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Having just skimmed through the June-October 2006 status report there are three very exciting new developments:

• Nss-LDAP and nsswitch updates.  FreeBSD are writing a new nss-ldap PAM module, which is good to hear.  As part of the work nsswitch is being updated: one of the changes is a nameservice caching daemon.  The aim is to get nss-ldap included as part of world, which is good news all round.  Maybe passwd(1) will finally be able to talk the LDAP lingo!
• DTrace support is coming along nicely.  From what I understand Sun have been a big help with this project, which is also good news.
• ZFS.  zvol is supposedly complete and now that Sun have open sourced the test routines work will hopefully speed up.  ZFS is something that just can’t be ignored: sure, it has its teething problems, but these will go away with time and we’ll be left with a highly redundant and reliable filing system.

FreeBSD 7 should certainly be interesting.  In terms of “features” it lacks behind Solaris, maybe, but with DTrace and ZFS I think it will give Linux a run for its money.

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