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Date:      Sun, 3 Oct 1999 09:33:11 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.0 release
Message-ID:  <19991003093310.E40186@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910020744170.2079-100000@rac10.wam.umd.edu>; from Kenneth Wayne Culver on Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 07:45:26AM -0400
References:  <19991002110212.N496@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910020744170.2079-100000@rac10.wam.umd.edu>

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On Saturday,  2 October 1999 at  7:45:26 -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> On Friday,  1 October 1999 at  7:11:12 +0000, Sabre wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Ya, better NFS!  Actually, I'm quite happy with the NFS stuff I have now
>>> setup (got the permissions all setup and everything is running great :)
>>> The hot loadable kernel is going to ROCK!
>>
>> The kernel won't be hot loadable, you'll just be able to load
>> modules.  In fact, you can do that with 3.3, so this isn't specific to
>> 4.0.
>
> I was under the impression, (maybe I'm wrong here) that 4.0-RELEASE will
> have nearly all the drivers configurable to run as modules or compiled
> into the kernel.

Well, there isn't much alternative, and that's the way it is with
3.3-RELEASE.  There will be relatively few differences in 4.0, though
some programs will attempt to load a module if they find it isn't in
the kernel.

Greg
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