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New FreeBSD 11.0 Release Candidate Tested By Phoronix (phoronix.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the Linuxy-goodness dept.

"The first release candidate for the upcoming FreeBSD 11.0 is ready for testing," reports Distrowatch, noting various changes. ("A NULL pointer dereference in IPSEC has been fixed; support for SSH protocol 1 has been removed; OpenSSH DSA keys have been disabled by default...") Now an anonymous Slashdot reader writes: Sunday Phoronix performed some early benchmark testing, comparing FreeBSD 10.3 to FreeBSD 11.0 as well as DragonFlyBSD, Ubuntu, Intel Clear Linux and CentOS Linux 7. They reported mixed results -- some wins and some losses for FreeBSD -- using a clean install with the default package/settings on the x86_64/amd64 version for each operating system.

FreeBSD 11.0 showed the fastest compile times, and "With the SQLite benchmark, the BSDs came out ahead of Linux [and] trailed slightly behind DragonFlyBSD 4.6 with HAMMER. The 11.0-BETA4 performance does appear to regress slightly for SQLite compared to FreeBSD 10.3... With the BLAKE2 crypto test, all four Linux distributions were faster than DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD... with the Apache web server benchmark, FreeBSD was able to outperform the Linux distributions..."

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  1. Some of us do give an F. by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't give a f*** about FreeBSD.

    Some of us do give an f*** about the BSDs.

    (Especially those of us who are considering moving mission-critical systems from Linux to a BSD because, for instance, systemd makes security auditing massively more difficult and expensive for a small startup.)

    We are nerds, and this matters to us.

    So if you personally are not interested, please just shut up and move on to something that DOES interest you, rather than polluting OUR discussions with "I'm not interested in this!" whining.

    Thank you.

    --
    Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
    1. Re:Some of us do give an F. by jandersen · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I don't give a f*** about FreeBSD.

      Some of us do give an f*** about the BSDs.

      I second that. Not a BSD user myself, but I'm glad to see they are still going strong - diversity is great!

  2. Re:FreeBSD on the desktop! by aliquis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Kinda already is on the desktop and consoles through OS X and Playstation.
    Just like Linux already is mainstream like crazy through Android.