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                        SysInfoTM 3.5.1 Release Notes

Installation

Please read the Installation instructions for information on installing
SysInfo.

New License

In order to fund future improvements to SysInfo, a new license scheme is
introduced with version 3.5. The new license allows no-cost use by
non-profit and educational institutions and requires payment for use by all
other users. More information, including pricing is available by clicking
here

SysInfo will automatically detect if it's being run on an educational or
non-profit system if the domain name of the system is one of the known
educational or non-profit domains. Currently this includes:

   * .edu
   * .edu.CC
   * .ac.CC
   * .uni-*.de
   * .org

where CC is a country code. All other institutions must register and request
a (free) license.

SysInfo will automatically allow 60-days of free use for demonstration
purposes whenever run with no license found.

New Platform Support

 Solaris 7 (SunOS    Full support for all Solaris 7 systems, including
 5.7)                64-bit (UltraSPARC) systems.

 IRIX 6.5            Add support for IRIX 6.5.

 Linux 2.0 on x86    This is the first version of SysInfo to include
                     support for Linux. All but device (hardware)
                     information is available. Linux 2.1 should also work,
                     but hasn't been tested. See Linux Notes for more
                     information.

 FreeBSD on x86      Introducing support for FreeBSD on x86 systems.
                     FreeBSD versions 2.2.x and 3.0 are supported.

 BSD/OS on x86       Introducing support for BSDi's BSD/OS on x86 systems.
                     BSD/OS 3.1 and 4.0 are supported.

 HP-UX 11.0          Add support for HP-UX 11.0.

Supported Platforms

The following table indicates what platforms are supported for this release
of SysInfo. This platform list is subject to change with each dot dot
release of SysInfo.

                                 SysInfo Class of
                                    Information

 Man.      OS       Hard-   Gen-    Ker-   Sys-   Dev-         Notes
                    ware    eral    nel    conf    ice

        Solaris
  Sun     1.x       SPARC     Y      Y      Y       Y    Not fully tested,
         (SunOS                                           but should work.
         4.1.x)

        Solaris                                          Solaris 2.5.1 - 7
                                                           (SunOS 5.5.1 -
  Sun     2.x       SPARC     Y      Y      Y       Y      5.7) verified
         (SunOS
          5.x)                                              working. See
                                                           Platform Notes

        Solaris
                                                         Solaris 2.6 (SunOS
  Sun     2.x        x86      Y      Y      Y       Y      5.6) tested on
         (SunOS
          5.x)                                           limited hardware.

  IBM   AIX 3.x,   RS6000     Y      N      Y       Y
          4.x

                                                          IRIX 5.x may no
  SGI  IRIX 5.3,    MIPS      Y      N      Y       Y       longer work.
          6.x                                            Tested on IRIX 6.2
                                                              and 6.5.

  HP   HP-UX 9.x   hp9000     Y      Y      N       Y
       10.x 11.x

         BSD/OS      x86      Y      Y      Y       Y
        3.1, 4.0

        FreeBSD
         2.2.x,      x86      Y      Y      Y       Y    See Platform Notes
          3.0

       Linux 2.0     x86      Y      Y      Y       P    See Platform Notes

 KEY:
 Y - Yes, it's supported
 N - No, it's not supported
 P - Planned

Major New Features/Improvements

Changes from 3.5 to 3.5.1

Release 3.5.1 features improved support for FreeBSD 3.0 and fixes for a
number of non-critical bugs as compared to release 3.5. Please read the
CHANGES file for details.

Previous Releases

Please see the Version 3.5 Release Notes for information about that release.

Platform Specific Notes

 Solaris 7      Starting with Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7), you will need two
                binaries for each version of the OS - one for 32-bit
                systems and one for 64-bit systems (all Ultra machines are
                64-bit). You can check which version you are running by
                looking at the first line of /etc/motd for the phrase
                "64-bit".

                To build a binary of SysInfo for a system running a 64-bit
                kernel, you must have a compatible compiler. Sun Workshop
                C Compiler 5.0 is the first Sun compiler to support this
                via the -xarch=v9 option. At the time this document was
                written there was no version of GCC which supports 64-bit
                compiles.

 Sun/SPARC EDID VESA Extend Display Identification Data (EDID) for
                monitors appears to only be available from Creator Series
                2 (FFB2) and later Creator frame buffers. No sign of EDID
                data on any other Sun framebuffer so far.

 Linux          There is no support for devices in SysInfo on Linux
                platforms at this time. This is due to lack of a
                consistant kernel interface for acquiring such
                information. The Linux core developers are aware of this
                lack and plan to add appropriate plumbing in a future
                Linux kernel. That is likely to be Linux 2.4, but may not
                make that release.

 FreeBSD        There is currently support for finding devices on PCI and
                ISA buses. There is no EISA support.
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