I really hope the networking improvements might lead to decent NFS speeds. Currently for us NFS is pretty much unusable with FreeBSD 13. We were specifically testing EFS but it seemed like NFS was the core issue.<p>On 2 identical boxes on EC2, FreeBSD13 and Ubuntu LTS, we benchmarked EFS and the Linux box trounced the FreeBSD one. I cannot remember if it was 100x or 1000x faster but it was a huge difference, the difference between usable and unworkable for our needs.<p>On a related/side note I’d be incredibly grateful to FreeBSD-friendly solutions for shared network file storage. Something like NFS. If I could get working POSIX locks I’d be over the moon but I could handle that in another layer if needed. I’m looking for the ability to share ~5TB of data between a pool of servers.
The laptop thing will be great. Modern WiFi and Bluetooth support is sorely lacking.<p>I don't need those myself. Because I use it on a PC that's all wired. But I know these things are badly broken.