Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:55:17 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Allen <slackwarewolf@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My wish list for 6.1 Message-ID: <20051217085517.GA1132@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <1134809700l.24187l.0l@HP> References: <43A26FFB.9080405@samsco.org> <20051216104022.A20877@cons.org> <20051217063409.GB19094@silverwraith.com> <1134809700l.24187l.0l@HP>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:55:00AM +0000, Allen wrote: > On 12/17/2005 01:34:09 AM, Avleen Vig wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:40:22AM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > >> > 2. SMP kernels for install. Right now we only install a UP > >kernel, for > >> > performance reasons. We should be able to package both a UP and > >SMP > >> > kernel into the release bits, and have sysinstall install both. > >It > >> > should also select the correct one for the target system and make > >that > >> > the default on boot. > >> > >> If people are concerned about performance, I benchmarked a 6-beta > >> kernel SMP versus UP on a socket 939 Opteron. > > Must be great having boxes like that ;) You know what I'd like to see > in the next Free BSD? A way to update security fixes without having to > play with any source, or having to touch make world. I know the speed > and so on makes some people like this, but I personally try getting > people who use Windows to switch to another OS or at least show them > something else exists, and it's hard to make someone want to use Free > BSD when installing patches can be such a timely manner. > > I know about the port tool, but what I'd love to have is a tool you > could run from the CLI or the GUI that would check for updates, and > then ask which ones to install, similar to Swaret on Slackware. This > way people can do the usual updates if they want, and people like me > can show people BSD and how great it is. > You probably haven't seen ports/security/freebsd-update yet. See http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ for more information. - Christian -- Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDo9J1bHYXjKDtmC0RAlCCAJ0WFDDfncTVz39MBxhPKyRBBdU0HwCfV/D9 Q/MCw7BL6Zu0D1PkZaJ9Zh8= =gO8v -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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