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.
FreeBSD 6.1-BETA-4, 5.5-BETA-4 Released
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Cool, this will make life easier for people with multiple cores. I guess they won’t have to compile their own customized kernel.
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
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.
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?
Eventually they’ll be ported but probably not for a while.
:-/ 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.
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.