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SubjectRe: 2.5 'what to expect'
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 has been superceded by a userspace replacement.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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