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FreeBSD 2.2.2 is a full, professional, UNIX operating system.
FreeBSD is based on Berkeley 4.4 BSD, developed by the University of California, Berkeley, and its contributors.
Complete development environment with GNU v2.7.2.1 C and C++ compilers, fortran-to-C (f2c) and GDB debugger.
It also comes with packages such as PERL, TCL, scheme, logo, forth, basic, ICON and GNU emacs 19.34b. For printing you get TeX 3.14, ghostscript, Hylafax and AFM fonts. The provided bash, csh, zsh and tcsh shells give you a rich choice of operating environments. FreeBSD supports ISO 9660 and RockRidge format CDs.
Walnut Creek CDROM relies exclusively on FreeBSD for our 106 Gigabyte, 1,600 user ftp and www machine at ftp.cdrom.com. You get:
FreeBSD comes with the industry standard X Window system (X11R6) for the PC, XFree86 3.2. You also get a rich set of ready-to-run X utilities such as fvwm window manager, TCL/Tk, Xaw3d, xjpeg, etc. The system comes with complete source code. FreeBSD provides a tightly integrated build system that lets you recompile the entire source tree with one command. If you want stable networking or a powerful development environment, FreeBSD is the Operating System for you.
Requirements: Standard ISA, EISA, VL, or PCI bus based PC (386sx to Pentium), 5 MB RAM. 60 MB disk space for a binary-only system and 340 MB for full development system.
Misc hardware support: Standard SCSI disk, tape and CDROM peripherals, ESDI disk, floppy drives, Sony CDU 31/33 CDROM, Mitsumi FX001 or FX003D, Matsushita CD on "Soundblaster" interface card, 2/4/8/16 port serial cards from BOCA, Cyclades and Digiboard, Wangtec / Archive QIC drives on QIC-02 or QIC-36 controller, floppy-tape drives on floppy controller, Creative Labs Video Spigot, Matrox Meteor, Connectix QuickCAM, Soundblaster 16/SB PRO, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis Ultrasound / MAX, MS Sound Source.
Hard disk controllers: Any ESDI WD 1007 compatible, Adaptec 152x and 154x ISA, 174x/274x/284x EISA, 294x/394x PCI, Buslogic 742/545x ISA, 445x VLB, 747x EISA, 946x/956x PCI, Ultrastore 14F/24F ISA, 34F EISA, NCR 53C810/825 PCI, ProAudio Spectrum SCSI (CDROM), Future Domain 950 (CDROM), Tekram DC390 and DC390T (and other AMD 53c974 based boards).
Networking: SMC Elite 16/Ultra, most WD80x3 clones, ISOLAN AT 4140-0, Isolink 4110, Novell NE1000/2000/2100, 3COM 3C501/3/7/9, 3C579, 3C590/5, DEC DC 21040/21041/21140 PCI, DEFPA, DEFEA, Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A, Intel Etherexpress Pro/100 and Pro/10 (The ISA (via 'ex' driver) and PCI version (via 'fxp' driver) of the Pro/10 is supported, and the PCI version (via 'fxp' driver) of the Pro/100B is supported.), Znyx ZX34 series PCI, SDL RISCom N2pci sync serial card.
You need a minimum of 60MB for a binary only system and 340MB for a more full development system.
This disc is updated about twice a year, so keep in mind the subscription rate of $24.95 plus shipping per release.
A number of bugs in the Adaptec 294x/394x (AHC) driver were fixed which could cause instability on heavily loaded systems.
NFSv3 is now the default, with fall-back to NFSv2 occuring as necessary.
An lchown() system call has been added for changing the ownership of symlinks.
Login classes added for setting default user limits (see login.conf(5)).
ftpd now supports virtual FTP hosting.
Numerous security fixes (buffer overflows and other potential exploits fixed).
Better build support for C++ libraries added.
Support for the GLOBAL text/HTML source tag system added (man global).
/etc/sysconfig now replaced by /etc/rc.conf - a more concise customization file with more knobs added. Other things in /etc were also neatened up, /etc/netstart being replaced with /etc/rc.network
User-mode ppp updated with various fixes and enhancements from 3.0-current.
Texinfo documentation mechanisms cleaned up in source tree.
fdisk(8) now numbers disk slices from 1 to 4 rather than from 0 to 3. This brings it in line with the numbers used in the device names in /dev.
Price: $39.95
Subscription: $24.95
Released: June 1997
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