Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 10:20:02 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any Ideas When We're Going to See 4.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <3874DCD2.748AECAB@nwlink.com> References: <0025685D.0052E516.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk> <20000105214755.C14126@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <387437A7.58A7F307@nwlink.com> <20000106093321.A66645@mithrandr.moria.org>
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Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > On Wed 2000-01-05 (22:35), R Joseph Wright wrote: > > It seems like answers have been pretty vague on what it is that will be > > the big change between 3.x and 4.0. Will it be possible to cvsup the > > 4.0 source and make world from 3.4 pretty easily? > > I've recently done this (to -CURRENT, obviously) on my new laptop, and > it was a breeze. The only gotcha is having to build a 4.0 kernel first > and boot from it. I thought the configuration and compiling of a 4.0 kernel was supposed to be about the same as with 3.x. > As to differences between 3.x and 4.0, there's a lot of work on > the ATA subsystem, network devices, pccard stuff, new gcc, newer > ntp, and many vm related changes. You mean stuff that people like me would never notice? > Neil > -- > Neil Blakey-Milner > nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Best Regards, Joseph You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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