From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 10:52:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972A2156B2 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 10:52:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from nwlink.com (ip3.r16.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.176.3]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA20886 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 10:23:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3874DCD2.748AECAB@nwlink.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 10:20:02 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any Ideas When We're Going to See 4.0-RELEASE? References: <0025685D.0052E516.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk> <20000105214755.C14126@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <387437A7.58A7F307@nwlink.com> <20000106093321.A66645@mithrandr.moria.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > 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. I thought the configuration and compiling of a 4.0 kernel was supposed to be about the same as with 3.x. > 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. You mean stuff that people like me would never notice? > 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 -- Best Regards, Joseph You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message