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What's new in 1.1.5?  Well...  Let's try and count the ways..

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-- KERNEL IMPROVEMENTS SINCE FreeBSD 1.1 --

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1) Bounce buffers. This allows systems to use bus master ISA controllers

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   in systems with more than 16MB of memory.

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2) VM performance improvements. Many new enhancements to the Mach derived

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   VM system including page table preloading (dramatically reduces page

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   faults); page usage statistics gathering (improves page replacement

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   thus reducing thrashing); clustered page-ins and page-outs (reduces

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   paging I/O overhead).

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3) Overall kernel performance improvements. Some critical functions have

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   been inlined; the trap, pmap, and other critical code has been

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   optimized, etc.

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4) Improved scheduling algorithm. Improves interactive performance on

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   busy machines, expecially in cases where lots of software builds are

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   occurring.

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5) Disk I/O clustering. Improves the I/O speed dramatically on most disk

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   drives.

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6) Vastly superior optional floating point emulator from Bill Metzenthen.

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   Faster and more reliable/accurate/complete emulation and has fewer bugs.

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   Provided as an option in the kernel (the original emulator is still

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   the default).

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7) IP Multicast support. Allows reception of Internet multicast packets.

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8) Improved sound support. Version 2.5 of Hannu Savolainen's VoxWare sound

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   drivers. Supports SoundBlaster, PAS, GUS, and other common sound boards.

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9) New device support for the Seagate ST01/ST02 and Future Domain 950 SCSI

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   adapters.

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10) X10 device driver from Gene Stark for X-10 style remote power control.

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   (such as Radio Shack "Plug 'n Power")

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11) PS/2 mouse driver from Erik Forsberg.

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12) Busmouse driver from Rick Macklem.

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13) IBM/National PCMCIA ethernet driver from Keith Moore.

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14) Improved floppy driver support.

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15) Much improved syscons driver (now default) with user-editable ascii

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    keymaps and many other new features.

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16) Many improvements and fixes to nearly every supported device driver.

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17) Many improvements and fixes scattered throughout the kernel.

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18) New pcaudio driver allows `Sun style' .au files to be played through the

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    speaker.

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19) Substantial changes in sio for supporting multiport and bidirectional

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    comms.  Please see the sio man page for details.

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-- USER CODE IMPROVEMENTS SINCE FreeBSD 1.1 --

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1)  Man pages now compressed by default, saving quite a bit of space for

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    small configurations.

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2)  S/Key one-time password support for enhanced network security.

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3)  Many many bug fixes and miscellaneous enhancements.

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4)  Sun math library now available for faster FPU support (see #5).

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5)  New /etc/make.conf mechanism allows users to tailor how their systems

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    are built (from source) and switch various options on and off.

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6)  C++ shared libs are now fully supported (and libg++ shared by default).

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7)  The programs `vidcontrol' and `kbdcontrol' replace the old `syscons'.

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$FreeBSD: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5/WHATS_NEW-1.1.5.txt 53705 2019-12-22 10:49:07Z carlavilla $

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