RootBSD blog » 7.1 http://www.rootbsd.net/blog Our FreeBSD Hosting Discussion Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:37:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE http://www.rootbsd.net/blog/2009/freebsd-71-release/ http://www.rootbsd.net/blog/2009/freebsd-71-release/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:46:12 +0000 admin http://www.rootbsd.net/blog/?p=45 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
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