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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Whats coming in 2.2 ?
Date: 6 Feb 1996 10:01:06 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <aak2.823592954@Ra.MsState.Edu>,
Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote:

:Just curious.  What are the FreeBSD developers working on for
:2.2 ?  I noticed that an experimental snapshot was released.
:Any info on the web ?
:
:Has anybody tried it ?  How does it work ?
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FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT (FER) #2: Mon Feb  5 03:45:00 PST 1996

Welcome to FreeBSD!
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It seems very stable at the moment
but as usual.. don't run a SNAP unless you are PREPARED to put up with
unexpected behaviour..
this SNAP is only PART WAY to 2.2

2.1.1 will be out well before 2.2 (my guess at this time)

things going into 2.2 that might be of interest..
--already in or running--
DEVFS (mostly working)
Many cleanups of code
User level threads support (including thread-safe libc) and package (maybe 2)
many speedups
ext2fs 
concatinated disk array support
TCP path MTU discovery 
Router discovery (I believe)
--possible items--
not sure if the NFSV3 code is already in 2.1 , but a lockd/statd are rumoured
maybe a new dos fs implimentation.. (early days)
possibly some kernel threads support in the form of 'rfork()' support
MAYBE (if we work more on it,) course-grain MP.. (don't hold your breath)
possibly and IPversion6 implimentation. (we have 3 to look at and select from)
better disk-slicing technology