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FreeBSD 7.1 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Netcraft confirms it: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    frosty post

  2. FRANKEN WINS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SUCK IT REPUGS

    captcha: francs

  3. At this point... by XPeter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    AMD is going to need all the help they can get to compete with Intel. I'm happy to see articles like this floating around, because it at least means AMD is getting some publicity.

    Look at it this way. If Intel wins, then the consumer loses. Why? Because if AMD goes under that would leave only Intel left in the desktop/server market which means they won't need to invest more money to make better processors since they have no competitor to force them to and this obviously results in slower chips.

    AMD better do good with there new Phenom II chips, or else I don't see them along for much longer. ATI alone won't keep them going for long.

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    "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits" - Albert Einstein
  4. Re:*Finally* DVD media by gatkinso · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now if Fedora would only still provide CD ISO's for their older versions the world would be perfect...

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    I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
  5. RED BANNER AND IM NOT LOGGED IN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Woo! Finally got to see what everyone else has been talking about. Not signed in currently at all. I'm not a paid subscriber anyways.

    And there's about 50 posts already.