On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, steve ulrich wrote: > i think the real irony in this thread is that ubuntu makes the dogs > breakfast of linux more like freebsd in its operational elegance. > > fwiw - there are several things about freebsd's kernel which are > definitely nicer than what's available on linux. notably in the > networking realm. > > - 10GE optimizations w/TCP segment offload (linux might have this now) > - SCTP - admittedly of niche interest, but this just works on freebsd and doesn't DIY brain surgery > - soft updates for filesystem updates > - pluggable network stack w/netgraph > - kernel queues > - accept filters > - partial support for pf (which is just good enough to keep you from going to openbsd given how nice pf is.) I have to admit that I don't know what those things are. Would they affect user experience? If so, how? It sounds like maybe some of the differences affect network speed, but I guess that wouln't make much difference for most users unless they were moving large files or collections of files on a NFS. Mike