From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 5 23:33:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FEA4155A4 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 23:33:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 1267Q9-000Haj-00; Thu, 06 Jan 2000 09:33:21 +0200 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:33:21 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any Ideas When We're Going to See 4.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <20000106093321.A66645@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <0025685D.0052E516.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk> <20000105214755.C14126@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <387437A7.58A7F307@nwlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <387437A7.58A7F307@nwlink.com> Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 2000-01-05 (22:35), R Joseph Wright wrote: > It seems like answers have been pretty vague on what it is that will be > the big change between 3.x and 4.0. Will it be possible to cvsup the > 4.0 source and make world from 3.4 pretty easily? I've recently done this (to -CURRENT, obviously) on my new laptop, and it was a breeze. The only gotcha is having to build a 4.0 kernel first and boot from it. As to differences between 3.x and 4.0, there's a lot of work on the ATA subsystem, network devices, pccard stuff, new gcc, newer ntp, and many vm related changes. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message