ago", which is in fact only valid
for a short period of time.
Updated the section about ports. Make this more general, "hundreds of
ports" and give a concrete number of ports (over 710) with a timestamp
"at end of November 96".

I reformatted the "ports" paragraph using fmt, because I think it looks
nicer now in sgml source. So the diff shows more changed lines than was
actually changed. If this isn't suitable for you, then I'll do my best
in the future, to avoid this. My intention was, to make the source look
nicer as well.
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<!-- $Id: relnotes.sgml,v 1.14 1996/09/22 15:40:33 wosch Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: relnotes.sgml,v 1.15 1996/10/23 03:15:10 jfieber Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
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<sect><heading>About the current release<label id="relnotes"></heading>
<p>FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4BSD-Lite
based release for Intel i386/i486/Pentium (or
based release for Intel i386/i486/Pentium/PentiumPro (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.
Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 one year ago, the
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
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(constantly evolving) process is especially welcome!
In addition to the base distributions, FreeBSD offers a
new ported software collection with some 350 commonly
sought-after programs. The list of ports ranges from
new ported software collection with hundreds of commonly
sought-after programs. At the end of November 96 there was
an amount of 710 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 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 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 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 (pkg_add) by those who do not wish to
compile their own ports from source.
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
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 successfull
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
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
(pkg_add) by those who do not wish to compile their own
ports from source.
A number of additional documents which you may find
very helpful in the process of installing and using