From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 12 14:47:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from p.funk.org (node1484.a2000.nl [62.108.20.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FBFB14D30 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:47:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alexlh@p.funk.org) Received: (from alexlh@localhost) by p.funk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA25560; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:44:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alexlh) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:44:20 +0200 From: Alex Le Heux To: "Charles A. Peters" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: version 2.2.8-stable -vs- version 3.2-stable (what's the advantage to going to 3.2-stable) Message-ID: <19990712234420.D25161@funk.org> References: <000201becc64$4dd8c3c0$0700a8c0@charles.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <000201becc64$4dd8c3c0$0700a8c0@charles.domain>; from Charles A. Peters on Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 08:44:38AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 08:44:38AM -0400, Charles A. Peters wrote: > Question: > > What is the major difference in going to 3.2-stable, as opposed to staying > with 2.2.8-stable? Quite a few things changed, there are new drivers, etc. The thing that I like most is that it supports Softupdates. Softupdates speed up writes to the filesystem enormously. You should be able to find more at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ Cheers, Alex -- +--------------------------------+-------------------+ | SMTP: | E-Gold: 101979 | | ICBM: N52 22.64'6 E4 51.54'1 | PGP: 0x1d512a3f | +--------------------------------+-------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message