Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:10:27 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd Theme Song Message-ID: <20051210211027.GA80550@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <439B4270.7040404@thingy.apana.org.au> References: <20051210172500.58401.qmail@web33302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <439B17CA.30309@thingy.apana.org.au> <20051210201601.GB79654@xor.obsecurity.org> <439B4270.7040404@thingy.apana.org.au>
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--AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 09:02:40PM +0000, David Gerard wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > > 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. >=20 >=20 > 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. >=20 >=20 > 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 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDm0RDWry0BWjoQKURAmvRAKCh6oaosSAfIVc9HENfEzA8psHxowCfdSAy Nnc8KcfAyOoZTRFbAQXxB44= =t+SI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--
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