From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 17 08:55:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B5CF16A41F for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:55:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (ms-2.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6684343D5A for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:55:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from r220-1 (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IRM004LHWT0G1@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:55:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.3.1]) by r220-1 (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:55:48 +0100 (MET) Received: from bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (bigspace.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.2]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.3/8.13.3/1) with ESMTP id jBH8tlpf006521; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:55:47 +0100 (MET) Received: from lorien.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de ([137.226.181.92] helo=haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de) by bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1EnXr1-0007Yk-TD; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:55:47 +0100 Received: by haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 98FCB3F412; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:55:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:55:17 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <1134809700l.24187l.0l@HP> To: Allen Message-id: <20051217085517.GA1132@unixpages.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE X-PGP-Key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <43A26FFB.9080405@samsco.org> <20051216104022.A20877@cons.org> <20051217063409.GB19094@silverwraith.com> <1134809700l.24187l.0l@HP> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My wish list for 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:55:51 -0000 --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > Must be great having boxes like that ;) You know what I'd like to see =20 > in the next Free BSD? A way to update security fixes without having to = =20 > play with any source, or having to touch make world. I know the speed =20 > and so on makes some people like this, but I personally try getting =20 > people who use Windows to switch to another OS or at least show them =20 > something else exists, and it's hard to make someone want to use Free =20 > BSD when installing patches can be such a timely manner. >=20 > I know about the port tool, but what I'd love to have is a tool you =20 > could run from the CLI or the GUI that would check for updates, and =20 > then ask which ones to install, similar to Swaret on Slackware. This =20 > way people can do the usual updates if they want, and people like me =20 > can show people BSD and how great it is. >=20 You probably haven't seen ports/security/freebsd-update yet. See http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ for more information. - Christian --=20 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 --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDo9J1bHYXjKDtmC0RAlCCAJ0WFDDfncTVz39MBxhPKyRBBdU0HwCfV/D9 Q/MCw7BL6Zu0D1PkZaJ9Zh8= =gO8v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z--