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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 17:09:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com>
To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
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Subject: Re: article on 4.0
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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?
> 
> 
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