FreeBSD 6.1-BETA-4, 5.5-BETA-4 Released
Linked by Eugenia Loli on Wed 15th Mar 2006 16:41 UTC
FreeBSD The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team announced the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-BETA4 and FreeBSD 5.5-BETA4. A couple of significant changes were made to 6.1-BETA4. First is a large set of fixes to the VFS layer and various filesystems that should significantly help performance under heavy load and also fix problems with forcefully unmounting these filesystems. The second large change is that sysinstall will now install both the GENERIC and SMP kernels and automatically select the appropriate one based on whether it detects one CPU in the system or multiple CPUs.
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Installs SMP kernels
by TechniCookie on Wed 15th Mar 2006 17:11 UTC
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2005-11-09

Cool, this will make life easier for people with multiple cores. I guess they won't have to compile their own customized kernel.

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Neat
by Chezz on Wed 15th Mar 2006 19:21 UTC
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2005-07-11

Original post by Scott Long

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-March/023593...

It's always good to check out

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.5R/todo.html

Also, the VFS changes are stability changes more than performance unlike what the post says.


Enjoy

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Updated sound system, too
by rycamor on Thu 16th Mar 2006 18:37 UTC
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2005-07-18

Apparently from the -CURRENT mailing list, 6.1 has an updated sound system, with many bugfixes, lower latency and better locking.

I have been using 6.0 for audio recording with Audacity for the past few months, and it has been quite stable. So far, so good; posting this from my Dell Inspiron laptop which I just updated from 6.0 to 6.1. Smooth audio & video playback.

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XGL on BSD
by halfmanhalfamazing on Thu 16th Mar 2006 20:09 UTC
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2005-07-23

I'm curious if/when this will happen. I can't have been the only one to have thought of this.

And not even limiting my query to XGL. How about AIGLX or XeGL? Are these also coming to a BSD near you?

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RE: XGL on BSD
by Carnevill on Thu 16th Mar 2006 20:44 UTC in reply to "XGL on BSD"
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2006-01-18

Eventually they'll be ported but probably not for a while.

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RE[2]: XGL on BSD
by halfmanhalfamazing on Fri 17th Mar 2006 01:32 UTC in reply to "RE: XGL on BSD"
halfmanhalfamazing Member since:
2005-07-23

:-/ Well that stinks. I'm a linux user but would still like to see the BSDs get the ability to take advantage of these awesome new technologies.

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RE[3]: XGL on BSD
by molnarcs on Fri 17th Mar 2006 12:27 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: XGL on BSD"
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2005-09-10

awesame, new, and quite unstable (just looking at the GNOME thread, xgl seems to be the source of many problems with latest release).

I think XGL will be there as soon as xorg 7.x will replace 6.9 ports. I think they are working on it, but it may take a few months (I'd excpect it before the end of this year, but that's just speculation).

I'm quite happy with xorg 6.9 + KDE - they are rock stable, and FreeBSD itself is quite fast on the desktop, so.

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