Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:11:26 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: BSDI 3.0 feature list Message-ID: <199610160111.TAA08069@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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This is a bit off-topic, but I find it ironic that BSDI 3.0 contains
almost everything FreeBSD -current had (or stuff we've had for quite a
while now). We're only missing some of the 'built-in' WWW stuff which
can be gotten as aftermarket add-ons for FreeBSD, or their
'work-in-progress' stuff which NetBSD already provides.
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From: Doug Urner <dlu@wobble.albatross.com>
To: bsdi-users@bsdi.com
Subject: BSD/OS 3.0 New Features and Improvements
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:19:22 -0700
We've got our next release, 3.0, pretty well ironed out and beta
testing is under way. We expect to be shipping to customers by the
end of the year. When 3.0 ships all customers with current support
contracts and those who purchased 2.1 within the last 60 days will
receive the 3.0 release at no charge. This might be a good time to
think about renewing that lapsed support contract :-)
The 3.0 CD-ROM will include a number of third party packages, some
demos and some fully functional versions. We're still ironing out the
details, when this is complete I'll send the info to the list.
Anyway, here's the short list of what's in 3.0. There may be a few
changes as beta feedback comes back, but this should be pretty close.
If you don't see the feature that you were hoping for now would be a
great time to tell us. Planning for the 3.1 release is underway and
now is when we can really use the input.
Doug
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Douglas L. Urner, dlu@bsdi.com
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o System Administration:
Web-based system administration interface:
modular, script-driven, new components easily added
NIS client support
New "getty daemon" manages modems, simplifies PPP dial-out
o Upgrade to 4.4BSD-Lite2
o Network Services:
Squid caching web proxy
Improved virtual hosting (Telnet, FTP in addition to HTTP)
Fully integrated RADIUS support
Kerberos support now integrated, available to international customers
(encryption, including rlogin/telnet, still separate)
IPX gateway with five client seats
SNMP tools (scotty, tkined, tknm)
o Network:
Improved defenses against denial of service attacks
Kernel level packet filter
Further TCP performance improvements
TCP path MTU discovery
PPP enhancements:
- PAP and CHAP authentication support
- Multi-link PPP
Tunnel driver
Improved statistics
o Filesystem Support:
Filesystem clean flag, no check needed after clean shutdown
Long file name support for MS-DOS filesystem
o Hardware Support:
SCSI enhancements:
- Fast and Wide SCSI support on all capable host adapters
- Tagged queuing
- Generic device interface, simplifies support of devices like
scanners
Striped/concatenated disk partitions
Simplified configuration of network interfaces
Dynamically-loadable keyboard map
New and/or updated drivers:
- BusLogic Flashpoint SCSI host adapters
- DEC, SMC 10/100 MB Ethernet support
- DPT
- Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B
- Quick-Cam
- SDL N2pci
- Stallion serial multi-port driver
PCMCIA and power management support
o Programming Support:
Java Development Kit (JDK) ported to BSD/OS
POSIX Threads Support
Thread Safe C Library
GDB version 4.16
Electric Fence 2.0.5 malloc() Debugger
Latest Perl, tk, tcl
read()/write() and mmap() now coherent
o Work In Progress:
While we're at it, here is a short run down of some of the work in
progress for future releases. Both the SPARC and PowerPC ports
are well underway. Both ports are targeted at the "embedded"
systems market. If you're interested in using either of these
ports in an "embedded" product please contact Randy Brem, VP of
Embedded Systems Sales, at +1 408.842.9020.
On the MP front we have a "giant lock" kernel running on dual
Pentiums in our lab. MP development is one of the main priorities
for the next year. Development of an NFS lock manager is also a
high priority.
I'm sure you'll let me know what else needs to be on the list :-)
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