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For installation instructions, see the INSTALL.TXT and +HARDWARE.TXT files. + +For the latest 4.1-stable snapshots (post-4.1 snaps), you should +always see: + + ftp://releng4.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD + +Table of contents: +------------------ +1. What's new since 4.0-RELEASE + 1.1 KERNEL CHANGES + 1.2 SECURITY FIXES + 1.3 USERLAND CHANGES + +2. Supported Configurations + 2.1 Disk Controllers + 2.2 Ethernet cards + 2.3 FDDI + 2.4 ATM + 2.5 Misc + +3. Obtaining FreeBSD + 3.1 FTP/Mail + 3.2 CDROM + +4. Upgrading from previous releases of FreeBSD + +5. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code + +6. Acknowledgements + + +1. What's new since 4.0-RELEASE +-------------------------------------- + +1.1. KERNEL CHANGES +------------------- + +FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE contains updated code from the KAME project +(http://www.kame.net) including the following features: + +* Significantly improved IPSEC functionality. In particular, IPSEC + security associations must no longer be manually keyed: the new code + supports racoon, the KAME IKE daemon, which is located in + /usr/ports/security/racoon. Racoon has been shown to interoperate + well with other vendor IKE systems, meaning that FreeBSD 4.1 can be + used in a heterogeneous IPSEC environment. However, racoon *is* + still a work in progress, meaning that there may still be bugs, + configuration syntax changes, etc. + +* About 9 months of fixes and improvements to the IPv6 code relative to + what was in 4.0-RELEASE. + +* FreeBSD 4.1 can now be installed on an IPv6-only network - this will be + the first release of FreeBSD that never needs to operate using IPv4 at + all! ftp7.jp.FreeBSD.org (Listed as Japan #7 in sysinstall) is an + IPv6-reachable mirror site for installation and package-fetching. + +* The ALTQ traffic-shaping system has not yet been merged - it will + hopefully be added before the release of 4.2. The more experimental + KAME code has also not been merged. If you need those features, + consider using the 4.1-RELEASE+KAME snapshots from + ftp://ftp.kame.net which will become available after 4.1-RELEASE. + +* KNOWN ISSUES: NFS mounts over IPSEC do not seem to work reliably in + all cases - mount hangs and possible data corruption have been + observed. + +A new event notification facility called kqueue was added to the +FreeBSD kernel. This is a new interface which is able to replace +poll/select, offering improved performance, as well as the ability +to report many different types of events. Support for monitoring +changes in sockets, pipes, fifos, and files are present, as well as +for signals and processes. + +Support for Intel's Wired for Management 2.0 (PXE) was added to +the FreeBSD boot loader. Due to API differences, the older PXE +versions are not supported. This allow network booting using DHCP. + +For the alpha release of FreeBSD, the following specifics also +apply: + + FreeBSD/alpha now posseses a loader with FICL (Forth support) builtin. + + Parallel ports are now supported. + + Support for multiple new Alpha system types has been added. Please + check HARDWARE.TXT for details. + + AlphaServer 4100 (Rawhide) does not want to allow installation using + floppies or cdrom. Workaround is to install using another Alpha machine and + move the disk to the AS4100. Once installed FreeBSD runs fine. + + AlphaServer 2100A (Lynx) is not supported in this release. Note that + AlphaServer 2100 (Sable) works fine. + + Machines that have onboard IDE interfaces that their SRM can boot from + are now supported with the IDE disk being the root/boot device. See + HARDWARE.TXT for machine specifics like speed, use of DMA etc. + + Note that TGA consoles (either builtin or on TGA expansion cards) will + not work. You will need to use a serial console or install a VGA card. + + +1.2. SECURITY FIXES +------------------- + +The kernel and userland have been audited for bugs and security +vulnerabilities resulting from the incorrect use of format strings in +vfprintf()-like functions. No vulnerabilities were discovered. + +For additional security fixes, see the list of released Security +Advisories located at http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/ + +1.3. USERLAND CHANGES +--------------------- + +Support for the KAME IKE daemon, racoon, as noted in section 1.1 above. + +Several additional system utilities (whois, fetch, and possibly +others) have gained the ability to operate over IPv6. + +cdcontrol(1) now supports a "cdid" command, which calculates and +displays the CD serial number, using the same algorithm used by the CDDB +database. + +mtree(8) now includes support for a file listing pathnames to be excluded +when creating and verifying prototypes. This makes it easier to use +mtree as a part of an intrusion-detection system. + +The OPIE one-time-password suite has been updated to 2.32. + +OpenSSH has been upgraded to 2.1.0, which provides support for the +SSH2 protocol, including DSA keys. Therefore, OpenSSH users in the US +no longer need to rely on the restrictively-licensed RSAREF toolkit +which is required to handle RSA keys. OpenSSH 2.1 interoperates well +with other SSH2 clients and servers, including the ssh2 port. See +http://www.openssh.com for more details. + +OpenSSH can now authenticate using OPIE passwords in SSH1 mode. +Support is not yet available in SSH2 mode. + +camcontrol(8) now includes a built in 'format' function to low-level +format SCSI disks. + +Support for USB devices was added to the GENERIC kernel and to the +installation programs to support USB devices out of the box. Note that +an AT keyboard must still be used during the initial install, but it +should work fine afterwards. + +The entire i386 bootstrap was revamped to support automatic detection and +use of the Enhanced Disk Drive BIOS extensions to support booting beyond +the 1023rd cylinder. As part of this change, the FreeBSD boot manager +(boot0) was increased from 1 sector in size (512 bytes), to 2 sectors in +length (1024 bytes). As a result, several userland changes were made to +cope with MBR boot loaders of varying sizes. + +libfetch has been greatly improved. fetch(1) and the pkg tools now use +libfetch instead of libftpio, which means that the pkg tools have gained +HTTP support, and both have gained IPv6 support. + +The csh(1) shell has been replaced by tcsh(1), although it can still +be run as csh(1). + +The more(1) command has been replaced by less(1), although it can still +be run as more(1). + +ls(1) can produce colorized listings with the -G flag (and appropriate +terminal support). + +2. Supported Configurations +--------------------------- +FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA, MCA 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 peripherals currently known to work with +FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet +received confirmation of this. + + +2.1. Disk Controllers +--------------------- +WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) +WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) +IDE +ATA + +Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers +Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers +Adaptec 164x series MCA SCSI controllers +Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. +Adaptec 274X/284X/2920C/294x/2950/3940/3950 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series +EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI controllers. +Adaptec AIC7850, AIC7860, AIC7880, AIC789x, on-board SCSI controllers. +Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices) +Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers +Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x +and SoundBlaster SCSI cards. + +AdvanSys SCSI controllers (all models). + +BusLogic MultiMaster controllers: + +[ Please note that BusLogic/Mylex "Flashpoint" adapters are NOT yet supported ] + +BusLogic MultiMaster "W" Series Host Adapters: + BT-948, BT-958, BT-958D +BusLogic MultiMaster "C" Series Host Adapters: + BT-946C, BT-956C, BT-956CD, BT-445C, BT-747C, BT-757C, BT-757CD, BT-545C, + BT-540CF +BusLogic MultiMaster "S" Series Host Adapters: + BT-445S, BT-747S, BT-747D, BT-757S, BT-757D, BT-545S, BT-542D, BT-742A, + BT-542B +BusLogic MultiMaster "A" Series Host Adapters: + BT-742A, BT-542B + +AMI FastDisk controllers that are true BusLogic MultiMaster clones are also +supported. + +The Buslogic/Bustek BT-640 and Storage Dimensions SDC3211B and SDC3211F +Microchannel (MCA) bus adapters are also supported. + +DPT SmartCACHE Plus, SmartCACHE III, SmartRAID III, SmartCACHE IV and +SmartRAID IV SCSI/RAID controllers are supported. The DPT SmartRAID/CACHE V +is not yet supported. + +AMI MegaRAID Express and Enterprise family RAID controllers: + MegaRAID 418 + MegaRAID Enterprise 1200 (428) + MegaRAID Enterprise 1300 + MegaRAID Enterprise 1400 + MegaRAID Enterprise 1500 + MegaRAID Elite 1500 + MegaRAID Express 200 + MegaRAID Express 300 + Dell PERC + Dell PERC 2/SC + Dell PERC 2/DC +Some HP NetRAID controllers are OEM versions of AMI designs, and +these are also supported. Booting from these controllers is supported. + +Mylex DAC960 and DAC1100 RAID controllers with 2.x, 3.x, 4.x and 5.x +firmware: + DAC960P + DAC960PD + DAC960PDU + DAC960PL + DAC960PJ + DAC960PG + AcceleRAID 150 + AcceleRAID 250 + eXtremeRAID 1100 +Booting from these controllers is supported. EISA adapters are not +supported. + +SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C810a, 53C815, 53C820, 53C825a, +53C860, 53C875, 53C875j, 53C885, 53C895 and 53C896 PCI SCSI controllers: + ASUS SC-200 + Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants) + Diamond FirePort (all) + NCR cards (all) + Symbios cards (all) + Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F + Tyan S1365 + + +QLogic 1020, 1040, 1040B, 1080 and 1240 SCSI Host Adapters. +QLogic 2100 Fibre Channel Adapters (private loop only). + +DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode. + +With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for +SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including hard disks, optical disks, +tape drives (including DAT and 8mm Exabyte), medium changers, processor +target devices and CDROM drives. WORM devices that support CDROM commands +are supported for read-only access by the CDROM driver. WORM/CD-R/CD-RW +writing support is provided by cdrecord, which is in the ports tree. + +The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time: +(cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and + SoundBlaster SCSI) +(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary + interface (562/563 models) +(scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models) +(acd) ATAPI IDE interface + +The following drivers were supported under the old SCSI subsystem, but are +NOT YET supported under the new CAM SCSI subsystem: + + NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller. + + UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers. + + Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers. + + Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers. + + WD7000 SCSI controller. + + [ Note: There is work-in-progress to port the UltraStor driver to + the new CAM SCSI framework, but no estimates on when or if it will + be completed. ] + +Unmaintained drivers, they might or might not work for your hardware: + + (mcd) Mitsumi proprietary CD-ROM interface (all models) + + +2.2. Ethernet cards +------------------- + +Adaptec Duralink PCI Fast Ethernet adapters based on the Adaptec +AIC-6915 Fast Ethernet controller chip, including the following: + ANA-62011 64-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter + ANA-62022 64-bit dual port 10/100baseTX adapter + ANA-62044 64-bit quad port 10/100baseTX adapter + ANA-69011 32-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter + ANA-62020 64-bit single port 100baseFX adapter + +Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards + +Alteon Networks PCI Gigabit Ethernet NICs based on the Tigon 1 and Tigon 2 +chipsets, including the following: + Alteon AceNIC (Tigon 1 and 2) + 3Com 3c985-SX (Tigon 1 and 2) + Netgear GA620 (Tigon 2) + Silicon Graphics Gigabit Ethernet + DEC/Compaq EtherWORKS 1000 + NEC Gigabit Ethernet + +AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974) + +SMC Elite 16 WD8013 Ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E, +WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT +based clones. SMC Elite Ultra. SMC Etherpower II. + +RealTek 8129/8139 Fast Ethernet NICs including the following: + Allied Telesyn AT2550 + Allied Telesyn AT2500TX + Genius GF100TXR (RTL8139) + NDC Communications NE100TX-E + OvisLink LEF-8129TX + OvisLink LEF-8139TX + Netronix Inc. EA-1210 NetEther 10/100 + KTX-9130TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet + Accton "Cheetah" EN1027D (MPX 5030/5038; RealTek 8139 clone?) + SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI 1211-TX + +Lite-On 82c168/82c169 PNIC Fast Ethernet NICs including the following: + LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX + NetGear FA310-TX Rev. D1 + Matrox FastNIC 10/100 + Kingston KNE110TX + +Macronix 98713, 98713A, 98715, 98715A and 98725 Fast Ethernet NICs + NDC Communications SFA100A (98713A) + CNet Pro120A (98713 or 98713A) + CNet Pro120B (98715) + SVEC PN102TX (98713) + +Macronix/Lite-On PNIC II LC82C115 Fast Ethernet NICs including the following: + LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX Version 2 + +Winbond W89C840F Fast Ethernet NICs including the following: + Trendware TE100-PCIE + +VIA Technologies VT3043 "Rhine I" and VT86C100A "Rhine II" Fast Ethernet +NICs including the following: + Hawking Technologies PN102TX + D-Link DFE-530TX + AOpen/Acer ALN-320 + +Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900 and SiS 7016 PCI Fast Ethernet NICs + +Sundance Technologies ST201 PCI Fast Ethernet NICs including +the following: + D-Link DFE-550TX + +SysKonnect SK-984x PCI Gigabit Ethernet cards including the following: + SK-9841 1000baseLX single mode fiber, single port + SK-9842 1000baseSX multimode fiber, single port + SK-9843 1000baseLX single mode fiber, dual port + SK-9844 1000baseSX multimode fiber, dual port + +Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI NICs, including the following: + Compaq Netelligent 10, 10/100, 10/100 Proliant, 10/100 Dual-Port + Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP, 10 T PCI UTP/Coax, 10/100 TX UTP + Compaq NetFlex 3P, 3P Integrated, 3P w/ BNC + Olicom OC-2135/2138, OC-2325, OC-2326 10/100 TX UTP + Racore 8165 10/100baseTX + Racore 8148 10baseT/100baseTX/100baseFX multi-personality + +ADMtek Inc. AL981-based PCI Fast Ethernet NICs +ADMtek Inc. AN985-based PCI Fast Ethernet NICs +ADMtek Inc. AN986-based USB Ethernet NICs including the following: + LinkSys USB100TX + Billionton USB100 + Melco Inc. LU-ATX + D-Link DSB-650TX + SMC 2202USB + +CATC USB-EL1210A-based USB Ethernet NICs including the following: + CATC Netmate + CATC Netmate II + Belkin F5U111 + +Kawasaki LSI KU5KUSB101B-based USB Ethernet NICs including +the following: + LinkSys USB10T + Entrega NET-USB-E45 + Peracom USB Ethernet Adapter + 3Com 3c19250 + ADS Technologies USB-10BT + ATen UC10T + Netgear EA101 + D-Link DSB-650 + SMC 2102USB + SMC 2104USB + Corega USB-T + +ASIX Electronics AX88140A PCI NICs, including the following: + Alfa Inc. GFC2204 + CNet Pro110B + +DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205) +DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422) +DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc) + +Davicom DM9100 and DM9102 PCI Fast Ethernet NICs, including the +following: + Jaton Corporation XpressNet + +Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A + +HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A). + +Intel EtherExpress 16 +Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 +Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet +Intel InBusiness 10/100 PCI Network Adapter +Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter + +Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) +Isolink 4110 (8 bit) + +Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 Ethernet interface. + +PCI network cards emulating the NE2000: RealTek 8029, NetVin 5000, +Winbond W89C940, Surecom NE-34, VIA VT86C926. + +3Com 3C501 cards + +3Com 3C503 Etherlink II + +3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+ + +3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP + +3Com 3C509, 3C529 (MCA), 3C579, +3C589/589B/589C/589D/589E/XE589ET/574TX/574B (PC-card/PCMCIA), +3C590/592/595/900/905/905B/905C PCI +and EISA (Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL + +3Com 3c980/3c980B Fast Etherlink XL server adapter + +3Com 3cSOHO100-TX OfficeConnect adapter + +Toshiba Ethernet cards + +Crystal Semiconductor CS89x0-based NICs, including: + IBM Etherjet ISA + +NE2000 compatible PC-Card (PCMCIA) Ethernet/FastEthernet cards, +including the following: + AR-P500 Ethernet card + Accton EN2212/EN2216/UE2216(OEM) + Allied Telesis CentreCOM LA100-PCM_V2 + AmbiCom 10BaseT card + BayNetworks NETGEAR FA410TXC Fast Ethernet + CNet BC40 adapter + COREGA Ether PCC-T/EtherII PCC-T + Compex Net-A adapter + CyQ've ELA-010 + D-Link DE-650/660 + Danpex EN-6200P2 + IO DATA PCLATE + IBM Creditcard Ethernet I/II + IC-CARD Ethernet/IC-CARD+ Ethernet + Linksys EC2T/PCMPC100 + Melco LPC-T + NDC Ethernet Instant-Link + National Semiconductor InfoMover NE4100 + Network Everywhere Ethernet 10BaseT PC Card + Planex FNW-3600-T + Socket LP-E + Surecom EtherPerfect EP-427 + Telecom Device SuperSocket RE450T + +Megahertz X-Jack Ethernet PC-Card CC-10BT + +2.3. FDDI +--------- + +DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs + + +2.4. ATM +-------- + + o ATM Host Interfaces + - FORE Systems, Inc. PCA-200E ATM PCI Adapters + - Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM PCI Adapters + + o ATM Signalling Protocols + - The ATM Forum UNI 3.1 signalling protocol + - The ATM Forum UNI 3.0 signalling protocol + - The ATM Forum ILMI address registration + - FORE Systems's proprietary SPANS signalling protocol + - Permanent Virtual Channels (PVCs) + + o IETF "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" model + - RFC 1483, "Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5" + - RFC 1577, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" + - RFC 1626, "Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5" + - RFC 1755, "ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM" + - RFC 2225, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" + - RFC 2334, "Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP)" + - Internet Draft draft-ietf-ion-scsp-atmarp-00.txt, + "A Distributed ATMARP Service Using SCSP" + + o ATM Sockets interface + + +2.5. Misc +--------- + +AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ. + +ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ. +ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial. + +Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) +Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported) +Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) +Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported) + +Comtrol Rocketport card. + +Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board. + +STB 4 port card using shared IRQ. + +SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board. +SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards. + +Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64, +ONboard 4/16 and Brumby. + +Specialix SI/XIO/SX ISA, EISA and PCI serial expansion cards/modules. + +Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound +and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. (snd driver) + +Most ISA audio codecs manufactured by Crystal Semiconductors, OPTi, Creative +Labs, Avance, Yamaha and ENSONIQ. (pcm driver) + +Connectix QuickCam +Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber +Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber +Cortex1 frame grabber +Hauppauge Wincast/TV boards (PCI) +STB TV PCI +Intel Smart Video Recorder III +Various Frame grabbers based on Brooktree Bt848 / Bt878 chip. + +HP4020, HP6020, Philips CDD2000/CDD2660 and Plasmon CD-R drives. + +PS/2 mice + +Standard PC Joystick + +X-10 power controllers + +GPIB and Transputer drivers. + +Genius and Mustek hand scanners. + +Xilinx XC6200 based reconfigurable hardware cards compatible with +the HOT1 from Virtual Computers (www.vcc.com) + +Support for Dave Mills experimental Loran-C receiver. + +Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA and ISA standard speed +(2Mbps) and turbo speed (6Mbps) wireless network adapters and workalikes +(NCR WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11, Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS, and Melco +Airconnect). Note: the ISA versions of these adapters are actually PCMCIA +cards combined with an ISA to PCMCIA bridge card, so both kinds of +devices work with the same driver. + +Aironet 4500/4800 series 802.11 wireless adapters. The PCMCIA, +PCI and ISA adapters are all supported. + + +3. Obtaining FreeBSD +-------------------- + +You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways: + + +3.1. FTP/Mail +------------- + +You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from +`ftp.FreeBSD.org' - the official FreeBSD release site. + +For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file +MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in +networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome! +Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to +become an official mirror site. + +3.2. CDROM +---------- + +FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE and 3.x-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from: + + BSDi + 4041 Pike Lane, Suite F + Concord CA 94520 + 1-800-786-9907, +1-925-674-0783, +1-925-674-0821 (FAX) + +Or via the Internet from orders@wccdrom.com or http://www.freebsdmall.com. + +Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription. +FreeBSD SNAPshot CDs, when available, are $39.95 or $14.95 with a +FreeBSD-SNAP subscription (-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely +separate). With a subscription, you will automatically receive updates as +they are released. Your credit card will be billed when each disk is +shipped and you may cancel your subscription at any time without further +obligation. + +Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico +and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American +Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United +States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax. + +Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an +unconditional return policy. + + +4. Upgrading from previous releases of FreeBSD +---------------------------------------------- + +If you're upgrading from a previous release of FreeBSD, most likely +it's 3.0 and there may be some issues affecting you, depending +of course on your chosen method of upgrading. There are two popular +ways of upgrading FreeBSD distributions: + + o Using sources, via /usr/src + o Using sysinstall's (binary) upgrade option. + +Please read the UPGRADE.TXT file for more information, preferably +before beginning an upgrade. + + +5. Reporting problems, making suggestions, 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 or use the CGI +script at http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html. 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: + + freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org + +Note that send-pr itself is a shell script that should be easy to move +even onto a totally different system. We much prefer if you could use +this interface, since it make it easier to keep track of the problem +reports. However, before submitting, please try to make sure whether +the problem might have already been fixed since. + + +Otherwise, for any questions or tech support issues, please send mail to: + + freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org + + +If you're tracking the -stable development efforts, you should +definitely join the -stable mailing list, in order to keep abreast +of recent developments and changes that may affect the way you +use and maintain the system: + + freebsd-stable@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: + + freebsd-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: + + freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org + + +All of the mailing lists 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. For a complete list of FreeBSD +project staffers, please see: + + http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/staff.html + +or, if you've loaded the doc distribution: + + file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/staff.html + + +Special mention to: + + The donors listed at http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/donors.html + 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 Project +</pre> + +<p></p><a href="../index.html">Release Home</a> +</body> +</html> |