From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jan 7 18: 2:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9983014FBD for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:02:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id SAA29782; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:00:29 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id SAA04632; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:00:28 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn1.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.237]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id RAA26912; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 17:59:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38769B00.7A6DE354@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 19:03:44 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Lucas Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: article on 4.0 References: <200001071514.KAA17803@blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message