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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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