2.6 suggestions and stuff

["Paul E. Arnold" <bassman@bass.org>]

Hi All,
   As user/admin of OpenBSD 2.4 and 2.5 systems, I have composed a list
enhancements that might make for an even better product.

Things that would be nice to have in 2.6 OpenBSD
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- Add swapctl to the i386 and sparc distribution. 
   (or some way to see swap size)
- Add vi (static binary) to the boot/recovery floppy
   ( I know ex, cat and rm are there but editing with those, what a pain)
-  Add to the precomiled packages the following: a2ps, elm, lsof, vim, samba)
- Generic kernel have allocated swap partion on all b partions by default
   (ie. /dev/sd0b, /dev/sd1b, /dev/sd2b, /dev/sd3b, /dev/sd4b, /dev/sd5b)

Things that would be nice to have in future releases of OpenBSD
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- i386 multi-processor support (FreeBSD has it, even BSDI has it, and
  little cousin linux is bragging that is has it.)
  (I have machines that are dual processor that I had go linux because no
  no OpenBSD port :(  )
- A better way to keep a log of all tcp/udp connections 
  (Right now I run a lsof script that appends to a file, there should be a
  more efficient way to do this.) ( This does not work with sparc OpenBSD
  because lsof wouldn't compile)
- Integrate xfs (the new open source of SGI's filesystems)
- Better driver support for Jaz Drives
- Better driver support for DEC DECchip 21040 (Tulip) ethernet cards 
   (no more  
     /bsd: de0: receive: 00:10:4b:95:b5:51: bad crc
    or
     /bsd: de0: receive: 00:10:5e:47:16:58: alignment error
   )
   This problems occurs on differrent openBSD systems with differrent dec
   cards.  FreeBSD system had this problem also and they wrote new
   drivers, and now no more errors.

Overall, I am very impressed with the development of OpenBSD.  I believe
this one of the best, if not the best multi-platform un*x like servers
out today.  I think in the un*x workstation world, there is a ways to go.
I would like to congratulate all the major developers on a good job so
far.  If I can be of any assistance in this process please let me know.



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