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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!selway.umt.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Wishlist: FreeBSD 2.0 Date: 16 Aug 1994 23:14:27 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 38 Message-ID: <32rh8j$cto@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <777048964.AA03114@f74.n700.z6.ftn.air.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <777048964.AA03114@f74.n700.z6.ftn.air.org>, Clarence Chu <Clarence.Chu@f132.n700.z6.ftn.air.org> wrote: >Hi Netter, > >I have a wishlist for the upcoming FreeBSD-2.0 >1) that the major number of shared library be '1' with minor number > be increased to make previously compiled binaries to work Not going to happen, since major #1 is already used, and the libraries in 2.0 are WAY different. Keep your old libraries around and the old binaries will work. >2) Gcc-2.6X be incorporated so as to facilitate Fresco/X11R6 It's in there. >3) Mach pthread library and multi-thread features be implemented > to allow for experiencing multi-threaded X server. See /usr/src/lib/libpthread. Not sure if that's enough, but we're more than willing to accept code. :-) >4) .....long ( 6 years from AT&T anouncement ) awaited iBCS support. It's being worked on. I'd call it late-Alpha. >5) cross compiler to ?????? processor can be made using the stock > compiler. Since FreeBSD runs on x86 machines, what gain would there be? Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.