From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 17 22:41:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359BD16A41C for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:41:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from carl@thegoodone.mine.nu) Received: from smtp-one-1.wash.one.se (smtp-one-1.one.se [213.80.101.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E68A43D48 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:41:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from carl@thegoodone.mine.nu) Received: from localhost (smtp-one-1.local [127.0.0.1]) by re-injector1.wash.one.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0654B2687E for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:37:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-one-1.wash.one.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp-one-1.wash.one.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 49145-01 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:37:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from thegoodone.mine.nu (81-170-146-43.bahnhofbredband.net [81.170.146.43]) by smtp-one-1.wash.one.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id B079A26871 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:37:00 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <42DADE8F.8030903@thegoodone.mine.nu> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:41:19 +0200 From: Carl Gustavsson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <42D79676.6040606@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <42D79676.6040606@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0528-6, 2005-07-16), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at one.se (smtp-one-1) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.827 tagged_above=-999 required=7 tests=AWL, BAYES_40, MISSING_HEADERS, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:41:28 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > Announcement > ------------ > > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the > availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the > FreeBSD 6.0 Release Cycle. > > FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 branch > than the FreeBSD 5 branch was from FreeBSD 4. Much of the work that has > gone into 6.0 development has focused on polishing and improving the > work from 5.x These changes include streamlining direct device access > in the kernel, providing a multi-threaded SMP-safe UFS/VFS filesystem > layer, implementing WPA and Host-AP 802.11 features, as well as > countless bugfixes and device driver improvements. Major updates and > improvements have been made to ACPI power and thermal management, ATA, > and many aspects of the network infrastructure. 32bit application > support for AMD64 is also greatly improved, as is compatiblity with > certain Athlon64 motherboards. This release is also the first to > feature experimental PowerPC support for the Macintosh G3 and G4 > platforms. Can anyone direct me to more information about the new WPA and Host-AP 802.11 features? / Carl