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FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-it-while-it's-hot dept.

cperciva writes "The first release from the new 7-STABLE branch of FreeBSD development, has been released. FreeBSD 7.0 brings with it many new features including support for ZFS, journaled filesystems, and SCTP, as well as dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability. In addition to being available from many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, FreeBSD Update can be used to perform a binary upgrade."

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  1. No need to comment by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    with the announcement of the features last night the following topics were beaten to death already:
    Why use FreeBSD? (why not?)
    FreeBSD is dead! (clearly its not)
    FreeBSD is not dead!
    yahoo use freeBSD (nobody cares)
    FreeBSD vs Linux (ooh flame ware, but then everybody realized that it doesnt matter some people prefer FreeBSD for stability & the fact its all integrated, some people prefer linux because it has lots of flashy features & there are loads of projects to add extra features to it ( but they're not integrated and don't always play well together)!)

    please go about your business there's nothing to spam about here!

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  2. Re:Still hard to install? by nurb432 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its been easy for the last several releases if you are willing to accept defaults.

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  3. Re:Performance is really lacking by eht · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, the usual answer is the pre release have extra stuff turned on to help enable debugging. That's why it's not a release where they turn that extra stuff off, or you can recompile the pre release kernels and such.

  4. Re:ZFS Support by voisine · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is not intended as a troll... really... but it's good to keep in mind that this is the FreeBSD team's definition of "experimental". You may be more accustomed to the meaning that the Linux community attaches to that term. When Linux says it's experimental, that generally means it won't work for most people. When FreeBSD says it's experimental, that means you can probably use it in production but you might want to keep an eye on it.

  5. Re:Still hard to install? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    er... how is that flamebait? moderation isn't supposed to be a way of saying "i don't agree with that"... read the mod guidelines sometime.

  6. Re:Still hard to install? by halber_mensch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't want to have to figure out disk geometry to install an OS...have they made it as easy as Ubuntu?

    I'd gladly give it a go. Let me fix that for you.

    I don't want to have to figure out something worthwhile to say...it's not my favoritest Linux so I'll just discredit it.

    I refuse to willingly evaluate it without preconceived prejudice.
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  7. Re:Any luck with HT1000 DMA yet? by mike_sucks · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You're probably better off asking the -stable or -current mailing lists.

    /mike

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  8. Re:ZFS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Uh, I don't think the Vista file system can come close to the flexibility/power of ZFS.