Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Mar 2008 20:48 UTC, submitted by Valour
FreeBSD "Here we are at the moment of truth for the FreeBSD operating system - the 7.0 release. This is what FreeBSD users and developers have been waiting for ever since the dark days of the 5.X series when the promises of superior performance, threading, and stability fell flat. Though each release in the FreeBSD 6.X series improved markedly in quality and performance, 7.0 has been widely anticipated as the release that FreeBSD fans can have confidence in. I wish I could say that FreeBSD 7.0 lived up to the hype."
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RE: Very good review...
by kkenn on Mon 17th Mar 2008 13:30 UTC in reply to "Very good review..."
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2007-08-06

This guy is full of it. He takes FreeBSD to task for "leaving debugging symbols enabled in the GENERIC kernel", and claims that they have a performance overhead -- but the debugging symbols are stripped out when the kernel is installed, and they have **no functional effect** on the running kernel.

It is completely bogus.

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