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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 3 Apr 1997 22:46:11 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5i1bvj$fo@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <5h51ma$b1u$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> <3337e3ad.1847437@news.sprynet.com> <5hbh2g$gah$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <333990e3.2587820@news.sprynet.com> <5hlju0$ftk$1@news.belwue.de> <5hmlnk$c3m@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> <333EE7B4.237C228A@freebsd.org> <5hp7oe$6u0@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> <E7xowK.G32@nonexistent.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38440 le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: > SMP is part of FreeBSD 3.0,which is already available in SNAP form > and can be expected in RELEASE this year. To not get this misunderstood: SMP is available for FreeBSD, but currently in form of a separate kernel tree. So even if you get ahold of a 3.0-SNAP these days, it doesn't have SMP. However, it's right, one of the goals (and the one that caused the major version # bump) of FreeBSD 3.0 is SMP. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)