Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 17:09:35 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: article on 4.0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001071019460.19226-100000@vnode.vmunix.com> In-Reply-To: <200001071514.KAA17803@blackhelicopters.org>
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Daemon News needs an article on this also. Our publish times are much quicker. We need about 2 weeks lead time and we publish on the 1st of every month. Chris Coleman Daemon News Editor in Chief http://www.daemonnews.org Bringing BSD together On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Michael Lucas wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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