From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Nov 8 14:55:23 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 0CAE737B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:55:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BBA443E42 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:55:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 28394 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2002 22:55:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 8 Nov 2002 22:55:29 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA8MtIn5061591; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:55:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20021108144621.E53167-100000@q.closedsrc.org> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 17:55:18 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Linh Pham Subject: Re: Companies awaiting 5.0 technology Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org, Michael Lucas , Konrad Heuer , Haikal Saadh , Eric Anderson 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 08-Nov-2002 Linh Pham wrote: > 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) Not mips, and ppc isnt' very far along. sparc64 and ia64 should basically be fully supported except that X servers might not work on them. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message