Freebsd Theme Song

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Dec 10 13:10:41 PST 2005


On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 09:02:40PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > The thing you have to remember about Denial is that the ONLY THING he
> > cares about in an OS is how fast it can route network packets.  The
> > major improvements in other areas of FreeBSD are of absolutely no
> > interest to him, therefore the whole thing is a waste of time.
> 
> 
> Huh. But I found 5.x vastly annoying in all sorts of little ways when
> 4.x seemed to Just Work. I realise this is entirely subjective, but it
> was noticeable.

Fair enough.  I notice that you don't troll about it, so that's fine
:)

> > But anyway, FreeBSD 6.0 is hugely superior to 5.4 and 4.11 in
> > filesystem performance.  I have been measuring this carefully for the
> > past couple of months and hope to have the paper out soon.
> 
> 
> And wifi? Considering mine's the household server and I want to make it
> all wifi to get rid of the damn cat5 everywhere, I really should get to
> it ;-)

I don't use this, but 6.0 is probably the way to go there too since
there were architectural improvements that could not be merged back to
5.x.

Kris
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