From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 15 18:51:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0B137B401 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 18:51:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E041643F93 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 18:51:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b141.otenet.gr [212.205.244.149]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1G2paSe008024; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 04:51:37 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1G2paBC087428; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 04:51:36 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1G2pXn4087377; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 04:51:33 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 04:51:33 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: dyson@iquest.net Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just some comments about FreeBSDV5.0 Message-ID: <20030216025133.GF2053@gothmog.gr> References: <200302151802.NAA25682@dyson.jdyson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302151802.NAA25682@dyson.jdyson.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2003-02-15 13:02, "John S. Dyson" 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