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New FreeBSD 11.0 Release Candidate Tested By Phoronix (phoronix.com)
"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..."
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..."
1. I don't give a fuck about phoronix and this fucking idiot who runs it.
2. I don't give a fuck about FreeBSD. Its not even the BSD used by macs, so who uses it? Almost noone.
Thanks and frist psot
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Don't know much about a fortran book
Don't know much about the C I took
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What a wonderful world this would be
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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.
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I just read it for the comparisons. FreeBSD is awesome. Linux is great. Their Microsoft stories are just fibs.
Is Debugging turned on for FreeBSD betas?
THIS will be the year!!
lol@vword: annually
None of the benchmarks showcase actual system performance under load, so it is unfair of the author to dismiss DragonflyBSD's novel approach to SMP. Furthermore, performance wasn't the only goal; the design is far more developer friendly and easier to reason about, producing a much higher confidence in correctness. What the DragonflyBSD developers have achieved with only a small fraction of the developer resources is nothing short of remarkable, and a testament to their design.
Benchmarks like PostgreSQL which actually stress the various kernel subsystems would likely paint a very different picture. Claiming to test SMP on a system without any contention is senseless.
Phoronix is the OSNews of the 20-teens. In other words, fail. Picture a lot of fluff about the "rig" they used to install on, a number of graphs with dissimilar scales, graphs with no scale, graphs with no zero intercept, in other words, something 7th graders would put together.
Thanks FreeBSD, for being awesome. After RHEL/Centos jumped the shark with version 7, I moved over and haven't looked back.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save *BSD from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
Linux has become a fattie. I guess it makes sense; have you seen Linus lately? He's becoming rather "monolithic".
They are all probably missing the BIGGEST new feature in FreeBSD 11: the UEFI-GOP bhyve implementation. Basically a vm hypervisor with an embedded VNC server that makes FreeBSD a powerful VM host OS.
Facebook hired developers to improve the Linux network stack, so it could compete with FreeBSD.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2359272/facebook-wants-linux-network-stack-to-rival-or-exceed-freebsd
1. why isn't this on bsd.slashdot.org?
2. why isn't the freakin banner red ?!!
Serious question... why don't more people use Plan 9?
It's supposed to be "next generation Unix" and it's completely free, but almost no one uses it.
What about Inferno ?
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