Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 04:51:33 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: dyson@iquest.net Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just some comments about FreeBSDV5.0 Message-ID: <20030216025133.GF2053@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <200302151802.NAA25682@dyson.jdyson.com> References: <200302151802.NAA25682@dyson.jdyson.com>
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On 2003-02-15 13:02, "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.jdyson.com> wrote: > Gang, > I am purposefully posting to 'chat' to avoid getting very > involved, however, I have some good news (and some minor > bad news) about V5.0. Suggestions about reading release > notes, etc need not apply -- because the principle of > least astonishment (POLA) needs to apply no matter what. > > Good news: it is incredibly responsive. I have been > impressed with it, and the improvements > appear real. I am NOT easily impressed. This is one of the reasons that I kept trying to work on current for doing real work during the last year. Since late 2001, the 5.X kernels left a general "feel" of better responsiveness to every day programs, like editors or network clients running on the console :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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