Here I Am

From: Eric Dittman <dittman_at_dittman.net>
Date: Wed Jan 23 12:50:35 2002

> >> Of course OpenBSD sucks in that it doesn't support
> >> multiprocessor systems!
> >
> >That's why you go with NetBSD.
> >
>
> Well...maybe. The SMP support in NetBSD is still pretty new, and still
> lives in an "experimental" CVS branch. While the latest snapshot kernel
> seems pretty reliable (./build.sh -j 2 works at least twice in a row :-),
> it's probably not a good thing for production use just yet. YMMV.
>
> Other than that, NetBSD is awfully useful.

Well, I can see that NetBSD won't be running on my main system
any time soon, since I have two CPUs. I'm surprised to hear
that NetBSD is just now supporting SMP as I thought that would
have been supported already.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman_at_dittman.net
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Received on Wed Jan 23 2002 - 12:50:35 GMT

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