The Hosting Specialists

In the last few days, the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team finalized 7.1-RELEASE and it is now available for donwload.  We are now also offering the option for 7.1-RELEASE on new VPS setups.  It is listed as an option in the signup process (along with 6.3 and 7.0).

Release Announcement

• The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and i386 architectures. The ULE scheduler significantly improves performance on multicore systems for many workloads.
• Support for using DTrace inside the kernel has been imported from OpenSolaris. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework.
• A new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client.
• Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices.
• The cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command have been added, providing an API for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and assignment.
• KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3.
• DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures

Tags: 7.1, freebsd

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