Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:24:16 +0000 From: Joe Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: J McKitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 questions Message-ID: <20000315202416.B38482@genius.systems.pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <20000315201904.A5253@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:19:04PM %2B0000 References: <20000315123937.B33126@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150935580.11038-100000@mammalia.sea> <20000315174907.C3638@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315194743.F52322@florence.pavilion.net> <20000315195316.A5217@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315200915.G52322@florence.pavilion.net> <20000315201904.A5253@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:19:04PM +0000, J McKitrick wrote: > > That good, eh? Well, i wouldn't call it 'mission critical' but it is > important that the basics stay functional pretty predictably, like > windowmaker, netscape, ppp, vim, cdrom, sound, zip drive, etc. Other > than that, i'm just a little wary about the first bumper crop of bugs. I've running windowmaker, netscape, ppp, vim, cdrom and sound on the laptop :) (no zip drive though - although I've seen nothing that would lead me to believe that it won't work). > What makes it 'much much better than 3.0'? > > You mean 3.x in general? Or just the quality of this x.0 release > compared to 3.0? It's had a memory management overhaul, it's got better disk drivers (ad driver) to start off with. There are a number of things that are better than 3.x in general, and yet this x.0 release is much better than the last one (3.0). Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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