From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 8 15:10:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 59F6514C8A; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 15:10:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ED361CD625; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 15:10:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 15:10:49 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Sean-Paul Rees Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NetBSD Features page In-Reply-To: <3877C2DB.ECF91EA5@dreamfire.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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