What's New In FreeBSD 7.0

blackbearnh writes "FreeBSD is about to release the much-anticipated version 7, and as usual there's a comprehensive interview with over two dozen of the major contributors over at O'Reilly's ONLamp site. Federico Biancuzzi interviewed the developers to discuss all the details of FreeBSD 7.0: networking and SMP performance, SCTP support, the new IPSEC stack, virtualization, monitoring frameworks, ports, storage limits and a new journaling facility, what changed in the accounting file format, jemalloc(), ULE, and more."

Re:people still use freebsd?

[Drooling Iguana]

It makes an excellent test subject on which to practice necromancy.

Re:people still use freebsd?

[Anonymous Coward]

what for?

Kickin' ass and takin' names, of course.

Re:I have to ask...

[misleb]

Why would I choose FreeBSD over, say, Solaris x86 or Linux?

You probably wouldn't unless you were one of those people who gets all excited about the difference between GPL an BSD licensing.

Re:people still use freebsd?

[Anonymous Coward]

> Better performance than Linux,

Heh, don't get cocky :) It's good to have some competition at last, we've only been waiting... for over 5 years.

Re:people still use freebsd?

[auric_dude]

If is good enough for Barack Obama (Democrat) - FreeBSD, Apache by pair Networks http://www.douglaskarr.com/2007/06/23/2008-elections-by-server/ [douglaskarr.com] then it is good enough for me!

Who really cares?

[bluefoxlucid]

Slashdot shows like all BSD news as just a collapsed article... is that my settings (I get Linux and MS and OSX and Vista stuff), or it it just because nobody gives a shit?