elementar changes between fbsd 6 and current (upcoming 7)

Andrew P. infofarmer at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 10:15:00 PDT 2005


On 10/12/05, O. Hartmann <ohartman at mail.uni-mainz.de> wrote:
> Andrew P. wrote:
> > On 10/12/05, O. Hartmann <ohartman at mail.uni-mainz.de> wrote:
> >
> >>This should be a short question:
> >>
> >>I'm interested in some knowledge about essential changes between FreeBSD
> >>6 and CURRENT (upcoming version 7) and I would like to ask the community
> >>whether there is something documeted outside the mailing lists (plans,
> >>development etc.).
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance,
> >>Oliver
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> >
> >
> > You mean, except for more bugs? :-)
> >
> > Browse here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/
> > and take notes.
>
>
> Maybe :-)
>
> I'm just curious about changes in infrastructure, SMP, UMA/NUMA etc. It
> is not the "couriosity" of a developer, more to convince myself having
> choosen the right OS.
> Maybe this question is too stupid ...
>
> Oliver
>

It's not you who is making or not making the right choice.
It's FreeBSD who have chosen you. Be proud of it, man.

AFAIK, developers'  primary target is now to make 6.0
really shine. You can get the idea of some further
targets from todo list for 6.0:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/todo.html


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