From jkh@freefall.freebsd.org Mon Nov 27 03:00:42 1995 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Path: sran230.sra.co.jp!sranhc.sra.co.jp!sranha.sra.co.jp!nf0.iij.ad.jp!news.iij.ad.jp!wnoc-tyo-news!rena!ares!tokyonet.ad.jp!wincgw1!senri-nc!odins-suita!aist-nara!wnoc-kyo-news!kuis-news!wsclark!lab!news.imnet.ad.jp!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!root From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE now available Approved: peter@taronga.com Sender: root@bonkers.taronga.com (Charlie Root) Organization: FreeBSD Project Message-ID: Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 23:01:16 GMT Lines: 584 Could it be? Could the long-awaited release of FreeBSD 2.1 truly have arrived? It gives me great pleasure to answer those questions with a "yes!" FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE is now available on ftp.freebsd.org and various FTP mirror sites throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD >from Walnut Creek CDROM, from where it will be shipping shortly. FreeBSD 2.1 represents the culmination of 6 months worth of work on the 2.1-STABLE branch of FreeBSD since the previous release (FreeBSD 2.0.5). The STABLE branch was conceived out of the need to allow FreeBSD to grow and support long-term development projects like devfs, NFSv3, IPX, PCCARD, etc. while at the same time not jeopardizing the stability of its existing user base. Experimental or high-impact changes are allowed into FreeBSD-current, which represents a sort of shared group development tree, and only well tested or obvious fixes are allowed into STABLE. In a few rare cases, where some bit of functionality was entirely missing before, we've supplied an ALPHA test quality version in STABLE on the premise that some functionality is better than none at all (a good example being the IDE CDROM driver). For more information on the 2.1 release itself, please consult the documentation that accompanies the installation procedure. Jordan --- The official sources for FreeBSD are available via anonymous FTP from: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD And on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek CDROM: Walnut Creek CDROM 4041 Pike Lane, #D Concord CA, 94520 USA Phone: +1 510 674-0783 Fax: +1 510 674-0821 Tech Support: +1 510 603-1234 Email: info@cdrom.com WWW: http://www.cdrom.com/ Additionally, FreeBSD is available via anonymous FTP from the following mirror sites. If you choose to obtain FreeBSD via anonymous FTP, please try to use a site near you: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legend: Y Verified as containing full release of 2.1.0. N Did not actually have the release at the time of this writing, but may by the time you read this announcement. U Unreachable at the time of this writing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Australia Y + ftp://ftp.physics.usyd.edu.au/FreeBSD Contact: dawes@xfree86.org. U + ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/FreeBSD Contact: wkt@dolphin.cs.adfa.oz.au. Canada Y + ftp://ftp.synapse.net/contrib/FreeBSD Contact: evanc@synapse.net. Finland Y + ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD Contact: count@nic.funet.fi. France U + ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/FreeBSD Contact: Remy.Card@ibp.fr. Germany Y + ftp://ftp.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de/pub/unix/FreeBSD Contact: ftp@ftp.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de. 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Y + ftp://ftp.waseda.ac.jp/pub/FreeBSD Contact: ftp-admin@waseda.ac.jp. N + ftp://ftp.pu-toyama.ac.jp/pub/FreeBSD Contact: Yoshihiko USUI usui@pu-toyama.ac.jp. Y + ftp://ftpsv1.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/os/FreeBSD Contact: ftp-admin@u-aizu.ac.jp. Korea N + ftp://ftp.cau.ac.kr/pub/FreeBSD Contact: ftpadm@ftp.cau.ac.kr. Y + ftp://ftp.easy.re.kr/pub/FreeBSD Contact: ftpadm@easy.re.kr. Netherlands Y + ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/os/FreeBSD Contact: archive@nl.net. Poland Y + ftp://SunSITE.icm.edu.pl/pub/FreeBSD/ftp.freebsd.org Contact: w.sylwestrzak@icm.edu.pl Russia Y + ftp://ftp.kiae.su/FreeBSD Contact: ftp@ftp.kiae.su. Sweden Y + ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/FreeBSD Contact: ragge@ludd.luth.se. Taiwan Y + ftp://NCTUCCCA.edu.tw/Operating-Systems/FreeBSD Contact: freebsd@NCTUCCCA.edu.tw. N + ftp://netbsd.csie.nctu.edu.tw/pub/FreeBSD Contact: ftp@netbsd.csie.nctu.edu.tw. Thailand N + ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/FreeBSD Contact: ftpadmin@ftp.nectec.or.th. UK N + ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/unix/FreeBSD Contact: wizards@doc.ic.ac.uk. N + ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/walnut.creek/FreeBSD Contact: archive-admin@unix.hensa.ac.uk. N + ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/BSD/FreeBSD Contact: uploads@demon.net. [Ed note: Hmmmm. Unhappy situation in the UK! :( ] USA U + ftp://ftp.cybernetics.net/pub/FreeBSD Contact: michael@Cybernetics.NET. Y + ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/systems/FreeBSD Contact: smace@NeoSoft.COM. Y + ftp://kryten.atinc.com/pub/FreeBSD Contact: jmb@kryten.atinc.com. U + ftp://ftp.dataplex.net/pub/FreeBSD Contact: rkw@dataplex.net. Y + ftp://ftp.cps.cmich.edu/pub/ftp.freebsd.org Contact: ftpadmin@cps.cmich.edu. Y + ftp://ftp.cslab.vt.edu/pub/FreeBSD Contact: ftp@ftp.cslab.vt.edu. The latest versions of export-restricted code for FreeBSD (2.0C or later) (eBones and secure) are being made available at the following locations. If you are outside the U.S. or Canada, please get secure (DES) and eBones (Kerberos) from one of the following foreign distribution sites: South Africa U + ftp://ftp.internat.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD Contact: Mark Murray mark@grondar.za. U + ftp://storm.sea.uct.ac.za/pub/FreeBSD Contact: Shaun Courtney ftp@storm.sea.uct.ac.za. Brazil Y + ftp://ftp.iqm.unicamp.br/pub/FreeBSD Contact: Pedro A M Vazquez vazquez@iqm.unicamp.br. Finland N + ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD/eurocrypt Contact: count@nic.funet.fi. --- More information about this release: RELEASE NOTES FreeBSD Release 2.1 1. Technical overview --------------------- FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4 BSD Lite based release for Intel i386/i486/Pentium (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 over a year ago, 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 that not only increases performance but reduces FreeBSD's memory footprint, making a 5MB configuration a more acceptable minimum. Other enhancements include full NIS client and server support, transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, an improved SCSI subsystem, early ISDN support, support for FDDI and Fast Ethernet (100Mbit) adapters, improved support for the Adaptec 2940 (WIDE and narrow) and 3940 SCSI adaptors along with many hundreds of bug fixes. We've also taken the comments and suggestions of many of our users to heart and have attempted to provide what we hope is a more sane and easily understood installation process. Your feedback on this (constantly evolving) process is especially welcome! In addition to the base distributions, FreeBSD offers a new ported software collection with over 350 commonly sought-after programs. 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 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). See also the new Packages option in the Configuration menu for an especially convenient interface to the package collection. A number of additional documents which you may find helpful in the process of installing and using FreeBSD may now also be found in the /usr/share/doc directory. You may view the manuals with any HTML capable browser by saying: To read the handbook: file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html To read the FAQ: file:/usr/share/doc/FAQ/freebsd-faq.html You can also visit the master (and most frequently updated) copies at http://www.freebsd.org. The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which would inhibit its being exported outside the United States. There is an add-on package to the core distribution, for use only in the United States, that contains the programs that normally use DES. The auxiliary packages provided separately can be used by anyone. A freely (from outside the U.S.) exportable distribution of DES for our non-U.S. users also exists at ftp://ftp.internat.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD. If password security for FreeBSD is all you need and you have no requirement for copying encrypted passwords from different hosts (Suns, DEC machines, etc) into FreeBSD password entries, then FreeBSD's MD5 based security may be all you require! We feel that our default security model is more than a match for DES, and without any messy export issues to deal with. If you're outside (or even inside) the U.S., give it a try! Supported Configurations ------------------------ FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the 386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is also provided. What follows is a list of all disk controllers and ethernet cards currently known to work with FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, but we have simply not received any confirmation of this. Disk Controllers ---------------- WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) IDE ATA Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI controllers. Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x and SoundBlaster SCSI cards. ** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the system BIOS I/O vectors. They're perfectly usable for external tapes, CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them. Check your system/board documentation for more details. [Note that Buslogic was formerly known as "Bustek"] Buslogic 545S & 545c Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller. Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller NCR 53C810/15/25/60/75 PCI SCSI controller. NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller. DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode. UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers. Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers. Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers. WD7000 SCSI controller. With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including DAT) and CD ROM drives. The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time: (cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI) (mcd) Mitsumi proprietary interface (all models) (matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary interface (562/563 models) (scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models) (wcd) ATAPI IDE interface (experimental and should be considered ALPHA quality!). Ethernet cards -------------- Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E, WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT based clones. SMC Elite Ultra is also supported. DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205) DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422) DEC DC21140 based NICs (SMC???? DE???) DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs Fujitsu FMV-181 and FMV-182 Intel EtherExpress Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) Isolink 4110 (8 bit) Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface. 3Com 3C501 cards 3Com 3C503 Etherlink II 3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+ 3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP 3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA) Etherlink III Toshiba ethernet cards PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also supported. Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them. Any takers? Misc Hardware ------------- AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ. ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ. BOCA ATIO66 6 port serial card using shared IRQ. Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board. STB 4 port card using shared IRQ. SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board. Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus. --- Reporting problems, making suggestions and submitting code: =========================================================== Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find (preferably with a fix attached, if you can!). The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command. Bug reports will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon as possible. Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to watch out for. If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to submit a bug report, you can try to send it to: bugs@FreeBSD.org Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to: questions@FreeBSD.org Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves! To contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send mail to: hackers@FreeBSD.org Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant* amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you may find it preferable to subscribe instead to: announce@FreeBSD.org Any of the groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing to do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword `help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing archives, etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo and ask about them! 6. Acknowledgements ------------------- FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very hard to bring you this release. It would be very difficult, if not impossible, to enumerate everyone who's contributed to FreeBSD, but nonetheless we shall try (in alphabetical order, of course). If you've contributed something substantive to us and your name is not mentioned here, please be assured that its omission is entirely accidental. Please contact hackers@FreeBSD.org for any desired updates to the lists that follow: The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), U.C. Berkeley. Bill Jolitz, for his initial work with 386BSD. The FreeBSD Core Team (in alphabetical order by first name): Andrey A. Chernov Bruce Evans David Greenman Garrett A. Wollman Gary Palmer Jvrg Wunsch John Dyson Jordan K. Hubbard Justin Gibbs Peter Wemm Poul-Henning Kamp Rich Murphey Satoshi Asami Sxren Schmidt Special mention to: Walnut Creek CDROM, without whose help (and continuing support) this release would never have been possible. Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM drive. Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers: Atsushi Murai Coranth Gryphon Dave Rivers Frank Durda IV Guido van Rooij Jeffrey Hsu John Hay Julian Elischer Kaleb S. Keithley Michael Smith Nate Williams Peter Dufault Rod Grimes Scott Mace Stefan Esser Steven Wallace Terry Lambert Wolfram Schneider And everyone at Montana State University for their initial support. And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the world without whom this release simply would not have been possible. We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD! The FreeBSD Core Team