FreeBSD

David O’Brien has gave me the FreeBSD 1.x CVS Repository and I have set up a CVSWeb view for it so it will be easy to read the code/changes.

FreeBSD 1.x was forbidden and supposed to be destroyed in May 1994, because the lawsuit of USL against BSDI, UC Berkeley, and the FreeBSD/NetBSD projects. Today, as 32V and some code in the same time was released under BSD License, it is legal to keep the repo again.

FreeBSD 1.x is based on 4.3 BSD, while FreeBSD 2.x and later are based on 4.4BSD-Lite2. The historical archive, is valuable for anyone who interested in the Operating System itself, its development, and more.

Today obrien@ has committed a somewhat determintic code to distinguish FreeBSD RELENG_5 from 5.2-CURRENT to 5.3-BETA:

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obrien      2004-08-23 03:28:01 UTC

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_5)
    sys/sys              param.h 
    contrib/gcc/config   freebsd-spec.h 
  Log:
  Enter the great FreeBSD 5.3!
  
  Approved by:    re(kensmith)
  
  Revision   Changes    Path
  1.17.2.1   +2 -2      src/contrib/gcc/config/freebsd-spec.h
  1.209.2.1  +1 -1      src/sys/sys/param.h

I have finished a preliminary patchset based on Pawel’s (kern/54604), which will make ps -e usable under FreeBSD’s recent versions, without having procfs mounted.

My patchset has introduced reduced security IMO (due to my merge and rooted from recent removal of ps_argsopen sysctl, I’m not sure why this change has been taken place) so I will have to review the code more carefully. Maybe I need to introduce more sysctl?

Now we have RELENG_5 branched, and HEAD is now 6.0-CURRENT.

delphijfork will be a mixture of RELENG_5 and HEAD for recent days. I will build a RELENG_5’ifyed version so the code is fresh enough for RELENG_5.

今天 FreeBSD 的 src tree 正式为 5-STABLE 冻结！

Robert Watson很仗义(这个词，嘿嘿)地在 code freeze 之前的最后一刻 commit 了我的 patch。这一变动将使得未来 5/6 MFC 变得容易，同时，也让 DragonFly 和 FreeBSD 的 diff 变得更小。

激动人心的时刻即将来临。FreeBSD RELENG_5将于8月16日(自然，如果不出意外的情况下)建立。今天FreeBSD.org做了一个惊人的举动——将www.FreeBSD.org升级为5.x版本，这是Yahoo!以及FreeBSD.org对于RELENG_5的一项重大支持。

FreeBSD 5-STABLE的Release Engineering将是一个曲折而漫长的过程。这个过程的成败将直接影响接下来至少半年之内FreeBSD的命运。目前，FreeBSD 5-CURRENT在被命名为5-STABLE之前所需要经历的洗礼包括：

今天要做一个delphijfork特别发行版。

From LI Dong: www.FreeBSD.org has been switched to FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE (well, this is not created yet, but it’s imminent).

I was quite busy recently however it is time to release delphijfork as 5-STABLE is imminent.

As always, it can be obtained from ftp://ftp.freebsdchina.org/pub/china_ports/delphijfork.

In this release, I have added a (untested) ATA workaround for CD-ROMs that is not installed in correct slot.

据说今天是黑色星期五，不过咱中国人不信那个，外面天空很晴——最近一段时间少有的晴天。有点想出去玩，但是还得上班，加上昨天吃的有点拉肚子，睡眠不足，不爽，但好歹今天是周五了。

昨天和alu说了几句关于给大公司做mirror的事情，不过暂时这边的事儿还处于筹备阶段。很羡慕alu总能撑到那么晚，白天一样的精神，还不发福。最有成就感的事情还是把hrs@的那个造成cndoc无法修正的问题改好了！