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From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
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Subject: Congrats on CURRENT 5/1 SNAP...
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I just installed the FreeBSD-CURRENT May 1 snapshot on my home box and
it's working perfectly.  Congratulations all, on the most "STABLE" CURRENT
release yet!  I also supped -current (May 19) and rebuilt world and the
kernel and that seems to be working fine as well.  In particular I am
impressed by the more efficient RAM usage (VM changes + new malloc) and
excellent Linux support (a.out + ELF + sound).  This is the first -current
I've been able to run at home (the previous SNAP's boot floppy panicked
sysinstall) so the improvement is really noticable compared to -stable.

Also, I had been running Solaris x86 recently, and now I'm wondering why I
hadn't upgraded FreeBSD sooner!  The performance boost in PPP and XFree86,
along with being able to run Netscape, and MUCH less swapping, has
switched me back to FreeBSD for good.  My plan now is to try to bring in
Solaris/ELF support (possibly from NetBSD) so that I can run all the
Solaris "goodies" like ksh, Openwindows tools, Motif, and CDE (that, along
with the fact that I do Solaris/SPARC development at work/school, was the
main reason I bought Solaris/x86 [at educational discount] in the first
place).

My other plans for -current are:  Upgrading the Linux libraries package to
better support the JDK (libc 5.3.x) and other ELF programs, upgrading a
few ports, and once GCC 2.7.3 is released (soon?), rebuilding world and
kernel under GCC-2.7.2 with -O2 optimization to see if anything breaks. 
Out of personal preference (whether or not it ever goes in the tree), I'd
also like to reduce the number of statically-linked binaries (i.e. move
/bin to /usr/bin like Linux and Solaris) to those needed for boot and
/stand for emergency use, and revamp the boot scripts to support
SVR4-style /etc/init.d for safer package installs.  Again, thanks to
everyone for the high quality of -current and the May 1 SNAP! 

---Jake