Define Files on FreeBSD...

[Walter Vaughan]

Fairlight wrote:
> Isn't 5.x the "CURRENT" as opposed to "STABLE"?  Or am I a bit behind in my
> FBSD lore?  I know you're generally suppose to run whatever is in STABLE.

Nah, it's more of matching the hardware to the OS.
FreeBSD 5.* uses a different mechanism in order to scale properly to
what would be insane levels today, but will be normal some time in the
future. On low end hardware *I* can feel that it is ever so sluggish in
a single CPU instance with 5.4 vs. 4.11. especially in things like KDE
environment.

Biggest buzzwords for the change revolved around "giant locks" on
network access, SCHED_ULE, UFS2 so you can use those really big drives.

Some people believed that that was the wrong direction to go, and thus
DragonFlyBSD came into being.

More of what you are looking for in FreeBSD is the word "PRODUCTION".
That is what you want to be running. Whatever is listed on the home page
  as production you can take to the bank. Right now we have a "Legacy"
Production based upon 4.11 and Production that is 5.3 that will change
in a few days/weeks to 5.4. 5.4-RC2 feels faster than 5.3 so perhaps
enough profiling of code as been done to put FreeBSD back on the top of
the heap for speed/performance benchmarks.

This just reminded me to download the new and improved filePro binaries
for FreeBSD.