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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: when will the next version of FreeBSD and NetBSD be out?
Date: 18 Feb 1994 21:46:02 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <139017@hydra.gatech.edu>,
Matthew W. Culbreth <gt4384a@prism.gatech.EDU> wrote:
>Does anyone know when the next versions of NetBSD or FreeBSD will be
>out?  I understand that they are to implement shared libraries--is this
>true?  What will this do to the size of these operating systems?

FreeBSD 1.1 will be out sometime in March (middle to late would be my
best guess).  The size reduction is not know at this time, but here is
a very out-dated comparison I made a while back which is not completely
accurate (there are static binaries and lots has changed since then)

Usr-Dir         Static          Shared
-------         ------          ------
bin             17112           7886
games           3752            1486
include         2036            1422
lib             2024            3167
libexec         8592            4132
sbin            3148            911

Both /sbin and /bin are compiled statically for safety.

>What other enhancements can we expect with new versions?

New tools, bug fixes, better drivers, cleaner code.  One of the biggest
new features of FreeBSD is it contains a brand-new VM system which uses
less memory, pages much quicker when it is needed, uses less swap memory,
does not hang when swap runs out, etc..  

A list of new features is available from FreeBSD-current/sys/i386/doc in
the FreeBSD-current directory on FreeBSD.cdrom.com.


Nate

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