There hasn't been a *BSD posting for some time now, but I came across an excellent interview with Matt Dillon at OSNews that has a lot of really good information about the future of FreeBSD and *BSD in general.

I have to say that my favorite new features are (softupdate) snapshots, which allow for really groovy things, like intra-day backups, (!) something that was previously only implemented on NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices from Network Appliance. I also really liked Matt's #1 and #2 feature wishes for FreeBSD: process migration (never interrupt users, even when taking down a system!) and native filesystem replication (woo! I can automagically replicate my files all over the world...in combination with snapshots, this could totally eliminate the need for backups!).

Check it out.