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Date:      Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:50:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Cc:        Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>, Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdg.de>, Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, <advocacy@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Companies awaiting 5.0 technology
Message-ID:  <20021108144621.E53167-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
In-Reply-To: <3DCBD040.7010900@centtech.com>

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On 2002-11-08, Eric Anderson scribbled:

# Here's a few things I think look "cool":
#
# [snip]
#
# We can (and should) hunt the developers of these features down and ask
# for details..  Some are just "honorable mentions", but some are full
# blown kick-arse features (like snapshots).

Where is? :)

- Cardbus support
- FireWire support (which recently got brought down to -STABLE)
- Additional platform support (sparc64, mips, and possibly macppc)

I can't think of anymore right now... but those right there entice me,
mostly when I have a Sun Ultra 10 that's just dying for FreeBSD.

CardBus support is a huge boon for mobile users as this opens the door
to 802.11a wireless cards, 10/100 Ethernet cards and (for me) USB 2.0
and FireWire add-on cards for laptops.

-- 

Linh Pham                                         lplist@closedsrc.org
Webmaster and FreeBSD Geek                        http://closedsrc.org
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