Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 10:06:40 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990710100246.14320y-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907100816491.27830-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Steve Hovey wrote: > > out of curiousity, whats new about 4 that caused the jump in numbering > from 3.X? 4.0 is the -current branch, it's an experimental branch that is more aggressive about changes, here's just a few big differences: 1) egcs is the system compiler 2) major rewrites of the VM, NFS and VFS code 3) new device API 4) not nearly as well tested as -stable. 5) running -current sort of puts you on your own if you come across a bug. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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