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| 1<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook V4.1-Based Extension//EN" [ 2<!ENTITY % man PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Manual Page Entities//EN"> 3%man; 4<!ENTITY % authors PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Author Entities//EN"> 5%authors; 6<!ENTITY % mlists PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Mailing List Entities//EN"> 7%mlists; 8<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN"> 9%release; 10<!ENTITY % misc PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Miscellaneous FreeBSD Entities//EN"> 11%misc; 12]> 13 14<article> 15 <articleinfo> 16 <title>&os; &release.current; README</title> 17 18 <corpauthor>The &os; Project</corpauthor> 19 | 1<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook V4.1-Based Extension//EN" [ 2<!ENTITY % man PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Manual Page Entities//EN"> 3%man; 4<!ENTITY % authors PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Author Entities//EN"> 5%authors; 6<!ENTITY % mlists PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Mailing List Entities//EN"> 7%mlists; 8<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN"> 9%release; 10<!ENTITY % misc PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Miscellaneous FreeBSD Entities//EN"> 11%misc; 12]> 13 14<article> 15 <articleinfo> 16 <title>&os; &release.current; README</title> 17 18 <corpauthor>The &os; Project</corpauthor> 19 |
| 20 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.sgml 88820 2002-01-02 17:27:58Z bmah $</pubdate> | 20 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.sgml 88959 2002-01-06 17:17:55Z bmah $</pubdate> |
| 21 22 <copyright> 23 <year>2000</year> 24 <year>2001</year> 25 <year>2002</year> 26 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder> 27 </copyright> 28 </articleinfo> 29 30 <abstract> 31 <para>This document gives a brief introduction to &os; | 21 22 <copyright> 23 <year>2000</year> 24 <year>2001</year> 25 <year>2002</year> 26 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder> 27 </copyright> 28 </articleinfo> 29 30 <abstract> 31 <para>This document gives a brief introduction to &os; |
| 32 &release.current;. It includes a roadmap to the other release 33 documentation files, as well as some pointers on obtaining &os; and 34 contacting the &os; development team.</para> | 32 &release.current;. It includes some information on how to 33 obtain &os;, a listing of various ways to contact the &os; 34 Project, and pointers to some other sources of 35 information.</para> |
| 35 </abstract> 36 37 <sect1> 38 <title>Introduction</title> 39 40 <para>This distribution is a &release.type; of &os; &release.current;, the 41 latest point along the &release.branch; branch.</para> 42 --- 67 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 110 111 </sect2> 112 </sect1> 113 114 <sect1> 115 <title>Obtaining &os;</title> 116 117 <para>&os; may be obtained in a variety of ways. This section | 36 </abstract> 37 38 <sect1> 39 <title>Introduction</title> 40 41 <para>This distribution is a &release.type; of &os; &release.current;, the 42 latest point along the &release.branch; branch.</para> 43 --- 67 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 111 112 </sect2> 113 </sect1> 114 115 <sect1> 116 <title>Obtaining &os;</title> 117 118 <para>&os; may be obtained in a variety of ways. This section |
| 118 focuses on those ways that are primarily of use for obtaining a | 119 focuses on those ways that are primarily useful for obtaining a |
| 119 complete &os; distribution, rather than updating an existing 120 installation.</para> 121 122 <sect2> 123 <title>CDROM and DVD</title> 124 125 <para>&os; -RELEASE distributions may be ordered on CDROM or DVD 126 from several publishers. This is frequently the most --- 27 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 154 download the distribution is highly recommended.</para> 155 156 <para>Additional mirror sites are always welcome. Contact 157 <email>freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org</email> for more details on 158 becoming an official mirror site.</para> 159 160 <para>Mirrors generally contain the floppy disk images necessary 161 to begin an installation, as well as the distribution files | 120 complete &os; distribution, rather than updating an existing 121 installation.</para> 122 123 <sect2> 124 <title>CDROM and DVD</title> 125 126 <para>&os; -RELEASE distributions may be ordered on CDROM or DVD 127 from several publishers. This is frequently the most --- 27 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 155 download the distribution is highly recommended.</para> 156 157 <para>Additional mirror sites are always welcome. Contact 158 <email>freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org</email> for more details on 159 becoming an official mirror site.</para> 160 161 <para>Mirrors generally contain the floppy disk images necessary 162 to begin an installation, as well as the distribution files |
| 162 needed for the install process itself. Some mirrors also 163 contain some of the ISO images necessary to create a CDROM of | 163 needed for the install process itself. Many mirrors also 164 contain the ISO images necessary to create a CDROM of |
| 164 a &os; release.</para> 165 166 </sect2> 167 </sect1> 168 169 <sect1 id="contacting"> 170 <title>Contacting the &os; Project</title> 171 172 <sect2> 173 <title>Email and Mailing Lists</title> 174 175 <para>For any questions or general technical support issues, 176 please send mail to the &a.questions;.</para> 177 178 <para>If you're tracking the &release.branch; development efforts, you 179 <emphasis>must</emphasis> join the &a.current;, in order to 180 keep abreast of recent developments and changes that may 181 affect the way you use and maintain the system. 182 | 165 a &os; release.</para> 166 167 </sect2> 168 </sect1> 169 170 <sect1 id="contacting"> 171 <title>Contacting the &os; Project</title> 172 173 <sect2> 174 <title>Email and Mailing Lists</title> 175 176 <para>For any questions or general technical support issues, 177 please send mail to the &a.questions;.</para> 178 179 <para>If you're tracking the &release.branch; development efforts, you 180 <emphasis>must</emphasis> join the &a.current;, in order to 181 keep abreast of recent developments and changes that may 182 affect the way you use and maintain the system. 183 |
| 183 <para>Additionally, being a largely-volunteer effort, the &os; 184 Project is always happy to have extra hands willing to help 185 — there are already far more desired enhancements than | 184 <para>Being a largely-volunteer effort, the &os; 185 Project is always happy to have extra hands willing to help—there are already far more desired enhancements than |
| 186 there is time to implement them. To contact the developers on 187 technical matters, or with offers of help, please send mail to 188 the &a.hackers;.</para> 189 190 <para>Please note that these mailing lists can experience | 186 there is time to implement them. To contact the developers on 187 technical matters, or with offers of help, please send mail to 188 the &a.hackers;.</para> 189 190 <para>Please note that these mailing lists can experience |
| 191 <emphasis>significant</emphasis> amounts of traffic and if you 192 have slow or expensive mail access and are only interested in 193 keeping up with significant &os; events, you may find it | 191 <emphasis>significant</emphasis> amounts of traffic. If you 192 have slow or expensive mail access, or are only interested in 193 keeping up with major &os; events, you may find it |
| 194 preferable to subscribe instead to the &a.announce;.</para> 195 196 <para>All of the mailing lists can be freely joined by anyone 197 wishing to do so. Send mail to &a.majordomo; and include the 198 keyword <literal>help</literal> on a line by itself somewhere 199 in the body of the message. This will give you more 200 information on joining the various lists, accessing archives, 201 etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at special --- 8 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 210 instead.</para> 211 </important> 212 </sect2> 213 214 <sect2> 215 <title>Submitting Problem Reports</title> 216 217 <para>Suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are | 194 preferable to subscribe instead to the &a.announce;.</para> 195 196 <para>All of the mailing lists can be freely joined by anyone 197 wishing to do so. Send mail to &a.majordomo; and include the 198 keyword <literal>help</literal> on a line by itself somewhere 199 in the body of the message. This will give you more 200 information on joining the various lists, accessing archives, 201 etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at special --- 8 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 210 instead.</para> 211 </important> 212 </sect2> 213 214 <sect2> 215 <title>Submitting Problem Reports</title> 216 217 <para>Suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are |
| 218 always valued — please do not hesitate to report any | 218 always valued—please do not hesitate to report any |
| 219 problems you may find. Bug reports with attached fixes are of 220 course even more welcome.</para> 221 222 <para>The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine 223 with Internet mail connectivity is to use the &man.send-pr.1; 224 command or use the Web form at <ulink 225 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html</ulink>. 226 <quote>Problem Reports</quote> (PRs) submitted in this way --- 6 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 233 have encountered.</para> 234 235 <para>Note that &man.send-pr.1; itself is a shell script that 236 should be easy to move even onto a non-&os; system. Using 237 this interface is highly preferred. If, for some reason, you 238 are unable to use &man.send-pr.1; to submit a bug report, you 239 can try to send it to the &a.bugs;.</para> 240 | 219 problems you may find. Bug reports with attached fixes are of 220 course even more welcome.</para> 221 222 <para>The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine 223 with Internet mail connectivity is to use the &man.send-pr.1; 224 command or use the Web form at <ulink 225 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html</ulink>. 226 <quote>Problem Reports</quote> (PRs) submitted in this way --- 6 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 233 have encountered.</para> 234 235 <para>Note that &man.send-pr.1; itself is a shell script that 236 should be easy to move even onto a non-&os; system. Using 237 this interface is highly preferred. If, for some reason, you 238 are unable to use &man.send-pr.1; to submit a bug report, you 239 can try to send it to the &a.bugs;.</para> 240 |
| 241 <para>In any case, before submitting a PR, please try to 242 determine whether the problem might have already been fixed 243 since.</para> | 241 <para>For more information, <ulink 242 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/"><quote>Writing 243 FreeBSD Problem Reports</quote></ulink>, available on the &os; Web 244 site, has a number of helpful hints on writing and submitting 245 effective problem reports.</para> |
| 244 </sect2> 245 </sect1> 246 247 <sect1> 248 <title>Further Reading</title> 249 | 246 </sect2> 247 </sect1> 248 249 <sect1> 250 <title>Further Reading</title> 251 |
| 252 <para>There are many sources of information about &os;; some are 253 included with this distribution, while others are available 254 on-line or in print versions.</para> 255 |
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| 250 <sect2 id="release-docs"> 251 <title>Release Documentation</title> 252 253 <para>A number of other files provide more specific information 254 about this &release.type; distribution. These files are 255 provided in various formats. Most distributions will include 256 both ASCII text (<filename>.TXT</filename>) and HTML 257 (<filename>.HTM</filename>) renditions. Some distributions --- 7 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 265 gives some general information about &os; as well as 266 some cursory notes about obtaining a 267 distribution.</para> 268 </listitem> 269 270 <listitem> 271 <para><filename>RELNOTES.TXT</filename>: The release 272 notes, showing what's new and different in &os; | 256 <sect2 id="release-docs"> 257 <title>Release Documentation</title> 258 259 <para>A number of other files provide more specific information 260 about this &release.type; distribution. These files are 261 provided in various formats. Most distributions will include 262 both ASCII text (<filename>.TXT</filename>) and HTML 263 (<filename>.HTM</filename>) renditions. Some distributions --- 7 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 271 gives some general information about &os; as well as 272 some cursory notes about obtaining a 273 distribution.</para> 274 </listitem> 275 276 <listitem> 277 <para><filename>RELNOTES.TXT</filename>: The release 278 notes, showing what's new and different in &os; |
| 273 &release.current; compared to &os; 274 &release.prev;. | 279 &release.current; compared to the previous release (&os; 280 &release.prev;).</para> |
| 275 </listitem> 276 277 <listitem> 278 <para><filename>HARDWARE.TXT</filename>: The hardware 279 compatibility list, showing devices with which &os; has 280 been tested and is known to work.</para> 281 </listitem> 282 --- 9 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 292 this file, which is principally applicable to releases 293 (as opposed to snapshots). It is important to consult 294 this file before installing a release of &os;, as it 295 contains the latest information on problems which have 296 been found and fixed since the release was 297 created.</para> 298 </listitem> 299 </itemizedlist> | 281 </listitem> 282 283 <listitem> 284 <para><filename>HARDWARE.TXT</filename>: The hardware 285 compatibility list, showing devices with which &os; has 286 been tested and is known to work.</para> 287 </listitem> 288 --- 9 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 298 this file, which is principally applicable to releases 299 (as opposed to snapshots). It is important to consult 300 this file before installing a release of &os;, as it 301 contains the latest information on problems which have 302 been found and fixed since the release was 303 created.</para> 304 </listitem> 305 </itemizedlist> |
| 306 307 <note> 308 <para>Several of these documents (in particular, 309 <filename>RELNOTES.TXT</filename>, 310 <filename>HARDWARE.TXT</filename>, and 311 <filename>INSTALL.TXT</filename>) contain information that 312 is specific to a particular hardware architecture. For 313 example, the alpha release notes contain information not 314 applicable to the i386, and vice versa. The architecture 315 for which each document applies will be listed in that 316 document's title.</para> 317 </note> 318 |
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| 300 </para> 301 | 319 </para> 320 |
| 302 <para>Most of this information is also available from the | 321 <para>These documents are generally available via the |
| 303 Documentation menu during installation. Once the system is 304 installed, you can revisit this menu by running the 305 &man.sysinstall.8; utility.</para> 306 307 <note> 308 <para>It is extremely important to read the errata for any 309 given release before installing it, to learn about any 310 <quote>late-breaking news</quote> or post-release problems. --- 4 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 315 release. These other copies of the errata are located at 316 <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/"></ulink> (as 317 well as any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this 318 location).</para> 319 </note> 320 </sect2> 321 322 <sect2> | 322 Documentation menu during installation. Once the system is 323 installed, you can revisit this menu by running the 324 &man.sysinstall.8; utility.</para> 325 326 <note> 327 <para>It is extremely important to read the errata for any 328 given release before installing it, to learn about any 329 <quote>late-breaking news</quote> or post-release problems. --- 4 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 334 release. These other copies of the errata are located at 335 <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/"></ulink> (as 336 well as any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this 337 location).</para> 338 </note> 339 </sect2> 340 341 <sect2> |
| 342 <title>Manual Pages</title> 343 344 <para>As with almost all UNIX-like operating systems, &os; comes 345 with a set of on-line manual pages, accessed through the 346 &man.man.1; command or through the <ulink 347 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi">hypertext manual 348 pages gateway</ulink> on the &os; Web site. In general, the 349 manual pages provide information on the different commands and 350 APIs available to the &os; user.</para> 351 352 <para>In some cases, manual pages are written to given 353 information on particular topics. Notable examples of such 354 manual pages are &man.tuning.7; (a guide to performance tuning), 355 &man.security.7; (an introduction to &os; security), and 356 &man.style.9; (a style guide to kernel coding).</para> 357 </sect2> 358 359 <sect2> |
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| 323 <title>Books and Articles</title> 324 325 <para>Two highly-useful collections of &os;-related information, 326 maintained by the &os; Project, 327 are the &os; Handbook and &os; FAQ (Frequently Asked 328 Questions document). On-line versions of the <ulink 329 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/">Handbook</ulink> 330 and <ulink --- 26 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 357 <sect1> 358 <title>Acknowledgments</title> 359 360 <para>&os; represents the cumulative work of many hundreds, if not 361 thousands, of individuals from around the world who have worked 362 countless hours to bring about this &release.type;. For a 363 complete list of &os; developers and contributors, please see 364 <ulink | 360 <title>Books and Articles</title> 361 362 <para>Two highly-useful collections of &os;-related information, 363 maintained by the &os; Project, 364 are the &os; Handbook and &os; FAQ (Frequently Asked 365 Questions document). On-line versions of the <ulink 366 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/">Handbook</ulink> 367 and <ulink --- 26 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 394 <sect1> 395 <title>Acknowledgments</title> 396 397 <para>&os; represents the cumulative work of many hundreds, if not 398 thousands, of individuals from around the world who have worked 399 countless hours to bring about this &release.type;. For a 400 complete list of &os; developers and contributors, please see 401 <ulink |
| 365 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/">Contributors 366 to FreeBSD on the &os; Web site or any of its | 402 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/"><quote>Contributors 403 to FreeBSD</quote></ulink> on the &os; Web site or any of its |
| 367 mirrors.</para> 368 369 <para>Special thanks also go to the many thousands of &os; users 370 and testers all over the world, without whom this &release.type; 371 simply would not have been possible.</para> 372 </sect1> 373</article> 374 375<!-- 376 Local Variables: 377 mode: sgml 378 sgml-indent-data: t 379 sgml-omittag: nil 380 sgml-always-quote-attributes: t 381 End: 382--> | 404 mirrors.</para> 405 406 <para>Special thanks also go to the many thousands of &os; users 407 and testers all over the world, without whom this &release.type; 408 simply would not have been possible.</para> 409 </sect1> 410</article> 411 412<!-- 413 Local Variables: 414 mode: sgml 415 sgml-indent-data: t 416 sgml-omittag: nil 417 sgml-always-quote-attributes: t 418 End: 419--> |