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Date:      Sat, 2 Oct 1999 07:45:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.0 release
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910020744170.2079-100000@rac10.wam.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19991002110212.N496@freebie.lemis.com>

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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.

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.
> 
> Greg
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