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  <H2><A NAME="1"></A>1. Introductory Note about the release 3.3.5</H2>

<p>Before looking into this file, please check for any LATEST.OS2 files
that may come with the binary distribution. Please also check out the
following XFree86/OS2 WWW pages:
<ul>
<li><A href="http://set.gmd.de/~veit/os2/xf86os2.html">http://set.gmd.de/~veit/os2/xf86os2.html</A> </li>
<li><A href="http://set.gmd.de/~veit/os2/xf86bugs.html">http://set.gmd.de/~veit/os2/xf86bugs.html</A> </li>
<li><A href="http://set.gmd.de/~veit/os2/x11os2faq.html">http://set.gmd.de/~veit/os2/x11os2faq.html</A> </li>
</ul>

before you claim to have found any problems.</p>
<p>This version of the code is called XFree86/OS2 3.3.5. This is a
bugfix release for 3.3.3.1 (3.3.4 was never released for XFree86/OS2)
which also adds hardware support for some newer cards, including AGP 
boards. XFree86-3.3.5 contains all security fixes that were released 
for earlier versions. See the RELNOTES document for details. </p>
<p>XFree86/OS2-3.3.5 is a full, unrestricted version which does not
expire, and for which the complete  source code is available. In
contrast to beta versions, we consider this  code as sufficiently
stable for use by an end user. Since there  have been numerous
bugfixes, we recommend this version, even if you had  XFree86/OS2 3.3.x
before and it worked satisfyingly with your hardware. By the time
3.3.5 is released, the older version 3.3 will be withdrawn, and
archives will be updated to this version. There may still be
references  to 3.3 or 3.3.x still in documents; these apply 
to 3.3.5 as well, unless otherwise noted.</p>
<p>Previous versions have been tested in a large number of configurations
and have been found to be working, with some bugs left, rather flawlessly.</p>
<p>This release is almost complete (with a few exceptions) regarding
the X11R6.3 ``core'' distribution. A subset of the ``contrib'' distribution
is available from the ported software page 
<A href="http://set.gmd.de/~veit/os2/xf86ported.html">http://set.gmd.de/~veit/os2/xf86ported.html</A> </p>
<p>In the past beta testing, it has been found that the software itself
is rather stable and does not damage hardware - provided the user
does not try to push the builtin limits and change certain
configuration parameters which could operate the video hardware out
of specs.</p>
<p>However,
<ul>
<li>even with a code we consider stable there is no explicit or implicit 
warranty that certain code works correctly or works at all</li>
<li>although no damage reports are known, it does not mean that it is
impossible to damage hardware with this code; some deeply hidden
bugs may still be present in the software.</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>It is recommended that you backup essential data of your system before
installing this software, but this should be your general precautions 
before ANY installation. No reports exist that a crashing X server itself
actively destroys or modifies data, but it is possible in rare cases
that the system is left in an unusable state (video display mode garbled
or system unresponsive, not reacting to mouse or keyboard actions).
If you then hard reset or switch off the system, file caches of the operating
system might not be written correctly back to disk, thus causing data loss.</p>

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