| Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:50:31 -0700 | From | Paul Dickson <> | Subject | Re: 2.5 'what to expect' |
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:02:19 +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> Deprecated features. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > - khttpd is gone. > - Older Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) support (For XFree86 4.0) > has been removed. Upgrade to XFree86 4.1.0 or higher. > - LVM1 has been removed. See Device-mapper below. > - boot time root= parsing changed. > ramdisks are now ram<n> instead of rd<n> and cm206 is cm206cd (instead of > cm206). > - The system call table is no longer exported. Any module that relied > on this previously will no longer work. > - Soundmodem hamradio support has been removed. Its functionality > has been superceded by a userspace replacement. > http://www.baycom.org/~tom/ham/soundmodem > - Direct booting from floppy is no longer supported. > You should now use a boot loader program instead. > - Callout tty devices (/dev/cua) have been deprecated since 2.1.90pre2. > Support is now removed.
These are not deprecated, they are gone. Deprecated means "in the process of being phased out, but still usable".
-Paul Dickson
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