From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Nov 8 14:50:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65ABF37B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7125D43E3B for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:50:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 2E966537C; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:50:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A528537B; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:50:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:50:47 -0800 (PST) From: Linh Pham To: Eric Anderson Cc: Haikal Saadh , Konrad Heuer , Michael Lucas , Subject: Re: Companies awaiting 5.0 technology In-Reply-To: <3DCBD040.7010900@centtech.com> Message-ID: <20021108144621.E53167-100000@q.closedsrc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 closedsrc.org Every solution breeds new problems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message