From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 17:45: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501F637B5B1 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:44:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA12357; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:44:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <398228FB.8990C560@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:44:43 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simara Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Roadmap and Weak Spots - A regular SysAdmin perspective References: <015201bff8d2$cba8ef50$acb701c8@southamerica.corp.microsoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Simara wrote: > 1.Officially is there a roadmap? Where? There are a lot of topics discussed on the -current mailing list. The current "big project" is improving the kernel threading. Other than that, since this is a volunteer project people tend to work on what they want to. Sometimes they announce it ahead of time, sometimes they don't. We like it that way. > 2. GUI besides X11 on the works? (I really like X11, just asking) No. Nor is there a need for one. > 3. Talking about the auth protocols and communications add-ons just to point > what is new in the OS, are there any long term projects that have something > really new on the works? IPSEC and IPV6 aren't exciting enough for you? Those two are both huge evolutionary steps in the growth of the internet. What other kinds of "add-ons" are you looking for? Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message