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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. I really like the addition of ZFS in FressBSD 7.0 by mrcgran · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html#FS

  2. Re:people still use freebsd? by tverbeek · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apple use it as the basis for OS X for one.
    No they don't. There may still be some cross-pollination between them, by way of packages they both use, but Darwin/OSX and FreeBSD forked a long time ago.
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    http://alternatives.rzero.com/
  3. Re:I have to ask... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just a bit of statistics that might help you understand where FreeBSD is used en-masse besides Yahoo! (only other one I can think of right now):

    I work for a company that solely employs FreeBSD at financial institutions across the US (and one site in Hyderabad, India). Here's the run-down (warning, these statistics were compiled in less than an hour, solely for this post; I just did a quick head-count via our named DNS records):

    3,483 FreeBSD systems employed by Bank of America
    1,544 for PNC
    872 for Wells Fargo
    around 100 or so for Mellon
    around 500 or so for JPMorgan Chase

    I'm forgetting a few... but you get the point.

    Seems to be a big hit in the financial institutions. BTW, all systems mentioned are used for check processing in wholesale lockbox sites.

    (crossing my fingers that this information isn't confidential, lol)

  4. Re:FreeBSD Rant by Heavy+Machinery · · Score: 4, Informative

    Check out page 25 of this document: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/GuestOS_guide.pdf

    According to the Guest OS compatibility table, FreeBSD 6.2 is supported on VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 and VMWare ACE 2.0.2

    Having said that, VMWare guest is running on a fairly standard sort of virtualised platform. With VMWare ESX 3.5 you can use a Buslogic virtual scsi controller or an LSI virtual scsi controller. So you may have to do some fiddling to get FreeBSD to load the appropriate device driver (don't ask me how, I've only ever done generic installs of FreeBSD)

    VMWare ESX Server 3.5 will (officially) support:
      * Ubuntu Linux 7.04
      * Solaris 10 for x86
      * Suze Linux Enterprise Server 10
      * Redhat Enterprise Linux 5
    and various other OSs...

    I've been using ESX 3.5 on an HP DL385 G2 with dual core Opterons and 8GB of RAM, I wonder if that is powerful enough to run Vista as a guest OS... :-)