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Jordan Hubbard Interviewed On OPN's #FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the on-air-jordan dept.

flynn_nrg writes: "As a lot of you already know, an interview with Jordan was held Sunday January 27 at 10:30 PM EST. The log of the interview has been posted in bsdvault.net. The complete text of our question and answer session with Jordan Hubbard can be found here. Jordan was mainly asked about his work at Apple and SMPng, the new SMP code that will debut on 5.0. Enjoy ..."

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  1. preemptive multitasking by Moderator · · Score: 1, Funny


    [23:32] I think the coolest feature of 5.0 will be the ferret thread. This is a kernel thread which runs around throughout the system and randomly moves things around, playfully changes file modes, "bites" through open connections and just generally raises havok. We feel that this

    [23:32] feature will make the computer more of a pet than a simple inanimate object



    Lol, this sounds more like a Microsoft feature.

    BTW, was anyone else annoyed that this 'interview' was done in an IRC style format? I mean, it's kind of hard to sort out and read that way.

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