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Comment because they did such a great job (Score 1) 110

by colonel crayon on Saturday May 24, 2008 @12:39AM (#23525212) Attached to: It's Not Time for OSS Release Cycle Synchronization

It's hard to support a release-timing proposal from either Shuttleworth, whose company released a bug-riddled Long Term Support release, or Seigo, whose project just released a desktop environment that is almost unusable.

FreeBSD 7.0 Bests Linux In SMP Performance 288

Posted by kdawson on Thursday March 06, 2008 @09:40AM from the coulda-been-a-contender dept.

cecom writes "After major improvements in SMP support in FreeBSD 7.0, benchmarks show it performing 15% better than the latest Linux kernels (PDF, see slides 17 to 19) on 8 CPUs under PostgreSQL and MySQL. While a couple of benchmarks are not conclusive evidence, it can be assumed that FreeBSD will once again be a serious performance contender. Some posters on LWN have noted that the level of Linux performance could be related to the Completely Fair Scheduler, which was merged into the 2.6.23 Linux kernel." Update: 03/06 21:32 GMT by KD : An anonymous reader sent in word that Linux kernel developer Nick Piggin reran the benchmark today and came to a different conclusion: In his benchmark Linux was faster than FreeBSD.

FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available 229

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @08:31PM from the get-it-while-it's-hot dept.

cperciva writes "The first release from the new 7-STABLE branch of FreeBSD development, has been released. FreeBSD 7.0 brings with it many new features including support for ZFS, journaled filesystems, and SCTP, as well as dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability. In addition to being available from many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, FreeBSD Update can be used to perform a binary upgrade."

What's New In FreeBSD 7.0 103

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 26, 2008 @06:40PM from the what-indeed dept.

blackbearnh writes "FreeBSD is about to release the much-anticipated version 7, and as usual there's a comprehensive interview with over two dozen of the major contributors over at O'Reilly's ONLamp site. Federico Biancuzzi interviewed the developers to discuss all the details of FreeBSD 7.0: networking and SMP performance, SCTP support, the new IPSEC stack, virtualization, monitoring frameworks, ports, storage limits and a new journaling facility, what changed in the accounting file format, jemalloc(), ULE, and more."

NetBSD 4.0 Has Been Released 121

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @01:59PM from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-stacks dept.

ci4 writes to tell us that NetBSD 4.0 has been released and has been dedicated to the memory of Jun-Ichiro "itojun" Hagino. "Itojun was a member of the KAME project, which provided IPv6 and IPsec support; he was also a member of the NetBSD core team (the technical management for the project), and one of the Security Officers. Due to Itojun's efforts, NetBSD was the first open source operating system with a production ready IPv6 networking stack, which was included in the base system before many people knew what IPv6 was. We are grateful to have known and worked with Itojun, and we know that he will be missed. This release is therefore dedicated, with thanks, to his memory."

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