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| What's new in 1.1.5? Well... Let's try and count the ways.. | |||||
| -- KERNEL IMPROVEMENTS SINCE FreeBSD 1.1 -- | |||||
| 1) Bounce buffers. This allows systems to use bus master ISA controllers | |||||
| in systems with more than 16MB of memory. | |||||
| 2) VM performance improvements. Many new enhancements to the Mach derived | |||||
| VM system including page table preloading (dramatically reduces page | |||||
| faults); page usage statistics gathering (improves page replacement | |||||
| thus reducing thrashing); clustered page-ins and page-outs (reduces | |||||
| paging I/O overhead). | |||||
| 3) Overall kernel performance improvements. Some critical functions have | |||||
| been inlined; the trap, pmap, and other critical code has been | |||||
| optimized, etc. | |||||
| 4) Improved scheduling algorithm. Improves interactive performance on | |||||
| busy machines, expecially in cases where lots of software builds are | |||||
| occurring. | |||||
| 5) Disk I/O clustering. Improves the I/O speed dramatically on most disk | |||||
| drives. | |||||
| 6) Vastly superior optional floating point emulator from Bill Metzenthen. | |||||
| Faster and more reliable/accurate/complete emulation and has fewer bugs. | |||||
| Provided as an option in the kernel (the original emulator is still | |||||
| the default). | |||||
| 7) IP Multicast support. Allows reception of Internet multicast packets. | |||||
| 8) Improved sound support. Version 2.5 of Hannu Savolainen's VoxWare sound | |||||
| drivers. Supports SoundBlaster, PAS, GUS, and other common sound boards. | |||||
| 9) New device support for the Seagate ST01/ST02 and Future Domain 950 SCSI | |||||
| adapters. | |||||
| 10) X10 device driver from Gene Stark for X-10 style remote power control. | |||||
| (such as Radio Shack "Plug 'n Power") | |||||
| 11) PS/2 mouse driver from Erik Forsberg. | |||||
| 12) Busmouse driver from Rick Macklem. | |||||
| 13) IBM/National PCMCIA ethernet driver from Keith Moore. | |||||
| 14) Improved floppy driver support. | |||||
| 15) Much improved syscons driver (now default) with user-editable ascii | |||||
| keymaps and many other new features. | |||||
| 16) Many improvements and fixes to nearly every supported device driver. | |||||
| 17) Many improvements and fixes scattered throughout the kernel. | |||||
| 18) New pcaudio driver allows `Sun style' .au files to be played through the | |||||
| speaker. | |||||
| 19) Substantial changes in sio for supporting multiport and bidirectional | |||||
| comms. Please see the sio man page for details. | |||||
| -- USER CODE IMPROVEMENTS SINCE FreeBSD 1.1 -- | |||||
| 1) Man pages now compressed by default, saving quite a bit of space for | |||||
| small configurations. | |||||
| 2) S/Key one-time password support for enhanced network security. | |||||
| 3) Many many bug fixes and miscellaneous enhancements. | |||||
| 4) Sun math library now available for faster FPU support (see #5). | |||||
| 5) New /etc/make.conf mechanism allows users to tailor how their systems | |||||
| are built (from source) and switch various options on and off. | |||||
| 6) C++ shared libs are now fully supported (and libg++ shared by default). | |||||
| 7) The programs `vidcontrol' and `kbdcontrol' replace the old `syscons'. | |||||
| $FreeBSD$ | |||||