FreeBSD 1.0 EPSILON announcement
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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!agate!usenet From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce Subject: FreeBSD 1.0 EPSILON available for ftp from freebsd.cdrom.com Followup-To: poster Date: 3 Oct 1993 21:37:27 -0700 Organization: Lotus Development Ireland Lines: 68 Sender: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu Approved: 386bsd-announce-request@agate.berkeley.edu Message-ID: <JKH.93Oct4004429@whisker.lotus.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu The much awaited second public release of FreeBSD 1.0, hereafter titled FreeBSD 1.0 EPSILON (don't ask where DELTA went), is now available for ftp on freebsd.cdrom.com. Those internet connected sites who wish to take this opportunity to stay more up-to-date may also `sup' it from freefall.cdrom.com (more information on sup is also available in freefall.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/sup). Those sites already running GAMMA will also find a set of patches for upgrading their systems to EPSILON. Highlights of this release: --------------------------- New install floppies that should take a lot more of the headache out of installing FreeBSD from scratch. If you tried to install FreeBSD before, and were unsuccessful, please try again with these! Substantial changes to the SCSI system from Julian Elischer. A new combined all-in-one ethernet driver from David Greenman. A new and improved 386BSD->FreeBSD upgrade script from Nate Williams. gcc now uses GNU malloc by default, thus using memory much more efficiently on machines with little to spare. SYSV shared memory now supported. SUN RPC now more fully supported. drand48 and friends in libc. Syscons support improved, including advance changes for the upcoming XFree86 2.0. Significant support for our Russian users also added. Many many dozens of bugs fixed, from the small and annoying to the large and treacherous - literally too many to mention! If you're curious as to whether some particular section of the code has changed, feel free to send us mail and we'll send you the commit logs. We'd also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's taken the time and effort to send us some rather exhaustive and highly valuable bug reports from GAMMA; we couldn't have done it without you guys, and PLEASE continue sending those reports in for the upcoming "final" release! Thank you! Special mention to Julian Elischer for his new SCSI code, David Greenman for his substantial work on the combined ethernet driver and Chris Demetriou for bailing us out at the last minute on a rather sticky memory allocation bug. We remain, The FreeBSD Team freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com -- (Jordan K. Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee. I am an independent contractor. -- Please send submissions for comp.os.386bsd.announce to: 386bsd-announce@agate.berkeley.edu
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