FreeBSD 7.1 Released

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 6, 2009 @03:10AM from the for-the-1337-amongst-us dept.

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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Re:Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-06 03:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Longest uptime in the world, son. Take your tinkertoys and go play with the other kids downstairs, the grownups are talking here.
Re:Hmmm... by Ethanol-fueled · 2009-01-06 03:59 · Score: 4, Funny

That is true. Unfortunately there will always be the fanboys who proclaim that OSX is BSD, which is like saying that Michael Jackson is a black man.
Re:Dont forget documentation by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-06 04:00 · Score: 3, Funny

FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD are *cohesive systems*, not collections.
Amusingly, I misread that as:

FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD are *cohesive systems*, not collisions.
The worst part was that it made perfect sense when I read it. (!)
I would love to win the lottery and... by gatkinso · 2009-01-06 04:15 · Score: 2, Funny

...devote my life to Open Source. FreeBSD in particular.
No real reason why FBSD. I just remember really liking Lehey's 'FreeBSD.'
Oh well, it's back to Visual C++ for me...

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I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Re:At the risk of sounding like a freebsd fanboi by BotnetZombie · 2009-01-06 05:17 · Score: 2, Funny

Code is code. It isn't like it has feelings.
That hurts. What do you think half of us posters here are, you insensitive clod?
Re:Hmmm... by Brad_McBad · 2009-01-06 05:28 · Score: 2, Funny

AAAAAARRRRRRRGHHHH... I clicked the top site to see what it was... Magically forgetting what tgp means. I sit next to my boss at work...
Dolby Surround 7.1 by Filiprino · 2009-01-06 05:37 · Score: 3, Funny

And this new FreeBSD release can run on Dolby Surround 7.1 systems?.
Re:At the risk of sounding like a freebsd fanboi by brackishboy · 2009-01-06 07:00 · Score: 2, Funny

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