The FreeBSD development team is now busy working on the project’s next major release, FreeBSD 7. This release is expected to contain a large number of radical new features, including a port of the ZFS file system and DTrace diagnostic tool from Solaris, as well as substantial performance enhancements. Those of you who are interested in learning about the changes in the rapidly evolving FreeBSD 7 branch should bookmark the ‘What’s cooking for FreeBSD 7?‘ page, which attempts to summarise the recent commits by the project’s developers. FreeBSD 7.0 is scheduled for release in late 2007.
So many cutting edge goodies.. I can’t help it… my home desktop is -CURRENT
…the changes requested by nVidia? I’ve long been waiting for this so that I could run nVidia drivers on amd64 kernel.
Also if ZFS is 64bit (as opposed to 128 bit of Sun ZFS), I imagine this would make Sun and FreeBSD ZFS volumes inoperable with each other. What about Apple ZFS volumes?
“(limited to 64 bits in practice even in Solaris – there’s no 128-bit integer type in standard C language)”
>the changes requested by nVidia
Nice i’ve read it, but maybe the should do the first step and open their sources, would be better quality for all the open operating systems.
now this is a release i was to see pc-bsd based off of. this would blow vista away. imagine all those improvements and kde 4. drooooool
Sometime back i argued with many people why TOE is good and can increase networking performance.
And how Vista’s networking is high performant with TOE etc. People argued back quoting Linux and BSD example as to why these OS don’t have that.
Well looks like FreeBSD is getting TOE support so let us see who is following Vista here:)
And still in FreeBSD it is not as well designed as Vista.
> And still in FreeBSD it is not as well designed as Vista.
Really, and you have access to the source code in Vista to make that unsupported conclusion?
Anyone know if any of the requests from Nvidia to help aid the 64bit FreeBSD driver and other features are going to make it into this release?
Does freebsd 6.2 have xen? i could not find any info on freebsd 6.2 being able to run xen.
Edited 2007-01-17 00:55