Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:33:17 +1100 From: Jonathan Michaels <jon@welearn.com.au> To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cutting Edge Features Message-ID: <20001211093315.A22025@phoenix.welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20001206183722.I29680@moose.bri.hp.com>; from Steve Roome on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:37:22PM %2B0000 References: <20001206183722.I29680@moose.bri.hp.com>
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:37:22PM +0000, Steve Roome wrote: > Summary: The www.freebsd.org/features.html page is way out of date > even if it did apparently get updated 2000/04/03! > > Okay, no patch included, sorry, here's some comments anyway. > > The features highlighted are : > > 1) bounce buffers > 2) merged vm and fs buffer cache. > 3) compatibility modules > 4) loadable kernel modules > 5) shared libraries > > I'm sure this is going to be considered flamebait, and no doubt I'll > get flamed for this, but surely these are not the best features of > FreeBSD! > > Can I suggest as additions/improvements : 6, some mention of the minimum requirement for hardware, condidering that as of v3 the minuimum dram requirement rose to 8 or so megabyte and v4 requires some 12 mb to install if not to run and v5 may not run adiquately on old i386 platform no matter how fast you clock it up or how much dram gets crammed into teh little slots. sorry for the 'timewarp' but some people suffer with nostalgia or a severe case of 'unupgradabilitus' and so use every longer in the tooth hardware because its reliable and serves the purposes well. with warm regards and thanks jonathan wishing all a happy and holy christmas, with a peacefull new year -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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