Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 14th May 2002 06:30 UTC
The question was asked recently on a FreeBSD mailing list, "What will be new in FreeBSD 5.0?" The thread discussed several ways a person could obtain such information, one good source being the latest release notes. The first developer preview of 5.0 was released on April 8th. The final release is targeted for the end of this year. Robert Watson offered an interesting summary of items to look forward to in FreeBSD 5.0, including: SMPng ("next generation" symmetric multiprocessing), KSE (improved scheduling), devfs (automatic /dev management), Firewire support, and much more. Read on KernelTrap for more details.
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"It works well unless you try to use the swing stuff. SWING on freebsd is *real* slow. You can see the frame backgrounds redrawing."
Good point. Swing needs all the help it can get I guess. (Swing is slow on everything, even when the SDK is running natively.)