I currently run FreeBSD 6.x, and everything is running smoothly. Is there any reason for me to upgrade to 7 or 8 when it comes out? Am I missing any hot new feature, that I would just have to have?
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Not that I can think off from the top of my head, but you could always read these:
- http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html
- http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html
- http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/announce.html
Edit: Now I remember. It has a very improved scheduler set by default (from 7.1 and up), wich increases SMP performance dramatically.
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Yes: SCHED_ULE is much higher performance. All of my systems are 7.2 now, and the benchmarked performance with SCHED_ULE is better, by far.– razzedJun 22, 2009 at 2:42
If you use jails support will be improved in 7.2 and 8.0 allowing better network access.