Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 15:10:49 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> To: Sean-Paul Rees <sean@dreamfire.net> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NetBSD Features page Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001081508230.39500-100000@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3877C2DB.ECF91EA5@dreamfire.net>
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On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Sean-Paul Rees wrote: > NetBSD just added a features page to their site. It details some of the > new and cool features of NetBSD, like the "High Performance PCI IDE" and > their new VM subsystem, UVM. Does FreeBSD have an equivalent page? Not really - it would probably be a good thing, especially at release-time to figure out what the heck the new version HAS > High performance PCI IDE got my attention, I haven't got FreeBSD > installed on a machine with IDE. I'm planning to install a -CURRENT snap > on one shortly, and I heard that our IDE support wasn't superhot, if you > know what I mean. Has this changed in -CURRENT? (Was it superhot in the > first place, and I've just been misinformed?) -current has a superhot new ATA driver which will be present in 4.0 which is just around the corner. There are still a few corners being ironed out of the driver, but it should be pretty good by the time of the release Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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