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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."

5 of 324 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hmmm... by rubycodez · · Score: -1, Troll

    FreeBSD fanboyz shouldn't go mouthing off about "half-assed" considering the way since 5.x it's crappy smp and threadlocking would seize up tighter than a great-grandma on a straight brick cheese diet with lock-mgr panics. Problem persisted in 7.0, who knows if 7.1 will finally put the issues to rest?

  2. Re:NinnleBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's because BSD stands for BLACK SMELLY DICK. I'm sure you'll blow it out of the water you nigger-loving faggot.

  3. Re:Dont forget documentation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ummm... no it doesn't. In fact, Linux beats every BSD hands down these days in a) security b) speed (certainly networking, threading and multiprocessor support) c) number of ports to other systems

    So that puts the nail in OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD respectively. The truth is that the BSD snobs used to look down their noses at Linux - and they had some facts on their side as Linux was quite immature. These days... as Linux kicks them all around in the benchmarks... it's just pathetic snobbery.

  4. Re:Hmmm... by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, right metaphor, because Michael Jackson is only a black man in the loosest sense of the word.

    Speaking of loose, here's a better one: It's like when your mom brags about sucking black dicks while she actually fellates mulattos exclusively.

  5. FreeBSD post checklist by Tweenk · · Score: 0, Troll

    Vitriolic comments - check
    GPL/BSD flamewar - check
    Bashing Linux - check
    Bashing RMS - check
    Adoration of ZFS - check
    Hardware support discussion - check

    I think we have all bases covered by now.
    Is BSD becoming the new Apple?

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    Those who would give up liberty to obtain working drivers, deserve neither liberty nor working drivers.