Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:11:26 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: BSDI 3.0 feature list Message-ID: <199610160111.TAA08069@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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This is a bit off-topic, but I find it ironic that BSDI 3.0 contains almost everything FreeBSD -current had (or stuff we've had for quite a while now). We're only missing some of the 'built-in' WWW stuff which can be gotten as aftermarket add-ons for FreeBSD, or their 'work-in-progress' stuff which NetBSD already provides. ------- From: Doug Urner <dlu@wobble.albatross.com> To: bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: BSD/OS 3.0 New Features and Improvements Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:19:22 -0700 We've got our next release, 3.0, pretty well ironed out and beta testing is under way. We expect to be shipping to customers by the end of the year. When 3.0 ships all customers with current support contracts and those who purchased 2.1 within the last 60 days will receive the 3.0 release at no charge. This might be a good time to think about renewing that lapsed support contract :-) The 3.0 CD-ROM will include a number of third party packages, some demos and some fully functional versions. We're still ironing out the details, when this is complete I'll send the info to the list. Anyway, here's the short list of what's in 3.0. There may be a few changes as beta feedback comes back, but this should be pretty close. If you don't see the feature that you were hoping for now would be a great time to tell us. Planning for the 3.1 release is underway and now is when we can really use the input. Doug - -- Douglas L. Urner, dlu@bsdi.com - --8<----------------------------------------------------------------- o System Administration: Web-based system administration interface: modular, script-driven, new components easily added NIS client support New "getty daemon" manages modems, simplifies PPP dial-out o Upgrade to 4.4BSD-Lite2 o Network Services: Squid caching web proxy Improved virtual hosting (Telnet, FTP in addition to HTTP) Fully integrated RADIUS support Kerberos support now integrated, available to international customers (encryption, including rlogin/telnet, still separate) IPX gateway with five client seats SNMP tools (scotty, tkined, tknm) o Network: Improved defenses against denial of service attacks Kernel level packet filter Further TCP performance improvements TCP path MTU discovery PPP enhancements: - PAP and CHAP authentication support - Multi-link PPP Tunnel driver Improved statistics o Filesystem Support: Filesystem clean flag, no check needed after clean shutdown Long file name support for MS-DOS filesystem o Hardware Support: SCSI enhancements: - Fast and Wide SCSI support on all capable host adapters - Tagged queuing - Generic device interface, simplifies support of devices like scanners Striped/concatenated disk partitions Simplified configuration of network interfaces Dynamically-loadable keyboard map New and/or updated drivers: - BusLogic Flashpoint SCSI host adapters - DEC, SMC 10/100 MB Ethernet support - DPT - Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B - Quick-Cam - SDL N2pci - Stallion serial multi-port driver PCMCIA and power management support o Programming Support: Java Development Kit (JDK) ported to BSD/OS POSIX Threads Support Thread Safe C Library GDB version 4.16 Electric Fence 2.0.5 malloc() Debugger Latest Perl, tk, tcl read()/write() and mmap() now coherent o Work In Progress: While we're at it, here is a short run down of some of the work in progress for future releases. Both the SPARC and PowerPC ports are well underway. Both ports are targeted at the "embedded" systems market. If you're interested in using either of these ports in an "embedded" product please contact Randy Brem, VP of Embedded Systems Sales, at +1 408.842.9020. On the MP front we have a "giant lock" kernel running on dual Pentiums in our lab. MP development is one of the main priorities for the next year. Development of an NFS lock manager is also a high priority. I'm sure you'll let me know what else needs to be on the list :-) ------- end -------
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