Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Feb 2008 22:32 UTC
FreeBSD 7.0 has been released. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the 7-STABLE branch which introduces many new features along with many improvements to functionality present in the earlier branches."
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I don't think there is particularly anything wrong with it. On the contrary, I think it is very important information and that you are perhaps a little too sensitive. While FreeBSD never had performance issues on single processor systems, it has never been able to scale almost linearly on SMP based systems. This has been the focus of the project for several years and the comparison to Linux gives everyone a point of reference. What good does it do for them to state that there are substantial improvements compared to previous versions if they do not qualify what that exactly means? For example, if I was producing a car and stated that fuel efficiency has increased 1000% compared to last years model, are you going to run out and by my car? Well, you just purchased a car that gets 1 mpg. OTOH, if I qualify the statement and also inform you that efficiency rivals that of the Prius and in certain cases, you get 15% more miles per gallon, you now have a point of reference. I really think people need to be far less sensitive about things. If anything, I think it will give the Linux hackers more motivation to improve things.