My wish list for 6.1

[Christian Brueffer]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:55:00AM +0000, Allen wrote:
> On 12/17/2005 01:34:09 AM, Avleen Vig wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:40:22AM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> >> > 2.  SMP kernels for install.  Right now we only install a UP
> >kernel, for
> >> > performance reasons.  We should be able to package both a UP and
> >SMP
> >> > kernel into the release bits, and have sysinstall install both.
> >It
> >> > should also select the correct one for the target system and make
> >that
> >> > the default on boot.
> >>
> >> If people are concerned about performance, I benchmarked a 6-beta
> >> kernel SMP versus UP on a socket 939 Opteron.
> 
> Must be great having boxes like that ;) You know what I'd like to see  
> in the next Free BSD? A way to update security fixes without having to  
> play with any source, or having to touch make world. I know the speed  
> and so on makes some people like this, but I personally try getting  
> people who use Windows to switch to another OS or at least show them  
> something else exists, and it's hard to make someone want to use Free  
> BSD when installing patches can be such a timely manner.
> 
> I know about the port tool, but what I'd love to have is a tool you  
> could run from the CLI or the GUI that would check for updates, and  
> then ask which ones to install, similar to Swaret on Slackware. This  
> way people can do the usual updates if they want, and people like me  
> can show people BSD and how great it is.
> 

You probably haven't seen ports/security/freebsd-update yet.

See http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ for more information.

- Christian

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