From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 7 10:41:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09466157E7 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 10:41:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from nwlink.com (ip106.r2.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.172.106]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA26183 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 10:41:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38763293.C596D6EF@nwlink.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 10:38:11 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any Ideas When We're Going to See 4.0-RELEASE? References: <0025685D.0052E516.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk> <20000105214755.C14126@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <387437A7.58A7F307@nwlink.com> <20000106093321.A66645@mithrandr.moria.org> <3874DCD2.748AECAB@nwlink.com> <20000107121720.C80425@mithrandr.moria.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > On Thu 2000-01-06 (10:20), R Joseph Wright wrote: > > I thought the configuration and compiling of a 4.0 kernel was supposed > > to be about the same as with 3.x. > > It's the same, except people may be used to doing the kernel after > world, whereas currently we need to do the kernel before the world. > > > > 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? > > Maybe not. What would you notice? (: I guess I'll just have to wait and see. I learn more about the system all the time, and sometimes I surprise myself by knowing more than I realized. But, you see, I don't have a network card, I don't know how to program C, I don't even know what ATA means. So it sounds to me like on the surface, 4.0 is going to look the same as 3.x. > > Neil > -- > Neil Blakey-Milner > nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za -- 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