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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FreeBSD CDROM available
Walnut Creek, California - December 1, 1993 - The FreeBSD CDROM is
now available from Walnut Creek CDROM. The disc contains the
complete FreeBSD 1.0 operating system, a full 4.3 BSD compatible 32
bit operating system with features from 4.4 BSD.
Installation is simple, consisting of a few questions. Also included
is a Multi-OS boot system which allows one to boot into Free BSD or
any other operating system.
FreeBSD Features:
XFree86 2.0 (X11R5 patch level 25 for the PC) with direct support for
the VGA/SVGA, TSENG ET3000 / ET4000, S3 801/805/928, ATI Ultra /
Ultra Pro and IBM 8514 accelerated graphics cards. Also ready-to-run
X11 utilities and libraries such as XView, XV, Tcl/TK, JPEG library,
etc.
Full Berkeley style networking:
FreeBSD contains full USENET NEWS and mail reading software (elm and
mh). Support for TCP/IP networking, SLIP, PPP, telnet, ftp, gopher,
archie, and industry standard NFS and YP services as standard.
Complete ANSI/POSIX-1003.1 compliant development environment
including kernel source, C and C++ compilers 2.3.5, GDB, lex and
yacc, f2c (fortran to C) compiler, kernel debuggers, source level
debuggers, profilers, Gnu emacs 19.19, and perl, etc.
Includes TeX 3.14, dvips, ghostscript, FlexFax fax software, ksh,
tcsh, and bash shells, sc spreadsheet, Ingres database, etc. Also
audio support for SoundBlaster, ProAudio Spectrum, Gravis UltraPro
and compatible sound cards. Everything comes with source code. With
FreeBSD's tightly integrated build system, the whole source tree can
be made with one command.
The FreeBSD has ISO 9660 and Rock Ridge cdrom support. The disc is
in Rock Ridge format with source on the CDROM in long native file
names.
For more infomation or a review copy, please contact:
Jack Velte
Marketing Director
1 800 786-9907
+1 510 674-0783
+1 510 674-0821 (fax)
velte@cdrom.com
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