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diff --git a/share/doc/handbook/relnotes.sgml b/share/doc/handbook/relnotes.sgml index f8a57e82e24f..1f5ec31b87dc 100644 --- a/share/doc/handbook/relnotes.sgml +++ b/share/doc/handbook/relnotes.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $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 --> <!-- @@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ <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 @@ -35,24 +35,26 @@ (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 |