Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:56:44 -0800 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.0-DP2 Message-ID: <200211191056.44469.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <200211191145.12974.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> References: <200211191145.12974.avleeuwen@piwebs.com>
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On Tuesday 19 November 2002 02:45 am, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: > Now that 5.0-DP2 is out, isn't it a good idea to make a press release out > of it, that the media can quote from? Remember, we need to hype 5.0... Since I was challenged to offer benefits corresponding with 5.0 features, here's a tentative list for a few features that strike my fancy... FreeBSD now has additional support from many hot-swappable devices, such as Firewire and USB modems. New classes of consumer devices are available to the FreeBSD user, increasing the value of their hardware investment. FreeBSD now supports an extensible Mandatory Access Control framework and filesystem Access Control Lists (ACLs). A robust and flexible security framework lets systems administrators sleep easily. Access to sensitive company data can be easily partitioned among development groups. The uvisor(4) driver for connecting Handspring Visors via USB has been added. Users of FreeBSD can now use their Handspring Visors with all of their systems at home or at work. Support for the 80386 processor has been removed from the GENERIC kernel. The default FreeBSD kernel is now more optimized for modern CPUs. No longer do you have to settle for performance draining compatibility with hardware you haven't owned in a decade. ``Zero copy'' support has been added to the networking stack. This eliminates one of the more significant bottlenecks in network throughput, improving the performance of your network servers and front line portals. FreeBSD can now treat ATA devices as SCSI devices. Software that expects SCSI hardware can now be used even if your hardware is the common and inexpensive ATA format. Now there is no need to reboot into another operating system to burn your Compact Discs. Preliminary Cardbus support under NEWCARD has been added. Installing and using FreeBSD on laptops has never been easier! Drivers have been added to support the Direct Rendering Infrastructure, which can used to provide 3D acceleration within XFree86. Faster graphics and higher framerates means that FreeBSD is more suitable than ever for 3D gaming and scientific simulations. fsck now has support for background checks, speeding up the boot process. Harddrives can now be checked while you work on other tasks. gcc has been updated to version 3.2.1. The full power of C++ templates and the STL are available to the developer, while gaining even greater code optimization. FreeBSD packages are now compressed with bzip2, a more efficient data compression method than gzip. Packages smaller and consume less of your valuable bandwidth and storage. A network install of FreeBSD will be faster than ever. That's it... Just some ideas... David Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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