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	The notes that describe the improvements over the last release
	aren't appropriate for a snapshot, so these are conditional on
	FOR_RELEASE. 0 == snapshot; 1 == release
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.
.Dd October 29, 2000
.Dt INSTALL 8
.Os NetBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm INSTALL
.Nd Installation procedure for
.Nx*M .
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.
.Ss About this Document
.Pp
.
This document describes the installation procedure for
.Nx \*V
on the
.Em \*M
platform. It is available in four different formats titled
.Pa INSTALL. Ns Ar ext ,
where
.Ar ext
is one of
.Pa \&.ps , \&.html , \&.more ,
.No or Pa \&.txt :
.(tag \&.morex -offset indent
.It Pa \&.ps
PostScript.
.It Pa \&.html
.No Standard Internet Tn HTML .
.It Pa \&.more
The enhanced text format used on
.Ul
systems by the
.Xr more 1
and
.Xr less 1
pager utility programs. This is the format in which the on-line
.Em man
pages are generally presented.
.It Pa \&.txt
Plain old
.Tn ASCII .
.tag)
.Pp
You are reading the
.Em \*[format]
version.
.
.Ss "What is NetBSD?"
.Pp
.
The
.Nx
Operating System is a fully functional
.Tn Open Source
.Ul
operating system derived from the University of California, Berkeley
Networking Release 2 (Net/2), 4.4BSD-Lite, and 4.4BSD-Lite2 sources.
.Nx
runs on thirty-one different system architectures featuring twelve distinct
families of CPUs, and is being ported to more. The
.Nx \*V
release contains complete binary releases for fifteen different
machine types. (The sixteen remaining are not fully supported at this time
and are thus not part of the binary distribution. For information on
them, please see the
.Nx
web site at
.Lk http://www.netbsd.org/ )
.Pp
.Nx
is a completely integrated system.
In addition to its highly portable, high performance kernel,
.Nx
features a complete set of user utilities, compilers for several
languages, the X Window System, firewall software
and numerous other tools, all accompanied by full source code.
.Pp
.\" XXX Should we include some text here about NetBSD's license
.\" policies and how commercial-friendly it is?
.Nx
is a creation of the members of the Internet community.
Without the unique cooperation and coordination the net makes
possible, it's likely that
.Nx
wouldn't exist.
.if \n[FOR_RELEASE] \{\
.Ss Changes Since The Last Release
.Pp
The
.Nx \*V
release 
provides numerous significant functional enhancements, including
support for many new devices, integration of hundreds of bug fixes,
new and updated kernel subsystems, and many userland enhancements. The
result of these improvements is a stable operating system fit for
production use that rivals most commercially available systems.
.Pp
It is impossible to completely summarize over one year of
development that went into the
.Nx \*V
release. Some highlights include:
.
.Ss2 Kernel
.
.(bullet
Ports to new platforms including:
arc,
cobalt,
hpcmips,
news68k,
sgimips,
and
sparc64.
.It
Improved performance and stability of the UVM virtual memory subsystem.
.It
Implementation of generic kernel locking code, as well as a
restructure and re-tuning of the scheduler, to be used by the
future symmetric multi-processing (SMP) implementation.
.It
Improved compatibility support for Linux, OSF1, and SVR4 programs.
.It
New compatibility support for Win32 programs.
.It
Support for dynamically loaded ELF kernel modules.
.It
Kernel process tracing using
.Xr ktruss 1 .
.It
Deletion of swap devices using
.Xr swapctl 8 .
.It
Easier hot-pluggability of keyboards and mice using a new wscons
device - wsmux.
.It
Improved PCMCIA and Cardbus support, including support for detaching
of devices and cards, resulting in better support for notebooks and
PDA devices.
.It
Numerous hardware improvements, including areas such as:
audio, UDMA/66 support for ATA drives, USB, and wireless networking.
.bullet)
.
.Ss2 Networking
.
.(bullet
Addition of IP version 6 (IPv6) and IPsec to the networking stack,
from the KAME project.
This includes addition of kernel code for IPv6/IPsec,
IPv4/v6 dual-stack user applications and supporting libraries.
Due to this, the shlib major version for
.Xr pcap 3
is incremented and you may need to recompile userland tools.
The KAME IPv6 part includes results from the unified-ipv6 effort.
.bullet)
.
.Ss2 File system
.
.(bullet
Significant Fast file system (FFS) performance enhancements via
integration of Kirk McKusick's soft updates and trickle sync code.
.It
Support for the 
.Tn "Windows NT"
.Sq NTFS
file system (read-only at this stage).
.It
Support for revision 1 of the
.Tn Linux
.Sq ext2fs
file system.
.It
Enhanced stability and usability of LFS (the
.Bx
log-structured file system).
.It
Various RAIDframe enhancements including: auto-detection of RAID components
and auto-configuration of RAID sets, and the ability to configure the root
file system
.Pq Pa /
on a RAID set.
.It
Support for
.Tn Microsoft
Joliet extensions to the ISO9660 CD file system.
.It
Improved file system vnode locking mechanisms,
thus resolving a source of several panics in the past.
.It
Support for NFS and RPC over IPv6.
.It
Server part of NFS locking (implemented by
.Xr rpc.lockd 8 )
now works.
.bullet)
.
.Ss2 Security
.
.(bullet
Strong cryptographic libraries and applications integrated,
including the AES cipher Rijndael, the OpenSSL library, more
complete Kerberos IV and Kerberos V support, and an SSH server
and client.
.It
.Xr sysctl 3
interfaces to various elements of process and system information,
allowing programs such as
.Xr ps 1 ,
.Xr dmesg 1
and the like to operate without recompilation after kernel upgrades,
and remove the necessity to run setgid kmem (thus improving system
security).
.It
Disable various services by default, and set the default options for
disabled daemons to a higher level of logging.
.It 
Several code audits were performed. One audit replaced 
string routines that were used without bound checking, and another 
one to identify and disable
places where format strings were used in an
unsafe way, allowing arbitrary data entered by (possibly) malicious
users to overwrite application code, and leading from Denial of
Service attacks to compromised system.
.It
.Xr sshd 8
and
.Xr ssh 1
now require
.Xr rnd 4
kernel random number devices.
.bullet)
.
.Ss2 System administration and user tools
.
.(bullet
Conversion of the
.Xr rc 8
system startup and shutdown scripts to an
.Sq rc.d
mechanism, with separate control scripts for each service, and
appropriate dependency ordering provided by
.Xr rcorder 8 .
.It
.Xr postfix 1
provided as alternative mail transport agent to
.Xr sendmail 8 .
.It
User management tools
.Xr useradd 8 ,
.Xr usermod 8 ,
.Xr userdel 8 ,
.Xr groupadd 8 ,
.Xr groupmod 8 ,
and
.Xr groupdel 8
added to the system.
.It
Incorporation of a login class capability database
.Pq Pa /etc/login.conf
from
.Tn BSD/OS .
.It
Improved support for usernames longer than eight characters in programs
such as
.Xr at 1
and
.Xr w 1 .
.It
Many enhancements to
.Xr ftpd 8
providing features found in larger and less secure FTP daemons,
such as user classes, connection limits, improved support for
virtual hosting, transfer statistics, transfer rate throttling,
and support for various IETF ftpext working group extensions.
.It
The
.Xr ftp 1
client has been improved even further, including
transfer rate throttling, improved URL support, command line uploads.
See the man page for details.
.bullet)
.
.Ss2 Miscellaneous
.
.(bullet
Updates to the
.Nx
source code style code (located in
.Pa /usr/share/misc/style )
to use ANSI C only (instead of K&R) and reflect current (best) practice,
and begin migrating the
.Nx
source code to follow it.
.It
Implementation of many SUSv2 features to the
.Xr curses 3
library, including support for color.
.It
Updates of most third party packages that are shipped in the base
system, including
.Xr file 1 ,
.Xr ipfilter 4 ,
.Xr ppp 4 ,
and
.Xr sendmail 8
to the latest stable release.
.It
Many new packages in the
.Em pkgsrc
system, including standard desktops like KDE and GNOME as well as latest
Tcl/Tk and perl and many of the components of the Java Enterprise platform.
The package framework itself now has full wildcard dependency support.
.bullet)
.Pp
As has been noted, there have also been innumerable bug fixes.
.Pp
Kernel interfaces have continued to be refined, and more subsystems
and device drivers are shared among the different ports. You can look
for this trend to continue.
.Pp
.so whatis -----------------------------------------------
.\} \" \n[FOR_RELEASE]
.
.Ss "The Future of NetBSD"
.Pp
.
The
.Nx
Foundation has been incorporated as a non-profit
organization. Its purpose is to encourage, foster and promote the
free exchange of computer software, namely the
.Nx
Operating
System. The foundation will allow for many things to be handled more
smoothly than could be done with our previous informal organization.
In particular, it provides the framework to deal with other parties
that wish to become involved in the
.Nx
Project.
.Pp
The
.Nx
Foundation will help improve the quality of
.Nx
by:
.(bullet
providing better organization to keep track of development
efforts, including co-ordination with groups working in
related fields.
.It
providing a framework to receive donations of goods and
services and to own the resources necessary to run the
.Nx
Project.
.It
providing a better position from which to undertake
promotional activities.
.It
periodically organizing workshops for developers and other
interested people to discuss ongoing work.
.bullet)
.Pp
We intend to begin narrowing the time delay between releases. Our
ambition is to provide a full release every six to eight months.
.Pp
We hope to support even
.Em more
hardware in the future, and we have a
rather large number of other ideas about what can be done to improve
.Nx .
.Pp
We intend to continue our current practice of making the
NetBSD-current development source available on a daily basis.
.Pp
We intend to integrate free, positive changes from whatever sources
submit them, providing that they are well thought-out and increase the
usability of the system.
.Pp
Above all, we hope to create a stable and accessible system, and to be
responsive to the needs and desires of
.Nx
users, because it is for
and because of them that
.Nx
exists.
.br_ne 10P
.
.Ss "Sources of NetBSD"
.Pp
.
Refer to
.Lk http://www.netbsd.org/Sites/net.html .
.br_ne 10P
.
.Ss "NetBSD \*V Release Contents
.Pp
.
The root directory of the
.Nx \*V
release is organized as follows:
.ie \n[FOR_RELEASE] \{\
.Pp
.Pa .../NetBSD-\*V/
.(tag LAST_MINUTE
.It Li CHANGES
Changes since earlier
.Nx
releases.
.It Li LAST_MINUTE
Last minute changes.
.It Li MIRRORS
A list of sites that mirror the
.Nx \*V
distribution.
.It Li README.files
README describing the distribution's contents.
.It Li TODO
.Nx 's
todo list (also somewhat incomplete and out of date).
.It Pa patches/
Post-release source code patches.
.It Pa source/
Source distribution sets; see below.
.tag)
.Pp
In addition to the files and directories listed above, there is one
directory per architecture, for each of the architectures for which
.Nx \*V
has a binary distribution.
There are also
.Pa README.export-control
files sprinkled liberally throughout the
distribution tree, which point out that there are some portions of the
distribution that may be subject to
export regulations of the United States, e.g.
code under
.Pa src/crypto
and
.Pa src/sys/crypto . 
It is your responsibility
to determine whether or not it is legal for you to export these portions
and to act accordingly.
.Pp
The source distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the
.Pa source
subdirectory of the distribution tree. They contain the
complete sources to the system. The source distribution sets
are as follows:
.(tag sharesrc
.It Sy gnusrc
This set contains the
.Dq gnu
sources, including the source for the compiler, assembler, groff,
and the other GNU utilities in the binary distribution sets.
.br
.Em 22.3 MB gzipped, 98.8 MB uncompressed
.It Sy pkgsrc
This set contains the
.Dq pkgsrc
sources, which contain the infrastructure to build third-party packages.
.br
.Em 5.6 MB gzipped, 57.0 MB uncompressed
.It Sy sharesrc
This set contains the
.Dq share
sources, which include the sources for the man pages not associated
with any particular program, the sources for the typesettable document
set, the dictionaries, and more.
.br
.Em 3.3 MB gzipped, 13.2 MB uncompressed
.It Sy src
This set contains all of the base
.Nx \*V
sources which are not in
.Sy gnusrc ,
.Sy sharesrc ,
or
.Sy syssrc .
.br
.Em 24.2 MB gzipped, 120.6 MB uncompressed
.It Sy syssrc
This set contains the sources to the
.Nx \*V
kernel for all architectures,
.Xr config 8 ,
and
.Xr dbsym 8 .
.br
.Em 17.6 MB gzipped, 88.6 MB uncompressed
.It Sy xsrc
This set contains the sources to the X Window System.
.br
.Em 35.2 MB gzipped, 176.8 MB uncompressed
.tag)
.Pp
All the above source sets are located in the
.Pa source/sets
subdirectory of the distribution tree.
.Pp
The source sets are distributed as compressed tar files. They may be
unpacked into
.Pa /usr/src
with the command:
.Pp
.Dl # Ic "( cd / ; tar -zxpf - ) < set_name.tgz"
.Pp
The
.Pa sets/Split/
subdirectory contains split
versions of the source sets for those users who need to load the
source sets from floppy or otherwise need a split distribution. The
split sets are named
.Pa "set_name." Ns Ar xx
where
.Pa set_name
is the distribution set name, and
.Ar xx
is the sequence number of the file,
starting with
.Dq aa
for the first file in the distribution set, then
.Dq ab
for the next, and so on. All of these files except the last one
of each set should be exactly 240,640 bytes long. (The last file is
just long enough to contain the remainder of the data for that
distribution set.)
.Pp
The split distributions may be reassembled and extracted with
.Ic cat
as follows:
.Pp
.Dl # Ic "cat set_name.?? | ( cd / ; tar -zxpf - )"
.Pp
In each of the source distribution set directories, there are
files which contain the checksums of the files in the directory:
.(tag SYSVSUM -offset indent
.It Li BSDSUM
Historic
.Bx
checksums for the various files
in that directory, in the format produced by the command:
.Ic cksum -o 1 Ar file
.It Li CKSUM
.Tn POSIX
checksums for the various files in that
directory, in the format produced by the command:
.Ic cksum Ar file .
.It Li MD5
.Tn MD5
digests for the various files in that
directory, in the format produced by the command:
.Ic cksum Fl m Ar file .
.It Li SYSVSUM
Historic AT\*&T System V
.Ux
checksums for the various files in that directory, in the format produced by
the command:
.Ic cksum Fl o 2 Ar file .
.tag)
.Pp
The MD5 digest is the safest checksum, followed by the POSIX
checksum. The other two checksums are provided only to ensure
that the widest possible range of system can check the integrity
of the release files.
.\}
.el \{\
.Pp
.Pa \&.../NetBSD-current/tar_files/
.(item -compact -offset indent
.Pa doc.tar.gz
.It
.Pa pkgsrc.tar.gz
.It
.Pa src/*.tar.gz
.It
.Pa xsrc/*.tar.gz
.item)
.Pp
Other directories provide unpacked source trees for distribution via
the source update protocol, for more information see:
.Lk http://www.netbsd.org/Sites/net.html#sup
.\}
.
.
.so ../common/contents -----------------------------------------------
.
.
.(Note
Each directory in the \*M binary distribution also has its
own checksum files, just as the source distribution does.
.Note)
.br_ne 7P
.
.Ss "NetBSD/\*M System Requirements and Supported Devices"
.
.so hardware -----------------------------------------------
.br_ne 7P
.
.Ss "Getting the NetBSD System on to Useful Media"
.
.so xfer -----------------------------------------------
.br_ne 7P
.
.Ss "Preparing your System for NetBSD installation"
.
.so prep -----------------------------------------------
.br_ne 7P
.
.Ss "Installing the NetBSD System"
.
.so install -----------------------------------------------
.br_ne 7P
.
.Ss "Post installation steps"
.
.so ../common/postinstall -----------------------------------------------
.br_ne 7P
.
.Ss "Upgrading a previously-installed NetBSD System"
.
.so upgrade -----------------------------------------------
.br_ne 7P
.
.Ss "Compatibility Issues With Previous NetBSD Releases"
.Pp
.
Users upgrading from previous versions of
.Nx
may wish to bear the
following problems and compatibility issues in mind when upgrading to
.Nx \*V .
.Ss2 General issues
.(bullet
.Pa /etc/rc
modified to use
.Pa /etc/rc.d/*
.Pp
In previous releases of
.Nx ,
.Pa /etc/rc
was a traditional
.Bx
style monolithic file.
As of
.Nx 1.5 ,
each discrete program or substem from
.Pa /etc/rc
and
.Pa /etc/netstart
has been moved into separate scripts in
.Pa /etc/rc.d/ .
.Pp
At system startup,
.Pa /etc/rc
uses
.Xr rcorder 8
to build a dependency list of the files in
.Pa /etc/rc.d
and then executes each script in turn with an argument of
.Sq start .
Many
.Pa rc.d
scripts won't start unless the appropriate
.Xr rc.conf 5
entry in
.Pa /etc/rc.conf
is set to
.Sq YES.
.Pp
At system shutdown,
.Pa /etc/rc.shutdown
uses
.Xr rcorder 8
to build a dependency list of the files in
.Pa /etc/rc.d
that have a
.Dq "KEYWORD: shutdown"
line, reverses the resulting list, and then executes each script in turn
with an argument of
.Sq stop .
The following scripts support a specific shutdown method:
.Pa cron ,
.Pa inetd ,
.Pa local ,
and
.Pa xdm .
.Pp
Local and third-party scripts may be installed into
.Pa /etc/rc.d
as necessary.
Refer to the other scripts in that directory and
.Xr rc 8
for more information on implementing
.Pa rc.d
scripts.
.bullet)
.Ss2 Issues affecting an upgrading from NetBSD 1.4 or later
.(bullet
.Xr named 8
leaks version information
.
.Pp
Previous releases of
.Nx
disabled a feature of
.Xr named 8
where the version number of the server could be determined by remote clients.
This feature has not been disabled in
.Nx 1.5 ,
because there is a
.Xr named.conf 5
option to change the version string:
.(disp
option {
	version "newstring";
};
.disp)
.
.It
.Xr sysctl 8
pathname changed
.
.Pp
.Xr sysctl 8
is moved from
.Pa /usr/sbin/sysctl
to
.Pa /sbin/sysctl .
If you have hardcoded references to the full pathname
.Pq in shell scripts, for example
please be sure to update those.
.\"
.It
.Xr sendmail 8
configuration file pathname changed
.
.Pp
Due to
.Xr sendmail 8
upgrade from 8.9.x to 8.10.x,
.Pa /etc/sendmail.cf
is moved to
.Pa /etc/mail/sendmail.cf .
Also, the default
.Xr sendmail.cf 5
refers different pathnames than before.
For example,
.Pa /etc/aliases
is now located at
.Pa /etc/mail/aliases ,
.Pa /etc/sendmail.cw
is now called
.Pa /etc/mail/local-host-names ,
and so forth.
If you have customized
.Xr sendmail.cf 5
and friends, you will need to move the files to the new locations.
See
.Pa /usr/share/sendmail/README
for more information.
.bullet)
.
.Pp
.
.
.Ss "Using online NetBSD documentation"
.Pp
Documentation is available if you first install the manual
distribution set. Traditionally, the
.Dq man pages
(documentation) are denoted by
.Sq Li name(section) .
Some examples of this are
.Pp
.(bullet -compact -offset indent
.Xr intro 1 ,
.It
.Xr man 1 ,
.It
.Xr apropros 1 ,
.It
.Xr passwd 1 ,
and
.It
.Xr passwd 5 .
.bullet)
.Pp
The section numbers group the topics into several categories, but three
are of primary interest: user commands are in section 1, file formats
are in section 5, and administrative information is in section 8.
.Pp
.No The Em man
command is used to view the documentation on a topic, and is
started by entering
.Ic man Op Ar section
.Ar topic .
The brackets
.Op \&
around the
section should not be entered, but rather indicate that the section is
optional. If you don't ask for a particular section, the topic with the
lowest numbered section name will be displayed. For instance, after
logging in, enter
.Pp
.Dl # Ic "man passwd"
.Pp
to read the documentation for
.Xr passwd 1 .
To view the documentation for
.Xr passwd 5 ,
enter
.Pp
.Dl # Ic "man 5 passwd"
.Pp
instead.
.Pp
If you are unsure of what man page you are looking for, enter
.Ic apropos Ar subject-word
.Pp
where
.Ar subject-word
is your topic of interest; a list of possibly
related man pages will be displayed.
.
.Ss Administrivia
.Pp
.
If you've got something to say, do so! We'd like your input.
There are various mailing lists available via the mailing list
server at
.Mt majordomo@netbsd.org .
To get help on using the mailing
list server, send mail to that address with an empty body, and it will
reply with instructions.
.Pp
There are various mailing lists set up to deal with comments and
questions about this release. Please send comments to:
.Mt netbsd-comments@netbsd.org .
.Pp
To report bugs, use the
.Xr send-pr 1
command shipped with
.Nx ,
and fill in as much information about the problem as you can. Good
bug reports include lots of details. Additionally, bug reports can
be sent by mail to:
.Mt netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org .
.Pp
Use of
.Xr send-pr 1
is encouraged, however, because bugs reported with it
are entered into the
.Nx
bugs database, and thus can't slip through
the cracks.
.Pp
There are also port-specific mailing lists, to discuss aspects of
each port of
.Nx .
Use majordomo to find their addresses, or visit
.Lk http://www.netbsd.org/MailingLists/ .
If
you're interested in doing a serious amount of work on a specific
port, you probably should contact the
.Sq owner
of that port (listed
below).
.Pp
If you'd like to help with this effort, and have an idea as to how
you could be useful, send us mail or subscribe to:
.Mt netbsd-help@netbsd.org .
.Pp
As a favor, please avoid mailing huge documents or files to these
mailing lists. Instead, put the material you would have sent up
for FTP or WWW somewhere, then mail the appropriate list about it, or, if
you'd rather not do that, mail the list saying you'll send the data
to those who want it.
.
.Ss Thanks go to
.
.(bullet
The former members of UCB's Computer Systems Research Group,
including (but not limited to):
.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
Keith Bostic
Ralph Campbell
Mike Karels
Marshall Kirk McKusick
.Ed
.Pp
for their ongoing work on
.Bx
systems, support, and encouragement.
.It
Also, our thanks go to:
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Mike Hibler
Rick Macklem
Jan-Simon Pendry
Chris Torek
.Ed
.Pp
for answering lots of questions, fixing bugs, and doing the various work
they've done.
.It
UC Berkeley's Experimental Computing Facility provided a home for
sun-lamp in the past, people to look after it, and a sense of humor.
Rob Robertson, too, has added his unique sense of humor to things, and
for a long time provided the primary FTP site for
.Nx .
.It
Vixie Enterprises for hosting the
.Nx
FTP, SUP, and WWW servers.
.It
Redback Networks, Inc. for hosting the
.Nx
mail and GNATS server.
.It
The Helsinki University of Technology in Finland for hosting the
.Nx
CVS server.
.It
The Internet Research Institute in Japan for hosting the server
which runs the CVSweb interface to the
.Nx
source tree.
.It
The many organisations that provide
.Nx
mirror sites.
.It
Without CVS, this project would be impossible to manage, so our hats
go off to Brian Berliner, Jeff Polk, and the various other people
who've had a hand in making CVS a useful tool.
.It
Dave Burgess
.Mt burgess@cynjut.infonet.net
has been maintaining the
386BSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD FAQ for quite some time, and deserves to be
recognized for it.
.It
The following individuals and organizations (each in alphabetical order)
have made donations or loans of hardware and/or money, to support
.Nx
development, and deserve credit for it:
.so ../common/donations -----------------------------------------------
(If you're not on that list and should be, tell us! We probably were
not able to get in touch with you, to verify that you wanted to be
listed.)
.It
Finally, we thank all of the people who've put sweat and tears into
developing
.Nx
since its inception in January, 1993. (Obviously,
there are a lot more people who deserve thanks here. If you're one of
them, and would like to mentioned, tell us!)
.bullet)
.
.Ss "We are..."
.
.Pp
(in alphabetical order)
.Pp
.
.
.Bl -column xxx "Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino" Mt sommerfeld@netbsd.org newsmips
.
.br_ne 1i
.It-span Em "The NetBSD core group:"
.It Ta Ta
.It Ta Alistair Crooks Ta Mt agc@netbsd.org
.It Ta Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino Ta Mt itojun@netbsd.org
.It Ta Frank van der Linden Ta Mt fvdl@netbsd.org
.It Ta Luke Mewburn Ta Mt lukem@netbsd.org
.It Ta Christos Zoulas Ta Mt christos@netbsd.org
.It Ta Ta
.br_ne 2i
.It-span Em "The portmasters (and their ports):"
.It Ta Ta
.It Ta Mark Brinicombe Ta Mt mark@netbsd.org Ta Sy arm32
.It Ta Jeremy Cooper Ta Mt jeremy@netbsd.org Ta Sy sun3x
.It Ta Ross Harvey Ta Mt ross@netbsd.org Ta Sy alpha
.It Ta "Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino" Ta Mt itojun@netbsd.org Ta Sy sh3
.It Ta Ben Harris Ta Mt bjh21@netbsd.org Ta Sy arm26
.It Ta Eduardo Horvath Ta Mt eeh@netbsd.org Ta Sy sparc64
.It Ta Darrin Jewell Ta Mt dbj@netbsd.org Ta Sy next68k
.It Ta S\(/oren J\(/orvang Ta Mt soren@netbsd.org Ta Sy cobalt
.It Ta S\(/oren J\(/orvang Ta Mt soren@netbsd.org Ta Sy sgimips
.It Ta Wayne Knowles Ta Mt wdk@netbsd.org Ta Sy mipsco
.It Ta Paul Kranenburg Ta Mt pk@netbsd.org Ta Sy sparc
.It Ta Anders Magnusson Ta Mt ragge@netbsd.org Ta Sy vax
.It Ta Minoura Makoto Ta Mt minoura@netbsd.org Ta Sy x68k
.It Ta Phil Nelson Ta Mt phil@netbsd.org Ta Sy pc532
.It Ta Tohru Nishimura Ta Mt nisimura@netbsd.org Ta Sy luna68k
.It Ta NONAKA Kimihiro Ta Mt nonaka@netbsd.org Ta Sy prep
.It Ta Scott Reynolds Ta Mt scottr@netbsd.org Ta Sy mac68k
.It Ta Kazuki Sakamoto Ta Mt sakamoto@netbsd.org Ta Sy bebox
.It Ta Noriyuki Soda Ta Mt soda@netbsd.org Ta Sy arc
.It Ta Wolfgang Solfrank Ta Mt ws@netbsd.org Ta Sy ofppc
.It Ta Ignatios Souvatzis Ta Mt is@netbsd.org Ta Sy amiga
.It Ta Jonathan Stone Ta Mt jonathan@netbsd.org Ta Sy pmax
.It Ta Shin Takemura Ta Mt takemura@netbsd.org Ta Sy hpcmips
.It Ta Jason Thorpe Ta Mt thorpej@netbsd.org Ta Sy alpha
.It Ta Jason Thorpe Ta Mt thorpej@netbsd.org Ta Sy hp300
.It Ta Tsubai Masanari Ta Mt tsubai@netbsd.org Ta Sy macppc
.It Ta Tsubai Masanari Ta Mt tsubai@netbsd.org Ta Sy newsmips
.It Ta Izumi Tsutsui Ta Mt tsutsui@netbsd.org Ta Sy news68k
.It Ta "Frank van der Linden" Ta Mt fvdl@netbsd.org Ta Sy i386
.It Ta Leo Weppelman Ta Mt leo@netbsd.org Ta Sy atari
.It Ta Nathan Williams Ta Mt nathanw@netbsd.org Ta Sy sun3
.It Ta Steve Woodford Ta Mt scw@netbsd.org Ta Sy mvme68k
.It Ta Ta
.br_ne 1i
.It-span Em "The NetBSD \*V Release Engineering team:"
.It Ta Ta
.It Ta Chris G. Demetriou Ta Mt cgd@netbsd.org
.It Ta Havard Eidnes Ta Mt he@netbsd.org
.It Ta Ted Lemon Ta Mt mellon@netbsd.org
.It Ta John Hawkinson Ta Mt jhawk@netbsd.org
.It Ta Perry Metzger Ta Mt perry@netbsd.org
.It Ta Curt Sampson Ta Mt cjs@netbsd.org
.It Ta Jason Thorpe Ta Mt thorpej@netbsd.org
.It Ta Todd Vierling Ta Mt tv@netbsd.org
.It Ta Ta
.br_ne 2i
.It-span Em "Developers and other contributors:"
.It Ta Ta
.It Ta Steve Allen Ta Mt wormey@netbsd.org
.It Ta Julian Assange Ta Mt proff@netbsd.org
.It Ta Lennart Augustsson Ta Mt augustss@netbsd.org
.It Ta Christoph Badura Ta Mt bad@netbsd.org
.It Ta Robert V. Baron Ta Mt rvb@netbsd.org
.It Ta Jason Beegan Ta Mt jtb@netbsd.org
.It Ta Erik Berls Ta Mt cyber@netbsd.org
.It Ta John Birrell Ta Mt jb@netbsd.org
.It Ta Mason Loring Bliss Ta Mt mason@netbsd.org
.It Ta Manuel Bouyer Ta Mt bouyer@netbsd.org
.It Ta John Brezak Ta Mt brezak@netbsd.org
.It Ta Allen Briggs Ta Mt briggs@netbsd.org
.It Ta Aaron Brown Ta Mt abrown@netbsd.org
.It Ta Andrew Brown Ta Mt atatat@netbsd.org
.It Ta David Brownlee Ta Mt abs@netbsd.org
.It Ta Frederick Bruckman Ta Mt fredb@netbsd.org
.It Ta Jon Buller Ta Mt jonb@netbsd.org
.It Ta Simon Burge Ta Mt simonb@netbsd.org
.It Ta Dave Burgess Ta Mt burgess@cynjut.infonet.net
.It Ta Robert Byrnes Ta Mt byrnes@netbsd.org
.It Ta D'Arcy J.M. Cain Ta Mt darcy@netbsd.org
.It Ta Dave Carrel Ta Mt carrel@netbsd.org
.It Ta James Chacon Ta Mt jmc@netbsd.org
.It Ta Bill Coldwell Ta Mt billc@netbsd.org
.It Ta Julian Coleman Ta Mt jdc@netbsd.org
.It Ta Chuck Cranor Ta Mt chuck@netbsd.org
.It Ta Aidan Cully Ta Mt aidan@netbsd.org
.It Ta Johan Danielsson Ta Mt joda@netbsd.org
.It Ta Matt DeBergalis Ta Mt deberg@netbsd.org
.It Ta Rob Deker Ta Mt deker@netbsd.org
.It Ta Chris G. Demetriou Ta Mt cgd@netbsd.org
.It Ta Jaromir Dolecek Ta Mt jdolecek@netbsd.org
.It Ta Andy Doran Ta Mt ad@netbsd.org
.It Ta Roland Dowdeswell Ta Mt elric@netbsd.org
.It Ta Matthias Drochner Ta Mt drochner@netbsd.org
.It Ta Jun Ebihara Ta Mt jun@netbsd.org
.It Ta Havard Eidnes Ta Mt he@netbsd.org
.It Ta Enami Tsugutomo Ta Mt enami@netbsd.org
.It Ta Bernd Ernesti Ta Mt veego@netbsd.org
.It Ta Erik Fair Ta Mt fair@netbsd.org
.It Ta Hubert Feyrer Ta Mt hubertf@netbsd.org
.It Ta Thorsten Frueauf Ta Mt frueauf@netbsd.org
.It Ta Castor Fu Ta Mt castor@netbsd.org
.It Ta Ichiro Fukuhara Ta Mt ichiro@netbsd.org
.It Ta Brian R. Gaeke Ta Mt brg@dgate.org
.It Ta Thomas Gerner Ta Mt thomas@netbsd.org
.It Ta Simon J. Gerraty Ta Mt sjg@netbsd.org
.It Ta Justin Gibbs Ta Mt gibbs@netbsd.org
.It Ta Adam Glass Ta Mt glass@netbsd.org
.It Ta Michael Graff Ta Mt explorer@netbsd.org
.It Ta Brad Grantham Ta Mt grantham@tenon.com
.It Ta Brian C. Grayson Ta Mt bgrayson@netbsd.org
.It Ta Matthew Green Ta Mt mrg@netbsd.org
.It Ta Juergen Hannken-Illjes Ta Mt hannken@netbsd.org
.It Ta Charles M. Hannum Ta Mt mycroft@netbsd.org
.It Ta Eric Haszlakiewicz Ta Mt erh@netbsd.org
.It Ta John Hawkinson Ta Mt jhawk@netbsd.org
.It Ta HAYAKAWA Koichi Ta Mt haya@netbsd.org
.It Ta Ren\('e Hexel Ta Mt rh@netbsd.org
.It Ta Michael L. Hitch Ta Mt mhitch@netbsd.org
.It Ta Christian E. Hopps Ta Mt chopps@netbsd.org
.It Ta Ken Hornstein Ta Mt kenh@netbsd.org
.It Ta Marc Horowitz Ta Mt marc@netbsd.org
.It Ta Nick Hudson Ta Mt skrll@netbsd.org
.It Ta Martin Husemann Ta Mt martin@netbsd.org
.It Ta Dean Huxley Ta Mt dean@netbsd.org
.It Ta Bernardo Innocenti Ta Mt bernie@netbsd.org
.It Ta ITOH Yasufumi Ta Mt itohy@netbsd.org
.It Ta IWAMOTO Toshihiro Ta Mt toshii@netbsd.org
.It Ta Matthew Jacob Ta Mt mjacob@netbsd.org
.It Ta Lonhyn T. Jasinskyj Ta Mt lonhyn@netbsd.org
.It Ta Chris Jones Ta Mt cjones@netbsd.org
.It Ta Takahiro Kambe Ta Mt taca@netbsd.org
.It Ta Antti Kantee Ta Mt pooka@netbsd.org
.It Ta Lawrence Kesteloot Ta Mt kesteloo@cs.unc.edu
.It Ta Thomas Klausner Ta Mt wiz@netbsd.org
.It Ta Klaus Klein Ta Mt kleink@netbsd.org
.It Ta Wayne Knowles Ta Mt wdk@netbsd.org
.It Ta John Kohl Ta Mt jtk@netbsd.org
.It Ta Kevin Lahey Ta Mt kml@netbsd.org
.It Ta Johnny C. Lam Ta Mt jlam@netbsd.org
.It Ta Martin J. Laubach Ta Mt mjl@netbsd.org
.It Ta Ted Lemon Ta Mt mellon@netbsd.org
.It Ta Joel Lindholm Ta Mt joel@netbsd.org
.It Ta Mike Long Ta Mt mikel@netbsd.org
.It Ta Warner Losh Ta Mt imp@netbsd.org
.It Ta Tomasz Luchowski Ta Mt zuntum@netbsd.org
.It Ta Federico Lupi Ta Mt federico@netbsd.org
.It Ta Brett Lymn Ta Mt blymn@netbsd.org
.It Ta Paul Mackerras Ta Mt paulus@netbsd.org
.It Ta David Maxwell Ta Mt david@netbsd.org
.It Ta Dan McMahill Ta Mt dmcmahill@netbsd.org
.It Ta Gregory McGarry Ta Mt gmcgarry@netbsd.org
.It Ta Neil J. McRae Ta Mt neil@netbsd.org
.It Ta Perry Metzger Ta Mt perry@netbsd.org
.It Ta der Mouse Ta Mt mouse@netbsd.org
.It Ta Joseph Myers Ta Mt jsm@netbsd.org
.It Ta Ken Nakata Ta Mt kenn@netbsd.org
.It Ta Bob Nestor Ta Mt rnestor@netbsd.org
.It Ta NONAKA Kimihiro Ta Mt nonaka@netbsd.org
.It Ta Jesse Off Ta Mt joff@netbsd.org
.It Ta Tatoku Ogaito Ta Mt tacha@netbsd.org
.It Ta Masaru Oki Ta Mt oki@netbsd.org
.It Ta Atsushi Onoe Ta Mt onoe@netbsd.org
.It Ta Greg Oster Ta Mt oster@netbsd.org
.It Ta Herb Peyerl Ta Mt hpeyerl@netbsd.org
.It Ta Matthias Pfaller Ta Mt matthias@netbsd.org
.It Ta Dante Profeta Ta Mt dante@netbsd.org
.It Ta Chris Provenzano Ta Mt proven@netbsd.org
.It Ta Waldi Ravens Ta Mt waldi@moacs.indiv.nl.net
.It Ta Darren Reed Ta Mt darrenr@netbsd.org
.It Ta Michael Richardson Ta Mt mcr@netbsd.org
.It Ta Tim Rightnour Ta Mt garbled@netbsd.org
.It Ta Gordon Ross Ta Mt gwr@netbsd.org
.It Ta Heiko W. Rupp Ta Mt hwr@netbsd.org
.It Ta SAITOH Masanobu Ta Mt msaitoh@netbsd.org
.It Ta Curt Sampson Ta Mt cjs@netbsd.org
.It Ta Wilfredo Sanchez Ta Mt wsanchez@netbsd.org
.It Ta Ty Sarna Ta Mt tsarna@netbsd.org
.It Ta SATO Kazumi Ta Mt sato@netbsd.org
.It Ta Matthias Scheler Ta Mt tron@netbsd.org
.It Ta Karl Schilke (rAT) Ta Mt rat@netbsd.org
.It Ta Konrad Schroder Ta Mt perseant@netbsd.org
.It Ta Reed Shadgett Ta Mt dent@netbsd.org
.It Ta Tim Shepard Ta Mt shep@netbsd.org
.It Ta Takao Shinohara Ta Mt shin@netbsd.org
.It Ta Takuya SHIOZAKI Ta Mt tshiozak@netbsd.org
.It Ta Chuck Silvers Ta Mt chs@netbsd.org
.It Ta Thor Lancelot Simon Ta Mt tls@netbsd.org
.It Ta Jeff Smith Ta Mt jeffs@netbsd.org
.It Ta Bill Sommerfeld Ta Mt sommerfeld@netbsd.org
.It Ta Bill Squier Ta Mt groo@netbsd.org
.It Ta Bill Studenmund Ta Mt wrstuden@netbsd.org
.It Ta Kevin Sullivan Ta Mt sullivan@netbsd.org
.It Ta SUNAGAWA Keiki Ta Mt kei@netbsd.org
.It Ta Kimmo Suominen Ta Mt kim@netbsd.org
.It Ta TAMURA Kent Ta Mt kent@netbsd.org
.It Ta Shin'ichiro TAYA Ta Mt taya@netbsd.org
.It Ta Matt Thomas Ta Mt matt@netbsd.org
.It Ta Christoph Toshok Ta Mt toshok@netbsd.org
.It Ta UCHIYAMA Yasushi Ta Mt uch@netbsd.org
.It Ta Shuichiro URATA Ta Mt ur@netbsd.org
.It Ta Todd Vierling Ta Mt tv@netbsd.org
.It Ta Aymeric Vincent Ta Mt aymeric@netbsd.org
.It Ta Paul Vixie Ta Mt vixie@netbsd.org
.It Ta Krister Walfridsson Ta Mt kristerw@netbsd.org
.It Ta Lex Wennmacher Ta Mt wennmach@netbsd.org
.It Ta Assar Westerlund Ta Mt assar@netbsd.org
.It Ta Todd Whitesel Ta Mt toddpw@netbsd.org
.It Ta Rob Windsor Ta Mt windsor@netbsd.org
.It Ta Dan Winship Ta Mt danw@netbsd.org
.It Ta Jim Wise Ta Mt jwise@netbsd.org
.It Ta Michael Wolfson Ta Mt mbw@netbsd.org
.It Ta Colin Wood Ta Mt ender@netbsd.org
.It Ta Reinoud Zandijk Ta Mt reinoud@netbsd.org
.
.El
.
.Ss "Legal Mumbo-Jumbo"
.Pp
.
All product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective owners.
.Pp
The following notices are required to satisfy the license terms of
the software that we have mentioned in this document:
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