FreeBSD has announced the second release from the 7-Stable branch, which improves on the functionality ofFreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some new features.
Some of the highlights are that the ULE scheduler is now the default in generic kernels for AMD 64 and i386 architectures.

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which is supposed to significantly improve performance on multi- core systems for many workloads; support for using Dtrace a comprehensive dynamiC tracing framework) inside the kernelthat has been imported from OpenSolaris; and a new improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client. Other additions include: boot loader changes that allow booting from USB and GPT-Iabelled devices; addition of the cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(l) commands, providing an API for thread to CPU binding, and CPU resource grouping and assignment; KDE updated to 3.5.10;' and GNOME updated to 2.22.3. For a complete list of new features and known problems,