Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Mar 2008 20:48 UTC, submitted by Valour
"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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Member since:2006-10-08
FreeBSD 7 includes gcc 4 instead of gcc 3. It's a slower compiler, because it does more optimization work.
Thank you, I thought something into this direction. (I'll have to admit that I thought it would have a larger heap of source code that would of course last longer to compile.)
It's not a FreeBSD performance issue.
The recompiled system is working well and fast. Only downsides for me:
1. Compiled in keymap (ATKBD/UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP) doesn't work anymore.
2. Sun Type 6 mouse and keyboard work, but no identification string is displayed at startup (ukbd, ums), allthough entries in usbdevs database are present.
Strange... No idea why... :-(
Member since:2007-08-06
The recompiled system is working well and fast. Only downsides for me:
1. Compiled in keymap (ATKBD/UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP) doesn't work anymore.
1. Compiled in keymap (ATKBD/UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP) doesn't work anymore.
You should probably bring this up on the stable@ mailing list and/or file a PR.
2. Sun Type 6 mouse and keyboard work, but no identification string is displayed at startup (ukbd, ums), allthough entries in usbdevs database are present.
I am not sure if this is expected. It doesn't sound like it's causing any problems though.
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2007-08-06
FreeBSD 7 includes gcc 4 instead of gcc 3. It's a slower compiler, because it does more optimization work. It's not a FreeBSD performance issue.