On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 09:02:40PM +0000, David Gerard wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > The thing you have to remember about Denial is that the ONLY THING he > > cares about in an OS is how fast it can route network packets. The > > major improvements in other areas of FreeBSD are of absolutely no > > interest to him, therefore the whole thing is a waste of time. > > > Huh. But I found 5.x vastly annoying in all sorts of little ways when > 4.x seemed to Just Work. I realise this is entirely subjective, but it > was noticeable.
Fair enough. I notice that you don't troll about it, so that's fine :) > > But anyway, FreeBSD 6.0 is hugely superior to 5.4 and 4.11 in > > filesystem performance. I have been measuring this carefully for the > > past couple of months and hope to have the paper out soon. > > > And wifi? Considering mine's the household server and I want to make it > all wifi to get rid of the damn cat5 everywhere, I really should get to > it ;-) I don't use this, but 6.0 is probably the way to go there too since there were architectural improvements that could not be merged back to 5.x. Kris
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