Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 19:03:44 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: article on 4.0 Message-ID: <38769B00.7A6DE354@softweyr.com> References: <200001071514.KAA17803@blackhelicopters.org>
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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.
Are the committers and/or cvs-all mailing lists archived?
> *Massive flame wars with dillon, pkh, and karl -- ahem, I'll skip this one
Good.
> *Linux emulation improvement & signals changes -- does this actually
> improve any other system functions, or does it just improve our Linux
> compatability?
Linuxthreads?
> *scads of device drivers (yes, scads *is* a technical term)
I believe the correct technical term here would be a "buttload."
There have also been a buttload of new and updated ports.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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