FreeBSD 7.1 Released

Sol-Invictus writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and i386 architectures. The ULE scheduler significantly improves performance on multicore systems for many workloads. Support for using DTrace inside the kernel has been imported from OpenSolaris. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework. A new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client. Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices. KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3. DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures."

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Don't fool yourself. Just because Linux is what the "cool" kids use doesn't mean FreeBSD is in anyway inferior. The linux community sure holds itself in high regard, but who has ZFS and Dtrace support? Not linux... Of course, thats because once some cool new technology comes out the ego-brained linux folk set out to make their own half-assed implementation that will never get finished. That's Linux for ya though. Runs half-assed on everything, well on nothing.