Take the 2-minute tour ×  I currently run FreeBSD 6.x, and
everything is running smoothly. Is there any reason for me to
upgrade to 7 or 8 when it comes out? Am I missing any hot new
feature, that I would just have to have?  share|improve this
question  3 Answers 3  up vote 3 down vote accepted  Not that I
can think off from the top of my head, but you could always read
these:  Edit: Now I remember. It has a very improved scheduler
set by default (from 7.1 and up), wich increases SMP performance
dramatically.  share|improve this answer Yes: SCHED_ULE is much
higher performance. All of my systems are 7.2 now, and the
benchmarked performance with SCHED_ULE is better, by far. – 
razzed Jun 22 '09 at 2:42  If you use jails support will be
improved in 7.2 and 8.0 allowing better network access.
share|improve this answer  ZFS is pretty hot.  share|improve
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