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From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Info on what is planned for 3.0?
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 15:26:46 -0500
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> "Michael C. Cambria" <cambria@snads.lkg.dec.com> wrote:
> 
> > Where can I find out what is on the wish list for FreeBSD 3.0?
> 
> We don't have wish lists, only todo lists. :-)
> 
> (The difference?  You can't express wishes, unless you volunteer to do
> it.)
> 
> The reasoning behind the major version number bump is the anticipated
> merge with the SMP source tree.  The 4.4BSD-Lite2 merge should also be
> completed before 3.0 eventually ships.
> 
I am working on the kernel part of (Jeff Hsu's work) of the Lite/2 merge
right
now.  3.0 will also have some more VM performance improvements (much
less
though than the diff between 2.1.X and 2.2.)  I also have a goal of a
killer LFS
port, and some docs on the VM code.

John
dyson@freebsd.org