svn commit: r41755 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction
Eitan Adler
eadler at FreeBSD.org
Mon May 27 20:27:04 UTC 2013
Author: eadler
Date: Mon May 27 20:27:03 2013
New Revision: 41755
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41755
Log:
- Throwing a bunch of random dates and numbers is largely uninteresting so just give some historical background.
- Remove attribution as the section has been changed and modified many times since then (and should be some more)
- Change from <quote> to "s where not used as an attribution.
- Simplify text surrounding snapshots.
Reviewed by: trhodes
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml Mon May 27 20:04:01 2013 (r41754)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml Mon May 27 20:27:03 2013 (r41755)
@@ -541,16 +541,6 @@
the development model of the project.</para>
<sect2 id="intro-history">
- <sect2info role="firstperson">
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <firstname>Jordan</firstname>
- <surname>Hubbard</surname>
- <contrib>Contributed by </contrib>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
- </sect2info>
-
<title>A Brief History of &os;</title>
<indexterm><primary>386BSD Patchkit</primary></indexterm>
@@ -562,24 +552,24 @@
<secondary>history</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>The &os; Project had its genesis in the early part
- of 1993, partially as an outgrowth of the <quote>Unofficial
- 386BSDPatchkit</quote> by the patchkit's last 3
- coordinators: Nate Williams, Rod Grimes and myself.</para>
+ of 1993, partially as an outgrowth of the Unofficial
+ 386BSDPatchkit by the patchkit's last 3
+ coordinators: Nate Williams, Rod Grimes and Jordan
+ Hubbard.</para>
<indexterm><primary>386BSD</primary></indexterm>
- <para>Our original goal was to produce an intermediate snapshot
+ <para>The original goal was to produce an intermediate snapshot
of 386BSD in order to fix a number of problems with it that
- the patchkit mechanism just was not capable of solving. Some
- of you may remember the early working title for the project
- being <quote>386BSD 0.5</quote> or <quote>386BSD
- Interim</quote> in reference to that fact.</para>
+ the patchkit mechanism just was not capable of solving. The
+ early working title for the project was
+ 386BSD 0.5 or 386BSD Interim in
+ reference of that fact.</para>
<indexterm><primary>Jolitz, Bill</primary></indexterm>
<para>386BSD was Bill Jolitz's operating system, which had been
up to that point suffering rather severely from almost a
year's worth of neglect. As the patchkit swelled ever more
- uncomfortably with each passing day, we were in unanimous
- agreement that something had to be done and decided to assist
+ uncomfortably with each passing day, they decided to assist
Bill by providing this interim <quote>cleanup</quote>
snapshot. Those plans came to a rude halt when Bill Jolitz
suddenly decided to withdraw his sanction from the project
@@ -588,12 +578,12 @@
<indexterm><primary>Greenman, David</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Walnut Creek CDROM</primary></indexterm>
- <para>It did not take us long to decide that the goal remained
- worthwhile, even without Bill's support, and so we adopted the
- name <quote>&os;</quote>, coined by David Greenman. Our
+ <para>The trio thought that the goal remained
+ worthwhile, even without Bill's support, and so they adopted the
+ name "&os;" coined by David Greenman. The
initial objectives were set after consulting with the system's
current users and, once it became clear that the project was
- on the road to perhaps even becoming a reality, I contacted
+ on the road to perhaps even becoming a reality, Jordan contacted
Walnut Creek CDROM with an eye toward improving &os;'s
distribution channels for those many unfortunates without easy
access to the Internet. Walnut Creek CDROM not only supported
@@ -615,7 +605,7 @@
on the 4.3BSD-Lite (<quote>Net/2</quote>) tape from U.C.
Berkeley, with many components also provided by 386BSD and the
Free Software Foundation. It was a fairly reasonable success
- for a first offering, and we followed it with the highly
+ for a first offering, and they followed it with the highly
successful &os; 1.1 release in May of 1994.</para>
<indexterm><primary>Novell</primary></indexterm>
@@ -654,83 +644,13 @@
more robust and easier to install &os; 2.0.5 release in
June of 1995.</para>
- <para>We released &os; 2.1.5 in August of 1996, and it
- appeared to be popular enough among the ISP and commercial
- communities that another release along the 2.1-STABLE branch
- was merited. This was &os; 2.1.7.1, released in February
- 1997 and capping the end of mainstream development on
- 2.1-STABLE. Now in maintenance mode, only security
- enhancements and other critical bug fixes will be done on this
- branch (RELENG_2_1_0).</para>
-
- <para>&os; 2.2 was branched from the development mainline
- (<quote>-CURRENT</quote>) in November 1996 as the RELENG_2_2
- branch, and the first full release (2.2.1) was released in
- April 1997. Further releases along the 2.2 branch were done
- in the summer and fall of '97, the last of which (2.2.8)
- appeared in November 1998. The first official 3.0 release
- appeared in October 1998 and spelled the beginning of the end
- for the 2.2 branch.</para>
-
- <para>The tree branched again on Jan 20, 1999, leading to the
- 4.0-CURRENT and 3.X-STABLE branches. From 3.X-STABLE, 3.1 was
- released on February 15, 1999, 3.2 on May 15, 1999, 3.3 on
- September 16, 1999, 3.4 on December 20, 1999, and 3.5 on
- June 24, 2000, which was followed a few days later by a minor
- point release update to 3.5.1, to incorporate some last-minute
- security fixes to Kerberos. This will be the final release
- in the 3.X branch.</para>
-
- <para>There was another branch on March 13, 2000, which saw the
- emergence of the 4.X-STABLE branch. There have been several
- releases from it so far: 4.0-RELEASE was introduced in March
- 2000, and the last 4.11-RELEASE came out in January
- 2005.</para>
-
- <para>The long-awaited 5.0-RELEASE was announced on January 19,
- 2003. The culmination of nearly three years of work, this
- release started &os; on the path of advanced multiprocessor
- and application thread support and introduced support for the
- &ultrasparc; and <literal>ia64</literal> platforms. This
- release was followed by 5.1 in June of 2003. The last 5.X
- release from the -CURRENT branch was 5.2.1-RELEASE, introduced
- in February 2004.</para>
-
- <para>The RELENG_5 branch, created in August 2004, was followed
- by 5.3-RELEASE, which marked the beginning of the 5-STABLE
- branch releases. The most recent 5.5-RELEASE release came out
- in May 2006. There will be no additional releases from the
- RELENG_5 branch.</para>
-
- <para>The tree was branched again in July 2005, this time for
- RELENG_6. 6.0-RELEASE, the first release of the 6.X branch,
- was released in November 2005. The most recent 6.4-RELEASE
- came out in November 2008. There will be no additional
- releases from the RELENG_6 branch. This branch is the last
- branch to support the Alpha architecture.</para>
-
- <para>The RELENG_7 branch was created in October 2007. The
- first release of this branch was 7.0-RELEASE, which came
- out in February 2008. The most recent 7.4-RELEASE came out
- in February 2011. There will be no additional releases from
- the RELENG_7 branch.</para>
-
- <para>The tree was branched again in August 2009, this time for
- RELENG_8. 8.0-RELEASE, the first release of the 8.X branch,
- was released in November 2009. The most recent
- &rel2.current;-RELEASE came out in &rel2.current.date;. There
- will be additional releases from the RELENG_8 branch.</para>
-
- <para>The RELENG_9 branch was created in September 2011. The
- first release of this branch was 9.0-RELEASE, which came
- out in January 2012. The most recent &rel.current;-RELEASE
- came out in &rel.current.date;. There will be additional
- releases from the RELENG_9 branch.</para>
+ <para>Since that time, &os; has made a series of releases each
+ time improving the stability, speed, and feature set of the
+ previous version.</para>
<para>For now, long-term development projects continue to take
- place in the 10.X-CURRENT (trunk) branch, and SNAPshot
- releases of 10.X on CD-ROM (and, of course, on the net) are
- continually made available from <ulink
+ place in the 10.X-CURRENT (trunk) branch, and snapshot
+ releases of 10.X are continually made available from <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/">the
snapshot server</ulink> as work progresses.</para>
</sect2>
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