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From: [email protected] (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce
Subject: Announcing FreeBSD 1.1 RELEASE
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Date: 6 May 1994 13:41:32 -0700
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The FreeBSD team is very pleased to announce FreeBSD 1.1 Release, our
second full distribution of the FreeBSD Operating System.

FreeBSD 1.1 represents a milestone in our free software efforts, both
technically and legally.  For quite some time, the future of BSD has
been somewhat in doubt due to the UCB/USL lawsuit, and all Net/2
derived distributions have rested on uncertain legal ground.  With the
resolution of the lawsuit, and subsequent clarification and agreements
>from USL on our distribution terms, we can bring you this distribution
without legal ambiguity, and with clear plans for a fully unencumbered
future.

Technically, FreeBSD 1.1 offers much over FreeBSD 1.0.2.  Here are some
of the more significant new features added since 1.0.2:

o       The Virtual Memory system has undergone very significant improvement.
       Performance on "low memory" (4MB) machines should now be quite
       reasonable, and interactive performance on all machine types has
       been vastly improved.

o       "Sun style" shared libraries.

o       Support for QIC-40 and QIC-80 tapes.

o       Much better floppy support (can format floppies, use different
       densities easily, etc).

o       The Mitsumi CD-ROM is now fully supported.

o       More ethernet cards supported (WD8013W, WD8003W, WD8003EB,
       3C509, Toshiba, SMC Ultra).

o       Ability to boot FreeBSD machines diskless from a fileserver.

o       SYSV IPC, messaging, and semaphore support.

o       Support for Yellow Pages.

o       /proc filesystem.

o       New SCSI system.

o       Support for primitive Windows emulation (WINE).

o       Many many user suggested enhancements for improving system
       messages, debugging support, documentation, etc.

o       Too many bug fixes and miscellaneous enhancements to mention.

Much more detail on all of this is provided in the file
`/usr/src/sys/doc/Changes', which you are encouraged to examine.



QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
---------------------

Q. WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF FREEBSD?

A. Due to our agreements with USL, and the new legal clarification of Net/2's
  status, FreeBSD 1.1 will be the LAST Net/2 based release of FreeBSD.

  Subsequent releases of FreeBSD will based on the BSD 4.4 LITE code, with
  all future releases of FreeBSD being completely `unencumbered'.  We have
  been allowed to distribute FreeBSD 1.1 as one last `encumbered but legal'
  distribution, and users may continue to use it freely until our next
  release.  Those interested in producing new distributions of FreeBSD,
  commercial or otherwise, should, however, consult with both us and USL
  before taking any such action (this does not include merely making the
  standard release available by ftp or otherwise non-commercially on the net).
  We would nonetheless advise that anyone considering such things
  wait for our next release, since it will be possible to redistribute it
  with no stipulations on redistribution (commercial or otherwise) whatsoever.

  People who are interested in knowing more about (or, even better,
  participating in) the process of moving to 4.4 LITE are encouraged to
  write to us at:

               [email protected]

  We would also like to take this opportunity to encourage all interested
  parties, both private and corporate, to join us in helping to make FreeBSD
  the kind of robust, standards-driven, highly featureful and (above all)
  freely available operating system we feel the UNIX world needs to make
  UNIX a truly open solution for the future.  The 4.4 LITE integration task
  ahead of us promises great rewards but will also require significant
  effort. Since we are an all-volunteer effort, your assistance is not
  only highly appreciated, but very necessary to the future success of
  FreeBSD.  Please contact us!  Those with code or programmer time to
  offer (especially in the commercial sector) are most strongly encouraged.


Q. HOW DO I UPGRADE FROM 1.0.2?

A. Given that 1.1 represents a MAJOR upgrade over 1.0, we cannot provide
  a binary upgrade strategy (it would be larger than the entire release!)
  and must regrettably make the same stipulation that the "big boys" do,
  namely, `please back up your user files and reinstall.'

  That said, if you've got space for the _source distribution_ then you can
  skip grabbing the 1.1 binary distribution altogether and simply use the
  upgrade script provided to fully upgrade to 1.1 from source.  This is the
  easiest way of going about it if you've got the disk space to spare.

  If you've installed an earlier BETA or GAMMA release of FreeBSD 1.1, it's
  a significantly easier upgrade and source patches are (or will be shortly)
  provided on network sites where FreeBSD 1.1 is distributed.


Q. WHERE CAN I OBTAIN FREEBSD FROM THE NET?

A. As always, you may grab the release from:

       freebsd.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-1.1-RELEASE

  However, I'd like to STRONGLY urge you to look on one of the mirror
  sites first!  Our poor machine is sitting at the end of a T1 line and
  tends to bog down rather badly when too many folks try to ftp to it at
  the same time.

  The FreeBSD release is being mirrored at the following locations, and if
  you don't see the RELEASE bits there yet, please allow some time to elapse
  for the mirror to properly grab it and try again.


FREEBSD MIRROR SITES
--------------------

Country         Site/Directory/Maintainer
=======         =========================================================

Austria         ftp.tu-graz.ac.at:/pub/FreeBSD
               <[email protected]>

Finland         ftp.funet.fi:/pub/unix/FreeBSD
               <[email protected]>

France          ftp.ibp.fr:/pub/FreeBSD
               <[email protected]>

Germany         ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:/pub/comp/os/bsd/FreeBSD
               <[email protected]>

Germany         ftp.uni-duisburg.de:/pub/unix/FreeBSD
               <[email protected]>

Germany         gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/FreeBSD
               <[email protected]>

Hong Kong       ftp.cs.cuhk.hk:/pub/FreeBSD
               <unknown>

Israel          orgchem.weizmann.ac.il:/pub/FreeBSD
               <[email protected]>

Netherlands     ftp.nl.net:/pub/os/FreeBSD
               <[email protected]>

Russia          ftp.kiae.su:/FreeBSD
               <[email protected]>

UK              src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/FreeBSD
               <[email protected]>

USA             gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/BSD/FreeBSD
               <[email protected]>

USA             freebsd.uml.edu:/FreeBSD
               <[email protected]>

USA             wuarchive.wustl.edu:/systems/unix/FreeBSD
               <[email protected]>


You will also want to grab a copy of the new FAQ, the most up-to-date
copy of which is always in:

       freebsd.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/FAQ

This contains very useful information about our mailing lists, hardware
supported and a host of other things.

As always, we hope you enjoy FreeBSD as much as we have enjoyed
producing it!

                               The FreeBSD Team

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