From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Nov 8 8:36:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1816437B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:36:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443FB43E42 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:36:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from moble.pittgoth.com ([192.168.0.5]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id gA8GaLmL093885; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:36:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:36:51 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: Eric Anderson Cc: wyldephyre2@yahoo.com, kheuer@gwdg.de, mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Companies awaiting 5.0 technology Message-Id: <20021108113651.4d721cae.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3DCBD040.7010900@centtech.com> References: <20021108113648.80417.qmail@web11807.mail.yahoo.com> <3DCBD040.7010900@centtech.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 08:54:56 -0600 Eric Anderson wrote: > Haikal Saadh wrote: > > Pick 'N' Mix from the release notes here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/DP1/relnotes-i386.html > > At least that's for DP1, but should be a good idea of what's in > > store. > > Here's a few things I think look "cool": > lomac(4) > nmdm(4) > PECOFF (??) > options REGRESSION (??) > conscontrol(8) > vinum (new changes, enhancements) > snapshots > extended attributes for files/directories > Inode filesystem (IFS) > Access Control Lists (ACLs) > NFS enhancements > pseudofs (??) > ACPI support > devinfo tool > background fscking (background_fsck in rc.conf(5)) > growfs - not new, but still cool > nsswitch - hosts.conf is dead > PAM enhancements, and new modules > rpc.lockd - NFS locking > > We can (and should) hunt the developers of these features down and ask > > for details.. Some are just "honorable mentions", but some are full > blown kick-arse features (like snapshots). > > Eric > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology > Beware the fury of a patient man. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > I will be doing documentation on some of these features (snapshots && File System Access Control Lists) so if you have questions then just ask me. Although I can't promise much :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message