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I came across this interesting article about upcoming FreeBSD 7 that outlines some of the most important changes in this release.
The upcoming release of FreeBSD 7 is a major milestone for all FreeBSD developers and users. It is the most amazing release I have ever had the chance to play with. There are plenty of new features and many improvements, especially in networking (which is my area of interest).
I have had this chance to play with MySQL 5.1 running on FreeBSD 7 on top of 8 cores of Xeon processor in 64-bit mode. My impression was that it was almost as fast as kris’s benchmarks and totally kicked linux 2.6 in threading and SMP performance.
This is something I expected to see in FreeBSD 6. However FreeBSD seems to be catching up with linux again.
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