From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jan 7 7:14:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B54B015766 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 07:14:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA17803 for advocacy@freebsd.org; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 10:14:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <200001071514.KAA17803@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: article on 4.0 To: advocacy@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 10:14:31 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, with the feature freeze, this seems to be a good time to try to push an article on the new features in 4.0. Print articles take about 4 months to appear, so I need to get moving on this. This seems to be the best place to ask: Does anyone have a complete list of the major improvements/enhancements in -current? Unfortunately, the mailing list search engine doesn't work well for this sort of thing, so I'm stuck with stored messages from -current and hazy information from my sporadically-firing gray matter. The ones that stuck in my brain are: *VM enhancements *NTFS reading *NFS enhancements *Novell connectivity *Massive flame wars with dillon, pkh, and karl -- ahem, I'll skip this one *Linux emulation improvement & signals changes -- does this actually improve any other system functions, or does it just improve our Linux compatability? *scads of device drivers (yes, scads *is* a technical term) *Netgraph (merged into -stable recently, I know, but unfamiliar enough to most people that it's worth a mention) *partial IPv6 support Does this cover it? Is there an official document? Thanks, Michael PS: For anyone who cares, the proofs arrived for my next Sys Admin article yesterday. Thanks again to all who reviewed them, I owe each of you a drink or two. PPS: Does anyone know if Sunworld.com is a paying market? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message