Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Nov 2005 21:05 UTC, submitted by Valour
"The FreeBSD operating system is finally through it's buggy 5.x series and into the more reliable 6.x series. Most of the problems of the old days - kernel panics on multi-CPU machines, AMD64 troubles galore, and shaky network drivers - are gone. FreeBSD still isn't perfect, but at least with 6.0-RELEASE it's more stable and functional than it has been in the recent past."
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Member since:Linux has had kernel threads for years... yes.<BR>
FreeBSD (and NetBSD too, although not the same) chose a much more elegant implementation based on scheduler activations that the linux guys decided was too much work. FreeBSD 6 has caught up with an important difference; they have the infrastructure to do much better now.
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2005-07-07
Linux has had the equivilant to multi-threaded filesystems for years, FreeBSD is seriously behind.
As for benchmarks of FreeBSD 6 being on par or just as fast as Linux, I will believe it when I see them from an independent source.