From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 2 4:46: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF8915221 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 04:45:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (root@rac10.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.150]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA01117; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 07:45:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA02096; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 07:45:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA02092; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 07:45:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac10.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 07:45:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 release In-Reply-To: <19991002110212.N496@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was under the impression, (maybe I'm wrong here) that 4.0-RELEASE will have nearly all the drivers configurable to run as modules or compiled into the kernel. On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 1 October 1999 at 7:11:12 +0000, Sabre wrote: > >> The questions was "What can I expect from 4.0-RELEASE?" The answer is: > >> 1) Installation bugs. x.0 releases are always a test of grit. :-) > >> 2) A tight, small kernel with hot loadable module support. > >> 3) Vastly improved NFS. > > > > Ya, better NFS! Actually, I'm quite happy with the NFS stuff I have now > > setup (got the permissions all setup and everything is running great :) > > The hot loadable kernel is going to ROCK! > > The kernel won't be hot loadable, you'll just be able to load > modules. In fact, you can do that with 3.3, so this isn't specific to > 4.0. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message