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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"Unfortunately the fast SWT isn't accepted widely enough and might be hard to port to all platforms."
I've pretty much decided to go with Python for most of my programming projects instead of Java anyway. Python supports more platforms than Java and I can write applications in Python significantly faster than I can in Java. Also, I have found that Python programs seem to be faster at many tasks than Java programs on my Win XP box. The Tkinter toolkit also produces interfaces that look a lot better than the ugly Swing interfaces in my opinion, and Tkinter automatically generates a native look and feel depending on the platfor it is running on. (I know AWT can do that. But AWT has some problems).