On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:15:57AM +0000, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: > Know you guys coming close to the 5.3 -stable release alot of users are > going to upgrade/switch, right, because this is what we have been waiting > for. What about the performance that 4.X had? Will the performance be equal > ? Will it be having better performance? Even on low end machines? And > especially sinds freebsd is becoming more and more ready for desktop use, > performance is a big issue on desktops.(look at Gnu/Linux for example, > which I have been using for a very long time know, and all I can remember > is that almost all of the releases have scheduling/latency issues. When I > was using 2.2/2.4/2.6 All I have seen where low latency patches. What about > freebsd?
Benchmarks I've seen show 5.3 performing better than 4.x in many workloads. Try it yourself and see if you like it :) > I have only been reading the bsd section at slashdot so I don't know much > about the progress you guys are making on the feature release. Is there a > offical news site for freebsd users? Like openbsd has *deadly.org. www.freebsd.org :-) bsdnews.com is also good; slashdot.org is probably the worst possible news source you could be reading :-) > What about the compile flags freebsd RC is using compared to 5.3 -stable > will there be a lot of changes? No changes. > What about gnome packages? Will 2.8 make it in 5.3 stable (iso)? No, the ports tree is already frozen and packages are built. > If those things are taking a while to be there, does fbsd have any kernel > patches like linux does to improve desktop performance? For example like: > http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ Not that I'm aware of, we like to commit patches that improve performance instead of leaving them out :-) Kris
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