Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 10:20:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Congrats on CURRENT 5/1 SNAP... Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960520095732.25403A-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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I just installed the FreeBSD-CURRENT May 1 snapshot on my home box and it's working perfectly. Congratulations all, on the most "STABLE" CURRENT release yet! I also supped -current (May 19) and rebuilt world and the kernel and that seems to be working fine as well. In particular I am impressed by the more efficient RAM usage (VM changes + new malloc) and excellent Linux support (a.out + ELF + sound). This is the first -current I've been able to run at home (the previous SNAP's boot floppy panicked sysinstall) so the improvement is really noticable compared to -stable. Also, I had been running Solaris x86 recently, and now I'm wondering why I hadn't upgraded FreeBSD sooner! The performance boost in PPP and XFree86, along with being able to run Netscape, and MUCH less swapping, has switched me back to FreeBSD for good. My plan now is to try to bring in Solaris/ELF support (possibly from NetBSD) so that I can run all the Solaris "goodies" like ksh, Openwindows tools, Motif, and CDE (that, along with the fact that I do Solaris/SPARC development at work/school, was the main reason I bought Solaris/x86 [at educational discount] in the first place). My other plans for -current are: Upgrading the Linux libraries package to better support the JDK (libc 5.3.x) and other ELF programs, upgrading a few ports, and once GCC 2.7.3 is released (soon?), rebuilding world and kernel under GCC-2.7.2 with -O2 optimization to see if anything breaks. Out of personal preference (whether or not it ever goes in the tree), I'd also like to reduce the number of statically-linked binaries (i.e. move /bin to /usr/bin like Linux and Solaris) to those needed for boot and /stand for emergency use, and revamp the boot scripts to support SVR4-style /etc/init.d for safer package installs. Again, thanks to everyone for the high quality of -current and the May 1 SNAP! ---Jake
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