From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 23:09:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA17252 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:09:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.230]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA17247 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:09:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00301; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:08:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Gabor Zahemszky cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new features in 2.1.5 In-Reply-To: <199607191507.PAA00367@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Gabor Zahemszky wrote: > Are there > ibcs ELF-loader? No. > linux ELF-loader? Not in 2.1.5, yes in -current. > bsdi 2.x loader? Yes. 2.0 at least. > And another one: i've heard so much about devfs. What's that? A non-filesystem based device heirarchy. It's still under development in -current. The idea is that devices could be configured on the fly and added/removed as necessary. Something like that. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major