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What's New In FreeBSD 7.0

Posted by kdawson on from the what-indeed dept.

blackbearnh writes "FreeBSD is about to release the much-anticipated version 7, and as usual there's a comprehensive interview with over two dozen of the major contributors over at O'Reilly's ONLamp site. Federico Biancuzzi interviewed the developers to discuss all the details of FreeBSD 7.0: networking and SMP performance, SCTP support, the new IPSEC stack, virtualization, monitoring frameworks, ports, storage limits and a new journaling facility, what changed in the accounting file format, jemalloc(), ULE, and more."

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  1. Re:people still use freebsd? by Drooling+Iguana · · Score: 5, Funny

    It makes an excellent test subject on which to practice necromancy.

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  2. Re:people still use freebsd? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    what for? Kickin' ass and takin' names, of course.
  3. Re:I have to ask... by misleb · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why would I choose FreeBSD over, say, Solaris x86 or Linux?


    You probably wouldn't unless you were one of those people who gets all excited about the difference between GPL an BSD licensing.

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  4. Re:people still use freebsd? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Better performance than Linux,

    Heh, don't get cocky :) It's good to have some competition at last, we've only been waiting... for over 5 years.

  5. Re:people still use freebsd? by auric_dude · · Score: 3, Funny

    If is good enough for Barack Obama (Democrat) - FreeBSD, Apache by pair Networks http://www.douglaskarr.com/2007/06/23/2008-elections-by-server/ then it is good enough for me!

  6. Who really cares? by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot shows like all BSD news as just a collapsed article... is that my settings (I get Linux and MS and OSX and Vista stuff), or it it just because nobody gives a shit?

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