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diff --git a/release/texts/ABOUT.TXT b/release/texts/ABOUT.TXT index 008a60c722bb..462ca7f3705a 100644 --- a/release/texts/ABOUT.TXT +++ b/release/texts/ABOUT.TXT @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ researchers or folks who simply want to see how it all works. A large collection of 3rd party ported software (the "ports collection") is also provided to make it easier for you to obtain and install all your favorite traditional UNIX utilities for FreeBSD. -Over 1000 ports, from editors to programming languages to graphical +Over 2000 ports, from editors to programming languages to graphical applications, make FreeBSD a powerful and comprehensive operating environment that extends far beyond what's provided by many commercial versions of UNIX. @@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ ABOUT.TXT bin dict manpages tools HARDWARE.TXT compat1x des doc packages INSTALL.TXT compat20 floppies ports README.TXT compat21 games proflibs -RELNOTES.TXT info src -XF86332 +RELNOTES.TXT compat22 info src +XF86333 If you want to do a CDROM, FTP or NFS installation from this distribution directory, all you need to do is make a 1.44Mb floppy @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ follows is a more thorough description of each item in more detail: The *.TXT files obviously contain documentation (ABOUT.TXT being what you're reading now). -The XF86332 directory contains the XFree86 project's 3.3.2 release and +The XF86333 directory contains the XFree86 project's 3.3.3.1 release and consists of a series of gzip'd tar files which contain each component of the XFree86 distribution. @@ -133,10 +133,12 @@ directories contain the primary distribution components of FreeBSD itself and are split into smaller files for easy packing onto floppies (should that be necessary). -The compat1x, compat20 and compat21 directories contain distributions -for compatibility with older releases and are distributed as single -gzip'd tar files - they can be installed during release time or later -by running their `install.sh' scripts. +The compat1x, compat20, compat21 and compat22 directories contain +distributions for compatibility with older releases and are distributed +as single gzip'd tar files - they can be installed during release time +or later by running their `install.sh' scripts. The compat22 distribution +is especially important to those who wish to run older (2.2.x) a.out +dynamically-linked binaries on 3.x systems. A typical distribution (we'll use the info distribution as an example) looks like this: @@ -188,7 +190,7 @@ by running the /stand/sysinstall utility with the argument ``configPackages'' or by feeding the individual filenames to the pkg_add(1) command. The ports collection may be installed like any other distribution -and requires about 30MB unpacked. More information on the ports collection +and requires about 50MB unpacked. More information on the ports collection may be obtained from http://www.freebsd.org/ports or locally from file:/usr/share/doc/handbook if you've installed the doc distribution. |