Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 10:34:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 release Message-ID: <19991004103426.Z40186@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910031005060.5235-100000@rac3.wam.umd.edu>; from Kenneth Wayne Culver on Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:06:52AM -0400 References: <19991003093310.E40186@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910031005060.5235-100000@rac3.wam.umd.edu>
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On Sunday, 3 October 1999 at 10:06:52 -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Saturday, 2 October 1999 at 7:45:26 -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: >>> 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. >>> >>> 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. >> >> Well, there isn't much alternative, and that's the way it is with >> 3.3-RELEASE. There will be relatively few differences in 4.0, though >> some programs will attempt to load a module if they find it isn't in >> the kernel. > > I just thought it would be cool maybe to have modules for the sound driver > too. And maybe for the scsi drivers. I mean to give those linux people > another reason to switch. (If we make this an option, many people will > switch from linux, A lot of my friends wouldn't switch until I told them > that FreeBSD has KLDs, which are very similar to linux kernel modules) I'm a fan of klds, but I don't think they're that important, and they pose some interesting problems, which Linux hasn't attempted to solve. I don't expect the SCSI driver to be modularized in the near future, but it's possible that sound would be. 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
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