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Date:      Fri, 01 Oct 1999 11:33:02 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        Mainframe TheSurfer <mejnfrejm@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.0 release 
Message-ID:  <37763.938770382@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Sep 1999 20:23:10 %2B0100." <19990930202310.A14170@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> 

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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 20:23:10 +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote:

> 4.0 is the "-current" branch of FreeBSD development, releases are not
> taken from this branch. If you are not running -current, you can pretty
> much ignore these packages for 4.0.

Actually, 4.0 will one day be the stable branch. :-)

The questions was "What can I expect from 4.0-RELEASE?" The answer is:

1) Installation bugs. x.0 releases are always a test of grit. :-)
2) A tight, small kernel with hot loadable module support.
3) Vastly improved NFS.

:-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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